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  • September 2024
  • Case

Navigating Digital Transformation at Carrefour

By: Sunil Gupta and Emilie Billaud
In 2023, Elodie Perthuisot, Carrefour’s Executive Director for e-commerce and digital transformation, met with CEO Alexandre Bompard to discuss strategies for the company’s digital initiatives. Carrefour, a global retail giant with over 14,300 stores across 40... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Talent and Talent Management; Decisions; Digital Strategy; Technology Adoption; Leading Change; Goals and Objectives; Resource Allocation; Digital Marketing; E-commerce; Operations; Logistics; Business Processes; Organizational Culture; Strategic Planning; Alliances; Partners and Partnerships; Competitive Advantage; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Europe
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  • April 2024 (Revised November 2024)
  • Case

Moderna: Pioneering a People Platform to Accelerate Science Innovation

By: Tatiana Sandino, Emil Dy and Samuel Grad
Moderna was founded in 2010 to explore how messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) could be used to create breakthrough medicines by encoding instructions for the body to create antibodies. When Stéphane Bancel (HBS 2000) took over in 2011, he bet on the potential of this... View Details
Keywords: Disruptive Innovation; Talent and Talent Management; Selection and Staffing; AI and Machine Learning; Digital Strategy; Innovation and Management; Leadership Development; Management Practices and Processes; Management Systems; Organizational Culture; Performance Evaluation; Alignment; Employee Relationship Management; Science-Based Business; Expansion; Pharmaceutical Industry; Biotechnology Industry; United States
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  • 2009
  • Chapter

Collaboration Across Knowledge Boundaries within Diverse Teams: Reciprocal Expertise Affirmation as an Enabling Condition

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Kate Roloff and Lucy H. MacPhail
We review research on expertise diversity, psychological safety, team collaboration, and role identity to propose a model in which reciprocal affirmations of expertise identity among team members—a feature of the team environment that we conceptualize as a dimension of... View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Experience and Expertise; Learning; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Groups and Teams; Familiarity; Identity; Cooperation
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  • October 2007
  • Article

The Power of Stars: Do Star Actors Drive the Success of Movies?

By: Anita Elberse
Is the involvement of star actors critical to the success of motion pictures? Film studios, which they regularly pay multimillion-dollar fees to star actors, seem driven by that belief. I shed light on the returns on this investment using an event study that considers... View Details
Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Film Entertainment; Investment Return; Revenue; Compensation and Benefits; Resource Allocation; Success; Motion Pictures and Video Industry
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  • March 1992 (Revised April 1995)
  • Teaching Note

BMW: The 7-Series Project (A), Teaching Note

By: Gary P. Pisano
Teaching Note for (9-692-083). View Details
Keywords: Projects; Competency and Skills; Production; Quality; Product Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Decisions; Management Practices and Processes; Luxury; Auto Industry
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  • 01 Jun 2015
  • News

The Military and the MBA: Richard Kondo (MBA 1999)

“My most rewarding mission.” —Blending military leadership and private industry best practices Richard Kondo (MBA 1999) served as a US Navy Submarine Officer in Japan and later pursued a medical device career in marketing and business development. He is now in the... View Details
Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; Government
  • 01 Jun 2015
  • News

The Military and the MBA: Gene Markowski (MBA 1973)

“You can’t just give orders in business.” —Unlearning some of the lessons of the military Gene Markowski (MBA 1973) served as an Army Huey helicopter pilot in Vietnam and received the Distinguished Flying Cross and many other honors for heroic action. He retired from a... View Details
Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; Government
  • 05 Jul 2011
  • News

Driving Innovation

Stewart: Helping brands navigate the complexities of today’s media. Photo courtesy Bonita Stewart What can a high-flying, high-tech giant learn about marketing from an industry that is about as nuts-and-bolts as you can get? Plenty, if Bonita Stewart (MBA ’83) has... View Details
Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • 01 Sep 2018
  • News

September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

automation is making jobs less routine and more cognitively challenging. Globalization means you’re competing with workers around the world. Simultaneously, the internet and other communication technologies have radically increased the... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 1, 2015

disadvantageous position to compete with the two superpowers. However, it did compete, and the question is why. The existing historiography on the Sino-Soviet split focuses on Mao's desire for leadership of the international communist... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 27

principles. In particular, I show how Google used these tactics to enter numerous markets, to compel usage of its services, and often to dominate competing offerings. I explore the technical and commercial implementations of these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jul 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?

barriers. As a result, more entrepreneurs could engage in more experimentation, potentially increasing the diversity of companies in a given sector. The question: Is having so many untested companies competing for relatively scarce... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 10 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis

need more competent CEOs of major companies who will invest wisely to create new valued products and services. Private action can overcome partisan haggling and incompetence. America is a great country, because it has citizens who... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 23 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 23, 2007

directly: high oil prices, a growing demand in emerging economies like China and India, and the possibility of agribusiness companies competing successfully in the production of biofuels. Bunge had traditionally followed an organizational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Sep 2004
  • Research & Ideas

IBM Finds Profit in Diversity

promoting these individuals when looking to fill executive jobs. Managing diversity is also one of the core competencies used to assess managers' performance, and it's included in the mandatory training and orientation of new managers... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
  • 29 Sep 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Pride Goeth Before a Profit

won Silver Awards with a $300 prize, and two have gone on trips to Florida afterward to compete at the second (Gold) level of the three-level program. One of them went on to win the annual Platinum Award and its $5,000 prize for the... View Details
Keywords: by Theodore Kinni
  • Web

Online AI Course | HBS Online

Introduction to AI Essentials for Business ENROLL NOW No application needed for our certificate programs. Start your journey today! AI Essentials for Business $1,850 Next 4-week session starts July 16th Enroll Now Compete in the age of AI... View Details
  • 11 May 2017
  • News

Going with the Flow

begin in childhood, Fisher and two partners developed the basic structure for FitMoney, a program to be embedded in K–12 curricula. “We want children to become confident and competent in managing their personal finances, and to take... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
  • 26 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 26, 2016

have the in-house talent needed for developing prediction algorithms. Cities could hire consultants, but a cheaper alternative is to crowdsource competence by making data public and offering a reward for the best algorithm. A simple model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 8

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1939494   Working Papers Competing Ad Auctions By: Ashlagi, Itai, Benjamin Edelman, and Hoan Soo Lee Abstract—We present a two-stage model of competing ad... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne