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- 25 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?
the way people are organized and managed—the roles, responsibilities, and relationships—must be made first. Helping individuals and teams to learn how to enact new roles through real time in-vivo coaching is... View Details
- March 2023 (Revised May 2023)
- Case
OneTen at Delta Air Lines: Catalyzing Family-Sustaining Careers for Black Talent (A)
By: Linda A. Hill and Lydia Begag
It was December 10, 2020, and Ed Bastian, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Delta Air Lines (Delta), had just finished a meeting with Joanne Smith, Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer, and Keyra Lynn Johnson, the Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer.... View Details
Keywords: Recruitment; Training; Race; Equality and Inequality; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Job Design and Levels; Air Transportation Industry; United States
Hill, Linda A., and Lydia Begag. "OneTen at Delta Air Lines: Catalyzing Family-Sustaining Careers for Black Talent (A)." Harvard Business School Case 423-072, March 2023. (Revised May 2023.)
- 27 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets
Organizations with great reputations can draw large and loyal followings. Source: iStock In developed countries, the best friends of businesses are the legal, political, and social institutions—banks, courts, intellectual property... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
interest in a concept of competitive strategy more closely grounded in industrial organization economics; and third, with the development of a new course in entrepreneurial management more closely linked to business policy's concerns with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Jan 2022
- What Do You Think?
Firing McDonald’s Easterbrook: What Could the Board Have Done Differently?
prepared for such an event. It “contained a provision that would let McDonald’s recoup severance payments it if later determined the employee should have been fired for cause.” After a year of legal wrangling, we recently learned how the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
systems with recursive influence between environments and interactions, studies of micro-processes in organizations often assume implicitly that interactions among organizational members are closed systems. We suggest that this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way
Lagace: How did you arrive at the subject of repugnant markets? Alvin E. Roth: I started thinking about them while talking with kidney surgeons and learning about all the things they found repugnant. Meanwhile, a group of economists,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Apr 2024
- News
Origin Stories
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up... View Details
- Blog
Leading Successful Digital Transformation
transformation in large organizations for three main reasons: Focus on optimization and efficiency: Many companies use technology to cut costs, improve efficiency, or enhance the productivity of their current operations. Artificial... View Details
- 15 Mar 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business
This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details
- October 2014 (Revised June 2015)
- Case
Quiet Logistics (A)
By: Robert Simons and Natalie Kindred
This two-part case focuses on how to identify and manage strategic uncertainties in an innovative, entrepreneurial start-up company. In the (A) case, students learn about Quiet Logistics, an e-commerce fulfillment company working with high-end apparel retailers such as... View Details
Keywords: Strategy Execution; Strategic Uncertainty; Disruptive Change; Managing Growth; Robotics; Disruptive Technology; Managing Start-ups; Management Control Systems; Performance Measurement; Business Growth and Maturation; Disruption; Entrepreneurship; Disruptive Innovation; Crisis Management; Risk Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; E-commerce; Distribution Industry; Technology Industry; United States
Simons, Robert, and Natalie Kindred. "Quiet Logistics (A)." Harvard Business School Case 115-001, October 2014. (Revised June 2015.)
- March 2022
- Supplement
Winning Business at Russell Reynolds (B)
By: Ethan Bernstein and Cara Mazzucco
In an effort to make compensation drive collaboration, Russell Reynolds Associates’ (RRA) CEO Clarke Murphy sought to re-engineer the bonus system for his executive search consultants in 2016. As his HR analytics guru, Kelly Smith, points out, that risks upsetting–and... View Details
Keywords: Compensation; Collaboration; Executive Search Firms; Consulting Firms; Compensation and Benefits; Restructuring; Human Resources; Human Capital; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Social and Collaborative Networks; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Talent and Talent Management; Consulting Industry; Employment Industry; Asia; Europe; Latin America; Middle East; North and Central America; South America; Oceania
Bernstein, Ethan, and Cara Mazzucco. "Winning Business at Russell Reynolds (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 422-046, March 2022.
- 09 Apr 2024
- Research & Ideas
When Climate Goals, Housing Policy, and Corporate R&D Collide, Social Good Can Emerge
For almost four years, Omar Asensio and his colleagues have been studying the impact of federal energy programs on low-income neighborhoods. The intersection of technology—artificial intelligence, in particular—and public policy has long been an area of focus for... View Details
Keywords: by Glen Justice
- Blog
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023
research on leading complex organizations and scaling businesses, I've chosen Unleash Your Transformation by Marco Van Kalleveen and Peter Koijen. This book offers valuable insights and practical strategies for leaders who are driving... View Details
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
Historically, assembling a dataset might involve delving through annual reports or archives that had not previously been organized into a format ready for research: in some cases, surveying stores, factories, consumers, or workers, or in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Business Insights Blog | HBS Online
Flores turned to education to bridge the gap. Now he’s inspiring other students to do the same. [...] Read more 15 Jul 2025 5 Benefits of Corporate Cohort-Based Learning Tim Stobierski Author Contributors tag For View Details
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Doing Business in a Divided World - Alumni
broader issues at hand: when and how should corporate leaders respond to societal crises? How can they best prepare their organizations to deal with urgent and often unpredictable calls for action from employees, customers, or other... View Details
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
organizations to leverage peer effects to improve the performance of their members. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55775 Pre-published online, October 2018 The Oxford Handbook of Group and Organizational... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time to Consider Lifting Tariffs on Chinese Imports?
basic lesson in comparative advantage that we learned years ago in Economics 101. Would elimination of tariffs on Chinese product, much of it better suited for production in China, make at least a small contribution to the needed... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
change, the authors provide a quick and entertaining introduction to the science of climate change. It is a concise primer for anyone interested in how CO2 impacts our climate. Even knowledgeable readers will learn something new about... View Details
Keywords: podcasts