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Driving Organizational Agility - Virtual

By: Ranjay Gulati
Today's businesses must be alert to changes in the external environment, develop competitive strategies quickly—and adapt the organization to execute. In this virtual program, you'll explore organizational structures and processes that have enabled businesses to... View Details
  • September 2005 (Revised May 2006)
  • Case

iMergent (A)

iMergent's core business consists of proprietary virtual storefront software aimed at small businesses and entrepreneurs. For idea-rich entrepreneurs who lack technological skills, iMergent provides an all-inclusive program that covers all needs from order processing... View Details
Keywords: Analysis; Financial Statements
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  • March 2008
  • Article

Is Yours a Learning Organization?

By: David A. Garvin, Amy C. Edmondson and Francesca Gino
This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. An organization with a strong learning culture faces the unpredictable deftly.... View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Learning; Surveys; Leading Change; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Organizational Culture
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    Gunnar Trumbull

    Gunnar Trumbull is the Phillip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

    Professor Trumbull’s primary area of expertise in political economy, with a focus on consumer and regulatory politics. His book Strength in... View Details

    Keywords: food processing; food processing; food processing; food processing; food processing; food processing; food processing; food processing; food processing; food processing
    • December 2000
    • Case

    CellFor, Inc.

    By: Ray A. Goldberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop, Frantz Edward Alphonse and Laure Mougeot Stroock
    A new private company has developed a process to clone and multiply seeds for the forestry industry. View Details
    Keywords: Business Startups; Transition; Technological Innovation; Private Ownership; Research and Development; Science-Based Business; Technology Adoption; Forestry Industry
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    MBA Elective Curriculum Business-to-Business Marketing

    Business markets differ from consumer markets in important ways. Typically, the buying process is more complex, the buying units and purchase criteria differ, and marketing decisions are more closely interrelated with firm-wide strategic choices. In addition,... View Details

      Dorothy A. Leonard

      Dorothy Leonard*, the William J. Abernathy Professor of Business Administration Emerita, joined the Harvard faculty in 1983 after teaching for three years at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has taught MBA courses in... View Details

      Keywords: computer; consulting; education industry; electronics; federal government; high technology; information technology industry; software; venture capital industry
      • January 2019 (Revised July 2022)
      • Case

      Jain Irrigation Systems Limited: Continuing a Legacy

      By: Forest Reinhardt, Gunnar Trumbull and Mahima Rao-Kachroo
      Founded in 1963 by Bhavarlal Jain (Bhau), who believed in “providing solutions for every problem,” Jain Irrigation in 2018 had a global footprint and $1.1 billion in revenue. Bhau had insisted that his business add value to farmers' lives and promote sustainable... View Details
      Keywords: Family Business; Mission and Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges; India
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      • September 2001 (Revised May 2006)
      • Case

      Webvan

      Examines Webvan's operations and the processes by which it delivers groceries that were ordered from the Internet to customers' homes. Recounts Webvan's history from founding through early 2001 and concentrates on the unique approaches to warehousing, delivery,... View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Failure; Business Startups; Consumer Products Industry; Service Industry
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      • September 2021 (Revised March 2024)
      • Case

      Bühler: Mobilizing Industry around a Common Purpose

      By: Ranjay Gulati, Franz Wohlgezogen and Malini Sen
      Bühler Group, a Swiss multinational processing technology provider, started by selling machines for processing grains and later transitioned into selling food processing solutions. A family-owned business in the fifth generation, Bühler’s high-end milling, grinding,... View Details
      Keywords: Family Business; Customer Focus and Relationships; Machinery and Machining; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Innovation Leadership; Switzerland
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      • 22 Nov 2010
      • Research & Ideas

      Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution

      Business leaders can't develop and execute effective strategy without first gathering the right information, says Harvard Business School professor Robert Simons. In his new book, Seven Strategy Questions: A... View Details
      Keywords: by Robert Simons
      • August 1997 (Revised July 1999)
      • Case

      Hewlett-Packard's Santa Rosa Systems Division (A): The Trials and Tribulations of a Legacy

      By: Michael Beer
      Describes the process of transforming a recently formed division of Hewlett-Packard. View Details
      Keywords: Business Divisions; Transformation; Courts and Trials; Information Technology Industry
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      • 04 Oct 2019
      • Blog Post

      Finding My Passion in the Startup Space

      Business Operations for Blueground, one of the few bright exceptions, working between our New York headquarters and our offices in Athens. Finding your career passion is a trial and error process. People say “follow your passion” but this... View Details
      • 26 May 2013
      • News

      Do you go off track easily?

      • September 2014
      • Case

      Victors & Spoils: 'Born Open'

      By: Karim R. Lakhani and Michael L. Tushman
      Victors & Spoils (V&S), located in Boulder, Colorado, was the first advertising agency built on open innovation and crowdsourcing principles from the ground-up. V&S was co-founded in 2009 by John Winsor, Claudia Batten and Evan Fry, all former members of the... View Details
      Keywords: Advertising Agency; Marketing; Crowdsourcing; Open Innovation; Growth; Acquisitions; Advertising; Advertising Campaigns; Digital Marketing; Acquisition; Innovation and Invention; Advertising Industry; United States
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      • 17 Jul 2011
      • News

      Getting Out of a Slump

      • June 2020 (Revised October 2020)
      • Case

      What Went Wrong with Boeing's 737 Max?

      By: William W. George and Amram Migdal
      This case describes the development of the Boeing 737 Max airplane model and the events leading up to two tragic plane crashes, in which a total of 346 people died: the crash of Lion Air flight 610 on October 29, 2018, in Indonesia, and the crash of Ethiopian Airlines... View Details
      Keywords: Communication; Communication Intention and Meaning; Communication Strategy; Forms of Communication; Announcements; Decision Making; Decision Choices and Conditions; Judgments; Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Globalization; Global Strategy; Governance; Corporate Accountability; Governance Controls; Human Resources; Resignation and Termination; Leadership; Leadership Style; Management; Business or Company Management; Crisis Management; Management Practices and Processes; Management Skills; Management Style; Management Systems; Risk Management; Time Management; Markets; Demand and Consumers; Digital Platforms; Supply and Industry; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Industry Structures; Operations; Product Development; Organizations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Outcome or Result; Failure; Success; Planning; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges; Relationships; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Safety; Strategy; Transportation; Air Transportation; Aerospace Industry; Air Transportation Industry; Africa; Ethiopia; Asia; Indonesia; North and Central America; United States; Seattle; Chicago
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      • December 1990
      • Case

      Allen-Bradley's ICCG: Repositioning for the 1990s

      By: Nitin Nohria
      Allen-Bradley's Industrial Computer and Communication Group (ICCG) underwent a period of rapid transformation in the 1980s, instituting a wide array of innovations from product development to information systems. In 1990 the Ohio-based group announced a major... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Organizational Culture; Business Organization; Problems and Challenges; Information Technology Industry
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      • March 2018
      • Case

      Zensar Technologies Ltd.

      By: Joseph B. Fuller and Tanvi Deshpande
      Zensar, an established mid-tier IT services company based in India, is known for its customer-centric approach and close-knit culture. Sandeep Kishore has recently stepped in as the MD and CEO, replacing the previous CEO of 15 years. Kishore is developing his strategy... View Details
      Keywords: Digitalization; Business Processes; Strategy; Leading Change; Organizational Culture; Information Technology Industry
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      • 25 May 2023
      • Blog Post

      Interview Strategies to Connect with a Wider Range of Candidates

      research from Harvard Business School faculty and Harvard Business Review contributors. They are designed to help organizations think through the details of their interview View Details
      Keywords: All Industries