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Executive Education: Leading Growth through Customer Centricity — India

Establishing a strategic advantage in India's highly competitive marketplace requires a systemic shift in focus—away from selling products and toward meeting the needs of customers. But how many companies are prepared to carry out such fundamental change? By... View Details

May 2001
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Lead from the Center: How to Manage Divisions Dynamically

By: Michael Raynor and Joseph L. Bower

Keywords: Leadership; Management

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June 2019 (Revised February 2020)
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Eric Hawkins Leading Agile Teams @ Digitally-Born AppFolio (B)

By: Tsedal Neeley, Paul Leonardi and Michael Norris

Supplements the (A) case, HBS No. 419-066, and provides information about what happened after the (A) case ends. View Details

Keywords: Agile; Values; Vision; Corporate Culture; Leadership; Transformation; Organizational Culture; Values and Beliefs; Digital Transformation; Technology Industry; United States; California

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February 22, 2010
Article

Tragedy at Toyota: How Not to Lead in Crisis

By: William George

Keywords: Leadership; Auto Industry

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August 2009
Case

Life Stories of Recent MBAs: Leading an Integrated Life

By: Nitin Nohria, Daisy A Wademan Dowling and Matthew D. Breitfelder

Keywords: Business Education; Leadership

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01 Feb 2005
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A Different Way of Thinking about Leading and Change

By: Scott Snook

Keywords: Leadership; Change

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19 Aug 2019
Blog Post

Investing in Breakthrough Technologies to Lead the Energy Transition

According to the World Economic Forum, climate change and insufficient investing are two of the top ten global challenges we currently face. Although there have been many recent technological advances in the energy sector, energy-related CO2 emissions increased... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing; Technology

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Arianna Huffington Leads Crusade to Deal With Uber’s Scandals

05 Apr 2017
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Arianna Huffington Leads Crusade to Deal With Uber's Scandals

2021
Book

Lead and Disrupt: How to Solve the Innovator's Dilemma

By: Charles A. O'Reilly III and Michael Tushman

Why do successful firms find it so difficult to adapt in the face of change—to innovate? In the past ten years, the importance of this question has increased as more industries and firms confront disruptive change. The pandemic has accelerated this crisis, collapsing... View Details

Keywords: Organization Change And Adaptation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation and Management; Leading Change

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2010
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Unlocking the Slices of Genius in Your Organization: Leading for Innovation

By: Linda A. Hill, Maurizio Travaglini, Greg Brandeau and Emily Stecker

There is a widespread consensus that innovation is fast becoming the principal source of differentiation and competitive advantage in today's knowledge-intensive economy. But until we reframe our understanding of what innovation and leadership are all about, we fear... View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Leadership; Practice; Competitive Advantage

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09 Jan 2023
News

Alumna Leads Biggest Ever Debut for a Woman-led Hedge Fund

Photo via Surgo Foundation Photo via Surgo Foundation Mala Gaonkar (MBA 1996) kicked off the new year with the debut of her hedge fund SurgoCap Partners, whose $1.8 billion under management made it the "largest debut of a woman-led hedge fund in the industry's... View Details

Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

18 Sep 2017
Research & Ideas

'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing

likes on Facebook, yet Gupta says those likes haven’t amounted to much—certainly not a whole lot of purchases. “Do likes lead to loyal consumers or do loyal consumers tend to like a brand on Facebook? Do these likes View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Advertising; Technology

November 11, 2020
Article

Lessons on Leading Through Chaos from U.S. Special Operations

By: Boris Groysberg and John Masko

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August 1995
Teaching Note

State Street Boston Corporation: Leading with Information Technology TN

By: Richard L. Nolan, Donna B. Stoddard and Chiara Francalanci

Teaching Note (5-196-058). View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Financial Institutions; Transformation; Technology Adoption; Information Management; Competitive Strategy; Financial Services Industry

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01 Nov 2003
Conference Presentation

A Different Way of Thinking about Leading and Change

By: Scott Snook

Keywords: Leadership; Change

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October 1996 (Revised November 1996)
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Boston Beer Company: Samuel Adams, Brewmaster Leading a Revolution

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Mollie H. Carter

Boston Beer Co. revolutionized the beer industry by identifying and responding to a new consumer segment. Using the excess capacity in the brewing industry to establish contract brewing arrangements and an extremely capable sales force, the company opened the... View Details

Keywords: Transformation; Leadership; Product Marketing; Product Development; Production; Quality; Salesforce Management; Segmentation; Food and Beverage Industry

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