Publications

28 Aug 2020
Video

Mavath R. Chandran

Mavath R. Chandran, a veteran executive in the Malaysian palm oil industry and an advisor to the Roundtable of Sustainable Palm Oil, discusses how the British colonial regime contributed to the complex ethnic make-up of modern day Malaysia. He discusses at length the... View Details

08 Mar 2021
Blog Post

International Women's Day Featured Stories

we can create an inclusive world. To celebrate International Women's Day the Women's Student Association is thrilled to feature 13 incredible women from across our Harvard Business School community - faculty, staff View Details

26 Oct 2017
News

The Language of Global Success: How a Common Tongue Transforms Multinational Organizations

November 2000 (Revised November 2005)
Case

Meg Whitman at eBay Inc. (A)

By: Linda A. Hill and Maria Farkas

Meg Whitman takes over as CEO of eBay from the founder. She must figure out how to lead the company through a stage of phenomenal growth without compromising eBay's unique external customer culture and internal culture--its key success factors. A rewritten version of... View Details

Keywords: Leadership Style; Change Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Growth Management; Organizational Culture; Success

Clubs

Women's Student Association

Keywords: Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

03 Apr 2017
Blog Post

The International Experience at HBS

diverse community here. I think there is no harder task on campus than finding out who is an international and who is a “local”. The statistics about the proportion of US passport holders do not say much... View Details

Maria P. Roche

Maria Roche is an Assistant Professor in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School, where she teaches the Strategy course in the MBA required curriculum. Her research explores how specialized knowledge is commercialized and how micro-geographic environments, such... View Details

Keywords: education industry; biotechnology; high technology

Move Fast & Fix Things

Speed has gotten a bad name in business, much of it deserved. When “move fast and break things” began to define the innovation economy, the mindset fueled a widely held belief that we can either make progress or take care of people, one or the... View Details

25 Apr 2014
Video

Randy Hawthorne - Making A Difference

March 1993 (Revised June 1993)
Supplement

McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc. (B)

Describes McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc.'s investment decision and strategic plans in 1990, following the situation in the (A) case. Outlines the competitive situation in other types of mobile communications in the United States and the United Kingdom in 1991. View Details

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Communication Technology; Competition; Mobile Technology; Telecommunications Industry; United Kingdom; United States

March 2000 (Revised August 2000)
Case

Ethan Berman at RiskMetrics Group (A)

Ethan Berman, CEO of J.P. Morgan's risk management spinoff, has grown RiskMetrics Group (RMG) from a small team of 30 to a 70-person firm contemplating an IPO. Along the way, the consensus-based decision-making process that he espoused started to prove unwieldy; his... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Management Style; Business Growth and Maturation; Decision Making; Service Industry; Consulting Industry

October 1987 (Revised October 1989)
Background Note

Moving Ideas into Action: Mastering the Art of Change

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter

Discusses elements in organizing a large scale change effort: defining a shared vision, coalition building, management structure and process, communication and education, local participation and innovation, standards and measures, and symbols and signals. View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Communication; Policy; Innovation and Invention; Standards; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategy

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2013
Book

Teaming to Innovate

By: Amy C. Edmondson

Innovation requires teaming. (Put another way, teaming is to innovation what assembly lines are to car production.) This book brings together key insights on teaming, as they pertain to innovation. How do you build a culture of innovation? What does that culture look... View Details

Keywords: Innovation Leadership; Groups and Teams; Organizational Culture

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11 Apr 2012
News

Winning back Cuban-American Marlins fans may be tough sell for manager, experts say

Clubs

Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition Club

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

June 2007 (Revised June 2008)
Case

GE's Imagination Breakthroughs: The Evo Project

By: Christopher A. Bartlett, Brian J. Hall and Nicole Bennett

In September 2003, Jeff Immelt challenged the business leaders at GE to come up with "Imagination Breakthroughs," innovative new projects that would serve as the centerpiece of GE's organic growth initiative. Follows the company as these changes are driven through the... View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Management; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology Industry

2000
Chapter

Market-Focused Organizational Transformation in China

By: Rohit Deshpandé and John U. Farley

Focuses on a study which investigated the organizational transformation of companies in China and how it affected their success. Conceptual background and hypothesis; Corporate culture of Chinese and other Asian firms; How organizational culture, climate, innovation... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance; Success; China