Cultural Change - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Apr 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018

Business School Case 909-403 Transformation of COFCO in a Changing Environment China's COFCO, the country's leading edible oil and food importer and exporter and its largest food manufacturer, had in its 50-plus years of operation... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online

Testing Interpreting A/B Tests Show Hide Details Concepts Designing and Performing Hypothesis Tests Improving the Customer Experience Featured Exercises Develop and test hypotheses in Excel to assess the impact of changes on an entire... View Details

April 2021
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Etsy: Crafting a Turnaround to Save the Business and Its Soul

By: Ranjay Gulati, Luciana Silvestri and Monte Burke

Etsy, the online seller of handmade goods, was founded in 2005 on an almost utopian ideal—a responsible, caring company that offered individual crafters a place to sell their wares, a wholesome alternative to companies that sold mass-manufactured products. The company... View Details

Keywords: Turnaround; Organizational Culture; Financial Condition; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Mission and Purpose; Transformation; Leadership

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01 Mar 2024
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The War Within

When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an education and rehabilitation... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; illustration by Daniel Bejar

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Gender & Race in Organizations Research Group - Race, Gender & Equity

social identities (e.g., race and gender) in professional identity development processes of medical residents. She is also conducting research on identity change and career intentions of first-time pregnant professional women, as well as... View Details

February 2023 (Revised May 2023)
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Accelerating the Accelerator: Raja Al Mazrouei at DIFC Fintech Hive

By: Linda A. Hill, Emily Tedards and Lydia Begag

In January 2023, Raja Al Mazrouei became the Managing Director and Acting CEO of Etihad Credit Insurance (ECI) in Dubai, UAE. In her previous role as the Executive Vice President of the DIFC Fintech Hive, she successfully built and led an accelerator program for... View Details

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01 Jan 2011
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Seth Klarman, MBA 1982

leave to attend HBS was not an easy one. Doing so, however, changed the course of Klarman's life. "HBS teaches you about leadership. It immerses you in a series of real-life business situations. Even now, 30 years later, I draw on my... View Details

11 Jul 2016
HBS Case

Neurodiversity: The Benefits of Recruiting Employees with Cognitive Disabilities

underemployed. It’s not a “charity thing,” Austin says. “There are possibilities here to do something that is socially good and yet is still being very responsible to the business,” Pisano says. “Whether this is the beginning of a bigger movement, I really don’t know,... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology

06 Oct 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

how they have been contributing to team goals. Reestablish norms. Most important, the relaunch is the time for team members to reevaluate how to conduct themselves and interact amid the changing circumstances. To learn more, read It’s... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

05 Oct 2020
Book

Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time

time-smart changes (for, say, teachers or health care and service workers). We need to convince business leaders that time affluence is a competitive issue. The war for talent will demand that companies take time affluence seriously. The... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

23 Nov 2021
Research & Ideas

The Vinyl Renaissance: Take Those Old Records Off the Shelf

market, it’s largely because their value extends beyond the use value of the product itself. Meaning: There are other values that the consumer attaches to the product or the experience of using the product that become core. There’s a View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Music

25 Apr 2024
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Origin Stories

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up... View Details

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Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About

turn-of-the-century Arts and Crafts style. The brass superstructure of each post held more than 100 price indicators, which were changed throughout the day to indicate the most recent sale price of each stock traded there. All of the... View Details

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Design Thinking Course | HBS Online

a problem, and analyze your organization's capacity for innovative thinking. Highlights What Is Innovation? Structuring Observations Using Journey Maps Changing Lives Through Innovation at BMVSS What Is Problem Framing? Show Hide Details... View Details

21 May 2024
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A New Chapter

Joe Wolf (MBA 1999), cofounder and co-CEO of Imagine Worldwide, wants to provide educational opportunity where it is needed most. “In the next 30 years, half of the world’s youth will be sub-Saharan African,” says Wolf. “Right now, the World Bank reports that only one... View Details

Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace; photo by Cayce Clifford

Portrait Project

Zoe Otedola

“Do it for them,” I whispered, sitting down to take the GMAT. Knowing only 4% of black test takers score over 700, tears pierced the corners of my eyes. Exhaustion creeped up my spine. I reminded myself I wasn’t taking this exam for me; I was taking it to View Details

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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

errors when making decisions. Fortunately, behavioral economics offers tools to help people reach better outcomes. By changing the environment in which choices are made, for example by changing the process... View Details

23 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

The Power of Conversational Leadership

the company." Borne of those interviews, the book advocates an approach called "organizational conversation," which applies to all processes a company uses to circulate information across the organization, rather than just from the top down. "It's about creating a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

04 Oct 2022
What Do You Think?

Have Managers Underestimated the Need for Face-to-Face Contact?

(iStockphoto/SolStock) The COVID-19 pandemic changed the ways we worked, the ways we shopped, and the ways we interacted with others. It fostered some businesses—online selling, meeting services, and home entertainment—and nearly killed... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

March 2011
Case

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Company in 2011

By: Willy Shih and Jia Cheng

When David Wang took over as the CEO of SMIC, he knew that if he was to capitalize on the company's strategic location in the China market, he would have to transform the company mindset and its operating structure from its roots in the manufacturing of DRAMs to the... View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Resource Allocation; Market Entry and Exit; Business Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Customization and Personalization; Semiconductor Industry; China

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