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  • 09 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

and Nohria examine how an organization built around the four-drive theory might look. The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of work. With it, life is heaven, or as near heaven... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
  • Article

Why Every Organization Needs an Augmented Reality Strategy

By: Michael E. Porter and James E. Heppelmann
While the physical world is three-dimensional, most data is trapped on two-dimensional pages and screens. This gulf between the real and digital worlds prevents us from fully exploiting the volumes of information now available to us. Augmented reality (AR), a set of... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Effectiveness
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  • 30 Mar 2016
  • News

Alumni in Middle East Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS

Ali Y. Koç (MBA 1997) delivered remarks at The HBS Campaign Istanbul Regional Event, March 30, 2016. Ali Y. Koç (MBA 1997) delivered remarks at The HBS Campaign Istanbul Regional Event, March 30, 2016. Alumni and friends of Harvard Business School from throughout the... View Details
  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Creating the Market for Organic Wine: Sulfites, Certification, and Green Values

By: Geoffrey Jones and Emily Grandjean
This working paper examines the history of organic wine, which provides a case study of failed category creation. The modern organic wine industry emerged during the 1970s in the United States and Western Europe, but it struggled to gain traction compared to other... View Details
Keywords: Product Launch; Failure; Problems and Challenges; Complexity; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • 31 Jan 2019
  • News

The Backlash to Larry Fink’s Letter Shows How Far Business Has to Go on Social Responsibility

  • 15 Jul 2014
  • Blog Post

Discovering a new organization and state as an intern

I have a tendency to plan rather far in advance (huge understatement), so I was pretty psyched to get the MBA intern calendar from Walmart in my email prior starting my internship. Opening it was actually overwhelming- there is literally... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
  • 19 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

How Charitable Organizations Can Thwart Excuses for Not Giving

how much good the donation will achieve. “That gives you some moral wiggle room to pursue the more selfish action,” says Exley, an assistant professor in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at HBS. Her research attempts to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • January 31, 2019
  • Article

The Backlash to Larry Fink's Letter Shows How Far Business Has to Go on Social Responsibility

By: Mark R. Kramer
Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, the world’s largest investor with $6 trillion under management, evoked heated controversy with his remarks last week that his company would change its hiring and potentially its compensation structure to advance diversity and ensure that... View Details
Keywords: Diversity; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose
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  • 04 Jan 2021
  • What Do You Think?

How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?

wavebreakmedia Last month, the venerable organization Coca-Cola publicly announced that a project to hire more Black employees that stemmed from the settlement of a 2000 discrimination lawsuit had failed to achieve its objectives. Along... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • April 2017 (Revised November 2017)
  • Case

BlackRock (D): Organizing for the Future (with video links)

By: Ranjay Gulati, Jan W. Rivkin and Aldo Sesia
By the end of 2015, BlackRock had succeeded beyond any of the early dreams of its founders. The firm remained the world’s largest asset manager, with more than $4.6 trillion under management, and other financial services companies used BlackRock’s Aladdin platform to... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Competition; Information Technology; Asset Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • 11 Jun 2020
  • In Practice

Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID?

Government leaders rushing to contain the COVID-19 pandemic in March gave companies little time to shift to an all-virtual workforce. Ready or not, many businesses had to become more digital. But true digital transformation takes far more... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 2010
  • Chapter

What Is Leadership: The CEO's Role in Large, Complex Organizations

By: Michael E. Porter and Nitin Nohria
What is the role of the CEO in a large, complex enterprise? What makes a CEO effective? At first blush, these questions seem easy to answer. A CEO is the epitome of leadership. He or she exercises ultimate power and is responsible for making the most critical choices... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Leadership; Managerial Roles; Power and Influence
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  • 02 Aug 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Summing Up: Why Can’t Organizations Engage Their Employees?

Engaged workers are more productive. (iStock) iStock SUMMING UP: How Can We Prepare Leaders to Engage Their Associates? This month’s column elicited a number of reasons on why organizations around the world do such a poor job of engaging... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 06 Oct 2023
  • Book

Yes, You Can Radically Change Your Organization in One Week

organization forward at the speed of change. One is running better meetings.” Frei: “Another is removing ‘work in process’ from the system, an idea based on Little’s Law. Instead of working harder, find ways to work smarter.” Operational... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • October 2020 (Revised March 2021)
  • Case

Pete Carroll: Building a Winning Organization through Purpose, Caring, and Inclusion

By: Ranjay Gulati, Matthew Breitfelder and Monte Burke
Competing at the highest levels of the National Football League (NFL) requires tremendous skill, dedication and persistence. The most successful coaches in the NFL know how to draw out a higher level of performance and consistency from their players. This is typically... View Details
Keywords: National Football League; Leadership Style; Organizational Culture; Mission and Purpose; Relationships; Performance; Success; Sports; Sports Industry
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  • 2023
  • Working Paper

LALIGA—From a Soccer Competition Organizer to a Global Player in the Sports and Entertainment Industry

By: Stephen A. Greyser, Kenneth Cortsen and Juan Fuentes Fernández
LALIGA, the first- and second-tier professional soccer league (known as “football” outside of the U.S. and Canada) in Spain, enters its 100th soccer season later this decade. The most popular game in the world (Giulianotti, 2012) has gone through many changes since... View Details
Keywords: Soccer; ＂Sports Organizations,; Business History; Strategy; Brands and Branding; Technology Adoption; Sports Industry
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  • 01 Mar 2017
  • Blog Post

What You Need to Know about the Latino Student Organization

to not be inclusive within ourselves, by open to all affiliations and create a single HBS community that is comfortable and engaging for all.  The major highlight for me thus far has been the immense amount of support ECs have provided to... View Details
  • August 2019 (Revised March 2022)
  • Case

Family Matters: Governance at the Zamil Group

By: Christina R. Wing, Suraj Srinivasan and Esel Çekin
This case focuses on a large Saudi Arabian industrial conglomerate and family business Zamil Group’s corporate and family governance journey. The 12 sons of the founder led and grew the group successfully after taking over from their father in 1961. The secret to their... View Details
Keywords: Middle East; Family Ownership; Family-owned Business; Saudi Arabia; Family Business; Governance; Organizational Structure; Values and Beliefs; Steel Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Middle East; Saudi Arabia; Bahrain
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  • August 2016
  • Case

CSI Ingenieros

By: Jay Lorsch and Emily McTague
CSI's business unit managers gathered around the downstairs conference room for the company's weekly meeting to discuss project bids. Cristina WaldAshley Hartman, who was in charge of finding projects for the engineering firm to work on, read through several she had... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Board; Board Committees; Board Dynamics; Organization; Organization Alignment; Dynamic Capabilities; Organization Design; Organizational Prototyping; Organizational Silence; Organizational Learning; Organization Behavior; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Manufacturing Industry; South America; Uruguay
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  • 01 Jun 2002
  • News

Pursuing the Ultimate Deal

Ambassador Dennis B. Ross played a leading role in helping to shape U.S. involvement in the Middle East peace process. Thus, when he spoke at HBS in mid-March, as hostilities in the region threatened to spiral out of control, the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Middle East; peace; Israel; Palestine; policy; Government