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- December 2024 (Revised March 2025)
- Case
Strategy and CEO Succession at Starbucks
By: Krishna G. Palepu and David Lane
On August 13, 2024, Starbucks announced that Laxman Narasimhan who was appointed as the CEO only in September 2023, was stepping down as CEO and board director “with immediate effect.” Laxman would be replaced on September 9 by Brian Niccol, CEO since 2018 of Chipotle... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Corporate Governance; Leadership; Management Succession; Cost Management; Labor Unions; Working Conditions; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Service Operations; Investment Activism; Governing and Advisory Boards; Resignation and Termination; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
Palepu, Krishna G., and David Lane. "Strategy and CEO Succession at Starbucks." Harvard Business School Case 125-040, December 2024. (Revised March 2025.)
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
investment banking--give their points of view. Joseph Bower, Baker Foundation Professor The GM IPO represents the beginning of the end of a remarkable piece of intervention by the Obama administration. The government's involvement in the US auto View Details
- November 2012
- Case
Teaming at GE Aviation
Describes the challenges and successes encountered by GE's Aviation business in implementing a teaming work structure and culture in plants across its supply chain. GE Aviation leadership had seen dramatic gains in productivity, quality, and worker satisfaction in... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Aviation And Aerospace; Capacity Management; Competitiveness; Corporate Culture; Corporate Structure; Labor Relations; Manufacturing; Production Planning; General Electric; Teaming; Managing Change; Transformation; Labor Unions; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Performance Productivity; Leading Change; Management Style; Job Design and Levels; Aerospace Industry; Aerospace Industry; United States
Khurana, Rakesh, Jeffrey Polzer, Willy Shih, and Eric Baldwin. "Teaming at GE Aviation." Harvard Business School Case 413-074, November 2012.
- August 1995
- Teaching Note
Polaroid Corporation: European Distribution System TN
By: Janice H. Hammond and Afroze A Mohammed
Teaching Note for (9-695-038). View Details
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
bribery but even made it tax deductible until 1999, it was not welcomed in some nations where Siemens did business such as the United States—or in Germany after 2000—but old practices continued. Cooperative management-labor relations, often seen as key to the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Case Method 100 Years | Baker Library
Faculty writes 600 cases for classroom instruction of military personnel 1946 to 1947 Industrial Films Introduced in the Classroom HBS introduces the use of industrial films into case teaching. 1951 Task... View Details
- September 2009
- Article
Labor Market Institutions and Global Strategic Adaptation: Evidence from Lincoln Electric
By: Jordan I. Siegel and Barbara Zepp Larson
Although one of the central questions in the global strategy field is how multinational firms successfully navigate multiple and often conflicting institutional environments, we know relatively little about the effect of conflicting labor market institutions on... View Details
Keywords: Institutions; Labor Market; Complementarity; Global Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Labor Unions; Laws and Statutes; Operations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Manufacturing Industry
Siegel, Jordan I., and Barbara Zepp Larson. "Labor Market Institutions and Global Strategic Adaptation: Evidence from Lincoln Electric." Management Science 55, no. 9 (September 2009): 1527–1546. (Although one of the central questions in the global strategy field is how multinational firms successfully navigate multiple and often conflicting institutional environments, we know relatively little about the effect of conflicting labor market institutions on multinational firms' strategic choice and operating performance. With its decision to invest in manufacturing operations in nearly every one of the world's largest welding
markets, Lincoln Electric offers us a quasi-experiment. We leverage a unique data set covering 1996–2006 that combines data on each host country's labor market institutions with data on each subsidiary's strategic choices and historical operating performance. We find that Lincoln Electric performed significantly better in countries with labor laws and regulations supporting manufacturers' interests and in countries that allowed the free
use of both piecework and a discretionary bonus. Furthermore, we find that in countries with labor market institutions unfriendly to manufacturers, Lincoln Electric was still able to overcome most (although not all) of the institutional distance by what we term flexible intermediate adaptation.)
- 20 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers Value Global Brands
brands, in industries as diverse as information technology and oil. Social Responsibility. People recognize that global companies wield extraordinary influence, both positive and negative, on society's well-being. They expect firms to... View Details
- October 2010
- Teaching Note
Whole Foods: Balancing Social Mission and Growth (TN)
By: Christopher Marquis and Bobbi Thomason
Teaching Note for 410023. View Details
- Research Summary
Overview
Rayport focuses his teaching and research on launching and scaling technology ventures, with emphasis on digital media, e-commerce, and multi-channel retail. View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Digital Marketing; Digital Innovation; Digital Media; E-commerce; E-Commerce Strategy; ＂Marketing Analytics＂; Advertising Technology; Technology Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship; Technological Innovation; Marketing Strategy; Service Operations; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; United States; European Union; China
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
not the end goal. In fact, cost cutting and restructuring are simply the first steps in repositioning and leading a company and industry through the crisis and in defining how business will be conducted in the future. This paper describes... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
more activist, informed patient, particularly around choice when buying health insurance, and in asserting that the health-care industry must be more innovative. She has long advocated for “focused factories,” health-care providers that... View Details
- 05 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 5, 2016
quantitative and evidence-based evaluation of enterprise performance and to financial valuation. The approach is generalizable to any modern industry and integrates existing well-known frameworks. The materials are consistent with what is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- July 2024 (Revised October 2024)
- Case
Knowledge Transfer: Toyota, NUMMI, and GM
By: Willy Shih
New United Motors Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI) was a joint venture between Toyota and General Motors. It was an opportunity for GM to learn about the Toyota Production System, which was quite different from the mass production processes American automakers used at the... View Details
Keywords: Culture Change; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Joint Ventures; Transformation; Selection and Staffing; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Sharing; Labor Unions; Management Systems; Performance Improvement; Production; Labor and Management Relations; Auto Industry; Japan; United States
Shih, Willy. "Knowledge Transfer: Toyota, NUMMI, and GM." Harvard Business School Case 625-003, July 2024. (Revised October 2024.)
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
Schwarzman defended his industry and cautioned that the good times can’t go on forever. Private equity’s been all over the headlines for months. Why is it suddenly such a big deal? Over the last ten years it has grown from 5 percent of... View Details
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
capture important information seemingly ignored by the market. A long-short portfolio based on these legislators' views earns abnormal returns of over 90 basis points per month following the passage of legislation. Industries that we... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
of the variation in industry imports from China and changes in federal spending) and two supply-side ones (TFP shocks and variation in knowledge/ideas coming from foreign patenting). In each case, we find substantial propagation of these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 11, 2006
Working PapersGlobalizing the Beauty Business Before 1980 Geoffrey G. Jones This working paper examines the globalization of the beauty industry before 1980. This industry, which had emerged in its modern form in the United States... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS
warned. "Business cannot sit this one out" and ignore reality, he said. Yet the nature of any given industry today presents business with unique challenges. One session of the conference focused specifically on supply chains,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
Describes the economic development of Latvia, a small eastern European country on the shores of the Baltic Sea, from regaining independence in 1991 to European Union (EU) accession in 2004 and is set on May 1st, 2004, the day Latvia... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace