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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Career Makeover
Maximum utilization of assets on hand is a key to business success. It’s also an operating philosophy for Jackie Davis (MBA ’83), a former executive who’s now a TV personality and interior designer. When Davis does a redecorating makeover, she typically limits herself... View Details
- November 2021
- Article
Making Industrial Policy Work for Decarbonization
By: Jonas Meckling
Industrial policy has begun to move into the center of debates on climate policy. This represents a shift away from climate policy as we know it—as classic environmental policy. Industrial policy and environmental policy differ in their policy goals, policy... View Details
Meckling, Jonas. "Making Industrial Policy Work for Decarbonization." Global Environmental Politics 21, no. 4 (November 2021): 134–147.
- September 19, 2019
- Article
Walmart CEO’s Decision on Guns Is the Kind of Corporate Courage We Need
Corporate courage is in short supply. CEOs generally avoid controversial public issues lest disgruntled groups strike back. That’s why Walmart’s actions to limit ammunition sales and advocate for new gun safety legislation mark a significant milestone. CEO Doug... View Details
Keywords: Gun Policy; Gun Violence; Social Issues; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Leadership; Change; Policy
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "Walmart CEO’s Decision on Guns Is the Kind of Corporate Courage We Need." CNN.com (September 19, 2019).
- May 1994
- Case
Laura Ashley (D)
By: Richard L. Nolan
Describes the resignation of the CEO hired three years earlier to transform the company. View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Resignation and Termination; Management Succession; Performance Evaluation
Nolan, Richard L. "Laura Ashley (D)." Harvard Business School Case 194-146, May 1994.
- February 2011 (Revised April 2012)
- Case
PepsiCo Peru Foods: More than Small Potatoes
The regional head of supply chain for PepsiCo South America Foods and his team had worked for 10 years to realize their dream of creating an agricultural research center in Peru that could provide more productive and healthier varieties of potatoes for the Frito-Lay... View Details
Keywords: Food; Supply Chain; Planning; Growth and Development Strategy; Leading Change; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Peru
Kanter, Rosabeth M., Rakesh Khurana, Rajiv Lal, and Matthew Bird. "PepsiCo Peru Foods: More than Small Potatoes." Harvard Business School Case 311-083, February 2011. (Revised April 2012.)
- September 1990 (Revised March 1993)
- Case
General Electric Plastics: Organizing the Marketing Function
Describes the rapid growth of General Electric Plastics for over the last decade to a $5 billion (sales) company. The accompanying organizational transitions are described. The task is to design a marketing organization for the coming decade given the anticipated... View Details
Rangan, V. Kasturi. "General Electric Plastics: Organizing the Marketing Function." Harvard Business School Case 591-029, September 1990. (Revised March 1993.)
- November 1995 (Revised January 1998)
- Case
Transformation of Pratt & Whitney North Haven (A)
By: H. Kent Bowen, Linda A. Hill, Andrew P. Burtis, Sylvie Ryckebusch and John Schiavone
Pratt & Whitney is a leader in the development and manufacturing of gas turbine engines for commercial and military aircraft. Economic conditions for the airline and defense industries are forcing the airplane engine builders to restructure. Ed Northern, a new general... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Restructuring; Production; Opportunities; Economy; Aerospace Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Connecticut
Bowen, H. Kent, Linda A. Hill, Andrew P. Burtis, Sylvie Ryckebusch, and John Schiavone. "Transformation of Pratt & Whitney North Haven (A)." Harvard Business School Case 696-066, November 1995. (Revised January 1998.)
- November 1990 (Revised October 1994)
- Case
Apple Computer (C): The Human Resource Function
Explores how the human resource (HR) function at Apple Computer can best support the company's strategy. Describes in detail the HR function. The function is considering a reorganization at the end of the case, in response to criticism from non-HR employees and... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Human Resources; Business Strategy; Computer Industry; United States
Gibbs, Michael J. "Apple Computer (C): The Human Resource Function." Harvard Business School Case 491-043, November 1990. (Revised October 1994.)
- 2002
- Comment
Designs, Technology Cycles, and Organizational Outcomes
By: George Westerman and Michael L. Tushman
Keywords: Organizational Design; Information Technology; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Outcome or Result
Westerman, George, and Michael L. Tushman. Comment on "Designs, Technology Cycles, and Organizational Outcomes." Chap. 10 Managing in the Modular Age: Architectures, Networks, and Organizations, edited by Raghu Garud, Arun Kumaraswamy, and Richard Langlois, 348–361. Blackwell Publishing, 2002.
- 09 Sep 2024
- News
Basket Chase
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. On this episode, we’re featuring an excerpt from a new HBS podcast called Think Big, Buy Small. The show is hosted by Professors Richard Ruback and Royce Yudkoff... View Details
- October 2018
- Article
Africa Rising? A Historical Perspective
By: Ewout Frankema and Marlous van Waijenburg
Sub-Saharan Africa’s recent economic boom has raised hopes and expectations to lift the regions’ ‘bottom millions’ out of poverty by 2030. How realistic is that goal? We approach this question by comparing the experiences of three front-runners of region-specific... View Details
Frankema, Ewout, and Marlous van Waijenburg. "Africa Rising? A Historical Perspective." African Affairs 117, no. 469 (October 2018): 543–568. (Finalist for the bi-annual Stephen Ellis Prize for the most innovative article in African Affairs.)
- 01 Oct 2018
- News
Learning About Leadership
Abigail P. Johnson (MBA 1988) is chairman and CEO of Fidelity Management and Research in Boston and a recipient of the 2018 HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this interview, she reflects on her early lessons in business leadership and on the need to watch for new... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
McCance First to Serve as Entrepreneur in Residence
McCance: A veteran of venture capital shares his expertise with HBS faculty and students. Courtesy Greylock When Henry McCance (MBA ’66) joined Boston-based Greylock Management Corporation in 1969, venture capital was a cottage industry. Thirty-five years and a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
NFL Players Tackle Cases at HBS
Making a point: Professor Joe Lassiter leads a class on developing and evaluating business plans. On the field, they can be the fiercest of competitors. Off the field, thirty veteran NFL players teamed up to work toward a common goal during an intensive HBS custom... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Chaotic Funding Derails Research
randomized model of research support in the United States, in which a change in administration or a court ruling can outlaw work that was previously supported by the government. Funding can be canceled with the stroke of a pen. The... View Details
- Profile
Venus Miller
changed my life," Venus says. "I always wanted to get an MBA, but I didn't see myself as the kind of person who could go to an Ivy League school. But then a member of the Admissions staff said something that really resonated... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Innovations Under Way Will Shape HBS’s Future
ambition, internationalization, inclusion, and integration with Harvard — have set in motion a pace of change that is unprecedented yet needed to respond to the changing world around us. There is enthusiasm... View Details
- 17 Sep 2020
- News
HBS Goes Back To School
incoming students to meet fellow classmates and learn about social enterprise related opportunities and resources.” SEPTEMBER 4 Doug Scatterday, senior director of Facilities, and Rich Stewart, director of Facilities, discuss the changes... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Transaction Cost Economics in the Digital Economy: A Research Agenda
- November 2002
- Article
Disruption, Disintegration, and the Dissipation of Differentiability
By: Clayton M. Christensen, Matt Verlinden and George Westerman
Christensen, Clayton M., Matt Verlinden, and George Westerman. "Disruption, Disintegration, and the Dissipation of Differentiability." Industrial and Corporate Change 11, no. 5 (November 2002): 955–993.