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  • 14 Dec 2021
  • Op-Ed

To Change Your Company's Culture, Don't Start by Trying to Change the Culture

CEOs who had led successful corporate transformations and came to the same conclusion in a Harvard Business Review article: “[These leaders] say that culture isn’t something you 'fix.' Rather, in their experience, cultural change is what... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer
  • March 2019
  • Supplement

KITEA (F): Expanding in Africa

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gamze Yucaoglu
he case opens in 2018 after KITEA has recorded two years of double-digit sales growth following IKEA’s entry into the Moroccan market. It then traces the factors that contributed to KITEA’s success and that led Tana Africa Capital Limited to acquire a minority stake in... View Details
Keywords: Retail; KITEA; IKEA; Furniture; Furniture Industry; Entry Strategy; Responding To Entry; Localization; Competitive Interaction; Private Sector; For-Profit Firms; Business Strategy; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Adaptation; Corporate Strategy; Success; Expansion; Strategy; Retail Industry; Africa; North Africa; Morocco
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    Michael A. Wheeler

    Mike Wheeler joined the HBS faculty in 1993 and has taught extensively in its MBA, Executive, and distance learning programs. His highly interactive 8-week/40-hour HBS Online Negotiation... View Details

    Keywords: legal services; legal services; legal services; legal services; legal services; legal services; legal services; legal services; legal services; legal services; legal services; legal services; legal services; legal services; legal services; legal services; legal services
    • November 1994 (Revised May 2002)
    • Case

    K-III: A Leveraged Build-Up

    By: George P. Baker III, Nicola Bamford and Nicolas Greenspan
    Explores the strategy, financing, and governance of a new type of organizational form, dubbed the Leveraged Build-Up by its inventor, Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Co. The company makes leveraged acquisitions of small publishing companies, managing them in a very... View Details
    Keywords: Debt Securities; Financial Management; Leveraged Buyouts; Cash Flow; Organizational Structure; Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Governance; Financial Strategy; Corporate Finance; Publishing Industry
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    • June 2010 (Revised August 2011)
    • Case

    Tennant Company: Innovating Within and Beyond the Core

    By: Lynda M. Applegate, Toby E. Stuart and James Weber
    Tennant, a leading producer of floor cleaning equipment, must determine the business model to use for its new chemical-free cleaning technology. In 2005, Tennant Company had developed an innovative, environmentally friendly cleaning technology that could potentially... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Disruptive Innovation; Organizational Structure; Business Strategy; Value Creation; Consumer Products Industry; Industrial Products Industry
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    • July 1990 (Revised August 1990)
    • Case

    Kaiser Steel Corporation, 1950

    By: Timothy A. Luehrman and William Schiano
    Examines Kaiser Steel's initial equity offering in 1950. The first case in a sequence that will trace the history of corporate restructurings that occurred 30 to 40 years later, in the 1980s. Subsequent cases examine foreign competition and labor unrest, hostile... View Details
    Keywords: Business History; Competition; Initial Public Offering; Capital Structure; Restructuring; Capital Markets; Ownership; Steel Industry; United States
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    • Web

    Finance - Faculty & Research

    Finance Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students 2024 Working Paper Corporate Actions as Moral Issues By: Zwetelina Iliewa, Elisabeth Kempf and Oliver Spalt We study how a representative sample... View Details
    • May 1991
    • Article

    Presidential Commitment and the Veto

    By: Daniel E. Ingberman and Dennis Yao
    A president's power to veto is widely recognized as an important weapon in the struggle with Congress over legislation. In this paper we investigate the effectiveness of the veto weapon with a simple model of presidential powers that incorporates informal institutional... View Details
    Keywords: Government Legislation; Laws and Statutes; Financial Markets; Value; Taxation; Conflict and Resolution; Research; Performance Effectiveness; Legal Services Industry
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    • March 2015
    • Case

    Clifford Chance: Women at Work

    By: Boris Groysberg, Katherine Connolly and Stephanie Marton
    It was October 2013, and global law firm Clifford Chance was coming under fire for the second time in less than a year for reputedly failing to provide a supportive work environment for its female associates. A memo entitled "Speaking Effectively" was just issued to... View Details
    Keywords: Women; Law; Fairness; Employee Relationship Management; Retention; Human Capital; Organizational Culture; Performance Expectations; Work-Life Balance; Public Opinion; Problems and Challenges; Legal Services Industry; United States
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    • February 2023
    • Supplement

    Astyanax Kanakakis at norbloc: A Founder's Experience with the DIFC Fintech Hive

    By: Linda A. Hill and Lydia Begag
    norbloc was founded in 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden, by Astyanax Kanakakis and his co-founders, Vitalii Demianets and Sam Saatchi. Kanakakis and Demianets got to work to address a key gap in the industry: Know Your Customer (KYC) data sharing. As the first distributed KYC... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Organizations; Leadership; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Digital Transformation; Digital Strategy; Digital Platforms; Technology Adoption; Technological Innovation; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business and Government Relations; Business Startups; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; Banking Industry; Information Technology Industry; Sweden; Europe; Singapore; London; United Arab Emirates; Dubai; Middle East; Athens; Greece
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    • 21 Apr 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: April 21

    particular initiative, CEO activism-from Shultz to Chick-Fil-A's Dan Cathy to Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg to Goldman Sach's Lloyd Blankfein-represents a step forward for corporate involvement in the public square because these efforts are... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
    • 14 Sep 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: September 14, 2010

    technologies in the U.S. While there are several startups in clean energy that are well-suited to the traditional venture capital investment model, our analysis highlights a number of structural challenges related to venture capital (VC)... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • January 2007 (Revised October 2008)
    • Case

    H&R Block 2006

    By: Peter Tufano
    Mark Ernst, the Chairman, CEO and President of H&R Block, has to decide how to respond to a competitive threat posed by a competitor's refund-lending product. Block is the largest U.S. tax preparation firm, which competes not only on its tax preparation services, but... View Details
    Keywords: Ethics; Financing and Loans; Personal Finance; Taxation; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Competition; Financial Services Industry
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    • 25 Apr 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    The Importance of Teaming

    explains its importance to today's corporate environment. In today's complex and volatile business environment, corporations and organizations also win or lose by creating wholes that are greater than the... View Details
    Keywords: Re: Amy C. Edmondson
    • November 1988 (Revised September 1991)
    • Case

    Simmons Japan Ltd.

    By: W. Carl Kester and Richard P. Melnick
    Concerns the first leveraged buyout to occur in Japan. Analytic tasks include a valuation of the company and an assessment of its debt capacity. Also provides opportunities to discuss agency costs associated with alternative capital and equity ownership structures,... View Details
    Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Restructuring; Borrowing and Debt; Capital Structure; Cost; Equity; Production; Valuation; Japan; United States
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    • 09 Apr 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy

    financial regulatory structures in order to make it viable. Before ARD could offer its stock, for instance, it had to obtain a number of exemptions under the Investment Company Act of 1940 from the Securities and Exchange Commission. ARD... View Details
    Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante
    • 2011
    • Working Paper

    Do U.S. Market Interactions Affect CEO Pay? Evidence from UK Companies

    By: Joseph J. Gerakos, Joseph D. Piotroski and Suraj Srinivasan
    This paper examines the extent that interactions with U.S. markets impact the compensation practices of non-U.S. firms. Using a sample of large U.K. companies, we find that the total compensation of U.K. CEOs is positively related to the extent of the firm's... View Details
    Keywords: Globalized Markets and Industries; Corporate Governance; Executive Compensation; Management Practices and Processes; Motivation and Incentives; United Kingdom; United States
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    • 16 May 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

    diverse perspectives that will help them compete. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52624 May–June 2017 Harvard Business Review The Error at the Heart of Corporate Leadership By: Bower, Joseph L., and Lynn... View Details
    Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
    • Research Summary

    Research overview

    By: Julie Battilana

    How can actors – be they individuals or organizations – diverge from deeply-seated norms and develop new ones, when their beliefs and actions are shaped by these very norms? This question lies at the heart of Professor Battilana’s research. To address it, she... View Details

      William R. Kerr

      William Kerr is the D’Arbeloff Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Bill is Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research, co-director of Harvard’s Managing the Future of Work initiative, and faculty chair of the... View Details

      Keywords: communications; computer; consulting; high technology; information technology industry; management consulting; manufacturing; telecommunications; venture capital industry