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    New To Big: How Companies Can Create Like Entrepreneurs, Invest Like VCs, and Install a Permanent Operating System for Growth

    Serial entrepreneurs David Kidder and Christina Wallace reveal their revolutionary playbook for igniting growth inside established companies.

    Most established companies face a... View Details

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    Organizational Behavior - Faculty & Research

    well-being of its students. How would the foundation sustain momentum with donors and make the most meaningful difference for generations of rural students in Kazakhstan? Keywords: Mission and Purpose ; Organizational Change and View Details
    • June 2017 (Revised October 2017)
    • Case

    Becton Dickinson: Innovation and Growth (A)

    By: Raffaella Sadun, Michael Beer and James Weber
    In late 2015, CEO Vince Forlenza was reviewing Becton Dickinson’s transformation efforts designed to enable the company to innovate and grow in a changing environment. Becton Dickinson had been a successful medical device company for over 100 years. In recent years,... View Details
    Keywords: Transformation; Change Management; Innovation Leadership; Mergers and Acquisitions; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Health Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States
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    • 15 Feb 2022
    • Book

    When Working Harder Doesn’t Work, Time to Reinvent Your Career

    crystallized intelligence—or if you can repurpose your professional life to rely more on crystallized intelligence—your peak will come later but your decline will happen much, much later, if ever. And if you can go from one type to the other—well, then you have cracked... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • 14 May 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    Amazon vs. Whole Foods: When Cultures Collide

    Jamie_Hall Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods last August was the corporate equivalent of mixing tap water with organic extra virgin olive oil. You’d be hard-pressed to find two companies with more different value propositions. Even so, it was surprising to hear... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage
    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    Strategic Foresight as Dynamic Capability: A New Lens on Knightian Uncertainty

    By: J. Peter Scoblic
    This paper proposes to treat strategic foresight as a dynamic capability, providing a new theoretical lens on managerial judgment. Formulating strategy under uncertainty is a central challenge facing the modern firm. Analogy is thought to help managers make sense of... View Details
    Keywords: Foresight; Dynamic Capabilities; Managerial Judgment; Risk and Uncertainty; Management; Strategy
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      Balancing Risk and Reward: An Automated Phased Release Strategy

      Phased releases are a common strategy in the technology industry for gradually releasing new products or updates through a sequence of A/B tests in which the number of treated units gradually grows until full deployment or deprecation. Performing phased releases... View Details
      • 01 Dec 2023
      • News

      The Imposter Among Us

      Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Peter Arkle It was their rst day at Harvard and like the rest of his cohort, Edgar Wallner (PMD 22, 1971) will never forget meeting Robert Gaines-Cooper. Frankly, it would have been difficult to miss the Englishman, who... View Details
      Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
      • 23 Nov 2021
      • Book

      What It Takes to Build an Organizational Culture That Wins

      will be a mistake.” Adapted from Win from Within by James L. Heskett. Copyright (c) 2022 James Heskett. Used by arrangement with the Publisher. All rights reserved. [Image: Unsplash/Jason Leung] Related reading from the Working Knowledge... View Details
      Keywords: by Avery Forman
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      Job Market Paper

      When to Take the Leap:
      The Antecedents and Consequences of Leapfrog CEOs

      Much of the prior research on CEO successions focuses on differences between CEOs appointed from within the firm and those appointed from outside;... View Details
      • March 2023
      • Supplement

      Innovation at Google Ads: The Sales Acceleration and Innovation Labs (SAIL) (B)

      By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Tedards
      In 2018, Ana Owczarzak was appointed to lead Google Ads' new innovation and accelerator team - the Sales Acceleration and Innovation Labs (SAIL). The purpose of SAIL was to offer testing and incubation services for individuals within Google Ads who were developing new... View Details
      Keywords: Innovation Leadership; Organizational Culture; Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Advertising Industry; United States
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      • September 2019 (Revised May 2021)
      • Case

      pymetrics: Early Days

      By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
      In 2013, CEO Frida Polli was contemplating the next steps for her start-up business, pymetrics. After receiving her PhD in neuropsychology and MBA from HBS, she was determined to put her scientific and academic knowledge to work to build a business solving real world... View Details
      Keywords: BrainTech; Psychology; Hiring; Games; Entrepreneur; Start-up; Start-up Growth; Strategic Change; Strategy Formulation; Recruiting; Corporate Culture; Hiring Of Employees; Start-ups; Startup; Startups; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Business Startups; Strategy; Competition; Organizational Culture
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      • April 2019 (Revised June 2019)
      • Case

      From Globalization to Dual Digital Transformation: CEO Thierry Breton Leading Atos Into 'Digital Shockwaves' (A)

      By: Tsedal Neeley, JT Keller and James Barnett
      Thierry Breton, chairman and CEO of IT company Atos, faced a pivotal juncture. After spending eight intense years scaling the company globally to over 100,000 employees in 70 countries, he was ready to take the next crucial step. Breton was convinced that rapid digital... View Details
      Keywords: Dual Digital Transformation; Transformation; Disruption; Employees; Competency and Skills; Training; Decision Making; Digital Transformation
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      • 2018
      • Working Paper

      Business, Governments and Political Risk in South Asia and Latin America since 1970

      By: Geoffrey Jones and Rachael Comunale
      This working paper provides a new perspective on how businesses have responded to political risk in South Asia and Latin America over the last half century. The existing business history literature on political risk is focused on the experiences of Western... View Details
      Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Risk Management; Government and Politics; Business History; South Asia; Latin America
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      • 23 Oct 2024
      • HBS Seminar

      Rosa Ferrer, University of Pompeu Fabra and BSE

      • 12 Sep 2023
      • Research & Ideas

      How Can Financial Advisors Thrive in Shifting Markets? Diversify, Diversify, Diversify

      broadly for other industries looking to appeal to younger clients or adapt marketing strategies to a fluid business environment. Sizing up a changing investment world Historically speaking, financial advisory firms have focused on... View Details
      Keywords: by Ben Rand; Financial Services
      • 07 Feb 2022
      • Research & Ideas

      Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success

      digital transformation an even more urgent need, companies must also morph iteratively to keep up with the speed of emerging technologies. It’s a process of continuous learning and pivoting to adapt to an evolving competitive landscape.... View Details
      Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards
      • 22 May 2019
      • Blog Post

      What is FIELD Global Immersion?

      where they are discussing cases, and actually step into the shoes of a protagonist; 2. Enhance students’ cultural intelligence and ability to adapt to doing business in foreign contexts; and 3. Practice the human-centered design... View Details
      • 02 May 2023
      • What Do You Think?

      How Should Artificial Intelligence Be Regulated—if at All?

      outside on what is acceptable. After interviewing Google CEO Sundar Pichai for 60 Minutes last month, CBS correspondent Scott Pelley said Pichai “told us society must quickly adapt with regulations for AI in the economy, laws to punish... View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett; Information Technology; Technology
      • 06 Sep 2011
      • Research & Ideas

      Cheese Moving: Effecting Change Rather Than Accepting It

      leaders that instead of wasting their time wondering why things are the way they are, they should simply accept their world as given. But even in situations where things are beyond our control and adapting is the only viable option—that... View Details
      Keywords: by Carmen Nobel