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  • 16 May 2023
  • HBS Case

How KKR Got More by Giving Ownership to the Factory Floor: ‘My Kids Are Going to College!’

Instead, when the company wouldn’t pay them for their lunch hour, they intentionally scheduled deliveries to show up midday, when there wasn’t anyone working to receive them, sabotaging the project. “Top... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 09 Jun 2022
  • HBS Case

From Truck Driver to Manager: US Foods’ Novel Approach to Staff Shortages

workers. “There’s a lot of things you can do around the edges,” Bell says. “But I think in the long term, the industry could use a plan for radically changing the way they deliver food to restaurants.” Radical changes may View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • 19 Dec 2022
  • Research & Ideas

What Motivates People to Give Generously—and Why We Sometimes Don't

I think, rather than asking what type of person is going to give, the more helpful question is to ask what can be done View Details
Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint, HBS Alumni Bulletin
  • 09 Mar 2009
  • Research & Ideas

How to Revive Health-Care Innovation

The patient is weak, the situation is serious, but a cure is on the horizon—if we think differently about the underlying problem. Specifically, we need to innovate in health care just the way it is done in... View Details
Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Jerome H. Grossman, M.D. M.D. & Jason Hwang; Health
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The Decreasing Value of Our Research to Management Education

By: Jone L. Pearce and Laura Huang
For centuries we have expected the best teachers also to be scholars. The practice of scholarship should do more than make scholars more humble teachers; scholarship is expected to be more than an activity done for its own sake. Here we present evidence that our... View Details
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  • 11 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing

To improve any business, managers need to understand how much it costs to produce a profitable product. It seems a simple task, but the process of securing and analyzing the... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 11 Oct 2006
  • What Do You Think?

How Do We Respond to the “Dependency Ratio” Dilemma?

Summing Up Dependency ratios are useful as general indicators of future economic and social health. But they must be managed downward on both a micro and macro basis, in the opinion of the majority of respondents View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 02 Jul 2024
  • Book

Five Essential Elements to Build the Capital You Need to Lead

will allow you to bring your whole self and the value that you have to offer to your journey, whether that's in work, with family, or in the community. “Our View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 09 Nov 2023
  • HBS Case

What Will It Take to Confront the Invisible Mental Health Crisis in Business?

impervious to mental health struggles. What can be done to better support people at the top? Cohen: This is a great point. There was a paper... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Health
  • 13 Oct 2003
  • Research & Ideas

How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth

schools-of-experience point of view. This can be done in three steps. First, imagine yourself at Pandesic on day one, when the executives were agreeing to start this disruptive... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor
  • 29 Apr 2020
  • Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Apr 2007
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Making the Move to General Manager

excellence in a single functional area to integrating consistency, cohesion, and alignment across many moving parts in the business unit. "When you're responsible for leading, it's not enough to do what... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 23 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization

all parties while others inherently benefit the rich and strong at the expense of the poor and weak. Furthermore, some can be beneficial but also lend themselves to abuse, especially by people without a... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
  • 08 Mar 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”

If we value achievement and adopt celebrity standards, we will certainly fall victim to our own excess. Nothing will be enough, and success will never satisfy. If we're high achievers, we may View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
  • May 2020 (Revised January 2022)
  • Case

Michael Ku and Global Clinical Supply at Pfizer Inc.: Bringing Hope to Patients (A)

By: Linda A. Hill, Allison J. Wigen and Emily Tedards
Michael Ku joined Pfizer in 2011, after the company had undergone three large-scale mergers and acquisitions. His mission was to drive the digital transformation of the company’s clinical supply chain, but he knew he had to start with the culture. Over the next eight... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Digital; Change; Culture; Management; Talent; Pharmaceutical Companies; Customer-centricity; Collaboration; Cross-functional Management; Purpose; Leadership; Innovation and Invention; Transformation; Organizational Culture; Change Management; Talent and Talent Management; Customer Focus and Relationships; Supply Chain; Decision Making; Mission and Purpose
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  • February 2024
  • Case

More than Optics: Olympus's Vision to Become a Leading Global MedTech Company

By: David J. Collis and Haisley Wert
In August 2022, CEO Yasuo Takeuchi reflected on Olympus Corporation’s recent transformation from being known as a Japanese consumer camera company to becoming a leading global medical technology (MedTech) company. Over the past dozen years, Takeuchi and prior... View Details
Keywords: Global Human Resource Management; Medical Technology; Corporate Strategy; Transformation; Globalization; Business Model; Leading Change; Organizational Structure; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Japan; United States
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  • 25 Jan 2017
  • HBS Case

How Should Advertisers Respond to Consumer Demand for Whiter Skin?

women empowerment, decided to take on the issue by launching a “Dark Is Beautiful” campaign, partly to pressure advertisers to stop portraying lighter-skinned people as... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Beauty & Cosmetics
  • 04 Sep 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage

wallet" by adding new business models—for example, if you currently have a product business, can you add information, services, or solutions? Can you expand into adjacent businesses by either taking over activities that used to View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
  • 28 Aug 2023
  • Research & Ideas

The Clock Is Ticking: 3 Ways to Manage Your Time Better

Should you be reading this article? Or are you wasting time that would be better spent on something else? Time pressure—the struggle to get everything View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 12 Jun 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs

references can be helpful, but only if done correctly. “This is something we continue to do, even with mid-level hires in mid-stage companies when the founder feels like a... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin

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