Publications

September 2019 (Revised September 2020)
Case

Gina Wilcox

By: Leslie Perlow, Jeff Steiner and Matthew Preble

A Harvard Business School alumna discusses her life trajectory. View Details

Keywords: Personal Development and Career

September 2019
Case

Sonya Brown (MBA 2002)

By: Leslie Perlow and Matthew Preble

2019
Article

Sustaining Open Innovation Through a 'Center of Excellence'

By: Elizabeth E. Richard, Jeffrey R. Davis, Jin Hyun Paik and Karim R. Lakhani

This paper presents NASA’s experience using a Center of Excellence (CoE) to scale and sustain an open innovation program as an effective problem-solving tool and includes strategic management recommendations for other organizations based on lessons... View Details

Keywords: Crowdsourcing; Culture Change; Open Innovation; Center Of Excellence; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Organizational Culture; Change Management

September 2019
Teaching Note

Tapping Growth at Lord Hobo Brewing Company

By: Ethan Rouen and Susanna Gallani

Teaching Note for HBS No. 119-028. View Details

September 2019
Case

Teaming Up to Win the Rail Deal at GE (A)

By: Amy Edmondson, Ranjay Gulati and Rachna Tahilyani

In 2012, Nalin Jain, then head of GE aviation for South Asia, was given the added responsibility for GE’s transportation business in India, including bidding for a $2.5 billion contract to manufacture, service and maintain 1,000 diesel locomotives for state owned... View Details

Keywords: Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Human Capital; Groups and Teams; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Industrial Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Rail Industry; Transportation Industry; United States; India

September 2019 (Revised November 2023)
Case

Will WeWork Work? Suspicious Minds

By: Nori Gerardo Lietz, Terrence Shu and Sean Bracken

5 Sep 2019
Conference Presentation

Capacity Limits for Higher-level Thought? The Self as a Case Study

By: Julian De Freitas

2019
Chapter

Interorganizational Collaboration and Start-Up Innovation

By: Vikas A. Aggarwal and Andy Wu

This chapter presents an overview of the literature on collaborative relationships between start-ups and incumbent firms, focusing on the implications of these relationships for start-up innovation and performance. Value creation in such relationships occurs when... View Details

Keywords: Alliance; Corporate Venture Capital; Complementary Assets; Appropriability; Business Startups; Joint Ventures; Knowledge; Innovation and Invention; Value Creation; Entrepreneurship

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September 2019 (Revised August 2021)
Case

It's All About Family: Esas Group

By: Christina R. Wing and Alpana Thapar

This case describes how Ali Sabancı and his sister Emine Sabancı Kamışlı, shareholders of Esas Group, one of Turkey’s largest family-owned investment firms, worked to grow and professionalize the business. While their father Şevket Sabancı, played an instrumental role... View Details

Keywords: Family Business; Governance; Growth and Development Strategy; Turkey

Article

How to (Inadvertently) Sabotage Your Organization

By: Stefan Thomke

Some of the biggest threats to organizational performance can and do come from within. In an age when companies are told to be agile, to learn from experiments, and to be entrepreneurial, we are still vulnerable to actions — deliberate or unintentional — that stem from... View Details

Keywords: Management Practices; Effective Managers; Self-awareness; CIA,; Organizational Behavior; Management Practices and Processes; Organizations; Behavior; Performance

September 2019 (Revised December 2023)
Case

Accounting Fraud at Tesco Stores (A)

By: Jonas Heese, Suraj Srinivasan and Julia Kelley

This case describes the accounting fraud at Tesco Stores Limited (TSL), which was discovered by a senior accountant in TSL’s finance department. The accountant was concerned about TSL’s handling of commercial income, which, according to the accountant, overstated... View Details

Keywords: Accounting; Crime and Corruption; Organizational Culture; Corporate Accountability

September 2019 (Revised February 2024)
Teaching Note

Accounting Fraud at Tesco Stores (A), (B), & (C)

By: Jonas Heese and Suraj Srinivasan

Teaching Note for HBS Nos. 120-032, 120-033, and 120-034. View Details

September 2019
Supplement

Accounting Fraud at Tesco Stores (B)

By: Jonas Heese, Suraj Srinivasan and Julia Kelley

This case serves as a complement to the case "Accounting Fraud at Tesco Stores (A)". View Details

September 2019
Supplement

Accounting Fraud at Tesco Stores (C)

By: Jonas Heese, Suraj Srinivasan and Julia Kelley

This case serves as a complement to the case "Accounting Fraud at Tesco Stores (A)". View Details

September 3, 2019
Article

Conspiracy Theories Are a Dangerous Threat to Our Democracy

By: Arthur C. Brooks

2019
Case

Krueger-Gilbert Health Physics: Can a Serial Acquisition Strategy Work for a Diagnostic Consulting Firm?

By: Jason Pananos and A.J. Wasserstein

September 2019 (Revised January 2020)
Case

Ming Min Hui (MBA 2015)

By: Leslie A. Perlow, Eunice Eun and Matthew G. Preble

September 2019
Teaching Note

Mobike and ofo: Dancing with Titans (A)

By: Shikhar Ghosh, Haibo Zhao and Shweta Bagai

Teaching Note for HBS No. 819-135. View Details