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  • May 2007 (Revised September 2008)
  • Case

Biocon Limited

By: Krishna G. Palepu and Ananth Chepuri
Biocon Limited was facing significant pricing pressure in their cash cow business, that primarily consisted of manufacturing Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs). To combat this commoditization, Biocon's leadership had chosen an innovation-led strategy. This new... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Innovation and Management; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Risk Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Biotechnology Industry; India
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    Jay W. Lorsch

    Jay W. Lorsch is the Louis Kirstein Professor of Human Relations at the Harvard Business School. He is editor of View Details

    • 09 Nov 2015
    • News

    Thinkers50 Ranking of Management Thinkers Announced

      Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World

      The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War has long been understood in a global context, but Jeremy Friedman's Shadow Cold War delves deeper into the era to examine the competition between the Soviet... View Details
      • March 2020 (Revised January 2022)
      • Case

      Michelin: Building a Digital Service Platform

      By: Sunil Gupta and Christian Godwin
      Michelin, a tire company with over a century of experience, attempts to develop a digital service platform for its fleet and dealer customers. The case focuses on the challenges of bringing a large, well-established company into the digital age. Concerned about the... View Details
      Keywords: Change; Transformation; Customer Focus and Relationships; Decision Making; Leading Change; Growth and Development; Strategy; Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Auto Industry; Travel Industry; Transportation Industry; United States; France
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      • September 2014
      • Case

      Radiometer, 2013

      By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
      In 2013, Radiometer continued to lead the world in blood gas analysis equipment and accessories, selling direct and through distributors to hospital central laboratories, point-of-care locations, and non-hospital medical locations. Founded in 1935 and based in Denmark,... View Details
      Keywords: Medical Devices; Medical Equipment ＆ Devices; Mergers ＆ Acquisitions; Strategic Analysis; Strategic Change; Family Business; Strategy; Mergers and Acquisitions; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Denmark; United States
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        Make the Most of Your Relocation

        Although the Covid-19 crisis has halted travel in recent months, geographic mobility has become critical for managers and knowledge workers hoping to advance in today’s globalized economy, and that trend is unlikely to reverse. Assignments far from headquarters can... View Details

        • Web

        Faculty & Advisors | MBA

        Harvard University; BA, Chemistry, Princeton University Hannah Chang is a Managing Director at Wu Capital, a global evergreen fund. Dr. Chang focuses on early-stage biopharmaceutical venture capital investments out of the firm’s San... View Details
        • February 1993 (Revised March 1995)
        • Case

        Bernd Sterzel at the IVth Medizinische Klinik (A)

        By: Linda A. Hill
        After 10 years of running a small laboratory at Yale Medical School, Dr. R. Bernd Sterzel assumes leadership of a nephrology clinic in Nurnberg and Erlangen, Germany. In his ambitious efforts to transform the clinic into a leading academic research institution, he... View Details
        Keywords: Change Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Problems and Challenges; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Health Industry; Germany; Connecticut
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        • Program

        Growing as a Purposeful Leader

        Become a leader who is guided by a greater purpose, a set of values, and key leadership principles Become effective at making a company's purpose come to life and unleashing extraordinary performance Enhance your effectiveness in dealing... View Details
        • Program

        Agribusiness Seminar

        Summary Climate extremes, economic shifts, geopolitical conflict, environmental constraints, new technologies, regulatory changes, consumer expectations—these and many other forces are creating pressures, uncertainties, and opportunities across View Details
        Keywords: Agriculture; Agriculture
        • December 2006 (Revised March 2010)
        • Case

        Bill Gates and Steve Jobs

        By: Anthony Mayo and Mark Benson
        Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, founders of Microsoft and Apple respectively, have revolutionized the relationship between the individual and computer technology. Once the exclusive domain of academia and research facilities, computers can now be found in every area of... View Details
        Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business History; Technological Innovation; Leadership; Risk and Uncertainty; Technology Industry
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        • 23 Jul 2012
        • Research & Ideas

        Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’

        structure, and as frontline employees become more pivotally involved in value-creating work, lateral and bottom-up communication comes to be no less important than top-down communication. Third, there is global change. As workforces... View Details
        Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg
        • April 2025
        • Case

        Salesforce Agentforce: The Limitless Workforce

        By: Suraj Srinivasan, Allison Ciechanover and George Gonzalez
        In early 2025, Salesforce was a global leader in cloud-based enterprise software, best known for pioneering customer relationship management (CRM) delivered as a service. Over the past two decades, the company had expanded into marketing, customer service, analytics,... View Details
        Keywords: Business Model; Customer Relationship Management; Price; AI and Machine Learning; Technology Adoption; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Sales; Business Strategy; Ethics; Product Launch; Technology Industry; United States
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          Airbnb During the Pandemic—Stakeholder Capitalism Faces a Critical Test

          As the covid pandemic spread in early 2020, global travel ground to a halt. For Airbnb, the San Francisco-based platform for renting accommodations, the impact was both swift and severe as revenues plummeted more than 70% over the prior year. Responding to the... View Details
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          Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

          challenge will make a huge difference for the world that we experience in the coming decades—for our children, and for the world that future generations inherit. The Climate Leadership Panel, moderated by HBS Class of 1974 MBA Roger... View Details
          • May 2018 (Revised July 2018)
          • Case

          EY China (A): Strengthening Presence in a Critical Market

          By: Ashish Nanda, Das Narayandas and Lisa Rohrer
          Soon after being named regional managing partner for Ernst & Young (EY) China in September 2009, Albert Ng reflects on the enormity of challenges facing EY China. Despite EY Global's commitment to the China practice, EY China’s growth agenda has been reversed, post... View Details
          Keywords: Professional Services; International Management; Big Four; Strategy And Execution; Emerging Market; Strategy; Leadership; Global Range; Growth and Development Strategy; Emerging Markets; Accounting Industry; China
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          • 01 Aug 2005
          • What Do You Think?

          Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?

          market value of all CEOs is driven by companies hiring leadership from the outside rather than promoting it from within. In other words, there is a market premium paid for outside hires. Hiring from outside often occurs either in... View Details
          Keywords: by James Heskett
          • January 2013
          • Case

          Andrew Ryan at VC Brakes

          By: Frank V. Cespedes and Sunru Yong
          An aftermarket brake component manufacturer, VC Brakes, is bought out by a global automotive parts corporation after the 2008 financial crisis. Unlike its previous parent company, the new owner attempts to change VC Brakes' autocratic management style and... View Details
          Keywords: Organizational Culture; Quality Management; Crisis Management; Human Resource Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Quality; Change Management; Leading Change; Restructuring; Management Practices and Processes; Problems and Challenges; Auto Industry
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          • February 2023 (Revised May 2023)
          • Case

          CalPERS Private Equity 2.0

          By: Josh Lerner, John D. Dionne and Alys Ferragamo
          Yup Kim, the Head of Investments, Private Equity at the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), reflected on the pension fund’s private equity strategy. In July of 2022, the fund was in the midst of a multi-year turnaround strategy with the goal to... View Details
          Keywords: Private Equity; Investment Portfolio; Retirement; Leadership; Strategy; Public Sector
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