Publications

04 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009

answered include: How do I get past a feeling of being stuck in life or work? Can I resist the temptations of success? Am I working too hard? Is there room for spirituality at the office? 10 Reasons to Design a Better Corporate Culture... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

Career Coach

Doug Lester

a career. Coaching sessions with Doug can range from broadly conceptual, touching on issues related to meaning in work and life, to highly focused and tactical, including formulating effective networking strategies and following through... View Details

Keywords: Auto/Transportation/Logistics; Consumer Products; Education; Emerging Markets; Entertainment / Media; Entrepreneurship; Government; Health Care; Hospitality; Insurance; Publishing / Communications / Advertising; Real Estate; Retail; Social Enterprise; Technology

May 1997 (Revised July 1997)
Case

Vermeer Technologies (E): New Beginning

By: Ashish Nanda

The Vermeer team is pleasantly surprised by the benefits and hospitality that their new surroundings offer. Their happiness is tempered, however, by discomfort with some elements of the "Microsoft Way." As the Vermeer engineers embark on a punishing schedule for the... View Details

Keywords: Performance Expectations; Horizontal Integration; Organizational Design; Organizational Culture; Product Development; Information Technology Industry

26 Oct 2011
News

On Top, Down Under

Fookes describes it, GPT is a pretty special organization. “The culture here is wanting to achieve the best, and it is a very collaborative approach,” he explained to the Australian (August 20, 2011). “People from all areas of the... View Details

Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

Web

IT Strategy: The Future of the Web at HBS | Information Technology

using an outdated, highly customized platform. Web publishing often requires coding skills, and as a result, many web content update requests go through IT Web Services for execution, creating a bottleneck. There can be gaps between View Details

23 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52650 Reinventing the American Wine Industry: Marketing Strategies and the Construction of Wine Culture By: Hisano, Ai Abstract—This working paper examines the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

21 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases

made up 46.7 percent of the US labor force, and filled more than half of management, professional, and related occupations. If the strategy was to get more women in the workplace and let them naturally ascend to positions of upper... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

Web

The Route of the Exhibition - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

exhibition then traveled to Chicago, another metropolis where the worlds of executives, advertisers, designers, photographers, and patrons of high culture merged. The NAAI show opened in the public gallery spaces at the Lakeside Press... View Details

22 Jul 2019
News

A Way Forward for Women

student of organizational culture and inclusion, Benko says there’s no magic formula. “The market for public and private board seats is seemingly the most inefficient market I have witnessed. For so long it was driven by who you know and... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

February 2015 (Revised February 2016)
Case

CrossFit (A)

By: Shikhar Ghosh, Ali Huberlie and Christopher Payton

The case provides a sense of motivations of venture capital firms, the pivotal role that founders play, and explores the limits of founder-driven growth.
CrossFit (CF) describes the approach taken by its founder Greg Glassman in setting up one of the most... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Venture Capital; Strategy; Organizational Culture; Entrepreneurship; Franchise Ownership; Innovation and Invention; United States; North America

April 2009 (Revised August 2010)
Case

Buro Happold

By: Robert G. Eccles and Kerry Herman

Padraic Kelly became Managing Director (MD) of the engineering services firm Buro Happold in 1996. One of his first initiatives was "Aim for Growth," which was intended to help the firm grow beyond its current size where it was constrained by a structure of having each... View Details

Keywords: Training; Entrepreneurship; Leadership Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Skills; Organizational Culture; Programs

31 Oct 2018
News

Preaching with a Choir

organizations in the world that has the ability to transcend cultural and generational boundaries through its performances. The music of the choir gives joy, peace, and healing to its listeners, and [there’s a] variety of ways that it... View Details

February 2003 (Revised January 2004)
Case

International Steel Group

By: Paul W. Marshall and Todd H Thedinga

Profiles veteran investor Wilbur L. Ross, Jr.'s plan to turn around the aging steel assets of LTV, formerly America's second largest integrated steel producer. Purchasing several key assets from LTV under Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code, Ross is able to acquire the... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Strategic Planning; Lawfulness; Labor Unions; Organizational Culture; Agreements and Arrangements; Global Strategy; Assets; Steel Industry; United States