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  • 01 Dec 2010
  • News

Additional alumni books for your consideration.

The Corporate Lattice: Achieving High Performance in the Changing World of Work by Cathleen Benko (MBA ’89) and Molly Anderson (Harvard Business Review Press) The authors argue that a lattice model rather than the corporate ladder is... View Details
Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
  • December 2018 (Revised June 2019)
  • Case

Wolfgang Puck: Setting the Table for the Future

By: Boris Groysberg and Matthew G. Preble
Chef Wolfgang Puck oversees a disparate business empire that includes fine dining restaurants, a catering business, and various licensed products that run from cookware, to soup, to fast-casual restaurants. His businesses activities are divided among three separate... View Details
Keywords: Brands and Branding; Growth and Development; Management Systems; Business Processes; Leadership; Transition; Food and Beverage Industry; Consumer Products Industry
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  • September 1992 (Revised August 2004)
  • Supplement

Martin Marietta: Managing Corporate Ethics (B)

By: Lynn S. Paine
The president of one of Martin Marietta's four main operating companies has learned of procurement irregularities in the company he manages. The problems involve U.S. government contracts the company is working on. After getting legal advice from the company's general... View Details
Keywords: Fluctuation; Crime and Corruption; Ethics; Governing and Advisory Boards; Policy; Contracts; Leadership; United States
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  • 29 Jun 2016
  • News

The Latest Local Motor: A Self-Driving Bus

(photo by Local Motors) (photo by Local Motors) The Jetsonian era may be upon us. A recent NPR piece details how 24-year-old Colombia native Edgar Sarmiento worked with Local Motors to build a vehicle called Olli—a self-driving electric minibus. Sarmiento’s design came... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • News

Looking for a Leader: The Role of Executive Search Firms

firm following a turnover is largely determined by two factors: whether the turnover is forced or natural and whether an internal or external candidate is selected as the successor. To understand better the inner workings of the chief executive View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs; Telecommunications; Information
  • 01 Dec 1996
  • News

Entrepreneurship at HBS

the last decade, under the leadership of Howard Stevenson, Bill Sahlman, and their colleagues, HBS has greatly expanded its commitment to this area. Our faculty have developed new ideas about launching and sustaining new ventures that... View Details
  • 25 May 2016
  • News

FIELD 3: Taking Down Barriers

FIELD (Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development) course. “I was interested in entrepreneurship, but I didn’t think that I was cut out for it,” says the Princeton economics major. “FIELD 3 took down a lot of the barriers.”... View Details
  • 13 Aug 2024
  • Blog Post

Leading With Curiosity: Mayowa Kuyoro (MBA 2015)

government, and politics in BGEI, and developed herself as a leader. “I think it took me going to HBS for me to shape my views around what kind of leadership I wanted to have on the Continent,” Kuyoro shared. “I think about View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • December 2021 (Revised June 2022)
  • Case

Darden Restaurants: The Nine Square Feet

By: Joshua D. Margolis and James Barnett
In June 2021, Darden Restaurants CEO Gene Lee contemplates how to position the world’s biggest full-service restaurant more than one year into the COVID-19 pandemic. View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Agribusiness; Change; Decision Making; Food; Human Resources; Leadership; Operations; Strategy; Health Pandemics; Opportunities; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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  • March 2006 (Revised October 2007)
  • Case

The Parisian Revival

By: Rajiv Lal and Carin-Isabel Knoop
In mid-2005, George Jones had two jobs: head of Saks Inc.'s 41-store Parisian department store chain as well as president and CEO of the Saks Department Store Group (SDSG), an umbrella for seven chains with a total of 182 stores across the United States. In 2003 Jones... View Details
Keywords: Profit; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Improvement; Sales; Retail Industry; United States
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  • 10 Nov 2020
  • News

In Harmony

After an unsatisfying stint as a consultant at Strategic Planning Associates in Washington, DC, Mark Weinstein (MBA 1981) developed a new strategic plan for his life with the goal of finding a job at the intersection of business and the arts. He achieved that goal in... View Details
  • 10 Apr 2020
  • News

How to Be an Inclusive Leader Through a Crisis

  • 02 Mar 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?

SUMMING UP: Does It Matter If China Assumes Global Trade Leadership? There are a variety of reasons why China is not a threat to the global trade leadership of the United States. They include demographic disadvantages, an unwillingness to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 26 Jan 2022
  • Blog Post

Video: HBS Dean Srikant Datar Introduces the Case Method Centennial

asking questions, and listening to others' viewpoints. It educates for judgment at a moment when business leaders are being asked to help address society's most pressing problems, economic inequality, a global pandemic, and a changing... View Details
  • November 2015 (Revised February 2016)
  • Supplement

Allianz Turkey: Focus on the Customer (B)

By: W. Earl Sasser and Gamze Yucaoglu
At the age of 39, Solmaz Altın took over the helm at Allianz Turkey. Solmaz quickly realized that, although the insurance market was thinly penetrated in Turkey, the company was operating in a very competitive environment with pressure on prices and, hence, cost... View Details
Keywords: Service Excellence; Customer Experience; Customer Service; Emerging Market; Customer Focus; Net Promoter Score; Customer Relationship Management; Competition; Leading Change; Service Operations; Emerging Markets; Customer Satisfaction; Insurance Industry; Turkey
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  • 25 Feb 2021
  • News

A CEO’s Guide to Planning a Return to the Office

  • 01 Jun 2012
  • News

Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home

lot has changed in the automobile business since Mark Fields (MBA 1989) was a young man growing up in Paramus, tooling around in his ride (full disclosure: his mom’s 1976 Chevy Caprice) on his way to becoming a rising executive on the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • April 2007
  • Case

Alan Kendricks at Cardiology Associates

By: Boris Groysberg, Colleen Kaftan and Wilfred S. McCalla, Jr.
Alan Kendricks struggles to address many challenges facing him as a recently promoted medical director for Cardiology Associates at Southeastern Pennsylvania University Hospital. He must balance his time taking care of patients, running a practice, managing up, down,... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Business or Company Management; Strategy; Organizational Culture; Work-Life Balance; Organizational Structure; Change Management; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Pennsylvania
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  • 01 Sep 2015
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015

Airlines. Evolving Ourselves: How Unnatural Selection and Nonrandom Mutation Are Changing Life on Earth by Juan Enriquez (MBA 1986) and Steve Gullans (Current) The authors survey how humans are changing the... View Details
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Benjamin Peterson

In his two-year mission service in Haiti, for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Ben Peterson experienced something that “completely changed my worldview. I had a privileged life. I had never lived in poverty, had never... View Details