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  • 1997
  • Chapter

Restoring People to the Heart of the Organization of the Future

By: R. M. Kanter
Keywords: Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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  • 16 Jul 2024
  • Op-Ed

Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty

should be developing a half-dozen or more leaders who could be long-term CEO candidates. The ideal future CEO should be at least 10 years from the company’s typical retirement age, so they have sufficient time in office to make transformative View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 2015
  • Chapter

Staying the Same While Changing: Organizational Identity in the Face of Environmental Challenges

By: Mary Ann Glynn, Christi Lockwood and Ryan Raffaelli
We explore the role of organizational identity in the adoption of new sustainability practices, focusing on how identity functions as a driver of (or sometimes a drag on) adoption. Drawing on illustrations from the U.S. hotel industry, we examine how sustainability... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Environmental Sustainability; Adoption; Accommodations Industry; United States
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  • September 2006 (Revised October 2007)
  • Case

BT Plc: The Broadband Revolution (A)

By: Michael L. Tushman, David Kiron and Adam M. Kleinbaum
In early 2003, CEO Ben Verwaayen and Chief Broadband Officer Alison Ritchie of BT Plc. are trying to transform the former British Telecom from a stodgy telephone company into a 21st century broadband company. Their efforts to focus the firm on broadband issues within... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Innovation and Management; Management Teams; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Behavior; Telecommunications Industry; United Kingdom
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  • November 1990 (Revised October 1994)
  • Case

Apple Computer (C): The Human Resource Function

Explores how the human resource (HR) function at Apple Computer can best support the company's strategy. Describes in detail the HR function. The function is considering a reorganization at the end of the case, in response to criticism from non-HR employees and... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Human Resources; Business Strategy; Computer Industry; United States
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  • 01 Mar 2012
  • News

Get Creative

bestselling author or coauthor of five books, including his seminal work, The Innovator’s Dilemma (1997). How Do You Create a Culture of Innovation? Rosabeth Moss Kanter Moss Kanter Photo courtesy Harvard Business School Have you noticed... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • Student-Faculty-Profile

Lauren Taylor & Rebecca Henderson

Rebecca and Lauren are working on a book about innovation and change, exploring how to drive innovation in large organizations and uncovering what it is about organizational culture that makes change so... View Details
  • 10 Mar 2021
  • News

Next Normal

reality, offering tested methods for bridging cultural differences, leading virtually, and preparing for the next global crisis, whatever shape it may take. Neeley also highlights the crucial importance of launch (and relaunch) sessions... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2017
  • News

Case Study: Confidence Builder

the company anticipates this year will bring in double the $6.7 million in revenue it saw in 2016. New challenges: With rapid growth comes concerns about culture and scalability. “How do we preserve the incredible View Details
Keywords: April White; Confi; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 24 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society

versus American ideology, Holt said. Even though the allegory has changed over time, the brand's consistency in supporting a certain kind of identity has earned it cultural authority. For identity brands,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • July 2008 (Revised February 2011)
  • Supplement

Sanford C. Bernstein: The Fork in the Road (B)

By: Boris Groysberg and Geoff Eckman Marietta
Update on the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Knowledge; Business or Company Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Competitive Advantage; Valuation; Financial Services Industry
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  • October 2003
  • Case

Merrill Lynch: Supernova

Supernova is the name given to a new way to manage client relationships that originated in the Merrill Lynch Indianapolis offices. During a trial period, Supernova generated very good results among financial advisers and their customers, but challenged the traditional... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Customer Relationship Management; Organizational Culture; Financial Services Industry; Indianapolis
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  • 10 May 2019
  • News

Shining a Light on Black Brilliance

Steven Rogers (MBA 1985) is the MBA Class of 1957 Senior Lecturer of Business Administration. He teaches Entrepreneurial Finance and a new course titled Black Business Leaders and Entrepreneurship. In this interview, Rogers talks about how his course is helping lead... View Details
  • 10 Mar 2021
  • News

Turning Point: Coming to Cambodia

to go back in person. And my next journey may start with a question like the one that changed my life: When can you get here? Connie Baher, president of US Business Communications, is an advisor to Cambodian Living Arts and the Mekong... View Details
Keywords: mentorship; nonprofit management; retirement; leadership
  • 28 Oct 2015
  • Research & Ideas

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

giving enough power to the three groups but no one person was dominant over the others. Q: As you said, changing an entrenched culture is difficult. One of the first things he did was to lay people off, to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Advertising
  • 08 Aug 2018
  • News

Getting Life Back in Balance

wife also tend to 20 sheep, two alpacas, three dogs, and a cat. The couple grow their own produce and are awaiting the spoils of a recently planted truffle orchard. Gower says his time at HBS gave him the clarity to take that leap and View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
  • September 2010
  • Case

Freddie Mac: Managing in Conservatorship

By: Robert Steven Kaplan, Nitin Nohria and Ben Creo
Ed Haldeman has recently become CEO of Freddie Mac, one of three major government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) charged with supporting U.S. residential mortgage finance. The company was placed into conservatorship by the U.S. treasury on September 7, 2008.... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Financial Crisis; Mortgages; Leadership; Organizational Culture; Business and Government Relations; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • 12 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Waking Up a Sleeping Company

undermined the company's performance. For all its strengths, it was my impression that Medtronic's culture was too Minnesota Nice. I realized that these aspects of Medtronic's culture had to View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 09 Jul 2024
  • News

On Balance

Mary Wooldridge (MBA 1994) has encountered gender discrimination in the workplace. “I think it’d be hard to find a woman in any workplace who didn’t have personal experiences of it,” she says. As director of Australia’s Workplace Gender Equality Agency, Wooldridge, who... View Details
  • 10 Mar 2021
  • News

Sister Soldier

Author Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (MBA 2006) has been here before—speaking with palpable enthusiasm and urgency about women who have defied cultural norms and changed the world around them through acts of bravery... View Details