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  • 04 Nov 2015
  • What Do You Think?

Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?

included those that “women have greater analytical skills and coordinate activities with much (greater) ease than men while upholding company values and strategy” (Mathews Daniel Kapito); “Having senior female leaders should lead to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 May 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job’s Fault

not intuitive for managers. So Simons created a solution: a free online job design optimization tool that allows companies to plug in information about a particular job to test whether the person in that role is getting the right mix of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

Tsedal Neeley | About

and global expansion, and regularly conducts research and advises organizations on scaling cultural change. She has authored three award-winning books on organizations, technology, and transformation. The Digital Mindset: What It Really... View Details
  • 15 Jan 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: It Takes a Village

depends, to a surprising extent, on capable leaders. If boards of directors of public, anonymously-owned companies didn't believe that leadership mattered so much, they wouldn't pay such huge salaries to their CEOs. (By the way, I don't... View Details
  • 08 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Death of the Global Manager

consumer trend or technological development may be emerging in Germany or Japan, not your home market," Bartlett says. "Having eyes and ears around the world is critical, as is having the response capabilities to tap into the best and brightest, wherever they... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 17 Jun 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Amazon, Whole Foods Deal a Big Win for Consumers

Source: 400tmax Editor's Note. Online retailing behemoth Amazon announced June 16 that it would acquire upscale grocery chain Whole Foods Market in a deal valued at more than $13 billion. Though the company has dabbled with the idea of a brick-and-mortar footprint in... View Details
Keywords: by Jose Alvarez and Len Schlesinger; Retail
  • 01 Mar 2014
  • News

Generation Next

the conglomerate and Mumbai business circles. Above all, family-run companies in India value loyalty and seniority. But the maneuvers worked. Over the next few years, the business started to rebound, marking a turning point for Godrej,... View Details
Keywords: Mark Bergen; Godrej Group; Management
  • 02 Oct 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Negotiating in Three Dimensions

whooping crane, and the power company urgently needed new generating capacity and a greener image. After a costly legal impasse that threatened to last for years, the three groups designed a better deal that included a smaller dam built... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 09 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times

that avoids liquidation of human and cultural assets." The book looks broadly at what it takes to build a high commitment, high performance (HCHP) system inside companies. It asks and answers questions such as: What outcomes must... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 17 Apr 2019
  • Research & Ideas

How Managers Stifle Creativity

The slate of companies going public this year— Pinterest, Slack Technologies, and Uber, to name a few—should silence anyone who doubts the power of a bold idea. After all, one seemingly crazy brainstorm can up end an entire industry,... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 30 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Are You Supporting Your B Players?

whether it's learning algorithms or derivatives or parenting or riding a bicycle." "One of the things we find is that if you ignore [B players] long enough, they begin to see themselves as low performers," DeLong said. View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • August 2002
  • Case

Trilogy University

By: Thomas J. DeLong and Michael Paley
In early 2001, Trilogy Software faced a slowdown in its business, a large number of unsuccessful customer deployments, and an overall weakening in the enterprise software market. In response, the company revamped its business model and restructured the organization.... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Alignment; Restructuring; Organizational Structure; Change Management; Business Strategy; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Information Technology Industry
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  • 23 May 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'

Riley was naturally drawn to graffiti because of its significance in hip-hop culture and for how it helped him find his voice. “Being neurodivergent and having learning differences, creative outlets like drawing were always a way for me... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
  • 01 Feb 2021
  • What Do You Think?

Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?

worked out. It may have contributed to the thinking behind the “dot-com bubble,” which was characterized by a wave of IPOs for organizations built around the information economy, ballooning stock options, and new attitudes toward company... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 12 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 12, 2008

business. It asks if the cultural and other factors behind its rapid growth can sustain the company as it seeks growth much further as a top-five beauty company. Purchase the case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2002 (Revised June 2005)
  • Case

AOL Time Warner, Inc.

By: Stephen P. Bradley and Erin Sullivan
AOL Time Warner, which has been billed as the "first fully integrated media and communications company of the Internet Century," raises the fundamental question of how value will be created and captured by the merger of AOL and Time Warner. This case describes just how... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Internet and the Web; Value Creation; Organizational Culture; Consolidation; Change Management; Telecommunications Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States
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  • 09 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

When Benchmarks Don’t Work

Benchmarking certainly has its virtues. Comparing production time or the cost of a standard process to that of peer companies can yield important insights about your own efficiencies—and ultimately, competitiveness. But benchmarking also... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan; Service
  • 05 Nov 2014
  • HBS Seminar

CV Harquail, Authentic Organizations and Stevens Institute of Technology

  • 11 Apr 2024
  • News

Mission Control

four elements that many cultures talk about: fire, wind, water, earth —which one is you? And so, you start off by saying, okay, earth for me is, and then you write all the elements that make up earth. And water is for me. And then you're... View Details
  • 26 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 26, 2008

to the "Arauco: Forward Integration or Horizontal Expansion?" case. This short case looks at the company in late 2007 after it has decided to invest in a Brazilian joint venture involving forests, saw mills, and a paper mill.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne