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  • 11 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why Budgeting Kills Your Company

are looking for alternatives that reduce time and better align spending with strategy. Look at your own company's budget process: Has it really helped you do a better job of belt tightening during the current slowdown? Many companies have... View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gary
  • 02 Apr 2007
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Making the Move to General Manager

jobs, who are 'the general manager in the middle' who have the incredibly difficult job of managing up, down, and across the organization. "The cases are designed to get smart people to see different... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 06 Aug 2019
  • Blog Post

Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism - Discovering the Business of Storytelling

classes we took, I did write a case on Raj Kapoor, one of the early entrepreneurs in Bollywood, for Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism, a class taught by the inimitable Geoffrey Jones.    And I did quit my job as a consultant to start... View Details
  • 15 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: November 15

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/112031-PDF-ENG Mike Mayo Takes on Citigroup (B) Suraj Srinivasan and Amy KaserHarvard Business School Supplement 112-051 "Mike Mayo Takes on Citigroup (B)" is a supplementary exercise to go with the "Mike Mayo... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 2021 (Revised April 2022)
  • Case

Best Buy's Corie Barry: Confronting the COVID-19 Pandemic

By: William W. George and Amram Migdal
This case examines the leadership of Corie Barry, the new CEO of Best Buy, with a focus on actions the company took in 2020 to adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic. The case includes a history of Best Buy’s strategy and leadership, including the transitions between the... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Change; Disruption; Volatility; Communication; Competency and Skills; Customers; Decision Making; Ethics; Fairness; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Finance; Cash Flow; Financial Condition; Financial Liquidity; Goods and Commodities; Corporate Governance; Health Pandemics; Human Resources; Executive Compensation; Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Resignation and Termination; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Innovation and Invention; Jobs and Positions; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Job Design and Levels; Job Interviews; Job Offer; Labor; Employment; Human Capital; Working Conditions; Law; Leadership; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Management; Business or Company Management; Crisis Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Practices and Processes; Management Style; Management Succession; Management Systems; Management Teams; Risk Management; Operations; Distribution; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Logistics; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Supply Chain; Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Outcome or Result; Personal Development and Career; Retirement; Work-Life Balance; Planning; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges; Relationships; Business and Community Relations; Labor and Management Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Safety; Science; Strategy; Retail Industry; North and Central America; United States; Minnesota
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  • June 2020
  • Supplement

RBC: Transforming Transformation (B)

By: Ethan Bernstein, Francesca Gino and Aldo Sesia
In 2017, the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), a Canadian financial icon, mandated a swat team of “enablers of collaboration” (their job description) to support the personal and commercial bank in the enterprise-wide RBC Cultural Transformation initiative. Historically,... View Details
Keywords: Service Delivery; Information Technology; Transformation; Change Management; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Decision Making; Human Resources; Management Systems; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Groups and Teams; Management Teams; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Canada
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  • 13 May 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Company Reviews on Glassdoor: Petty Complaints or Signs of Potential Misconduct?

malfeasance but can cause problems nonetheless. “They are not even designed to detect misconduct, which is part of what makes this work—employees feel much more comfortable talking than they might in a narrower platform,” says Campbell.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology
  • Fast Answer

Baker resources for HBS Alumni

What Baker Library resources are available to HBS alumni? Alumni research needs are supported in the following ways: On-site access to Baker Library for life: Visit Baker in person to access an extensive range of databases View Details
  • Web

the Art of American Advertising - Advertising Products

to make a print. The lithographic process allowed advertising artists greater freedom of design than other printmaking methods. Print curators Sally Pierce and Catharina Slautterback explain, “Never before had printmaking offered the... View Details
  • Web

US Business Immigration Overview - Alumni

This quota has never been reached. Eligibility Only open to citizens of Canada or Mexico Filling a position that has been designated as professional in Appendix 1603 D.1 of 8 C.F.R. 214.6 (c) Must have the requisite educational... View Details
  • 25 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Feeling Stuck? Getting Past Impasse

Unstuck I have a number of exercises that are designed to enable the reader to shift to this more metaphorical way of apprehending life. One exercise is called the 100 Jobs exercise. It has nothing to do... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 06 Jan 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Technology Re-Emergence: Creating New Value for Old Innovations

introduced low cost production methods to manufacture highly accurate quartz watches. Swiss business historians refer to this as the "Quartz Crisis." Companies like Seiko and Casio seized the quartz market. By 1983, two-thirds of the watch industry View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Apparel & Accessories; Technology; Consumer Products
  • Web

Scaling Work - Research Computing Services

tools or using LSF job arrays . Requesting multiple CPUs on the HBSGrid When using parallel processing on shared compute systems, you need to indicate to the scheduler, the system software that manages workloads, that you wish to use... View Details
  • 25 Jan 2017
  • HBS Case

How Should Advertisers Respond to Consumer Demand for Whiter Skin?

young woman able to secure a job as a sports broadcaster only after applying the product. And several famous actors have endorsed skin-whitening products. Although men share this desire for fair skin and sometimes dip into similar creams... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Beauty & Cosmetics
  • 03 Dec 2014
  • What Do You Think?

Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?

Maxweles, who asked, "Was Steve Jobs possibly a 'brilliant jerk'? Could innovation be stifled by simply eliminating the uncomfortable individuals?" Lawrence Nwaru added, "We are all brilliant jerks in one form or the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 30 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Are You Supporting Your B Players?

get a job at Southwest Airlines than it is to be accepted to the Harvard Business School," he quipped. And C&S Wholesalers, based in Brattleboro, VT, grew from a $40 million company in 1980 to a $14 billion business today.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 23 Mar 2023
  • News

Winners Crowned in 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition

brief pitch to the judges and audience, with the more than 400 audience members then invited to vote for a Crowd Favorite winner. Grand Prize winner M7 Health is “making nursing jobs work for nurses.” Cofounders Ilana Springer Borkenstein... View Details
  • 01 Aug 1998
  • News

High Honors

Jobs and the Worker, challenged management theories then in vogue by suggesting that jobs should be designed around people's needs, an idea that has gained popularity in recent... View Details
  • 05 Sep 2019
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Making the Right Technical Hire

than someone who can code a fresh UI. If performance issues are causing churn, then hire a performance engineer, someone who knows how to diagnose and fix performance issues. Just like you are building a product to solve for the job to be... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin; Technology
  • 20 Oct 2010
  • Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

more by intermediate objectives like generating jobs or creating export revenues to cover import costs or serve foreign debt obligations. There is nothing wrong with these objectives but they are neither necessary nor sufficient for... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels