Publications

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Evolving for Success [Part Two]

face-to-face leadership and communication skills. In Evolve, I also write about the importance of building coalitions and of leadership as community organizing, finding your supporters, bringing your supporters on board, and then... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

15 Jan 2013
First Look

First Look: January 15

Education in Brazil, 1889-1930 Authors:Musacchio, Aldo, Andre Martinez-Fritscher, and Martina Viarengo Abstract In this paper, we examine the role of trade shocks View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Syed Babar Ali

Keywords: Education; Government

05 Feb 2019
Blog Post

Instagram Takeover - Dilan Gomih (MBA '19)

Dilan Gomih (MBA '19) is making the career switch at HBS from finance to fitness. Dilan received her undergraduate education at Yale University with a BA in Political Science/Government. View Details

2022
Article

Becoming a Learning Organization While Enhancing Performance: The Case of LEGO

By: Thomas Borup Kristensen, Henrik Saabye and Amy Edmondson

Purpose - The purpose of this study is to empirically test how problem-solving lean practices, along with leaders as learning facilitators in an action learning approach, can be transferred from a production context to a knowledge work context for the purpose... View Details

Keywords: Performance Efficiency; Learning; Organizational Change and Adaptation

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07 Feb 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Creating the Founders’ Dilemmas Course

If Noam Wasserman's entrepreneurship elective were a start-up company, investors would be delighted with its growth. When the Harvard Business School professor first offered his Founders' Dilemmas course in 2009, a mere 42 second-year MBA... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

15 Nov 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives

In some respects, developing strategy is the easy part. Executing that strategy in alignment with strategic priorities is where real mastery of management takes place. We asked Harvard Business School senior... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

Video

Badreddine Ouali

Badreddine Ouali, Founder and Co-CEO of Vermeg, shares the goals and accomplishments of the Tunisia Foundation for Development, which he established in 2016 to support entrepreneurship, employment, and training for Tunisian youth. View Details

01 Dec 2011
News

What Keeps HBS Ahead? You Do!

capital. We invest strategically, with the aim of keeping HBS at the top. In a zero-profit model, our greatest challenges are providing a transformational education for our students and funding the great... View Details

Keywords: William A. Sahlman; Educational Services; Educational Services

June 2018
Case

Candor at Clever

By: Ethan Bernstein and Om Lala

Clever, a high-growth EdTech company based in San Francisco, had grown quickly in market share and headcount. As with many high-growth companies, however, early employees (many of whom had never managed people before) had been given the opportunity to manage teams, and... View Details

October 1980 (Revised December 1986)
Case

Ernie Budding (A)

Details an instructor's attempt to motivate his section to raise its classroom performance standards. Outlines the situation when the section was performing well, the decline in standards, the action the professor took to revise the situation, and the final outcome. View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Performance Improvement; Outcome or Result; Standards; Education Industry

May 20, 2016
Comment

World Health Organization Lacks Leadership to Combat Pandemics

By: John A. Quelch

When it comes to emergency preparedness for pandemics, the World Health Organization is falling short. It has not provided prompt and clear leadership to the world in combating either the Ebola or Zika viruses. Its leadership has been low energy, its representatives... View Details

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19 Jul 2011
First Look

First Look: July 19

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/410008-PDF-ENG Nike Football: World Cup 2010 South Africa Elie Ofek and Ryan JohnsonHarvard Business School Case 511-060 Nike's Football Division needs to devise a strategy to excel at the 2010... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 2024
Case

Topaz: Navigating Governance, Legacy, and Change

By: Christina R. Wing and Carla Larangeira

Since its founding in 2011, the Garza Sada brothers and their father positioned Topaz among leading family offices in Monterrey, Mexico, with several assets under management. Topaz aspired to have a transformative impact across multiple Mexican industries. An industry... View Details

Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Family Business; Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Managerial Roles; Management Succession; Family Ownership; Education Industry; Education Industry; Education Industry; Education Industry; Latin America; Mexico

May 2019 (Revised July 2019)
Case

Walmart's Workforce of the Future

By: William R. Kerr and Jordan Bach-Lombardo

Faced with intense competition from Amazon, Walmart began a transformation of its operations and workforce in 2015. The goal was to create an omnichannel retail experience for customers that seamlessly joined online and offline shopping. This case explores Walmart's... View Details

Keywords: Walmart; Managing The Future Of Work; Workforce; Automation; Ecommerce; Omnichannel Retail; Operations; Transformation; Employees; Training; Information Technology; Infrastructure; Disruption; Competitive Strategy; E-commerce; Information Infrastructure; Retail Industry