turnarounds - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Mar 2022
Cold Call Podcast

How Etsy Found Its Purpose and Crafted a Turnaround

Keywords: Re: Ranjay Gulati; Technology; Retail

February 2018
Case

Earlham College Basketball: Turnaround Strategy

By: Juan Alcacer and Anne Marie Knott

Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, is in the heart of basketball country. Yet its record for the 2013/2014 basketball season was a dismal 5–20. The school recruited Jason Polykoff from the University of Pennsylvania’s coaching staff to reinvent the program. By... View Details

Keywords: Transformation; Problems and Challenges; Strategy; Sports; Sports Industry; Indiana

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June 2003
Article

Leadership and the Psychology of Turnarounds

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter

Keywords: Leadership

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09 Nov 2009
News

The greatest real estate turnaround ever

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Turnarounds and Transformation - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Turnarounds and Transformation Course Number 1636 Professor Ranjay Gulati Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits 12 sessions Paper/Project (formerly Entrepreneurial Management in a Turnaround... View Details

February 2018
Teaching Note

Earlham College Basketball: Turnaround Strategy

By: Juan Alcacer and Anne Marie Knott

Teaching Note for HBS No. 718-497. View Details

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March 2006 (Revised December 2013)
Supplement

Hexcel Turnaround — 2001 (B)

By: Paul W. Marshall, James Quinn and Reed Martin

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

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22 Sep 2016
News

Innovation Under Constraint: Constructing a Turnaround at Lego

19 Sep 2016
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Innovation Under Constraint: Constructing a Turnaround at Lego

June 2003 (Revised July 2003)
Case

Union City Schools: Sustaining The Turnaround

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Ryan Raffaelli

Under the leadership of Superintendent Thomas Highton, Union City Schools, New Jersey, underwent a 14-year turnaround. In 1989, the Union City School District was the second-worst-performing district in New Jersey. As Mr. Highton prepared to retire, 2002 student test... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Leading Change; Performance Consistency; Change Management; New Jersey

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August 2007 (Revised January 2008)
Supplement

Turnaround at the Veterans Health Administration (B)

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Brian R. Golden

Keywords: Health; Government and Politics; Health Industry

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March 2022 (Revised February 2023)
Case

Turnaround at Quiksilver: Surfing Big Waves

By: Kristin Mugford and Emily Evert

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March 2001 (Revised April 2001)
Case

MiCRUS: Activity-Based Management for Business Turnaround

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Jonathan B. Schiff and Stanley Abraham

MiCRUS is a new company, spun off from IBM as a joint venture between IBM and Cirrus Logic to produce semiconductor wafers at world-class costs for its two parent companies. The senior management team needs to overcome the bureaucratic, internally focused culture that... View Details

Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Cost Management; Semiconductor Industry

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December 2006 (Revised August 2013)
Teaching Note

Hexcel Turnaround -- 2001 (A), (B) and (C)

By: Paul W. Marshall

This is the teaching note that is supplemental to the Hexcel Cases A, B & C. View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Negotiation; Management Teams; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategy; Change Management; Crisis Management; Borrowing and Debt; Aerospace Industry; Electronics Industry; United States

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22 Sep 2016
Cold Call Podcast

Innovation Under Constraint: Constructing a Turnaround at Lego

Keywords: Re: Jan W. Rivkin & Stefan H. Thomke; Entertainment & Recreation

April 1996 (Revised June 1996)
Background Note

Cleveland Turnaround (C), The: Facts and Figures

By: James E. Austin and Jaan Elias

Traces the Cleveland community's efforts to move the city from economic, social, and political crisis in the late 1970s into revitalization and progress in the 1980s and 1990s. Special attention is given to the role of business leaders and the public-private... View Details

Keywords: Leading Change; Analytics and Data Science; Economic Growth; Business and Community Relations; Cleveland

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