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July 2021
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Trouble at Basecamp: Managing Politics, Polarization, and Conflict in the Workplace (B)

By: Nour Kteily, Deepak Malhotra and David Lane

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January 2024 (Revised June 2024)
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School of Rock: Tuning into Structured Empowerment (A)

By: Tatiana Sandino, Jeffrey Rayport, Samuel Grad and Stacy Straaberg

In summer 2021, School of Rock was a youth-oriented music education company with 291 franchise- and company-owned schools globally. Before CEO Rob Price’s hire in 2017, School of Rock’s nonconformist rock ‘n’ roll culture led to variability in teaching styles,... View Details

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29 Apr 2014
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Pvt. Ltd. (formerly SET Pvt. Ltd.), a leading television broadcaster in India. Describes Singh's decision to evaluate employees based on values as well as performance and the management committee's response. Allows for discussion of 1) the impact of View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2022
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December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

their experiences, a primer on ETFs, and Jack Brennan’s Leadership Principles. From the emergence of index funds to the success of exchange-traded funds, Inside Vanguard is a near-Shakespearian drama of individual human struggle and... View Details

22 Mar 2011
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her leadership style and philosophy. It examines her career strategies and rise through the ranks; strategies she used to deal with challenges faced as a woman in the military; how she turned around a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Mar 2015
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world. The company has many critics who say it has expanded too quickly and that it is overextended financially. The case allows the reader to form his or her own opinion and consider whether the success/failure of the company is due to the personal View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

a Senior Research Scholar at the VMware Women’s Leadership Innovation Lab at Stanford University. She is also an affiliate at the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality . She was the lead researcher for Lean In: Women, Work, and the... View Details

11 Oct 2016
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October 11, 2016

behavior; (3) a top-down or laissez-faire style by the leader, which prevents honest conversation about problems; (4) a lack of coordination across businesses, functions, or regions due to poor organizational design; (5) inadequate View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Past Issues - Alumni

Records, with ambitions of preserving the local music scene and supporting the careers of indie artists Keeping the Faith A new course investigates the powerful connections between belief, spirituality, and leadership Complete Table of... View Details

March 2012 (Revised October 2012)
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Gary Hirshberg and Stonyfield Farm

By: Nancy F. Koehn, Nora N. Khan and Elizabeth W. Legris

Gary Hirshberg and Stonyfield Farm is the story of one entrepreneur's vision and journey to create a market-leading, environmentally responsible business founded on the principles of product quality, organizational alignment, and sustainability. A former environmental... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurs; Values; Development Stage Enterprises; Innovation; Management By Objective; Experimentation; Emerging Technologies; Mission and Purpose; Management Style; Values and Beliefs; Social Issues; Organizational Culture; Environmental Sustainability; Business Growth and Maturation; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Innovation and Invention; Food and Beverage Industry; New Hampshire

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01 Mar 2007
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The Winning Season

Last year, St. Louis, Missouri, saw its beloved Cardinals open a new stadium, win the World Series, and unveil plans for a $650 million “Ballpark Village” that will change the face of the city’s downtown. Meet the father-son team behind one of baseball’s most popular... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

05 May 2010
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Next Dean Named

Keywords: Dean Nitin Nohria; dean appointment; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

technologies which they leveraged to carve a leadership role in the inherently risky artificial fertilization business. As the company grew, its executives grappled with managing the political, ethical, and business risks associated with... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Feb 2020
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Phoenix Rising

Capital, a subsidiary of the National Bank of Greece, and served as its CEO. “I’m occasionally accused of running the country like a corporation,” he says of his leadership style, which was immediately on view: Elected on a Sunday, sworn... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

27 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes

of dimensions, from leadership style to negotiation skills to work values, but neglects the organizational features that underlie such differences. This body of research runs the risk of reifying... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

17 Jul 2012
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controllers relied on the cultural authority of financial economics and the "full fair value" logic. Second, top management's interactive use of a particular control system sends a signal to external stakeholders about the firm's internal control View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Mar 2018
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to investment performance. Future practices of ESG styles are driven by relevance to investment performance, bringing change in companies and concerns about data reliability. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 May 2014
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for the Modern Woman (A) Chanel, the iconic haute couture house, founded by Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel in 1913, came to embody its founder's philosophy, taste, and style and set a distinctive and influential tone for women's... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Jan 2013
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cosmetics and personal care powerhouse declared its intention to double its consumer base to two billion and increase its share of sales from emerging markets. CEO Jean-Paul Agon made it his number one goal to "prepare the company to keep its global View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Oct 2008
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http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608123 Dogus Group: Weighing Partners for Garanti Bank Harvard Business School Case 709-401 In August 2005, the leadership of Turkey's Dogus Group considered opportunities for... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Trouble at Basecamp: Managing Politics, Polarization, and Conflict in the Workplace (B)

School of Rock: Tuning into Structured Empowerment (A)

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December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

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2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

October 11, 2016

Past Issues - Alumni

Gary Hirshberg and Stonyfield Farm

The Winning Season

Next Dean Named

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Phoenix Rising

Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes

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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

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