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01 Sep 2004
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Tracking a Turnaround

The newly hired president and CEO of a local medical center faces a daunting task: Under intense public scrutiny, he must save a complex, rapidly failing organization whose culture is marred by indecision and distrust — and do so in an... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

September 1998 (Revised May 2004)
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Becton Dickinson: Ethics and Business Practices (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine

Becton Dickinson's Global One-Company Operations Group must decide on the company's global policy on gifts, gratuities, and business entertainment. A central issue is whether the policy should be established centrally and made uniform worldwide or whether it should be... View Details

Keywords: Policy; Ethics; Law; Organizational Culture; Business Strategy; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Global Strategy; Trade; Business or Company Management

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Minal Mehta

first fitness video, have been presenting at major health and fitness conferences and events nationwide, and launched an interactive, multimedia learning-management portal for our instructor community." How is your company and its... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Services

01 Jun 2003
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problem because people fear they may lose their jobs for speaking their mind. Perlow, who chronicles the fall of an online education company throughout the book, recommends a constructive spiral of speaking up. She urges senior managers... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Laura Singleton; Donald; Sull; Henry; Chesbrough; Rob; Austin; Leslie; Perlow; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

17 Nov 2011
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design

organization? What Are The Best Techniques For Fostering Innovation In Multicultural Teams? Innovating at the World's Crossroads: How Multicultural Networks Promote Creativity HBS professor Roy Y.J. Chua proposes that cultivating a View Details

Keywords: Re: Ranjay Gulati & Raffaella Sadun

07 Nov 2016
Research & Ideas

Corporate Tax Strategies Mirror Personal Returns of Top Execs

Tax strategies used by top executives on their own taxes can also show up in the companies they run. Source: Melpomenem New research shows that top executives who prefer to reduce personal taxes appear to also influence the strategies of... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

01 Jun 2009
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Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace

and to work reliably and effectively, they were willing to do that. How did the change in culture benefit the company? These organizational changes, which were instituted around the company as a whole,... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

01 Mar 2012
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Health Care’s New Frontier

Massachusetts. As CEO and president, the way Bush talks about that decision reveals a lot about the close-knit culture of a company that last year made the Boston Globe’s “Top Places to Work” in... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Health, Social Assistance

13 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Create Winning Streaks

Presentation date: November 2, 2004 The following is a summary of the virtual seminar covering: The definition, levels, and cycles of confidence. How leaders prevent losing streaks and instill organizational confidence. The keys to building an organizational View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel

09 Jul 2024
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On Balance

Mary Wooldridge (MBA 1994) has encountered gender discrimination in the workplace. “I think it’d be hard to find a woman in any workplace who didn’t have personal experiences of it,” she says. As director of Australia’s Workplace Gender Equality Agency, Wooldridge, who... View Details

10 Feb 2014
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Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines

multinational that employs more than 150,000 people and produces 40 percent of the world's platinum. She was the first woman and first non-South African to head the company. Addressing how to change the culture of a large and diverse... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

03 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster

complete, fixed description of each side's obligations. Not all breaches need be fatal; how they are handled can strengthen or rupture the social contract.—Ron S. Fortgang, David A. Lax, and James K. Sebenius Consider how cultural... View Details

Keywords: by Ron S. Fortgang, David A. Lax & James K. Sebenius

October 2000 (Revised July 2001)
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Avon Products (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Greg Rogers

The general manager of Avon Mexico, Fernando Lezama, must decide whether to promote a woman to the position of vice president of sales. If appointed, the candidate would be the first female in all of Latin America to hold an executive position and one of the first... View Details

Keywords: Business or Company Management; Leading Change; Salesforce Management; Organizational Culture; Job Design and Levels; Gender; Management Teams; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Mexico

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28 May 2019
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2019

upset me.” Machine dream: “There were companies that displayed different rates and prices. But none of them ever considered why people would want all that information on one screen, with it placed in charts and graphs that allowed users... View Details

01 Jun 2003
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Portraits from the Class of 2003

Jeff Norton “Popular culture can give the world a shared set of experiences, a starting point. I want to produce someone’s favorite movie.” Question He Asks Strangers Everywhere: What is your favorite movie? Grew Up: Burlington, Ontario... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment

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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Turkey

href="https://www.library.hbs.edu/Find/Databases/EMIS-Emerging-Markets-Information-System" target="_blank">EMIS Useful for: emerging market information, including company info, news and niche industry reports. Strong foreign... View Details

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Folafolu Folowosele

Mesoamerica Energy, helped land owners obtain titles before the company leased property from them and gave them a fair share of the revenue generated from the wind turbines on their property. “To me, that was a strong signal on how to... View Details

09 Jun 2023
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How to Communicate your Organizations’ People-Centered Values

institutional authority. Do the individuals charged with diversity and inclusion report to the CEO? Do they have the staffing and budget capacity required to make an impact not only in recruiting but also in creating organizational View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Dec 2002
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What You Know Depends on Where You Go

various cultural traditions and the challenges faced when a company from another tradition enters the market. The complexities of such research start with language, she notes, recalling a visit to a Chinese... View Details

01 Oct 1996
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Working Behind the Scenes — Alan F. Horn (MBA 1971)

In the motion picture industry, most people know Alan Horn as the smart, savvy chairman and CEO of Castle Rock Entertainment, the film company that has turned out movie hits such as When Harry Met Sally and In the Line of Fire, as well as... View Details

Keywords: Thomas Frick

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