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  • 06 Oct 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy

employees who are experts in their various areas of work. They say they feel "childlike" when they have to switch to the working language. It affects how they contribute. Managers primarily tend to worry about things like View Details
Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley
  • 01 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

What it Takes to Lead Through Turmoil

Succeeding in the Digital Culture of Tomorrow. Denial The "change journeys" of the leaders and laggards, which often come in three phases, could not be more different. For laggards, that journey looks like this, Kanter said.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • November 15, 2021
  • Article

Putting Your Corporate Purpose to Work

By: Hubert Joly
Making a company purpose come to life is an arduous journey that requires a multi-pronged and sustained approach. Yet as hard as it is, the journey is well worth it and will yield positive transformation not only for the company, but also for the people who work there.... View Details
Keywords: Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Corporate Strategy; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Business and Stakeholder Relations
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  • October 1991 (Revised September 1998)
  • Case

Maxwell Appliance Controls

By: Robert S. Kaplan
A profitable manufacturing division of a large company is looking for new ways to identify sources of productivity improvements. Led by its senior finance officer, an activity-based cost system is developed to identify activities performed for its highly varied product... View Details
Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Management Teams; Quality; Performance Improvement; Organizational Culture; Problems and Challenges; Production; Manufacturing Industry
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  • March 1996 (Revised February 1997)
  • Case

Change Agent Program at Siemens Nixdorf, The

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, John F. McGuire and Afroze A Mohammed
To change its culture, the German computer giant Siemens Nixdorf Information Systems launched a program to train 21 "change agents" who would lead entrepreneurial projects designed to get results and to serve as models of a new style. View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Organizational Culture; Training; Leadership Development; Programs; Human Resources; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business Model; Computer Industry; Germany
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  • 07 Feb 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

organization's career imprint. That being said, just as all organizations have corporate cultures, all organizations cultivate career imprints. The question is simply, what makes some organizational career imprints stronger than others?... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
  • 14 Aug 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018

the startup struggles with various operational and cultural organizational tensions. These challenges are described from the perspective of the founders and through the eyes of Deepika Thakur, one of the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Nov 2015
  • First Look

November 10, 2015

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/315138-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 415-039 Leader-as-Architect: Alignment Part of a leader's job is to equip the organization to transform inputs into outputs by defining organizational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Wilson Professor of Business Administration and faculty chair of the HBS Race, Gender & Equity Initiative. She conducts research on race and gender relations in organizations with a focus on organizational change, group dynamics,... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2015
  • News

Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow

polarizing barrier to collaboration,” Neeley says. “But no one was looking at that, even as global organizations were rapidly moving toward making English their lingua franca.” Since joining the HBS Organizational Behavior Unit nearly... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 01 Mar 2006
  • News

A New Path for Alumnae

that. What is more typical of HBS alumnae? Although they all wanted meaningful full-time employment, their goals had changed substantially over the years: Money was important, but not the primary motivator. Organizational purpose and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • December 2012 (Revised April 2013)
  • Case

Olam: On a New Course

By: David E. Bell, Forest Reinhardt and Mary Shelman
From modest beginnings as a cashew trader in Nigeria, Olam, founded by Indian nationals in 1989, has grown into a leading global agricultural trading company, with annual revenues of $14 billion. The company recently has begun investing in farms and in the production... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Leadership; Customer Value and Value Chain; Corporate Strategy; Organizational Culture; Environmental Sustainability; Expansion; Competitive Advantage; Agribusiness; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Nigeria
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  • 08 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity

Emerita Deborah Kolb. "Despite bodies of knowledge about social institutions and social issues at the institutional and organizational levels, we know very little about how individual organizations experience and internalize gradual... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting
  • 15 Dec 2024
  • News

On The Case

Professor Linda Hill first met Tom Mihaljevic (GMP 15, 2013) when he came to campus to participate in a fireside chat that Hill unexpectedly wound up facilitating. At that time, he was the CEO of Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, and the pair found they had a lot to talk... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Educational Support Services; Educational Services
  • October 2010
  • Supplement

Global Expansion at Sanford C. Bernstein (B) (Abridged)

By: Linda A. Hill and Dana Teppert
Sanford C. Bernstein, a premier sell-side research firm, is expanding globally, and has recently opened an office in Hong Kong. Global Director of Research Robert van Brugge must consider how best to organize the firm's research department to enhance cross-sector and... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Problems and Challenges; Global Strategy; Perspective; Adaptation; Expansion; Organizational Culture; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Financial Services Industry; Hong Kong
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  • October 2010
  • Case

Scollon Productions: Working with a Bunch of Characters

By: Lena G. Goldberg and Chad Carr
As the sole female employee in an 11 person production shop, Lisa Ocheltree complained about being subjected to crass sexual "jokes" and antics; after being discharged, she filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against her former employer, Scollon Productions, alleging... View Details
Keywords: Working Conditions; Ethics; Employee Relationship Management; Lawsuits and Litigation; Organizational Culture; Problems and Challenges; Gender
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  • October 2006 (Revised May 2007)
  • Case

King Arthur Flour

By: Thomas J. DeLong, James Holian and Joshua Weiss
Steve Voigt, the CEO of King Arthur Flour, must determine how the company can continue to grow, whilst preserving its unique culture. In 1996, the company was sold to employees in as ESOP transaction. The following decade saw significant growth, despite declining sales... View Details
Keywords: Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Business or Company Management; Organizational Culture; Employee Ownership
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  • January 2018
  • Supplement

Scaling Swagbucks (B)

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Matthew G. Preble
“Swagbucks (B),” HBS No. 817123, picks up in mid-2014 following the events described in “Swagbucks (A),” HBS No 817122. Davis and Gorowitz were successful in their efforts to position the company for scale without negatively affecting the company’s foundational... View Details
Keywords: Loyalty Management; Scaling; Scale; Entrepreneurship; Human Resources; Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Leading Change; Growth Management; Religion; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Transition; Leadership; Web Services Industry; Technology Industry
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  • Web

2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

of organizational life (e.g., ethical decision making, race relations, and worker well-being). In addition to having published more than a hundred journal articles, Art is author or editor of several books including Attitudes In and... View Details
  • 20 Oct 2015
  • First Look

October 20, 2015

integration affects prices, this paper provides evidence that prices can affect integration. Many theories in organizational economics and industrial organization posit that integration, while costly, increases productivity. It follows... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne