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  • 28 Sep 2023
  • News

What Ray Dalio Can Teach Us About Global Venture and Startups

Ray Dalio (photo via Bridgewater Associates) and Alex Lazarow (photo by Lindsay Upson) In a recent conversation with Bridgewater Associates Founder Ray Dalio (MBA 1973), Alex Lazarow (MBA 2010) gleaned three insights (and one bonus) from the global hedge fund leader on... View Details
  • 06 Jul 2023
  • News

Lessons from Major League Baseball's Game-Changing Innovations

discuss implementation. And the reception could be chilly. Marinak recalls longtime skipper Tony La Russa, for instance, being adamant that replay would require something like 10 lengthy play reviews per game, given all the blown calls he... View Details
  • Web

Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

consequential decision of his tenure: should he continue at the helm, promote a trusted insider, or become the first in the company’s history to recommend to the board appoint a non-family CEO? Keywords: AI ; Artificial Intelligence ; Digitalization ; Digital ; Family... View Details
  • August 2010 (Revised July 2011)
  • Supplement

Erik Peterson at Biometra (E)

By: John J. Gabarro, Thomas J. DeLong and Jevan Soo
Presents the final outcome of the events. The Richard Jenkins at SciMat case presents a description from the executive vice-president's point of view of the series of events as reported in the Erik Peterson at Biometra (A), (B), (C), and (D) cases. The Jenkins at... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Leadership; Business or Company Management; Management Succession; Product Launch; Outcome or Result; Problems and Challenges; Behavior; Perspective
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  • 10 Dec 2013
  • News

The Payoffs And Pitfalls Of Self-Doubt

  • 11 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Building a Better Board

discuss what he considers to be the biggest practical issues facing boards today: how to get and give honest assessments without eroding collegiality and trust; how to evaluate the CEO using factors that go beyond financial results; how... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Nov 2007
  • First Look

First Look: November 6, 2007

patients' families in an ongoing organizational learning process. The two-case series is particularly distinctive in tracking an organizational change initiative for almost a decade and, as such, uncovers and promotes discussion of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Resources - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

Practical Guide by E. Anderson & B. Schiano This book gives practical advice on how to teach with cases at institutions where it is not the primary pedagogy. 2003 McGraw-Hill/Irwin Socrates' Muse: Reflections on Effective Case Discussion... View Details
  • 16 Oct 2023
  • HBS Case

Advancing Black Talent: From the Flight Ramp to 'Family-Sustaining' Careers at Delta

“birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement.” “And only 2 percent of the poorest residents ever managed to get out of poverty,” Hill recalled discussing in her conversations with Delta employees when researching and writing the cases. At the... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Air Transportation
  • 16 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Successful Startups Have Hands-On Founders

leadership approach. The majority of these founders made at least one substantial business change after the retreat. “Founders talked at length about implementing particular action items,” the paper says. “For example, founders View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • November 2024
  • Background Note

Nonprofit Governance: Some Basics

By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz
This background note discusses basics about the prevalence, purpose, and unique legal, governance and regulatory dynamics of nonprofits and their boards of directors. The note describes both similarities and differences between for-profit and non-profit governance,... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Leadership; Mission and Purpose; Nonprofit Organizations; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Governing and Advisory Boards; United States
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  • April 2009 (Revised January 2011)
  • Case

Gucci Group: Freedom within the Framework

By: Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez, Elena Corsi and Vincent Marie Dessain
Gucci Group's CEO had to decide if his decentralized management style was the most effective philosophy in an economic downturn. The sharing of customer information across units and its use in the creative process are key initiatives analyzed in the case. CEO Robert... View Details
Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Decision Choices and Conditions; Globalized Firms and Management; Knowledge Sharing; Leadership; Management Style; Management Systems; Brands and Branding; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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  • 23 Oct 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Strategy-Focused Organization

strategy a continual process; and mobilize leadership for change.) In the following excerpt they tell how Mobil NAM&R applied the last of those principles—mobilizing leadership for change— in... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
  • 20 Jun 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono

escalating, high-profile campaign against Third World debt, poverty, war and disease. “Any CEO who thinks his or her job is about maximizing shareholder value is living in the past.” Koehn, a Harvard Business School historian who has studied social entrepreneurs and... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 24 Feb 2021
  • Lessons from the Classroom

What History's Biggest Wars Teach Us About Leading in Peace

for corporate leaders and entrepreneurs. After all, leadership challenges, strategic choices, and high-stakes negotiations are constants not only in conflicts among nations, but in the business world, too, he points out. So business... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • Web

Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

TagHive enhanced its software with artificial intelligence and expanded its customer support team and their responsibilities to subscription fee customers. By December 2024, TagHive was cash flow positive and planning to scale. Pankaj and his View Details
  • January 2018
  • Supplement

Scaling Swagbucks (B)

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Matthew G. Preble
“Swagbucks (B),” HBS No. 817123, picks up in mid-2014 following the events described in “Swagbucks (A),” HBS No 817122. Davis and Gorowitz were successful in their efforts to position the company for scale without negatively affecting the company’s foundational... View Details
Keywords: Loyalty Management; Scaling; Scale; Entrepreneurship; Human Resources; Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Leading Change; Growth Management; Religion; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Transition; Leadership; Web Services Industry; Technology Industry
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  • 22 Nov 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution

Your personal attention is the critical catalyst to focus your entire organization on the strategic uncertainties that keep you awake at night. After all, everyone watches what the boss watches. I will discuss how you can use this... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
  • 07 Apr 2021
  • Research & Ideas

How Teams Work: Lessons from the Pandemic

post-COVID collaboration in organizational cultures reshaped by remote work. Research by Leslie Perlow, the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership at HBS, and colleagues sheds light on the interactions that were lost during the... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 13 Mar 2023
  • Op-Ed

How Leaders Should Leave

never know when they’ll enter your career path again as prospective bosses, peers, or subordinates. Here is a recommended roadmap for how to resign with grace and class—without burning bridges along the way: Think it through. Discuss your... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch