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- January 2021 (Revised April 2022)
- Case
Best Buy's Corie Barry: Confronting the COVID-19 Pandemic
By: William W. George and Amram Migdal
This case examines the leadership of Corie Barry, the new CEO of Best Buy, with a focus on actions the company took in 2020 to adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic. The case includes a history of Best Buy’s strategy and leadership, including the transitions between the... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Change; Disruption; Volatility; Communication; Competency and Skills; Customers; Decision Making; Ethics; Fairness; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Finance; Cash Flow; Financial Condition; Financial Liquidity; Goods and Commodities; Corporate Governance; Health Pandemics; Human Resources; Executive Compensation; Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Resignation and Termination; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Innovation and Invention; Jobs and Positions; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Job Design and Levels; Job Interviews; Job Offer; Labor; Employment; Human Capital; Working Conditions; Law; Leadership; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Management; Business or Company Management; Crisis Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Practices and Processes; Management Style; Management Succession; Management Systems; Management Teams; Risk Management; Operations; Distribution; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Logistics; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Supply Chain; Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Outcome or Result; Personal Development and Career; Retirement; Work-Life Balance; Planning; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges; Relationships; Business and Community Relations; Labor and Management Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Safety; Science; Strategy; Retail Industry; North and Central America; United States; Minnesota
George, William W., and Amram Migdal. "Best Buy's Corie Barry: Confronting the COVID-19 Pandemic." Harvard Business School Case 321-073, January 2021. (Revised April 2022.)
- 19 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Company Loyalty
another manager's star employee most likely wants to transfer into their departments. 2. Design work with variety and autonomy. Jobs that provide variety and the freedom to make decisions and mistakes engender extensive loyalty, the... View Details
Keywords: by Lauren Keller Johnson
- Web
Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online
Power and Influence for Positive Impact. Participants will either be evaluated as complete or not complete. What is the Influence Style Exercise? + – The Influence Style Exercise (ISE) is a 20-30-minute self-assessment designed to help... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
generated an operational loss. "My feedback was, 'You're in trouble,'" recalls Kahn. By the spring, Kahn was in Mumbai, part of a team tasked with turning Agrovet around—the first foreigner the Godrej Group had ever hired in a leadership... View Details
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
business for 20 years. Its acquisition of Jet.com, however, let Walmart aggressively expand the top line of its platform revenue and bring in a team that understood platforms. Although still far behind Amazon, Walmart’s acquisition of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
where everyone can thrive Communicate powerfully as a leader Go fast by empowering your team Can Consumers, Big Tech, and Retailers Fix Health Care? Professor Robert Huckman (PHDBE 2001) No additional materials available + More Info –... View Details
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
with team projects and experiential learning. Training might come initially through the collective work of multiple business schools, with cohorts of alumni who receive a short dose of either functional knowledge or research skills or... View Details
- Person Page
AOM Ethno PDW 2009-2014
AOM PDW 2014: Being There/Being Them: Entry, Exit, and In-Between in Organization Ethnography
Co-Organizers: Michel Anteby, Harvard; Curtis K. Chan, Harvard; Julia DiBenigno,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Making Finance Personal
inspire, formulate, and drive new and improved product design and development, even without specialized knowledge. With its consumer base, for example, Intuit went from conducting a single experiment with customers of TurboTax, its... View Details
- 14 Apr 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Facts and Figuring: An Experimental Investigation of Network Structure and Performance in Information and Solution Spaces
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
To equip students to effectively work in and lead these teams, FIELD begins with a five-week foundations module, in which students undertake a series of workshops on communication, feedback and coaching, emotional intelligence, and team... View Details
- 16 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
Leading Change and Organizational Renewal
managerial challenge is how to design agile organizations able to leap from strength to strength to strength. How is evolution in the global economy affecting managerial roles and responsibilities? Tushman: Not only has the pace of change... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
engineering. There she helped suppliers design and certify their systems for flight: new seats for an aircraft, for example, or a Wi-Fi system for the new Delta Air Lines plane. She was surprised to find that engineers relied on outdated... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Balanced Scorecard and Beer Game Go High-Tech
for example, competing on low lifetime cost — and then try to fund the right mix of corporate initiatives to implement that strategy. They also design a Balanced Scorecard for their firm. In successive rounds of play, the data on each... View Details
- 2009
- Chapter
Creating Common Ground: Propositions about Effective Intergroup Leadership
Kanter, Rosabeth M. "Creating Common Ground: Propositions about Effective Intergroup Leadership." In Crossing the Divide: Intergroup Leadership in a World of Difference, edited by T. Pittinsky. Harvard Business Press, 2009.
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
Honeycomb, is designed to be a space where families can capture and curate priceless moments within a private circle. Engagement and retention went through the roof as a result, Lin says, with many parents using the app every day. Half of... View Details
- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
consider potential partnerships with, say, Apple Wallet. Price setting. At Uber, a team of economists work on how to design and fine-tune its surge pricing system, which changes fares in real time and... View Details
- 08 Sep 2011
- What Do You Think?
What’s Apple’s Biggest Challenge: Replacing Steve or Wall Street?
Summing Up The first impression I get from respondents to this month's column is that Steve Jobs can't be replaced as CEO of Apple by just one person. Rather the succession must include at least a head of design (according to Yadeed Lobo)... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Orientation Teamwork
activities, led by facilitators from Outward Bound Professional, was designed to give students comprising 152 newly formed Learning Teams a chance to get to know each other while introducing them to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Welcome to the Future
creativity in mind. These spaces are designed to enable and facilitate HBS’s new required FIELD course, which focuses on intensive small-group exercises and team dynamics, activity not well-suited for... View Details