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- 28 Sep 2018
- News
Pushing Progress at Panasonic
transformation, Bloomberg reports, Higuchi is tasked with reconfiguring company culture: During his first week back at Panasonic, Higuchi got a culture shock of his own. At an internal meeting, he took a... View Details
- March 1978
- Case
Lincoln Electric Co. (B)
Reaction of a recent MBA to the climate, motivational systems, and management practices of the Lincoln Electric Company. View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture
Matthews, John B., Jr. "Lincoln Electric Co. (B)." Harvard Business School Case 378-216, March 1978.
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Flex Time
Lauri Union (MBA 1992) manages Union Corrugating Company (UCC) from Boston, where she lives with her husband and two young children. While her early years at the company required more time on-site in North... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 08 May 2020
- News
Don’t Let Your Company’s Intranet Become a Junk Drawer
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
At Your Service
aspects are mutually reinforcing. You write a lot about corporate culture in companies such as Zappos. Why is culture so important? Morriss: A View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Working World
patents. If you look at the PhD workforce for science and engineering, the immigrant share is even higher at roughly 50 percent. The math and science skills behind many of these innovations are relatively easy to port across locations—they aren’t as reliant on having... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- January 2025
- Case
Jaipur Literature Festival 2024
By: Tarun Khanna and Kanika Jain
The Jaipur Literature Festival had evolved from a modest gathering in 2006 into one of the world’s most significant literary events. It was known for its principle of egalitarian access, allowing people from various social backgrounds to come together and engage with... View Details
Keywords: Arts; Cultural Entrepreneurship; Leadership; Business or Company Management; Media; Business Strategy; Expansion; Asia; South Asia
Khanna, Tarun, and Kanika Jain. "Jaipur Literature Festival 2024." Harvard Business School Case 725-420, January 2025.
- 07 Jan 2021
- News
Cross-Team Meetings Don’t Have to Be a Waste of Time
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Ellen Pao (MBA 1998)
Tech has real social and ethical responsibilities, but we’ve seen that the current leadership of these platforms is not willing to make changes to promote a healthier ecosystem. When I was at Reddit, its culture needed a lot of work, and... View Details
Keywords: April White; photo by Eric Millette
- 01 Aug 2016
- News
Leading the Way for Dallas Arts Community
the city’s Office of Cultural Affairs. “There will be a strategic plan process,” she said of her first moves in office. “How do we structure conversations around what small groups and artists need? What do the larger groups need, the more... View Details
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Professor Ranjay Gulati, whose research looks at how the most resilient companies approach growth and profitability, chaired the Advanced Management Program at HBS for many... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Courting the Poor
assistance of LARC senior researcher Ricardo Reisen de Pinho (PMD 74, 1999), Frei was soon on her way to researching and writing “Magazine Luiza: Building a Retail Model of ‘Courting the Poor.’ ” “Magazine Luiza has made a business of targeting the bottom of the... View Details
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
Denmark West (MBA 1998), founding partner of Connectivity Ventures and Culture Shift partner and advisor (photo by Brian Ach) It’s a common scenario: A company wants to increase diversity on its board or in... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 19 Dec 2016
- News
Harvard Students Help Mom-and-Pop Shops Get off the Ground
Senior Lecturer Kristin W. Mugford (photo courtesy of Kristin Mugford) Senior Lecturer Kristin W. Mugford (photo courtesy of Kristin Mugford) Students at Harvard Business Schools are taking their education to the streets of Boston to help small entrepreneurs build... View Details
Keywords: retail
- 26 Jul 2011
- News
An Entrepreneur of the Arts
In 2010, she founded Growing Through Arts , a company that helps children learn about and explore the arts through books, e-books, toys, games and mobile phone applications. Saying “I am thrilled to bring the love of dance to children... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders
companies around the globe in order to find out where and how much they differ." With a research agenda organized around eight major world cultures — African, Confucian, Hindu/Buddhist, Islamic,... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
Sternhell and Oakes on the job. Photos by Jared Leeds One lives in a Manhattan studio five blocks from Wall Street, the other on the second floor of a triple-decker in Jamaica Plain, a culturally diverse neighborhood in Boston. Both are... View Details
- November 1993 (Revised October 1995)
- Case
Sunrise Medical, Inc.'s Wheelchair Products
Sunrise's CEO must decide whether to intervene in a decision by a division, Guardian Products, to introduce a new lightweight standard wheelchair. Guardian wants to introduce the wheelchair to complement its line of commodity crutches, walkers, and other patient aids.... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Competition; Corporate Strategy; Business Divisions; Organizational Culture; Decision Making; Product Marketing; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
McGahan, Anita M. "Sunrise Medical, Inc.'s Wheelchair Products." Harvard Business School Case 794-069, November 1993. (Revised October 1995.)
- 28 Jun 2011
- News
Bold Ascent
“It’s a different sort of culture that took some getting used to, but it’s really a lot of fun.” (While he’s not a hardcore mountaineer, Baka expects to be at base camp on Everest next spring and possibly at Mount Rainier this summer.)... View Details
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership
that black families’ median wealth will decrease to $0 by the year 2050, while white families’ median wealth will exceed $100,000. There are currently no black women Fortune 500 CEOs, and at the sixteen Fortune 500 companies that share... View Details