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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The Potential of Business to Improve Lives
capacity of this pair to lead culture change in their organization,” Ely says. At HBS, a growing number of faculty members were focused on questions of inclusivity even before BiGS launched in the fall of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Profile
Pato Bichara
HBS is the incredible section experience, which I wasn’t really aware of when I applied. There’s always an interesting debate, and the class is usually evenly divided. Multiple times, I often change my own opinion on the issues at stake.... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 16 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Seeing Everyday as a New Adventure: Reflections for Father's Day
all over the world, learning about their cultures and countries--including how to find them on the map. They peppered my classmates with questions about working in startups, the military, mining, hospitals, factories, aerospace, shipping,... View Details
- 05 Oct 2021
- News
Launch Signals
the fastest-growing DTC brand with a 313.7 percent increase in online traffic quarter-over-quarter. Both Fitzgerald and de Zárraga see Flare as a stopgap measure until cultural and policy changes shift the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Get Well Soon
his vision for the hospital as, “We will be the best at getting better.” How CCHMC accomplishes just that is an object lesson for MBA students who hope to help lead substantive change in any sort of organization. The improvement effort at... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
In a nondescript former root beer plant, tucked behind the Curtain & Bath Outlet off Main Street in Millis, Massachusetts, FreshBox Farms is growing the future of food. The FreshBox facility bears no resemblance to our cultural renderings... View Details
- February 2023
- Case
Grupo Sancor Seguros: Facing the Digital Transformation of Insurance in Argentina (A)
By: Jorge Tamayo and Jenyfeer Martínez Buitrago
In 2020, Alejandro Simón, CEO of Sancor Seguros Group, a nearly 75-year-old cooperative that had become Argentina’s insurance leader, had to decide about the Group’s digital transformation strategy. The Group’s values and history needed to be considered during the... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Digital Transformation; Organizational Culture; Cooperative Ownership; Strategy; Business Strategy; Adaptation; Technology Adoption; Insurance Industry; Latin America; South America; Argentina
Tamayo, Jorge, and Jenyfeer Martínez Buitrago. "Grupo Sancor Seguros: Facing the Digital Transformation of Insurance in Argentina (A)." Harvard Business School Case 723-422, February 2023.
- 06 Oct 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?
more analytics won't change their skill set. You have to be a player first." Pete DeLisi added, "We also need to counterbalance analytics with the ability to see the big picture analytics can't be divorced from an understanding... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Aug 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Entrepreneurs Needed for Long-Run Success
business reasons and family reasons why we think this is true. The Business Reasons In today's competitive environment of rapid technological change and quickly evolving industries, it doesn't pay to become too attached to current lines... View Details
Keywords: by Michael J. Roberts
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
once-classified national security documents, and other sources to show how far we have traveled from the time of our founders, who tried to constrain presidential power, to the present day, when a single leader has the potential to launch nuclear weapons and destroy... View Details
- November 1987 (Revised June 1988)
- Case
ServiceMaster Industries, Inc.
By: James L. Heskett
The CEO of ServiceMaster Industries has convened an internal task force to come up with ideas for reorganizing the company to accommodate unusually fast growth. In developing both alternatives and criteria for appraising them, the task force has to keep in mind the... View Details
Heskett, James L. "ServiceMaster Industries, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 388-064, November 1987. (Revised June 1988.)
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
After Ozempic
affiliate in Plainsboro, New Jersey. That all changed when its breakthrough drug for type 2 diabetes, Ozempic, hit the market in 2018. By some biochemical mystery, it also turned out to be a powerful tool for weight loss—which led to the... View Details
- 09 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 9
significant changes in teaming networks and behaviors in ways that improved operational performance. Implications of team scaffolds for theory and practice are discussed. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1987724 Cases &... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- September 2009 (Revised December 2011)
- Teaching Note
IBM Values and Corporate Citizenship (TN)
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Matthew Bird
Teaching Note for [308106]. View Details
- Web
Disability Pride Month | Baker Library
leadership, confidence, and navigating challenges. Their stories provide valuable lessons for organizations aiming to foster inclusive leadership pipelines, support gender equity initiatives, and cultivate workplace cultures that empower... View Details
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
Smartphone: How to Break the 24-7 Habit and Change the Way You Work Author:Leslie A. Perlow Publication:Harvard Business School Press, 2012 Abstract Does it have to be this way? Can't resist checking your smartphone or mobile device?... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jul 2009
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready to Manage in an Irrational World?
approach has supposed." Marie Taillard adds, "we are shifting away from thinking that we can predict or control the behavior of others ." Because economics is a study of value, Deepak Alse comments that "what we need to View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- December 2017 (Revised January 2018)
- Case
Alltech
By: David E. Bell and Natalie Kindred
Alltech was a Lexington, Kentucky–based producer of supplements for animal feed, with revenues of over $2 billion (projected to reach $3 billion in 2018), sales in 120 countries, 5,000 employees, and 100 manufacturing plants worldwide. For nearly four decades, Alltech... View Details
Keywords: Alltech; United States; Agribusiness; Agriculture; Animal; Animal Agriculture; Animal Feed; Livestock; Family Business; Vertical Integration; Strategy; Growth; Feed Additives; Feed Supplements; Kentucky; Growth Strategy; Family Businesses; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Change Management; Trends; Governance; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development; Intellectual Property; Leadership; Management; Markets; Organizational Culture; Private Ownership; Science; Quality; Risk and Uncertainty; Research; Sales; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States; Kentucky; Brazil; China
Bell, David E., and Natalie Kindred. "Alltech." Harvard Business School Case 518-001, December 2017. (Revised January 2018.)
- October 2023
- Supplement
Making Progress at Progress Software (B)
By: Katherine Coffman, Hannah Riley Bowles and Alexis Lefort
In this case, the Human Capital team at Progress Software has identified that some employees have a hard time understanding how to advance within Progress. This realization leads the team to develop several major people-process innovations: the introduction of... View Details
Keywords: Leading Change; Negotiation; Organizational Culture; Performance Evaluation; Prejudice and Bias; Talent and Talent Management; Employees; Technology Industry; United States; Bulgaria
Coffman, Katherine, Hannah Riley Bowles, and Alexis Lefort. "Making Progress at Progress Software (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 924-011, October 2023.
- 08 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity
A company's internal deliberations and changing beliefs about women in the workplace over the course of two decades, particularly about their role as leaders, is the subject of a recent paper that traces how fundamental societal views can... View Details