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- April 2006
- Case
Finance Leadership in Novartis Consumer Health Businesses
By: Boris Groysberg and Ingrid Vargas
Describes and contrasts the roles and challenges of three high-performing finance heads at Novartis Consumer Health businesses in Australia, Japan, and Venezuela. All three faced tremendous pressures in terms of managing time and limited resources, but the particular... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Financial Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Leadership Style; Health Industry; Japan; Australia; Venezuela
Groysberg, Boris, and Ingrid Vargas. "Finance Leadership in Novartis Consumer Health Businesses." Harvard Business School Case 406-102, April 2006.
- March 2006 (Revised February 2007)
- Case
UBS: Towards the Integrated Firm
By: Rajiv Lal, Nitin Nohria and Carin-Isabel Knoop
In late June 2005, UBS Group CEO Peter Wuffli--anointed "Master of Zurich" by the financial press--was returning to Zurich from the firm's latest three-day Senior Leadership Conference (SLC). Tapping 600 top managers, this SLC featured an outdoor event at a former... View Details
Lal, Rajiv, Nitin Nohria, and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "UBS: Towards the Integrated Firm." Harvard Business School Case 506-026, March 2006. (Revised February 2007.)
- Teaching Interest
Supply Chain Management
The Supply Chain Management (SCM) course builds on aspects of the first-year Technology and Operations Management (RC TOM) course. However, whereas RC TOM focuses primarily on developing and producing products and services, SCM emphasizes managing... View Details
Blockbusters: Hit-making, Risk-taking, and the Big Business of Entertainment
What’s behind the phenomenal success of entertainment businesses such as Warner Bros., Marvel Enterprises, and the NFL—along with such stars as Jay-Z, Lady Gaga, and LeBron James? Which strategies give leaders in film, television, music, publishing, and sports an edge... View Details
- 01 Feb 2022
- Book
Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed
by demonstrating new ways of working. They are passionate about an opportunity to reinvent the business, know how to get the attention of executives with compelling facts, want to design a new venture for success, do not want to conform,... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- Web
Frequently Asked Questions | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
educational and reunion programs, and career resources. Organizations interact with our social enterprise community through Executive Education programs, independent projects, recruitment and hiring, and community engagement programs. How... View Details
- 04 Jan 2024
- News
Great Heights
training and fortitude in a hostile environment. And only ten percent of those who make it to Denali’s summit are women. “It’s much like tech!” Kostova says. And it proved a ready-made metaphor for the next phase of her career. In 2020, Kostova founded CareerClimb, an... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?
Because pricing is such a difficult and complex arena, it has confounded sales and marketing executives and scholars for centuries. In no other marketing element is the two-sided conflict and cooperation nature of the buyer-seller... View Details
- 12 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment
When evaluating whether to invest in a new idea, senior executives often rely on experts. But these advisers often favor ideas that are easy to execute over tough-to-pull-off but potentially groundbreaking... View Details
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Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online
Senior Lecturer of Business Administration and C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator Introduction to Personal Branding Show Hide Details Modules Develop Your Personal Brand Engage Your Personal Brand and Influence 40-45 hrs Term 4 Course - 6 Modules... View Details
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Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online
problems. Meet Arjun, an HBS Online participant who took Business Analytics to better understand content creation research in his industry Arjun Bhandegaonkar Film studio executive Strengthen your analytical skills before pursuing an MBA... View Details
- 10 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Top Scholars Say About Leadership
leadership, be it leadership in business or politics. This changing context may have spurred an interest in, and help legitimate, the study of leadership. Q: What key learnings can managers and executives take away from your book? A:... View Details
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
thus, the market outcomes? The authors find that central brokers gather information by executing informed trades, which are then leaked to their best clients. See Marco’s other research here , Francesco’s other research here , and Amir’s... View Details
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Online Entrepreneurship & Innovation Courses | HBS Online
hrs/week Enroll by May 22 $1,850 Certificate Leading Change and Organizational Renewal Professors Michael Tushman and Charles O’Reilly Lead your organization through successful transformation by learning how to execute for today and... View Details
- 28 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Profit Power of Corporate Culture
which are the foundations for the successful implementation of whatever policies and practices are necessary to execute a given strategy; policies and practices that lead to a learning, innovative organization; measurement of the results... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 27, 2007
Working PapersFrom Manufacturing to Design: An Essay on the Work of Kim B. Clark Authors:Sylvain Lenfle and Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract Kim Clark occupies a unique place in management scholarship. As a member of the Technology and Operations Management unit of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Research Summary
Fabrizio Ferri's research focuses on a number of corporate governance issues, with particular emphasis on executive compensation and shareholder activism. His dissertation investigates the determinants and consequences of firms' decision to reprice... View Details
- September 2022
- Article
Regulatory Spillover and Workplace Racial Inequality
By: Letian Zhang
This paper suggests that affirmative action bans in the U.S. public sector may influence racial inequality in the private sector. Since the 1990s, nine states have banned affirmative action practice in public universities and state governments. Though these bans have... View Details
Keywords: Inequality; Regulation; Law; Organizational Norm; CEO; Affirmative Action; Organizations; Private Sector; Equality and Inequality; Diversity; Race; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
Zhang, Letian. "Regulatory Spillover and Workplace Racial Inequality." Administrative Science Quarterly 67, no. 3 (September 2022): 595–629.
- August 2021
- Supplement
Dirk Nowitzki: Changing the Game
By: Boris Groysberg
NBA Superstar Dirk Nowitzki was unsure whether the 2018–2019 season would be his last as an NBA player. He had not faced such uncertainty since 1998, when he had navigated a difficult decision regarding the timing of his move to the NBA. He also did not know what he... View Details
Keywords: Career Decisions; Career Journey; ＂Sports Organizations,; Mentoring; Retirement; Sports; Performance; Training; Personal Development and Career; Decision Making; Talent and Talent Management; Sports Industry; United States
Groysberg, Boris. "Dirk Nowitzki: Changing the Game." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 421-710, August 2021.
- 2012
- Book
Talk, Inc. : How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations
By: Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind
How can leaders make their big or growing companies feel small again? How can they recapture the "magic"--the tight strategic alignment, the high level of employee engagement--that drove and animated their organization when it was a start-up? As more and more... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Interpersonal Communication; Organizational Culture; Social and Collaborative Networks; Spoken Communication
Groysberg, Boris, and Michael Slind. Talk, Inc. How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations. Harvard Business Review Press, 2012.