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  • 03 Nov 2014
  • News

Activists Fall Short on Coaching Management

  • 10 Jul 2012
  • News

What Do RIM Investors Want to Hear?

  • 03 Jun 2021
  • News

Walker Webcast: Harvard Business School’s Fritz Foley on the Changing Landscape of Business Education

  • 19 Mar 2012
  • News

HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of ‘Englishnization’

  • 07 Jun 2014
  • Video

Ebru Dorman - Making A Difference

  • May 2013 (Revised March 2014)
  • Case

Strategy and the Strategist

By: Eric Van den Steen
This short case presents a series of brief accounts, observations, and quotations that challenge students to think about the role of the CEO — and of the CEO's (possibly strong) beliefs and convictions — in strategy. It focuses in particular on three issues and their... View Details
Keywords: Belief Systems; Strategic Analysis; Competitive Advantage; Values; Vision; Strategy And Leadership; Strategy; Leadership; Values and Beliefs
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    How ENGOs Can Support Corporate Climate Change Efforts

    Nearly half of CEOs view climate change as affecting their companies now or within the coming decade, but there is also a wide gap between what CEOs say is progress on tackling climate change and what many of their investors believe are effective actions.... View Details
    • August 2012
    • Case

    ARISE: A Destination-for-a-Day Spa

    By: Michael Beer and Lynda St. Clair
    A new Dallas-based health and beauty spa aims to use a highly distinctive human resource system as the foundation of its competitive strategy. By encouraging employees to act as "personal wellness coaches" (PWCs) with high commitment and broad responsibilities, the... View Details
    Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Motivation and Incentives; Organizational Design; Organizational Culture; Service Delivery; Competitive Strategy; Innovation Strategy; Health Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Service Industry; Texas
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    • November 2023
    • Case

    The Commons Project in Rwanda—Building Digital Infrastructure for the Global Public Good

    By: Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui and Tom Quinn
    In September 2022, The Commons Project Foundation (TCP) CEO Zhenya Lindgardt and her team met on a Zoom call to discuss building tools to help Rwandans manage their health data. They believed that helping Africa build digital infrastructure would improve much-needed... View Details
    Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Capital; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Health Care and Treatment; Information Management; Adaptation; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology Industry; Rwanda; United States
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    • 06 Jun 2011
    • News

    Warren Watch: Ethical 'blind spots'

    • March 2007 (Revised May 2012)
    • Case

    PRG-Schultz International

    By: Paul W. Marshall and James Weber
    PRG-Schultz will run out of cash within a couple of months unless the new CEO can reduce costs and restructure the company's debt. PRG was the dominant market leader in the audit recovery industry. The industry consisted of firms which employed accounting professionals... View Details
    Keywords: History; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership; Restructuring; Cost Management; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Borrowing and Debt; Accounting Audits; Accounting Industry
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    • 4 PM – 5 PM EDT, 25 Mar 2021
    • Virtual Programming

    Fit to Compete: Why Honest Conversations About Your Companys Capabilities Are the Key to a Winning Strategy

    During this session, HBS professor Michael Beer will examine why the lack of honest conversations about barriers to corporate transformations results in slow and failed corporate transformations and identifies six silent, undiscussable barriers to strategic change,... View Details

      Michael Beer

      MICHAEL BEER

      Mike Beer is the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author Fit to Compete: Why Honest Conversations About Your Company’s... View Details

      • April 2007 (Revised March 2008)
      • Case

      Dr. Iqbal Survé at Sekunjalo Investment Group (A)

      By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Stecker
      Dr. Iqbal Surve, a self-described "medical doctor, philanthropist, and social entrepreneur," was born in 1963 and grew up in poverty, like virtually all non-white South Africans during apartheid. During the 1970s and 1980s, he served in leadership positions in the ANC,... View Details
      Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Social Entrepreneurship; Investment; Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Partners and Partnerships; South Africa
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      • November 2005
      • Case

      Michael Ovitz and The Walt Disney Company (A)

      By: Jay W. Lorsch and Alexis Chernak
      Faced with the need to hire a new president, The Walt Disney Co. pursued Michael Ovitz, a founder of the Creative Artist Agency. Although initially disinterested, Ovitz engaged in negotiations with Michael Eisner, CEO of The Walt Disney Co., in the summer of 1995... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Governance; Management Teams; Selection and Staffing; Negotiation; Organizational Culture
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      • January 2020 (Revised March 2020)
      • Case

      Huawei: A Global Tech Giant in the Crossfire of a Digital Cold War

      By: William C. Kirby, Billy Chan and John P. McHugh
      By 2020, Ren Zhengfei, CEO of Huawei, had transformed the small telephone switch manufacturer he founded in 1987 into a $120 billion telecommunications company poised to lead the lucrative rollout of fifth-generation (5G) cellular networks. However, an emerging... View Details
      Keywords: International Strategy; Government And Business; Digital Infrastructure; Political Risk; Information Technology; Infrastructure; Business and Government Relations; Government and Politics; Information Infrastructure; Technology Industry; China; United States
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      • September 2009 (Revised August 2011)
      • Case

      Transworld Auto Parts (A)

      By: V.G. Narayanan and Lisa Brem
      Transworld Auto Parts had to implement its new strategy flawlessly to survive the auto industry upheaval. The new CEO asked her leadership team to craft strategy maps and balanced scorecards to help each division implement its strategies. View Details
      Keywords: Business Divisions; Leadership; Balanced Scorecard; Management Teams; Business Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Auto Industry; Manufacturing Industry
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      • November 1994 (Revised December 1995)
      • Case

      The Domik Project

      By: William J. Poorvu and John H. Vogel Jr.
      Cameron Sawyer, CEO of Sawyer and Co., seeks financing for an office building he is developing in Moscow. The case describes the opportunities and challenges of development in Russia. Also highlights entrepreneurial opportunities in a changing world. View Details
      Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Opportunities; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Problems and Challenges; Growth and Development Strategy; Moscow
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      • 11 May 2015
      • Video

      HBS Case Protagonist Mohamed Hage on Rooftop Farming

      • January 2021
      • Supplement

      mPharma (B)

      By: Rembrand Koning, John D. Macomber, Pippa Tubman Armerding and Wale Lawal
      mPharma pioneered electronic prescriptions in Ghana, and aimed to increase drug affordability and accessibility in Africa, but the company remained unprofitable. Following investor concerns about mPharma's business, CEO Gregory Rockson considered alternative business... View Details
      Keywords: Strategy; Health; Entrepreneurship; Business Model; Health Industry; Technology Industry; Ghana
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