Publications

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders

"As different cultural traditions meet in the marketplace and inside organizations, managers face tough choices about the values that they and their organizations will live by," HBS professor Lynn Sharp Paine told participants... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

April 2023 (Revised May 2024)
Case

The Venice Biennale

By: Rohit Deshpandé and Elena Corsi

La Biennale of Venice, which organized festivals in different disciplines, pondered how to remain relevant in front of fading boundaries across arts. View Details

Keywords: Arts; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Cultural Entrepreneurship; Italy

July 2011
Teaching Note

Russell Reynolds Associates, Inc. (TN)

By: Robert G. Eccles and Erin McFee

Teaching Note for 408067. View Details

Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Leadership; Employment Industry; Service Industry

Article

Corporate Culture, Customer Orientation, and Innovativeness in Japanese Firms: A Quadrad Analysis

By: Rohit Deshpandé, J. U. Farley and F E Webster Jr

Keywords: Organizational Culture; Business Ventures; Customers; Innovation and Invention; Japan

Find at Harvard

01 Apr 1977
Conference Presentation

Access to Opportunity and Power: Measuring Racism/Sexism inside Organizations

By: R. M. Kanter

Keywords: Power and Influence; Organizational Culture; Demographics

09 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 9

two countries reveals that America's love affair with credit was not primarily the consequence of its culture of consumption, as many writers have observed, nor directly a consequence of its less generous welfare state. It emerged instead... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Apr 2002
News

Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms

with its star’s interests and goals? What if an organizational change prevents stars from undertaking the type of assignments they most enjoy? What if the nature of the firm’s culture and leadership is... View Details

Keywords: professional service firms; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

09 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

The Challenge of the Multi-site Nonprofit

some possible solutions—at the Faculty Research Symposium held at HBS on May 20. Whether a particular nonprofit organizational structure favors central or local control, inevitable tensions develop between national headquarters and local... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

December 2007 (Revised July 2011)
Case

Leadership in Energy: Jim Rogers at Cinergy

By: Boris Groysberg, Nitin Nohria, Colleen Kaftan and Geoff Eckman Marietta

Jim Rogers, CEO of the energy company Cinergy, has led the company from the brink of bankruptcy to one of the premier energy companies through selecting a focused strategy, aligning the organization to support it, and mobilizing all the employees to implementation. The... View Details

Keywords: Communication Strategy; Leading Change; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Alignment; Corporate Strategy; Energy Industry

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

Profile

Anthony Martore

a time-constrained environment. This exercise was memorable because real world events often vary from strategic plans, and the step of evaluating all elements of a process, from the throughput unit numbers to organizational View Details

April 2009
Case

GSK's Acquisition of Sirtris: Independence or Integration?

By: Toby E. Stuart and James Weber

An executive from pharmaceutical company GSK must choose how much to integrate a recently acquired biotechnology firm, Sirtris. Moncef Slaoui, GSK's global head of R&D, championed the acquisition of Sirtris to gain access to its potentially revolutionary science.... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Resource Allocation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Research and Development; Science-Based Business; Integration

February 2010 (Revised December 2010)
Case

Google Inc. (Abridged)

By: Benjamin Edelman and Thomas R. Eisenmann

Describes Google's history, business model, governance structure, corporate culture, and processes for managing innovation. Reviews Google's recent strategic initiatives and the threats it poses to Yahoo, Microsoft, and others. Asks what Google should do next. One... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Corporate Governance; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Competitive Strategy; Search Technology; Web Services Industry

August 2002 (Revised December 2002)
Case

Quality Imaging Products (QIP)

Martin Stein, a recent business school graduate, is the new owner of Quality Imaging Products (QIP), a $10-million-a-year remanufacturer of printer and copier ink cartridges. Within weeks of buying the company, QIP's vp for finance, gives an ultimatum: a raise or he... View Details

Keywords: Business or Company Management; Organizational Culture; Crisis Management; Manufacturing Industry

16 Jul 2024
Op-Ed

Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty

with Azure, acquiring LinkedIn in social media and Activision/Blizzard in gaming, and investing in OpenAI to gain control of ChatGPT. Equally important, he transformed the Microsoft culture from an arrogant bureaucracy into an empowered... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

December 2008 (Revised December 2010)
Case

Hema Hattangady and Conzerv (A)

By: Michael L. Tushman and David Kiron

This case describes the evolution of a fast-growing Indian energy firm. It illustrates both leadership change as Hema is evolving as a leader, as well as how organization architecture (culture, systems, incentives, and human resources) is evolving. The case highlights... View Details

Keywords: Change; Decision Choices and Conditions; Leadership Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Energy Industry; India