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Organizational Sustainability: Organization Design and Senior Leadership to Enable Strategic Paradox
By: Wendy K. Smith, Marianne W. Lewis and Michael L. Tushman
Smith, Wendy K., Marianne W. Lewis, and Michael L. Tushman. "Organizational Sustainability: Organization Design and Senior Leadership to Enable Strategic Paradox." Chap. 61 in The Oxford Handbook of Positive Organizational Scholarship, by Kim S. Cameron and Gretchen M. Spreitzer, 798–810. Oxford Library of Psychology. Oxford University Press, 2011.
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
stay with the old technology as a rational, proactive choice rather than as a mark of managerial and organizational failure. We then consider the distinctive challenges and organizational dynamics that arise in technology retreats and their implications for the ways in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Oct 2016
- News
China, artificial intelligence, and Jim Breyer
billions in return. “Mark epitomizes courage and intensity and isn’t afraid to be wrong,” Breyer said. “And he also made the decision in 2008 to hire Sheryl Sandberg (MBA 1995) . The combination of Mark and Sheryl is the single best team... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow
that I have.” Neeley’s research focuses on the challenges organizations face when coordinating operations across linguistic and national boundaries. As a doctoral student at Stanford, she participated in a large-scale global teams study... View Details
- 01 Mar 2021
- News
The Problem with Always Being the Problem Solver
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
Elective Curriculum (Second Year) Authentic Leadership Development Leading Professional Service Firms Leading Teams Leading and Governing High Performing Nonprofit Organizations Managing Human Capital Power... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Lighting the Way
teams is the ability to develop future leaders. I love to mentor all ages and backgrounds because I personally get great satisfaction in watching others develop into their full potential.” Fueled by their success, she is dedicated to... View Details
- 09 May 2013
- News
Road Trip
"Sarah and her team are tenacious and we think we'll learn a lot from them." Highland Brewing Company (Asheville, North Carolina). Cofounded in 1994 by owner Oscar Wong (SBA North Carolina Person of the Year), it began brewing locally in... View Details
- 08 Aug 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
Panic Management: Keep Your Eyes on the Road
place.” None of it helps clean up a workplace mess. ADVERSITY TOOLKIT Managers can soup up resilience in themselves as well as their teams by making a shift in how they size up a challenge. Rather than... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Complements to the Case Method
productive,” says former student Nami Singhal (MBA 2013), now an associate at asset management firm AQR Capital Management. Singhal’s team made a bet that Argentina would default during its debt crisis; they... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Brick by Brick
Meanwhile, birth rates declined, and children had less interest in toys that didn't offer instant gratification. Serious jolts were also taking place in the LEGO Group. Kjeld, out of the office for a year following a serious illness in 1993, appointed a View Details
Matt Higgins
across sports and entertainment, media and marketing, consumer, and technology industries – including several of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies. Making a splash on ABC’s Emmy-award winning TV show Shark Tank, Matt joined the... View Details
- February 1994 (Revised July 2007)
- Case
Richard Jenkins
By: John J. Gabarro and Andrew P. Burtis
Written from the point of view of Richard Jenkins, the president of CelluComm. Presents his reflections on the series of events leading to the firing of one of CelluComm's general managers, Erik Peterson. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details
Gabarro, John J., and Andrew P. Burtis. "Richard Jenkins." Harvard Business School Case 494-113, February 1994. (Revised July 2007.)
- February 1997
- Supplement
WPP--Integrating Icons (Video)
By: Joseph L. Bower and Sonja Ellingson Hout
Interviews with Martin Sorrell, Chairman of WPP Group plc, and also with the heads of several companies that are owned with WPP. Discusses corporate culture, strategies for the future, and how the various companies interact. View Details
Keywords: Management Teams; Organizational Structure; Organizational Culture; Relationships; Communication; Strategy
Bower, Joseph L., and Sonja Ellingson Hout. "WPP--Integrating Icons (Video)." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 397-504, February 1997.
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Committed To HBS’s Success
who participate in them. “The School faces tough competitors,” says Tukman, president of Tukman Grossman Capital Management Inc. “Great as it is, HBS is only as good as its faculty and its students. If one wishes to help ensure the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Enhancing Students’ Cultural Intelligence
from throughout their first year to on-site, customer-related projects with companies around the world. Before their trip, Franklin’s six-person team tested their research methodology in interviews with Boston-area teens and parents.... View Details
- May 1994 (Revised May 1995)
- Case
Laura Ashley (B): Defining a Strategy
By: Richard L. Nolan
A turnaround CEO engineers a business transformation and formulates short-term and long-term strategy after assessing the business situation. View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Management Teams; Business Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry
Nolan, Richard L. "Laura Ashley (B): Defining a Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 194-143, May 1994. (Revised May 1995.)
- January 1983 (Revised June 1985)
- Case
Mary Kay Cosmetics, Inc.: Marketing Communications
By: John A. Quelch
Marketing executives at the company are considering the merits of a variety of communications programs designed to increase the effectiveness of the company's sales force of beauty consultants. View Details
Keywords: Marketing Communications; Salesforce Management; Decision Making; Performance Effectiveness; Management Teams; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; United States
Quelch, John A. "Mary Kay Cosmetics, Inc.: Marketing Communications." Harvard Business School Case 583-068, January 1983. (Revised June 1985.)
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
ideas. This isn't traditional benchmarking, since managers don't simply copy something they see elsewhere. Rather, they take pieces of practice or technology that they find and recombine them in novel ways to solve customer problems. The... View Details
- Career Coach
Ildi Nielsen
and consumer products companies. Ildi also spent 12 years as an Executive Search Consultant in New York and Chicago for financial services firms. She worked with senior executives to build their teams and with a multitude of... View Details
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