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  • 16 Jun 2021
  • Interview

Harvard Business School: How to Build Fearless Organizations

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Ron Lovett
Our guest is Amy Edmondson - Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School. Amy has authored multiple books, including her most recent, The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation and... View Details
Keywords: Psychological Safety; Organizational Culture; Leadership; Diversity; Communication
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    Anita Elberse

    Anita Elberse is the Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

    Professor Elberse develops and teaches an MBA course covering the "Businesses of Entertainment, Media, and Sports," which ranks among the most sought-after... View Details

    Keywords: advertising; arts; broadcasting; communications; consumer products; e-commerce industry; electronics; entertainment; fashion; home video games; information; marketing industry; motion pictures; music; publishing industry; sports; telecommunications; video games
    • 08 Oct 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

    [This is the sixth installment in a monthly series on management issues in the time of COVID-19.] We recently asked 600 CEOs: What is keeping you awake at night during this global pandemic? A major and multifaceted concern that emerged is... View Details
    Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
    • October 1997 (Revised January 2008)
    • Case

    Asda (A)

    By: Michael Beer and James Weber
    In the mid-1980s, Asda was one of the most successful retail companies in the United Kingdom. By 1991, the chain of 200 grocery stores had a lack of direction, a demoralized workforce, declining profits, rising debt, collapsing stock price, and was facing bankruptcy.... View Details
    Keywords: Restructuring; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Crisis Management; Management Teams; Business Strategy; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United Kingdom
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    Beating the Odds: Leadership Lessons from Senior African-American Women

    By: Laura Morgan Roberts, Anthony Mayo, Robin Ely and David Thomas
    Any list of top CEOs reveals a stunning lack of diversity. Among the leaders of Fortune 500 companies, for example, just 32 are women, three are African-American, and not one is an African-American woman. What’s going on? The authors studied the careers of the roughly... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership; Diversity; Race; Gender; Personal Characteristics; Relationships; Success
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    • 2022
    • Chapter

    The Merits and Limits of China's Modern Universities

    By: William C. Kirby
    China has a long history of advanced learning, but its modern universities are quite young. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, the establishment of Chinese universities based on international models signaled the end of a millennium of promoting talent through... View Details
    Keywords: Higher Education; Education Industry; China
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    • 04 Jun 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Navigating Consumer Data Privacy in an AI World

    adherence to the latest laws. Second, the person should be capable of working with technical talents of privacy protection. There are many professionals, such as privacy engineers, who specialize in privacy technologies. The executive in... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology
    • August 1999 (Revised February 2000)
    • Case

    Cisco Systems, Inc.: Acquisition Integration for Manufacturing (A)

    By: Steven C. Wheelwright, Charles A. Holloway, Nicole Tempest and Christian G. Kasper
    Describes the procedures and processes used by Cisco Systems in its acquisition of high-technology firms. Its goal is to retain key engineering talent and to leverage existing product development efforts, but to quickly merge acquired companies its own systems and... View Details
    Keywords: Information Technology; Leveraged Buyouts; Acquisition; Integration; Mergers and Acquisitions; Production; Activity Based Costing and Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Management; Technological Innovation; Talent and Talent Management; Human Resources; Manufacturing Industry; Technology Industry; England
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    • February 2022 (Revised September 2022)
    • Case

    InstaDeep: AI Innovation Born in Africa (A)

    By: Shikhar Ghosh and Esel Çekin
    Karim Beguir and Zohra Slim were the co-founders of InstaDeep, a deep tech startup focusing on artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. Instadeep was one of the few companies globally that were partnering with DeepMind, an AI subsidiary of Google [Alphabet Inc.].... View Details
    Keywords: AI; Artificial Intelligence; Entrepreneurship; Operations; Business Subsidiaries; Brands and Branding; Innovation and Invention; Growth and Development Strategy; AI and Machine Learning; Technology Industry; Africa
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    • November 2007
    • Article

