Publications

July 1993
Case

ABB Deutschland (Abridged)

By: Christopher A. Bartlett

Focuses in detail on implementing a corporate restructuring program in ABB's German subsidiary. Special attention is given to Germany's unique form of industrial governance. Two major problem areas--power plants and power transformers--are described in detail. ABB's... View Details

Keywords: Restructuring; Energy Generation; Corporate Governance; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Salesforce Management; Policy; Organizational Culture; Energy Industry; Germany

21 Jun 2022
News

Government Doesn’t Take Enough Risks. Let’s Change That.

July 2020
Case

Kathy Fish at Procter & Gamble: Navigating Industry Disruption by Disrupting from Within

By: Emily Truelove, Linda A. Hill and Emily Tedards

When Kathy Fish, Procter & Gamble’s Chief Research, Development & Innovation Officer, and a 40-year company veteran, stepped into her role in 2014, she was concerned that the world’s leading consumer packaged goods company had lost its capability to produce a steady... View Details

Keywords: Female Protagonist; Organizational Change; Organizational Behavior; Culture Change; Digital; Innovation; Lean Startup; Experimentation; Metrics; Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG); Leadership; Leading Change; Change Management; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Disruption; Innovation and Invention; Digital Transformation

April 1985 (Revised November 1987)
Case

American Express Travel Related Services Co.

Describes the company's new focus on entrepreneurship during the era of Lou Gerstner, chairman and CEO since 1982. View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Financial Services Industry; Travel Industry

16 May 2022
Video

Liz Plooster (MBA 2023)

Web

Skydeck - Alumni

organization How to Judge Your Next Job Michael Horn (MBA 2006) and Associate Professor Ethan Bernstein —coauthors of the new book Job Moves: 9 Steps for Making Progress in Your Career —on how to make sure your next career move is the... View Details

March 2001
Article

Strategy and the Internet

By: M. E. Porter

Many of the pioneers of Internet business, both dot-coms and established companies, have competed in ways that violate nearly every precept of good strategy. Rather than focus on profits, they have chased customers indiscriminately through discounting, channel... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Online Technology

Fast Answer

Patent Terminology: priority date

provisional and adding new feature C (i.e., disclosing A, B & C); and Continuation-in-part (CIP) application filed on Aug. 20, 2017 adding new feature D (i.e., disclosing A, B, C & D). Then, the... View Details

04 Aug 2006
What Do You Think?

What Happens When the Economics of Scarcity Meets the Economics of Abundance?

'costs' are being shifted nothing is free. We're just not looking at 'cost' properly in this new world." Along with shifts in costs, several commented about the new sources of scarcity in the world of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

13 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

(president of Taiwan) and Jacinda Ardern (the prime minister of New Zealand), who took timely government actions to prevent the spread of the virus in their countries. The lesson from these examples are that not all crises are perceived... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Genomics: Can We Start Making Money Now?

Now that scientists have mapped the human gene, can drug makers map a road to unlimited riches? For John Lechleiter, Executive Vice President of Eli Lilly and Company's Pharmaceutical Products and Corporate Development, there remain more questions than answers. People... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

18 Oct 2023
News

Spreading the Words

internal combustion engine did for transportation—propel it to new heights that were unimaginable earlier.” Khan and cofounder Imran Sayeed, an entrepreneur and senior lecturer at MIT Sloan School, started their work in Pakistan, where... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Sep 2023
News

That Was Then, This Is Now

It started with a question. But before that, it started in the classroom. Tony Deifell (MBA 2002) loved the discussions in his LEAD course, taught by Professor (and now former Dean) Nitin Nohria; wanting to make them more tangible, Deifell adapted the idea of... View Details

Keywords: Photographed by Tony Deifell (MBA 2002); edited by Julia Hanna. Above: Heidi Brooks, photographed in 2003 and 2023.; life experience; family; leadership

March 2011
Background Note

Pitching Business Opportunities

By: Lynda M. Applegate, William R. Kerr and Alexis Brownell

This note can be used to develop a business plan pitch for a new venture. View Details

Keywords: Business Plan; Business Startups; Spoken Communication; Competency and Skills; Entrepreneurship

Article

ESG Integration in Investment Management: Myths and Realities

By: Sakis Kotsantonis, Christopher Pinney and George Serafeim

The authors’ aim in this article is to set the record straight on the financial performance of sustainable investing while also correcting a number of other widespread misconceptions about this rapidly growing set of principles and methods. Myth Number 1:... View Details

Keywords: ESG; Sustainability; Investment Management; Finance; Corporate Social Responsibility; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Investment; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Governance

Profile

Casey Gerald

to build enduring communities of support for entrepreneurial efforts. “We want to prove,” Casey says, “that entrepreneurship can succeed anywhere — you don’t have to be in New York or Silicon Valley to do it.” View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Retail; Nonprofit / Government

July 2019 (Revised November 2022)
Case

Backstage at Boston Ballet

By: David G. Fubini, Ryan Raffaelli, Begum Agca Okutgen and Julia Kelley

This case asks students to consider how to prioritize goals when placed in a new leadership role. In August 2014, Meredith “Max” Hodges became the youngest Executive Director (ED) in the Boston Ballet’s 51-year history. In her first year, she was able to claim several... View Details