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  • March 2017 (Revised December 2018)
  • Case

Reawakening the Magic: Bob Iger and the Walt Disney Company

By: David Collis and Ashley Hartman
Mickey Mouse, Snow White, and Buzz Lightyear strolled down Main Street at the grand opening of Hong Kong Disney in the fall of 2005, pausing to snap selfies with enthusiastic children in Mickey Mouse ears. Bob Iger, newly appointed CEO of The Walt Disney Company,... View Details
Keywords: Franchise Management; Brand Management; Culture Change; Business Units; Acquisition Strategy; Technological Change; Disney; ESPN; Cord-cutting; Bob Iger; Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Diversification; Integration; Media; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Consumer Products Industry
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  • 02 Aug 2021
  • What Do You Think?

Can Companies with Remote Management Succeed?

in the office together.” "Just how large an organization can get while still being managed remotely in an effective way is a question." I assume that Matt Mullenweg, founder of Automattic, the parent View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 13 Jan 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Are Companies Actually Greener—or Are They All Talk?

Most companies now account for social good in their financial reports in some way, but with regulation scattershot and evolving, it’s complicated for investors to assess so-called ESG reports. The disclosures, known as Environmental, Social, and Governance reports,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 28 Jan 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections

have not only advertised more on TV and in other media, but also upped the ante on personal selling efforts with an increased number of local field operation offices as a way... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 Jan 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Are Companies Getting Away with 'Cheap Talk' on Climate Goals?

Companies regularly set ambitious climate goals, but these plans often end up like many people’s New Year’s resolutions: unmet aspirations that quietly fizzle out. While companies often gain positive media attention by trumpeting plans for reducing greenhouse gas... View Details
Keywords: by Tim Gray
  • 29 Jul 2019
  • Research & Ideas

How Companies Benefit When Employees Work Remotely

needed to fully understand the implications of remote work in more collaborative settings. Looking ahead As some companies move to adopt broader telecommute policies, others... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • November 2018
  • Case

Governance Transition at Anadolu Group

By: Paul M. Healy and Esel Y. Cekin
Kamil Yazici and Izzet Ozilhan founded and built Anadolu Group Holding—a family business that grew into a multi-billion-dollar regional powerhouse. For 57 years they were equal partners in running the company. They then handed over a leadership role to a next... View Details
Keywords: Family-managed Business; Professionally-run Company; Second-generation; Third-generation; Governance; Governance Changes; Succession Planning; Corporate Culture; Shareholders; Board Of Directors; Long-term Sustainability; Conglomerate; Family Business; Corporate Governance; Change Management; Management Succession; Leadership; Transition; Organizational Structure; Consumer Products Industry; Turkey; Central Asia; Middle East
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  • 27 Jun 2016
  • Research & Ideas

These Management Practices, Like Certain Technologies, Boost Company Performance

their management in productive ways. The US Census Bureau has already adopted a modified version of the methodology, and census offices in other countries are experimenting... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 22 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies

electronic communication data, one at a leading biopharmaceuticals company and a second at a global media and professional services firm. One of these follows senior leaders through a period View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 19 May 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy

When two firms compete in the market, the optimal strategies are for one firm to set a high level of disclosure and subsidize consumers in exchange, and for the other firm to charge high prices but not to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products
  • July 2018
  • Case

LIXIL Group Corporation: Building a New Company in an Old Industry

By: Boris Groysberg and Akiko Kanno
In the spring of 2018, Kinya Seto, president and CEO of LIXIL Group Corporation, a major housing and building products and services company, called a meeting at the company’s head office in central Tokyo to discuss how to implement the new three-year strategic plan.... View Details
Keywords: Turnaround; Leadership And Change Management; Consolidation; Change Management; Leadership; Global Strategy; Business Model; Consumer Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Japan
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  • 12 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Waking Up a Sleeping Company

One of the greatest challenges for the values-centered culture is to produce top performance and succeed in the market against "win at any cost" competitors. Values are only one part of an... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 30 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company

vital to strategy implementation (for example, at exclusive hotel chains) or when the organizational design is highly complex because of sophisticated technologies and a complex value chain (in aerospace or computers, for instance). In... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
  • 20 Apr 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Why Every Company Needs a CSR Strategy and How to Build It

Keywords: by Kash Rangan, Lisa A. Chase & Sohel Karim
  • 09 Nov 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Securities Litigation Risk for Foreign Companies Listed in the US

Keywords: by Beiting Cheng, Suraj Srinivasan & Gwen Yu
  • 05 May 2022
  • HBS Case

College Degrees: The Job Requirement Companies Seek, but Don't Really Need

than 70 percent of Black, Latinx, and rural workers from landing jobs, even though they may have the actual skills to do the required work. Many companies rely on machine learning algorithms that... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 22 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

of brilliance, raining down like manna from some deity of inspiration. Teaching people how to be creative, on the other hand, is like teaching them how to be tall—that is,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 17 Feb 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Building Communities as Well as Companies

Despite the uncertain climate for start-ups, launching a business continues to hold irresistible appeal for aspiring entrepreneurs. For many African-Americans, entrepreneurship is seen as a means of building... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • What Do You Think?

How Can We Get Companies to Invest More in Low-Wage Workers?

train people we pay poorly. Among other things, the study recommends empowering unions to close the gap between returns to capital and labor. Proposals include modifying labor laws to support collective bargaining in all types View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

Taken together, they suggest there are three critical hurdles or challenges that management faces in any restructuring program: 1. Design. What type of restructuring is appropriate for dealing with the specific challenge, problem, or... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson

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