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  • 15 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 15

Robert L. Simons and Natalie KindredHarvard Business School Case 112-060 This case illustrates a CEO-led organizational transformation driven by stretch goals, performance... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • October 1999
  • Case

Royal Dutch/Shell in Transition (B)

By: Lynn S. Paine
This case describes the decisions made by Shell in response to the situation presented in the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Governance; Corporate Accountability; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Issues; Public Opinion; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Transformation; Energy Industry
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  • March 1998 (Revised July 1998)
  • Case

United Way Community Services

By: V. Kasturi Rangan
Describes in detail the fund development and distribution system of United Way Community Services. A key question is how to measure the outcome/impact of the work done by the agencies that receive United Way funding. A follow-on question is how to reinvent the... View Details
Keywords: Capital; Management Systems; Measurement and Metrics; Distribution Channels; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Outcome or Result; Nonprofit Organizations
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  • 04 Nov 2008
  • First Look

First Look: November 4, 2008

had changed radically in March, and the Moody's team was fearful that the situation could spiral out of control. The Moody's team knew that carry traders increased Iceland's vulnerability to a confidence... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jan 2021
  • Blog Post

2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Marc Duranteau (MBA 2019)

to embark on a personal journey. HBS transformed me in so many ways and if you want to take the most out of HBS, you should be ready to profoundly change. Reading personal development or View Details
  • 29 Jun 2022
  • Blog Post

Four Elements for Finding the Right Career Path

When people contemplate a career change, astute thinking alone won’t necessarily take them in the right direction. Instead, when career changes and other huge life-changing experiences are at stake, people... View Details
  • 25 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 25

scale and influence in the technology industries that fall under the incidence of their assets. We also discuss some efficiency issues raised by the growing prominence of patent merchants. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 15

improvements in expenditures on education per capita, literacy, and schools per children. Yet we also find that such improvements did not take place in states that had more slaves before abolition or those that cultivated cotton during... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Breaking Through a Growth Stall

Skinner III, head of the Atlanta-based consultancy LCS Partners. The article discusses the importance of understanding your ideal customers; the implications for selling, cost management, growth strategy, and View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2015
  • First Look

First Look -- September 1, 2015

is subject to isomorphic pressures, which cannot be completely explained by industry affiliation or peer group membership. Inter-firm professional network connections, such as board interlocks and compensation consultants, provide means... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 6

understood and managed. The key to success? Incentives. Fortunately, new research has shed light on the role incentives can play in promoting new ideas, but these findings have been absent from innovation literature-until now. By using... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 May 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Are You Managing To a ‘T’? Time To Break With Tradition

Many companies have tried, with mixed success, to leverage this underused asset by centralizing knowledge management functions or by investing heavily in knowledge management technology. We suggest another approach, one that requires managers to View Details
Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen & Bolko Von Oetinger
  • November 1987 (Revised June 1988)
  • Case

ServiceMaster Industries, Inc.

By: James L. Heskett
The CEO of ServiceMaster Industries has convened an internal task force to come up with ideas for reorganizing the company to accommodate unusually fast growth. In developing both alternatives and criteria for appraising them, the task force has to keep in mind the... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Culture
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  • 06 May 2002
  • Research & Ideas

A Toolkit for Customer Innovation

pace of change in many markets accelerates and as some industries move toward serving "markets of one," the cost of understanding and responding to customers' needs... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
  • Web

2015 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Research to Change the World: Translating Ideas, Transforming Practice Research to Change the World: Translating Ideas, Transforming Practice... View Details
  • 25 May 2021
  • Blog Post

Aisha Fatima Dozie is Igniting Confidence as the Founder of Bossy Cosmetics

news because it immediately made me change my life. There was nothing about what I was doing or how much money I was earning that was worth dying for,” she said. “I realized I had moved away from the View Details
  • 23 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 23, 2008

increasingly successful claims of social scientists, backed by philanthropic foundations, on business education and the growing appeal of "scientific" approaches to decision-making and management.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Sep 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?

world's premier regulator of food, drugs, cosmetics, and other products and also of helping to lead the transformation of medicine to a molecular level. Current logistical... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Health
  • 15 Dec 2024
  • News

After Ozempic

on drug development and climate research. With investments at this scale, the foundation is positioned to do more than merely contributing to progress; it’s setting the stage for transformative View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Pete Ryan; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 28 Jun 2016
  • First Look

June 28, 2016

businesses that scale undergo a graduation process in which they meet the varying expectations of multiple organizational resource providers. At the unit level, they convince established core units that the potential value from combining... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne