Cultural Change - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Uber Is Worth Saving and How To Do It

the company a while back have written to Kanter to say they have changed their minds and could now see the consequences of the company’s cutthroat approach. "They better find someone who isn’t concerned with building an empire"... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation

04 Feb 2015
What Do You Think?

Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?

Summing Up How Transferable is the Google "School of Management"? Responses to this month's column suggest a great deal of respect for what Google's management has been able to achieve, both in terms of a strategy for bringing high-tech services to market and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

07 Jul 2010
First Look

First Look: July 7

Competing in a Globalizing World (A) Juan Alcácer, Rasmus Molander, and Rakeen MabudHarvard Business School Case 710-430 The Finnish brewer Hartwall and the Swedish brewer Pripps had to decide how to react to the rapidly changing European... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

October 1997 (Revised March 1998)
Case

Appalachian Mountain Club: Transforming Governance

By: Walter J. Salmon and Jaan Elias

Starting in 1988, the Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC) began a controversial transformation in management and governance. For its first 112 years, the AMC's structure had resembled that of a country club--volunteer leaders directed the club's operations and its small,... View Details

Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Transformation; Corporate Governance; Employee Relationship Management; Recruitment; Leading Change; Organizational Culture; Labor and Management Relations; Nonprofit Organizations; Education Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry

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17 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 17, 2006

Walt Disney and the 1941 Animators' Strike Harvard Business School Case 406-076 Focuses on the leadership lessons drawn from the events precipitating the Animator's Strike of 1941, depicting the growing pains of a company that was as much formed and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

The Death of the Global Manager

business, Bartlett says. "That's a big change that's taken place." The World's Communication Pipeline Another seismic shift is the broader context in which companies now operate, forgotten all too easily in today's... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

Profile

Jamira Cotton

your overall HBS experience shaped your goals & career path? HBS has completely changed my perspective about the possibilities of my career. I am tremendously more comfortable with taking risks- I never thought I would be attempting... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Entrepreneurship

01 Mar 2006
News

End of Campaign Celebrated

managerial decisions they will confront in business. Said Paine, “It’s not just a matter of teaching. Ethics must be built into the culture to work. That is the challenge we’re helping our students grapple with.” Building World-Class... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

13 May 2013
Blog Post

Alumni: Where are they now? Featuring Aaron…

activity of change management. We have to change culture and attitudes in order to change the way we acquire talent. Aside from spending 70% of... View Details

25 Feb 2021
News

A CEO’s Guide to Planning a Return to the Office

08 Apr 2021
News

Real Talk

Standard Bank, the largest bank in South Africa with a conservative culture of white Afrikaner managers. The management team had already been through this with another consultant, and they had walked out on her. “So I made a deal with... View Details

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2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

"Crown Act II" & "How to Win the Culture War" Panel: Humanizing Institutions Rosabeth Moss Kanter presents "Toward Inclusive Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Leading High-Impact Change" Caroline Shenaz Hossein presents "Radical love in... View Details

Profile

Gopesh Mittal

education is in the ‘soft’ skills, the essential ingredients of leadership such as motivating teams, managing change and working across different cultural contexts. In a world where people are becoming more... View Details

01 Sep 2020
News

Ink: The Habit of Innovation

quickly changing world means that you should innovate every day,” they write. The current moment, when routines have been disrupted by the pandemic, presents an opportunity for leaders to purge old behaviors and build a more creative... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Mar 2019
News

Turning Point: One Story at a Time

classmates from Mumbai who knew my extended family. Things really changed in America. At HBS about 13 of my classmates were out, and we had a great example in Frances Frei, a rock star professor who is openly lesbian. Then I joined Bain &... View Details

22 Jul 2019
News

A Way Forward for Women

company, and location into a database and shared it with all the women. It was a valuable resource, but a database alone wouldn’t be enough, Hagemann reasoned. “If we launched a formal network,” she told Pent, “I think we could change the... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Dec 1997
News

Banking on HBS

Since his arrival in 1995 as its new president, James D. Wolfensohn (MBA '59) has set in motion sweeping cultural and operational changes at the World Bank. One of Wolfensohn's early initiatives, undertaken... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

January 2011 (Revised November 2015)
Case

The National Geographic Society (A)

By: David A. Garvin and Carin-Isabel Knoop

In January 2010, John Fahey, president, CEO, and chairman of the board of trustees' executive committee of the Washington, D.C.-based National Geographic Society (NGS), must decide how best to organize the 121-year old mission-driven organization for a world of... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Information Publishing; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Managerial Roles; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Internet; Publishing Industry