Publications

16 Dec 2021
News

Avoid a One-Size-Fits-All Approach to Sales Coaching

17 Apr 2017
News

Panera-bred Leaders Have Risen Throughout the Restaurant Industry

offer. Shaich will remain as CEO of the operation. “Most people [here], they’ve been pushed to think in ways they’ve never been pushed to think about before,” Shaich told the Globe. Though those lessons add up to good management... View Details

Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

19 Feb 2008
Research & Ideas

Radical Design, Radical Results

addresses this shortfall as part of a larger research agenda investigating how companies manage to succeed in this particular arena. Verganti coauthored the article with Claudio Dell'Era, his colleague at Italy's Politecnico di Milano.... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products

September 2003 (Revised February 2004)
Case

Alessi: Evolution of an Italian Design Factory (B)

By: Youngme E. Moon, Vincent Dessain and Anders Sjoman

Since the 1970s, world-renowned architect and designer, Alessandro Mendini, has acted as adviser and counselor to Alessi, the Italian household goods design factory. By discussing Mendini's role as art director, the case introduces the artistic side of Alessi, where... View Details

Keywords: Design; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Leadership Style; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Consumer Products Industry; Italy

26 Mar 2020
Blog Post

Make Work from Home Work For You (And Your Team)

environments because priorities have shifted, so make sure that your entire team is on the same page. The management style Fong implements in the office works well remotely as well and offers structure when... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

26 Jul 2018
News

Running the Numbers

first intranet for a Fortune 50 company. “That was my first exposure to the way innovative data management can transform a big organization,” she notes. “When I went on to HBS, that seed had definitely been planted.” After HBS, Gelman... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

18 Mar 2020
Blog Post

Make Work from Home Work For You (And Your Team)

business environments because priorities have shifted, so make sure that your entire team is on the same page. The management style Fong implements in the office works well remotely as well and offers... View Details

Web

Israel - Global Activities 2020

grow as a leader. ” Joshua Margolis James Dinan and Elizabeth Miller Professor of Business Administration Chair, Program for Leadership Development Unconventional Leadership Style Having worked for the bank for 16 years, Russak-Aminoach... View Details

Web

Podcast - HBS Online

Bussgang, and Nien-hê Hsieh. Tune in for their insights on negotiation, branding, entrepreneurship, and ethics. Linda Hill on Leading Change and the Paradoxes of Management 22 JAN 2024 | The Parlor Room Great leadership requires being... View Details

21 Jan 2022
News

How Leaders Can Build Connection in a Disconnected Workplace

Blog

Crossing the Bridge from Program Learning to Practical Application

When you attend an HBS Executive Education program, you never know what opportunities the experience may present. In fact, you could even find yourself becoming part of the teaching team. Ask Deb Barnes, Senior Managing Director of Fund... View Details

02 Sep 2020
News

Becoming a More Patient Leader

19 Nov 2020
News

How Panera’s CEO Learned to Go Against the Grain

it’s time to hang my boots, I want to be remembered as somebody who helped people become much better.” After her death, Chaudhary took a sabbatical and arrived on campus for the Advanced Management Program, where he met Professor Ranjay... View Details

Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

01 Dec 2012
News

From Where We Stand

room. You will never regret it, and you'll build a strong reputation." Linda Rossetti (MBA 1991), managing director, Golden Seeds; blogger, Novofemina.com, Boston, Massachusetts I'd offer three ideas to female MBAs. First, take the time... View Details

01 Mar 2019
News

The Fight Beyond

But there were those within the US government who knew they needed more than fighters on the front lines. Green had the necessary skills to manage the business of the war, and the connections to get himself hired for the job. Green came... View Details

Keywords: April White; illustration by Wesley Allsbrook

January 1983 (Revised July 2007)
Case

Mat MacGregor (A)

Mat MacGregor took charge of a failing project but failed to turn it around because of a variety of personal, technical, cultural, and political reasons. The purpose of the case is to understand the underlying dynamics and their implications. View Details

Keywords: Management Skills; Management Style; Organizational Culture; Failure; Projects; Personal Characteristics

01 Sep 2018
News

Research Brief: Where Top-Down Tops Out

recent study, “The Impact of CEOs in the Public Sector: Evidence from the English NHS,” Associate Professor Raffaella Sadun and her coauthors conclude that a singular leader is far less effective in these large and complex public hospitals. The decentralized View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

December 2023 (Revised July 2024)
Case

Boortmalt: The Master Maltster

By: Forest Reinhardt, Jose B Alvarez, Damien McLoughlin, Lena Duchene and Emer Moloney

By May 2023, Boortmalt was the world’s leading producer of malt, with a production capacity of 3 million tonnes, 15% of global market share, and 27 malting plants across five continents. It had recently acquired a major competitor and had sustained an EBITDA growth of... View Details