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- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Organizing the Family-Run Business
often too big to have everyone participate on the board so the board starts to become representative. Plus, shareholders recognize the value in having the objective, professional experience of external board members. I see... View Details
- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping
additional trucks and hired a team of drivers, a move that enabled him to get off the road and look for new customers. For the next two years, his business thrived, but when poor economic conditions forced many of his newly won customers... View Details
- February 2021
- Case
Digital Manufacturing at Amgen
By: Shane Greenstein, Kyle R. Myers and Sarah Mehta
This case discusses efforts made by biotechnology (biotech) company Amgen to introduce digital technologies into its manufacturing processes. Doing so is complicated by the fact that the process for manufacturing biologics—or therapeutics made from living cells—is... View Details
Keywords: Digital Technologies; Change; Change Management; Decision Making; Cost vs Benefits; Decisions; Information; Analytics and Data Science; Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Jobs and Positions; Knowledge; Leadership; Organizational Culture; Science; Strategy; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States; California; Puerto Rico; Rhode Island
Greenstein, Shane, Kyle R. Myers, and Sarah Mehta. "Digital Manufacturing at Amgen." Harvard Business School Case 621-008, February 2021.
- 11 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy
Building Her Leadership Style At Nike, the seed was planted for Leahy to develop her own leadership style and values. “I found this smart, talented, ambitious group of leaders at Nike who also had a very... View Details
- May 2013
- Teaching Plan
High Wire Act: Credit Suisse and Contingent Capital
By: Clayton Rose and David Lane
Late in 2010, Credit Suisse CEO Brady Dougan and his team considered whether or not to issue contingent capital, which Swiss regulators would require by 2019. They faced a number of substantial issues, including: Would contingent capital actually work as conceptualized... View Details
Keywords: Financial Institutions; Capital Markets; Financial Crisis; Decision Choices and Conditions; Leadership; International Finance; Financial Liquidity; Risk and Uncertainty; Competitive Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Switzerland
Rose, Clayton, and David Lane. "High Wire Act: Credit Suisse and Contingent Capital." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 313-048, May 2013.
- October 8, 2012
- Column
Henkel's Culture Shift
By: Robert Simons
This case descriibes a CEO-led organizational transformation driven by stretch goals, performance measurement, and accountability. When Kasper Rorsted became CEO of Henkel, a Germany-based producer of personal care, laundry, and adhesives products, in 2008, he was... View Details
- 07 Jul 2011
- What Do You Think?
So We Adapt. What’s the Downside?
levels, including that of the individual. We adapt by listening to and heeding customers. We adapt by delegating authority, often to teams operating at the lowest levels of the organization. We adapt by tracking, responding to, and even... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- Web
Doing Business in a Divided World - Alumni
“negative externalities”—things like traffic congestion or pollution that are unavoidable by-products of their business practice. Typically, governments have dealt with these externalities through either regulation or taxation. But today,... View Details
- 03 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Succeed With Your New Boss
way. Guidance at key strategic breakpoints. Help in staying focused. Turnaround Same as startup plus: More support for making and implementing the tough personnel calls. Support for changing or correcting the external image of the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
- 12 May 2023
- News
Alabama's Yella Fella
he took inspiration from an HBS case about Frank Perdue's efforts to brand chicken with the tagline, "It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken." From the 1980s and 1990s, Rane sponsored NCAA football teams and hired college coaches... View Details
- 16 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.
management and digital marketing tools for entertainment venues and sports teams (largely unused during the pandemic), switched to targeting small- and medium-sized traditional businesses struggling to survive. Fourth Quadrant: Firms... View Details
- 04 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating
those facts and find a solution, a team of Boston researchers reports. "When it comes to solving problems, connectedness is a double-edged sword," says Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Ethan Bernstein, co-author of... View Details
- Web
Events - Business History
and business leadership in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. Dec 15 15 Dec 2023 Conference Using Oral History in Research This conference considered the ways oral history including the interviews undertaken by the Creating... View Details
- 08 Feb 2023
- News
Alumni-Cofounded Company Sells to CVS for $10.6 Billion
named the Chief Innovation Officer at Oak Street in January 2022, with the firm noting at the time that he would “lead strategic efforts to expand the [c]ompany’s model.” The release went on to note that, under Price’s leadership “Oak... View Details
- Web
Entrepreneurial Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research
into account external opportunities and threats, the availability of internal resources relative to requirements, the aspirations and values of senior management, and obligations to stakeholders and society. In the context of TEM, this... View Details
- Web
For Organizations | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
complexities of working in social enterprise. Independent Projects Organizations benefit directly from student interaction and output, as teams work on a project of strategic importance to the organization and reports its recommendations... View Details
- Web
Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online
dynamics and leadership of effective teams. You’ll define psychological safety and cover various elements of leading effective teams, including decision-making, navigating change, agile management, and leading View Details
- 13 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Case Against Racial Colorblindness
my difference is no more or less valued than yours. Most organizations do not manage diversity in this way, however." For organizations, supporting multiculturalism is not just about paying lip service to cultural differences, but—increasingly—also about forming a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Hands-on Learning About Global Markets
A certificate of appreciation was presented to Ellie Care representatives Francisco Garcia Zavaleta (COO) and Gervasio Videla Dorna (cofounder and CEO), at left, and to Patricio Alba (cofounder and CIO), far right, by HBS students Maxwell Nii Laryea, third from left,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 13 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm
It is tough to think positively in a crisis. Yet one overarching lesson in a new book by HBS professor Bill George, 7 Lessons for Leading in Crisis (Jossey-Bass), is exactly that: See crisis as a chance to develop and enhance your View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace