Change - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Oct 2020
News

When Should Your Company Speak Up About a Social Issue?

25 Oct 2018
News

Bringing the Background into Focus

Édouard Manet, “La négresse (Portrait of Laure),” 1863. Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turino Édouard Manet, “La négresse (Portrait of Laure),” 1863. Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turino Denise Murrell (MBA 1980) spent the majority of her career on... View Details

12 Apr 2016
News

The Auto Industry's Existential Moment

Keywords: automotive industry; innovation; electric cars; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing

June 2023
Case

Grittiness at Convene

By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott

Based in New York, Convene was founded in 2009 by Ryan Simonetti and Chris Kelly. Convene was founded on the question: “What if you ran an office building like a hotel?” The company offered a premium corporate events and workspace product. Convene initially took a... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneur; Hospitality Industry; Growth; Culture; Entrepreneurship; Change Management; Growth Management; Strategy; Leadership; Service Industry; United States

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Educators

Purchase

07 Jul 2010
First Look

First Look: July 7

Competing in a Globalizing World (A) Juan Alcácer, Rasmus Molander, and Rakeen MabudHarvard Business School Case 710-430 The Finnish brewer Hartwall and the Swedish brewer Pripps had to decide how to react to the rapidly changing European... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 May 2015
News

Getting Ready for Success

another arranges funding new schools. “Some volunteers get a taste for what is not necessarily monetarily rewarding, but quite rewarding nonetheless, and it changes their perception of life,” she says. After HBS, Huebner moved to... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Educational Services

January 2010 (Revised March 2010)
Case

Transforming ASUSTeK: Breaking from the Past

By: Willy C. Shih, Ho Howard Yu and Hung-Chang Chiu

What happens when an original design manufacturer (ODM) firm tries to transform itself into a branded goods seller? The case traces the evolution of ASUSTeK from a motherboard supplier, to an ODM of desktop and notebook PCs, through its split into three companies that... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Disruptive Innovation; Brands and Branding; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Competitive Strategy; Computer Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Taiwan

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Educators

Purchase

15 Nov 2016
First Look

November 15, 2016

that were acquired but did not change their listing status. We establish that pressure to maximize short-term stock prices helps to explain these findings by showing that the increase in risk is larger for newly public banks that are more... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Oct 2016
First Look

October 11, 2016

to old ways of doing things, and company performance doesn't improve. To fix these problems, senior executives and their HR departments should change the way they think about learning and development, and because context is crucial,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2018
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018

once-classified national security documents, and other sources to show how far we have traveled from the time of our founders, who tried to constrain presidential power, to the present day, when a single leader has the potential to launch nuclear weapons and destroy... View Details

01 Mar 2018
What Do You Think?

Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?

kinwun Summing Up: What are the Earmarks of a “New Economy?” Responses to this month’s column rightly focused on the need for measures and standards before deciding whether we are entering an era of social and economic change as... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Mar 2019
News

Rent The Runway Joins the Unicorn Club

milestone, CEO Jennifer Hyman (MBA 2009), told Forbes that the company “has created a new consumer behavior of dynamic ownership and clothing rental has become an essential utility in our members’ lives.” Hyman goes on to say that RTR is meeting the market’s View Details

Keywords: Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

24 Apr 2014
News

Cash flow struggles can take down a company or spark ideas that transform an industry

Plans that Jonathan Bush (MBA 1997) had for an obstetrics practice ran into trouble when faced with unpaid claims and problems tracking patient records. In that, Bush saw an opportunity that forever changed the health records services... View Details

01 Dec 2005
News

Fall Reunions

academic program filled classrooms with alumni eager to sample the latest in faculty research covering more than two dozen topics, ranging from venture capital and health care to retailing and globalization. LINK TO PHOTO GALLERY Read about the panel discussion... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2013
News

Success for the Underserved

"Our goal is to change the conversation about success in entrepreneurship in underserved communities," Gray explained to the Chicago Sun-Times (October 12, 2012). "We are taught that success is to go to school, make money, get a job, and... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

10 Jan 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Operations Management

and improvements, the service industries in general are a long way behind manufacturing. Not all lean manufacturing ideas translate from factory floor to office cubicle. A lean operating system alters the way a company learns through View Details

01 Dec 1996
News

October Reunions Break Records, Strengthen Ties

Burden Auditorium. In his remarks to alumni - including many of his former students - in the Classes of 1951, 1956, 1961, 1966, and 1971, McFarlan set the tone for a reunion that highlighted how much the HBS curriculum has changed to keep... View Details

Keywords: Mary Jane Higgins; photos by Brooks Kraft

01 Mar 2017
News

The Big Ambition Behind Educational Innovation

change anything?’ But part of the obligation of the School’ s leadership is to nudge people — to constantly improve and change and make the experience even better.” Felix Oberholzer-Gee, the Andreas Andresen... View Details

01 Mar 2006
News

Fast Lane to Country Lane

start your own business?’ ” she recalls. “My answer was that I’m the person who sets the direction and gets things done, but I don’t have an idea for a business.” That changed when she reconnected with Mark, an old friend from Yale whom... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Furniture and Home Furnishings Stores; Retail Trade

01 Mar 2004
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Reforming Company Boards

investments, and their responsibility to investors? Legislation mandating reform can be passed quickly compared with the time needed to change people’s behavior. Some believe that things won’t really change... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Services

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