    Solve the Succession Crisis by Growing Inside-Outside Leaders

    By: Joseph L. Bower
    This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. In his interviews and data analysis, Harvard Business School professor Bower found... View Details
    Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Leadership Development; Management Practices and Processes; Management Succession; Planning
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    • March 2025 (Revised May 2025)
    • Case

    ING Türkiye: Flexible Work in a Competitive Banking Environment

    By: Ashley Whillans and Nico Schaefer
    This case explores ING Türkiye’s journey toward workplace flexibility within the traditionally conservative Turkish banking sector. Beginning with early remote work experiments in 2015 and culminating in the FlexING model, by 2024 ING Türkiye had positioned itself as a... View Details
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    • September 2018
    • Case

    Clayton, Dubilier & Rice at 40

    By: Josh Lerner, Abhijit Tagade and Terrence Shu
    In 2018, private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice celebrated its 40th anniversary and its 20th year under the leadership of CEO Don Gogel. In those decades, CD&R showed solid portfolio performance and generated strong returns for its investors - accomplishments... View Details
    Keywords: Finance; Succession; Buyout; Leveraged Buyout; Turnaround; Operations; Private Equity; Management Succession; Business Model; Leveraged Buyouts; Trends; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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    • 09 Jun 2020
    • News

    Visa Restrictions Will Worsen The Post-Covid Recession

    • 2018
    • Book

    Rebel Talent: Why It Pays to Break the Rules at Work and Life

    By: F. Gino
    The world’s best chef.
    An airline captain who brought his flight to safety in a daring water landing.
    A magician known for his sensational escape acts.
    A computer scientist who founded a world-renowned animation studio.
    What do all of these... View Details
    Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Personal Characteristics; Success; Behavior
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    • November 2, 2015
    • Article

    The Best Ways to Hire Salespeople

    By: Frank V. Cespedes and Daniel Weinfurter
    Companies typically spend more on hiring in sales than they do anywhere else in the firm. Average annual turnover in sales is 25% to 30%, while direct replacement costs for a telesales employee ranges from $75,000 to $90,000 and other sales positions cost as much as... View Details
    Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Salesforce Management; Retention
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    • February 2025
    • Case

    Hyperscaling Dreams: Ualá's Path from Startup to Fintech Champion

    By: Juan Alcácer and Manuel Franck
    Ualá, a fintech startup founded in Argentina in 2017 by Pierpaolo Barbieri, aimed to increase financial inclusion in Latin America through a digital platform linked to a prepaid card. After rapid success in Argentina, it expanded into Mexico and Colombia, acquiring... View Details
    Keywords: Banks and Banking; Leadership; Venture Capital; Talent and Talent Management; Strategy; Credit; Business Startups; Profit; Growth and Development Strategy; Banking Industry; Argentina; Mexico; Colombia; Latin America
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    • Teaching Interest

    Launching New Ventures—Jump-Starting Innovation for Entrepreneurs and Business Owners (Executive Education)

    By: William R. Kerr
    Starting up a new venture amid rapid change is fraught with challenges. Whether you are starting a new business, launching a new business line, or building an entrepreneurial culture within a small-to-midsize company, this program provides a new perspective and core... View Details
    • 07 Sep 2021
    • News

    Automated Hiring Systems Are Rejecting Qualified Candidates

    • Program

    Program for Leadership Development

    Specialists and star contributors who have been identified as outstanding prospects for increased leadership responsibilities High potential talent in roles that cover the scope of senior manager, manager, senior director, or director... View Details
    • June 2007 (Revised March 2008)
    • Case

    Lazard LLC

    By: Guhan Subramanian and Eliot Sherman
    Describes Lazard's situation in 2001, and supplies context for the subsequent negotiation between its Chairman and his hand-picked successor. In 2001 Lazard, the last of the great investment houses to remain both private and in the control of its founding family, is in... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Family Business; Talent and Talent Management; Selection and Staffing; Management Succession; Negotiation Tactics; Financial Services Industry
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