Publications

July 2021
Teaching Note

The Carlyle Group: Carving Out Atotech

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 321-153. On January 31, 2017, The Carlyle Group ("Carlyle") closed its $3.2 billion acquisition of Atotech, an international Specialty Chemicals and Equipment company. In Carlyle's Washington, DC headquarters, the US-based deal... View Details

Keywords: Oil ＆ Gas; Deal; International Acquisition; International; Acquisition; Negotiation; Negotiation Deal; Transformation; Chemicals; Markets; Bids and Bidding; Globalized Markets and Industries; Standards; Chemical Industry; United States; Europe; Asia; Germany

November 25, 2019
Article

The Battle of Seattle, 20 Years Later

Keywords: Seattle

January 15, 2020
Article

It's Time for Boeing's New CEO to Restore Trust by Putting People First

Keywords: Boeing; Change; Trust

December 2017
Course Overview Note

Managing Change and Transformation: Adapting Leadership for 21st Century Organizations

Syllabus for Managing Change 2018 EC Course View Details

December 2016
Course Overview Note

Managing Change and Transformation: Adaptive Leadership for 21st Century Organizations

Syllabus for Managing Change 2017 EC Course View Details

May 14, 2015
Article

Too Many Infrastructure Projects Go It Alone

December 2014 (Revised January 2016)
Course Overview Note

Managing Change: Adaptive Leadership for 21st Century Organizations

Syllabus for Managing Change 2016 EC Course. View Details

November 2011
Article

How Great Companies Think Differently

Corporate leaders have long subscribed to the belief that the sole purpose of business is to make money. That narrow view, deeply embedded in the American capitalist system, molds the actions of most corporations, constraining them to focus on maximizing short-term... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Profit; Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Shareholder Relations; Behavior; Social Issues; Competitive Advantage

2011
Working Paper

The Institutional Logic of Great Global Firms

Theories of the firm have been dominated by a legacy of ideas from early industrialization that pose zero-sum opposition between capital and labor (or capital and nearly everything else), differentiating the economy from society and often posing irreconcilable... View Details

Keywords: Economy; Capital; Globalized Firms and Management; Labor; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Practice; Conflict of Interests; Social Issues; Theory

2004
Book

Confidence: How Winning Streaks and Losing Streaks Begin and End

May 15, 2015
Article

America's Leaders Need to Tell a New Story About Infrastructure

December 2020
Course Overview Note

Managing Change & Transformation in 2021

Syllabus for Managing Change and Transformation 2021 EC Course View Details

Keywords: Change; Leadership; Transformation; Change Management

April 30, 2020
Article

Leading Your Team Past the Peak of a Crisis

In the middle of a crisis, everything looks like a failure. But it’s possible to come out the other end with a strong company—and often with a plan for growth. Companies with a people-first culture can succeed by paying attention to three things: establishing clear... View Details

Keywords: Crisis Management; Organizational Culture; Corporate Accountability; Collaborative Innovation and Invention

October 1, 2015
Article

The Real Reason Men and Women Prefer Male Bosses

Spring 2013
Article

Jobs and Social Innovation

Keywords: Innovation; Innovation and Invention

October 2011
Article

The Cure for Horrible Bosses

Keywords: Management

Article

Values, Purpose, Meaning, and Expectations: Why Culture and Context Matter

The "rational person" standard, based on assumptions of economic self-interest, has long prevailed in legal reasoning. But understanding of decision making, behavioral choices, and possibilities for action must be enlarged to include a variety of factors that give... View Details

Keywords: Standards; Interests; Decision Making; Behavior; Value; Groups and Teams; Performance Expectations; Organizational Culture; Leadership; Business Cycles; Forecasting and Prediction; Motivation and Incentives

March 2008 (Revised October 2009)
Case

IBM in the 21st Century: The Coming of the Globally Integrated Enterprise

Members of IBM's fifth Integration and Values Team (IVT5) were close to finishing their deliberations. Convened by Sam Palmisano, Chairman and CEO, and sponsored by Jon Iwata, Senior VP of Corporate Communications and Marketing, and John E. Kelly III, Senior VP and... View Details

Keywords: Global Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Innovation and Management; Leadership Development; Management Teams; Organizational Culture; Integration

Educators

August 2002 (Revised February 2005)
Case

Gillette Company (D): Implementing Change

How a strategic change agenda is implemented depends on leaders below the top in every function and geographic region translating the agenda into actions. But those actions do not always unfold as planned. This case examines the first 16 months of a turnaround from the... View Details

Keywords: Business History; Competitive Strategy; Strategic Planning; Change Management; Organizational Design; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Behavior; Leading Change; Retail Industry

Educators