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  • October 2023 (Revised January 2024)
  • Case

McDonald's Board of Directors (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz
In October 2019, the McDonald’s Corporation board of directors, chaired by Enrique Hernandez, Jr., gathered to learn the results of their outside counsel’s investigation into the conduct of the CEO. On the surface, the iconic fast-food chain was thriving as growing... View Details
Keywords: Board Of Directors; Board Chair; Board Decisions; Business Ethics; Corporate Boards; Fast Food; Franchising; Legal Aspects Of Business; Legal Battle; Legal Settlement; Misconduct; Regulation; Reorganization; Restaurant Industry; Sexual Harassment; Shareholders; Stakeholder Management; Strategy And Execution; Turnaround; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Culture; Executive Compensation; Leadership; Management; Ethics; Governing and Advisory Boards; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Food and Beverage Industry; Illinois; United States
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    Sara McKinley Torti

    Sara Torti is a senior product and operating executive who has focused extensively on creating and scaling technology-based businesses that require a combination of detailed execution, business insight and technical acumen. She has grown products... View Details

    • Teaching Interest

    General Management Program (GMP)

    By: Stefan H. Thomke
    As global business challenges become more complex, companies are turning to exceptional general managers who can take on greater cross-functional responsibilities and contribute to corporate growth on a more strategic level. Moving beyond your field of expertise,... View Details

      Srikant M. Datar

      Srikant M. Datar became the eleventh dean of Harvard Business School on 1 January 2021. During his tenure as a faculty member, he served as Senior Associate Dean for University Affairs (including Faculty Chair of the Harvard Innovation Lab), for Research, for... View Details

      Keywords: accounting industry; airline; automobiles; banking; biotechnology; communications; consumer products; e-commerce industry; health care; high technology; investment banking industry; management consulting; manufacturing; pharmaceuticals; venture capital industry
      • Feb 07 2012
      • Testimonial

      PLD Module 5: Why Attend?

        Willis M. Emmons

        WILLIAM (WILLIS) EMMONS is Senior Lecturer and Director of the C. Roland Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard Business School, a position he has held since 2004.  As Director of the Christensen Center, Emmons oversees programs to... View Details

        Keywords: airline; infrastructure industry; pharmaceuticals; telecommunications; utilities

          Tsedal Neeley

          Tsedal Neeley is the Senior Associate Dean and Chair of the MBA program at Harvard Business School, where she is the Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration, Faculty Chair of the... View Details

          • November 2018
          • Case

          Swissgrid: Enterprise Risk Management in a Digital Age

          By: Robert S. Kaplan and Anette Mikes
          Kurt Meyer, chief risk officer of Swissgrid, the Swiss national electricity transmission system operator, reflects on the risk management system he installed after the deregulation and liberalization of the European energy market. With 41 connections to other European... View Details
          Keywords: Enterprise Risk Management; Energy Transmission; Risk and Uncertainty; Risk Management; Energy; Energy Industry; Utilities Industry; Switzerland
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          • October 2012 (Revised August 2018)
          • Case

          Carolina for Kibera

          By: Kathleen L. McGinn, Beth-Ann Kutchma and Cailin B. Hammer
          Carolina for Kibera (CFK) is an international non-profit organization whose mission is to promote youth leadership and gender and ethnic cooperation in Kibera, the largest unstructured settlement situated in the heart of Nairobi, Kenya. CFK's programs constructively... View Details
          Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Power and Influence; Non-Governmental Organizations; Social Enterprise; Negotiation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Kenya; United States
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          • January 15, 2015
          • Article

          Surviving in a Family Business When You're Not Part of the Family

          By: Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer
          Navigating office politics in a family-owned business can be challenging for non-family executives. Based on experience with various business families worldwide, this article offers strategies for success:

          Play in your room: Non-family executives should... View Details
          Keywords: Family Business; Family and Family Relationships; Employees; Problems and Challenges; Talent and Talent Management
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          • February 2022 (Revised January 2023)
          • Case

          Creating and Measuring Purpose at Viega

          By: Ethan Rouen, Suraj Srinivasan and James Barnett
          At its headquarters in Attendorn, Germany, Viega’s chairwoman Anna Viegener gathered the company’s leadership team to discuss their progress on formalizing purpose-driven leadership as a strategic driver within the organization. Viega manufactured and distributed... View Details
          Keywords: Growth and Development; Employee Relationship Management; Leadership; Mission and Purpose; Expansion; Measurement and Metrics; Germany
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            Nitin Nohria

            Nitin Nohria served as the tenth dean of Harvard Business School from 2010-2020. He previously served as co-chair of the Leadership Initiative, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development, and Head of the Organizational Behavior unit.

            As Dean, building on... View Details

            Keywords: executive search; executive search; executive search; executive search; executive search; executive search; executive search; executive search; executive search; executive search; executive search; executive search; executive search; executive search; executive search; executive search; executive search; executive search; executive search; executive search; executive search
            • May 2009
            • Case

            Montgomery County Business Roundtable for Education

            By: Allen S. Grossman and Geoff Eckman Marietta
            Montgomery County Business Roundtable for Education (MCBRE) was a business-public education partnership with Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) that promoted cross-sector knowledge sharing and academic excellence. Its suite of core student programs, such as “720,”... View Details
            Keywords: Business Ventures; Knowledge Sharing; Leadership; Partners and Partnerships; Education; Business and Community Relations; Education Industry; United States
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            • Dec 01 2020
            • Testimonial

            Participants Share the Experience of a Virtual GMP

            • July 2013
            • Teaching Note

            Google's Project Oxygen: Do Managers Matter?

            By: David A. Garvin
            Google's Project Oxygen started with a fundamental question raised by executives in the early 2000s: do managers matter? The topic generated a multi-year research project that ultimately led to a comprehensive program, built around eight key management attributes,... View Details
            Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Business Policy; General Management; Human Resource Management; Management; Leadership; Human Resources
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              Ethan S. Bernstein

              Ethan Bernstein (@ethanbernstein) is an associate professor in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School. He has spent his career researching novel talent management practices and their effect on employee behavior, collaboration, and performance.... View Details

              • Aug 28 2012
              • Testimonial

              Participant Spotlight: GMP

                Michael S. Kaufman

                A Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Business School, Michael co-developed and teaches a second year MBA course, “Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry.” 

                A founder and partner of Positive Strategy LLC, a management/strategy consulting... View Details

                  Robin J. Ely

                  Robin Ely is the Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. She conducts research on race and gender relations in organizations with a focus on leadership, identity, and organizational culture change.... View Details

                  • Feb 07 2012
                  • Testimonial

                  PLD Module 5: Personal Exploration