Publications

January 2025
Case

Netflix: Takedown Troubles

By: Clayton S. Rose, Tom Quinn and Maxim Pike Harrell

In October 2021, Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos sent an all-staff email addressing backlash to comedian Dave Chappelle’s new stand-up special, The Closer. Released on October 5, the comedian’s depiction of the transgender community and other LGBTQ+ groups prompted... View Details

08 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

You Won't Make It If You Fake It

leadership experiences before they are prepared for major leadership assignments. Through these processes, they learn about themselves and how to lead diverse people through complex challenges. Look at the sad case of Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes. She is a View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

18 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation

talent pool. Now in 266 schools across 13 states and in 28 countries, P-TECH started 10 years ago as a pilot program in a Brooklyn high school, offering students of color from underprivileged backgrounds the chance to stay in high school... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

09 Feb 2016
First Look

February 9, 2016

to focus in order to improve this crucial dimension of talent acquisition. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50539 December 15, 2015 Harvard Business Review Don't Turn Your Sales Team Loose Without a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur

investment banking, and many other jobs. So the question was, how do you attract talented people and motivate them? For Kapur, it was by the monetary incentive, by the nature of the work, and by instilling the ambition and aspiration that... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Advertising

25 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Walking Away from a $3 Billion Deal

think either we could hire more people to generate more ideas, or we could pursue auction deals. It takes time, though, to develop experience in this space, and I don't think we could hire enough people to develop ideas to invest all $4 billion. To match View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services

09 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch

that establish the going rate for talent according to company size, industry, and geography. Salaries in these tables are reported in quartiles, from highest to lowest amounts, and no corporate compensation committee wants to say that it... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

15 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

A New Model for Business: The Museum

for-profit businesses today." Product curation, by necessity, requires talent and care. "Most consumers bristle at constraints on choice or heavy-handed guidance about what they should want, even though (ironically) they value it when... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

07 Jun 2010
Research & Ideas

Improving Brand Recognition in TV Ads

estimated 5 million viewers, 50 to 60 percent of those viewers (2.5 to 3 million people) can be lost with usual zapping rates; as many as 1 million could be recaptured by using the pulsing strategy. "This isn't a constraint for the creative View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Media & Broadcasting; Entertainment & Recreation

September 2022 (Revised April 2023)
Case

Cesaro e Associati

By: Christina R. Wing and Amram Migdal

This case describes the leadership succession planning process at Cesaro e Associati (Studio Cesaro), founded in 1986 by Franco Cesaro in the northeastern Italian state of Veneto. In 2022, Franco was contemplating retirement and passing leadership of his firm, which... View Details

February 2025
Case

Luca de Meo at Renault Group (A)

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

When Luca de Meo became CEO of Renault Group in 2020, the 122-year-old French automaker faced financial challenges and the double technological disruption of the automotive industry: the shift to electric vehicles (EVs) and the rise of software-defined vehicles (SDVs).... View Details

January 2025
Case

Davivienda Bank's Upskilling and Reskilling Strategy in Colombia (Abridged)

By: Jorge Tamayo, Raffaella Sadun and Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago

Set in 2022, this abridged case examines the digital transformation strategy of Davivienda—a leading player in Colombia’s commercial banking sector and one of the companies belonging to Grupo Bolívar, a major Colombian conglomerate—and the bank’s upskilling and... View Details