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  • 15 Feb 2017
  • News

Black Business Leaders & Entrepreneurship

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The “Hawthorne Effect” – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

worker participation, and effective leadership. 13 These were groundbreaking concepts in the 1930s. From the leadership point of view today, organizations that do not pay sufficient attention to ‘people’ and ‘cultural’ variables are... View Details

    Gerald C. Chertavian

    Gerald Chertavian is the Founder of Year Up, one of the nation’s largest and most effective youth workforce development programs. Chertavian was a successful technology entrepreneur and Wall Street banker, but it was through his many years as a Big Brother... View Details

    • March 7, 2025
    • Article

    Leaders Can Move Fast and Fix Things

    By: Frances X. Frei and Anne Morriss
    The assumption embedded in Silicon Valley’s famous “move fast and break things” ethos is that we can either make progress or take care of people, one or the other. A certain amount of wreckage is the price we have to pay for creating the future. The authors have spent... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy; Leading Change; Performance Efficiency
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    Overview

    By: Roberto Verganti
    Roberto’s research focuses on how to create innovations that are meaningful for people, for society, and for their creators. He explores how leaders and organizations generate radically new visions, and make those visions come real. His studies lie at the intersection... View Details
    Keywords: Integrated Design; Strategy; Design Thinking; Innovation; Artificial Intelligence; Design; Technology; Leadership; Innovation Strategy
    • 20 Dec 2022
    • Blog Post

    Thinking About an MBA? Think About Your Purpose

    Why get an MBA? Many of my students are excited to acquire the tools that will help them solve the complex challenges that await them in the business world. That is admirable, but I have found that my most successful students are also... View Details
    • July 1998 (Revised January 2009)
    • Case

    Display Technologies, Inc. (Abridged)

    By: H. Kent Bowen and Jonathan West
    Display Technologies, Inc. (DTI) is a new joint venture between Toshiba and IBM Japan that is manufacturing the most advanced form of flat panel displays. With success in achieving significant production volumes, DTI has been asked to double its output as quickly as... View Details
    Keywords: Joint Ventures; Decision Choices and Conditions; Leadership Style; Production; Outcome or Result; Performance Capacity; Strategy; Hardware; Electronics Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Japan
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    • 17 Nov 2016
    • News

    Wrestler, Actor, Producer, Case Study Protagonist? Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson Stars In His Very Own Harvard Case

    • 10 Dec 2021
    • News

    Great Leaders Embody These Four Principles, According to Best Buy's Former CEO

    • 12 Aug 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: August 12, 2008

    Coty. When Beetz was hired as chief executive, it was still a fragmented collection of recently acquired brands. The case describes how Beetz re-ignited the dormant celebrity fragrance business with the successful launch of a new Jennifer... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • February 2011 (Revised December 2012)
    • Case

    The Ford Fiesta

    By: John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
    Executives at Ford wondered if social media could be the marketing solution for the launch of the youth-oriented 2010 Fiesta. But with social media came a ceding of control. Some at the company believed that if Ford was going to move beyond its conservative brand image... View Details
    Keywords: Advertising Campaigns; Digital Marketing; Leadership; Goals and Objectives; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Market Entry and Exit; Standards; Auto Industry
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    • 13 Mar 2020
    • News

    Rosabeth Moss Kanter on Purpose-Driven Leadership, Storytelling, and Social Impact

    • January 2023
    • Teaching Note

    The Opioid Settlement and Executive Pay at AmerisourceBergen

    By: Suraj Srinivasan and Li-Kuan Ni
    Teaching Note for HBS Case No 122-014. In 2020, AmerisourceBergen Corporation, a Fortune 50 company in the drug distribution industry, agreed to settle thousands of lawsuits filed nationwide against the company for its opioid distribution practices that critics alleged... View Details
    Keywords: Opioids; Shareholder Activism; Investment Activism; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Governance Compliance; Governance Controls; Executive Compensation; Risk Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Distribution Industry; Health Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States; West Virginia; Tennessee; Ohio; Pennsylvania
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    Launching New Ventures

    Summary Successful entrepreneurship takes more than an innovative idea—it also requires the right mindset and skillset. Whether you're developing new business, launching new ventures, or building an entrepreneurial culture within a larger... View Details
    • 13 Apr 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: April 13

      PublicationsDriven to Lead: Good, Bad, and Misguided Leadership Author:Paul R. Lawrence Publication:Jossey-Bass, forthcoming (2010) Abstract The author applies the four drive theory of human behavior (to acquire, to defend, to... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 24 Sep 2015
    • Blog Post

    Why We Recruit: Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation

    long has your organization been recruiting at Harvard Business School and what roles do you hire for?This will be our third year of recruiting from HBS. Last year we recruited for a Leadership Fellow, an Associate and two Summer... View Details
    Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
    • 12 Oct 1999
    • Research & Ideas

    Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

    Professorship of Business Administration, "HBS alumni were directly involved in establishing the modern mutual fund industry and continue in prominent leadership positions today. Much like management consulting and venture capital,... View Details
    Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Financial Services
    • April 2021
    • Case

    Transforming BlackBerry: From Smartphones to Software

    By: Ranjay Gulati and Nicole Tempest Keller
    On the verge of failure, BlackBerry brought in John Chen as CEO in 2013 to orchestrate a bold turnaround of the company. Once an iconic leader in the smartphone market, BlackBerry was best known for its tactile QWERTY keyboard, strong security, and a focus on business... View Details
    Keywords: Pivot; Managing Change; Turnaround; Smartphone; Change Management; Leading Change; Transformation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Digital Platforms; Change; Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Competitive Strategy; Cybersecurity; Technology Industry; Transportation Industry; Canada
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    Families in Business

    Formulate strategies for growing the company and strengthening competitive advantage Create a strong board of directors Develop succession plans and successfully navigate leadership transitions Discuss... View Details
    • 11 Feb 2015
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Tommy Koh and the US-Singapore Free Trade Agreement: A Multifront ‘Negotiation Campaign’

    Keywords: by Laurence A. Green & James K. Sebenius