Company Culture - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO

largely isolated from one another, and an inward focus among managers. Perpetual restructuring had created a culture of fear and had reduced employee initiative. When the new CEO asked executives individually to name the three people in... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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Leading Change and Organizational Renewal | HBS Online

opportunity gap and determine any misalignments preventing your organization from executing it Relate organizational renewal with your own personal renewal 4-5 hrs Module 3 Culture and Competitive (Dis)Advantage Discover the meaning and... View Details

09 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale

set of principles—constructive confrontation, disagree and then commit, knowledge power not position power, put common sense on a pedestal, let chaos reign and reign in chaos—these are all parts of Intel culture that helped make that... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

01 Sep 2014
News

All For One

Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration, she’d taught Harvard’s leadership course during the 1990s, but had begun to suspect that the visionary model of leadership on which it was based wasn’t ideal for creating a View Details

Keywords: Michael Blanding; faculty; research; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services

09 Jun 2009
Research Event

Business Summit: Enterprise Risk Management

ServicesM.D. Ranganath, Chief Risk Officer, InfosysBarry Zubrow, Chief Risk Officer, JP Morgan Chase The global companies profiled in this session—Infosys, GE Capital Services, and JPMorgan Chase—highlight effective yet different... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan

30 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 31, 2006

industry in the United States. Explores the interaction between the growth of a company and an overall industry. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=406082 Fundamentals of Family Business... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Aug 2022
News

On Purpose

advisory that the negative representations of people or culture “were wrong then and are wrong now.” One of the most important outcomes of the exercise, Cohen says, was that it created an opening for the View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

29 May 2013
Blog Post

A self-discovery journey

want a challenging job that allows me to continuously grow. I want to have autonomy and increased responsibility. I am collaborative and highly driven by results, so I need a dynamic company culture that... View Details

01 Sep 2003
News

Christian Bjelland

As president and fourth-generation owner of Chr. Bjelland & Company, an industrial holding company headquartered in Oslo, Christian Bjelland has more than enough challenges to fill any given workday. But over the last decade, Bjelland has... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment

01 Dec 2016
News

Faculty Books for December 2016

Introduction to Financial Accounting: Review Quizzes and Practice Exams by V.G. Narayanan (Self-published) This book provides practice multiple choice questions on introductory accounting topics. It can be used to prepare for quizzes and exams. Building a View Details

22 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS

Much like how disruptive technologies can threaten established businesses, the growing epidemic of AIDS has the power to blindside and possibly topple companies who choose to ignore the threat, participants concluded at a Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2007
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Pursuing a passion

Michelle Crames and Jeff Norton (both MBA ’ 03) of a company called Lean Forward Media. “Michelle and Jeff discovered they shared a childhood passion for a series of books called Choose Your Own Adventure, which allowed readers to select... View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

09 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit

given similarities in culture and language. “There need to be new reasons for companies to do business in the UK despite a far smaller home market,” says Porter. Academia a strength to build upon The United... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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How the Pandemic Changed Case Development in Latin America

visits," admitted Cal. "In-person meetings give us a chance to see things that we can’t see in a Zoom meeting—for instance, how people in the company interact. We also might have the chance to observe a company’s manufacturing or... View Details

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The Field Method | MBA

thinking, doing, and reflecting. FIELD Global Capstone FIELD Global Capstone is a spring semester Required Curriculum course that uses experiential education and project-based learning to enhance the classroom experience. First-year student teams are paired with a... View Details

01 Mar 2022
What Do You Think?

Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?

(iStockphoto/Sanja Radin) Increasingly, I hear and read about questions such as: Why are my best tech people leaving our great company to work on something called crypto and Web3? What are the strategic implications for my organization of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

03 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 3

inventive activity in the economy. Book: http://www.nber.org/books/lern11-1 Collaborating Across Cultures: Cultural Metacognition and Affect-Based Trust in Creative Collaboration Authors:Roy Y.J. Chua, Michael W. Morris, and Shira Mor... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

17 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 17, 2006

Walt Disney and the 1941 Animators' Strike Harvard Business School Case 406-076 Focuses on the leadership lessons drawn from the events precipitating the Animator's Strike of 1941, depicting the growing pains of a company that was as much... View Details