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- 14 Dec 2021
- Op-Ed
To Change Your Company's Culture, Don't Start by Trying to Change the Culture
systems. Not much happens from pure culture conversations because they don’t result in a clear idea of what needs to change and how it will be changed to reinforce key strategic priorities.” Harvard Business School professor Jay Lorsch... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer
- April 1998
- Case
Jim Lyons and GenRad
Lyons, currently CEO of Harry Gray Associates, a consulting and investment firm, had just been approached by an executive recruiter representing GenRad, a 78-year-old electronics company headquartered in Concord, MA. The company, which manufactured integrated software... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Management Succession; Personal Development and Career; Consulting Industry; Massachusetts
Zschau, Ed, and Matt Verlinden. "Jim Lyons and GenRad." Harvard Business School Case 698-095, April 1998.
- 28 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
Keep or Cut Workers? How Companies Reacted to the COVID-19 Crisis
“There was not a single person or car,” he recalls. The eerily quiet scene was a jarring reminder that the pandemic was taking a huge toll on many businesses that saw sales and revenue figures abruptly plummet. Rouen and two fellow... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- March 2022
- Case
Auto Mag (Abridged)
By: David E. Bell
A young HBS graduate purchases a publisher of specialty magazines that advertises second hand cars, boats, trucks, etc. The magazines carry photographs and a brief description of each article for sale. The company faces the problem of deciding on how many magazines to... View Details
Keywords: Distribution; Cost Management; Decision Choices and Conditions; Forecasting and Prediction
Bell, David E. "Auto Mag (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 122-096, March 2022.
- 15 Jul 2022
- News
Would You Pay $40 a Month to Have Strangers Watch You Work?
- 15 Jul 2021
- News
Debate over Photo Voter ID Laws Is Enduring – And Complex
- November 2006 (Revised October 2007)
- Case
Artisan Entertainment Inc.
Geoff Rehnert and Marc Wolpow have left Bain Capital to launch Audax Group. As part of their separation, they have been granted 90-day options to purchase Bain Capital's stake in a number of portfolio companies at Fair Market Value. As they conside whether to exercise... View Details
El-Hage, Nabil N., and Christopher Edward James Payton. "Artisan Entertainment Inc." Harvard Business School Case 207-067, November 2006. (Revised October 2007.)
- Web
Strategy - Faculty & Research
contrast, with short-term membership, they do not discriminate between new and old customers with their unit price but only with their membership fees. Overall, the number of consumers poached is smaller with long-term memberships, but... View Details
- 18 Nov 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
The Dynamics of Firm Lobbying
- Program
Leading Change and Organizational Renewal
experimentation with financial stability. You will return to your company prepared to build change strategies that inspire organizational change and drive corporate success. This program is eligible for the Certificate of Management... View Details
- Web
Lifelong Learning - Alumni
HBS for Life As a lifelong member of the HBS community, you have access to insights, training, expertise, and support from faculty and fellow alumni that will help you navigate opportunities and challenges throughout your life and... View Details
- 13 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Is HBS Cutthroat or Collaborative?
successful team launch and how to establish and enforce norms for ongoing operation. Upon examination, we quickly learned that we each were armed with a very different skill set. By recognizing individual strengths and weaknesses we were... View Details
- January 2020
- Case
Wuxi Lead Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd.
By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In 2019, Wuxi Lead Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd. (Lead) was the largest supplier of lithium-ion rechargeable battery manufacturing equipment in the world. Based in Wuxi, China, the company generated RMB 3.9 billion ($557 million) in revenues in 2018, up from RMB 175... View Details
- 13 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
Are Companies Actually Greener—or Are They All Talk?
Most companies now account for social good in their financial reports in some way, but with regulation scattershot and evolving, it’s complicated for investors to assess so-called ESG reports. The disclosures, known as Environmental, Social, and Governance reports,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 24 Oct 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
When $3+$1 > $4: The Effect of Gift Salience on Employee Effort in an Online Labor Market
- 15 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point
because its benefits are not distributed widely. That is what our business leaders said—and that seems to be what the protesters are saying as well. Rather than dismiss them for View Details
- 02 Feb 2007
- What Do You Think?
Is There Too Little “Know Why” In Business?
BP and Body Shop. At what point in time was purpose not enough? Too often, I see controls (structure) put in place that effectively raise barriers to both the understanding of, and more importantly a connection to, the company... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 05 Oct 2014
- News
SEC’s new rules give US money market funds a floating feeling
- 2022
- Book
企業初心 未來企業的新領導準則
By: Hubert Joly and Caroline Lambert
A remarkable turnaround by a leader with a remarkable philosophy: Find your noble purpose. Put people at the center. Unleash human magic.
"It was fall in Minnesota. It was getting cold and we were supposed to die." This is how Hubert Joly describes the early,... View Details
"It was fall in Minnesota. It was getting cold and we were supposed to die." This is how Hubert Joly describes the early,... View Details
Keywords: Capitalism; Leadership; Mission and Purpose; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Leading Change
Joly, Hubert, and Caroline Lambert. 企業初心 未來企業的新領導準則. 天下文化, 2022, Chinese Mandarin ed.
- 2022
- Book
The Heart of Business (ハート・オブ・ビジネス)――「人とパーパス」を本気で大切にする新時代のリーダーシップ
By: Hubert Joly and Caroline Lambert
A remarkable turnaround by a leader with a remarkable philosophy: Find your noble purpose. Put people at the center. Unleash human magic.
"It was fall in Minnesota. It was getting cold and we were supposed to die." This is how Hubert Joly describes the early,... View Details
"It was fall in Minnesota. It was getting cold and we were supposed to die." This is how Hubert Joly describes the early,... View Details
Joly, Hubert, and Caroline Lambert. The Heart of Business (ハート・オブ・ビジネス)――「人とパーパス」を本気で大切にする新時代のリーダーシップ. 英治出版, 2022, Japanese ed.