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  • 06 Oct 2010
  • Research & Ideas

John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea

were only logical creatures, this would not be a problem. But we are not. Far from it . We see this problem all the time when people are trying to help an organization deal with a changing environment or to... View Details
Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead

    Make the Most of Your Relocation

    Although the Covid-19 crisis has halted travel in recent months, geographic mobility has become critical for managers and knowledge workers hoping to advance in today’s globalized economy, and that trend is unlikely to reverse. Assignments far from headquarters can... View Details

    • 07 Dec 2016
    • Blog Post

    Marketing Reimagined: A Recap of the 2016 Marketing Innovation Conference

    On Sunday November 6, over 350 people flocked to the Harvard Business School campus to attend the Marketing Innovation Conference. This year’s theme, “Marketing Reimagined”, drew a wide range of attendees from top marketing professionals to students from 15+ MBA... View Details
    Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports
    • 12 Oct 2022
    • Blog Post

    11 Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day

    responsibilities – like being a good son or having a financially stable career for instance – deserved the sunlight. For 26 years, this meant putting a lock on my self-expression. I only applied to colleges on the East Coast View Details
    • 09 Aug 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    How Firms Respond to Mandatory Information Disclosure

    Keywords: by Anil R. Doshi, Glen W.S. Dowell & Michael W. Toffel
    • 2008
    • Chapter

    Where is the Pharmacy to the World? Pharmaceutical Industry Location and International Regulatory Variation

    By: Arthur A. Daemmrich
    A consumer-oriented model for drug development and use has attracted attention in recent years as an alternative to the much-maligned approach of mass-marketing blockbuster drugs. In a parallel development, patients and disease-based organizations have assumed greater... View Details
    Keywords: Geographic Location; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Health Testing and Trials; Demand and Consumers; Pharmaceutical Industry; European Union; Germany; United States
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    • November 1990 (Revised August 1992)
    • Case

    American Airlines (C): Committing to Leadership

    In an effort to grow and contain costs, the airline initiates a series of cultural change programs designed to increase employee participation and decision-making, and accordingly decrease the proportion of supervisors. CTL is the most recent, and by far the most... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership Development; Organizational Culture; Air Transportation Industry; United States
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    • 2021
    • Book

    The Power of Trust: How Companies Build It, Lose It, Regain It

    By: Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
    Trust is the most powerful force underlying the success of every business. Yet it can be shattered in an instant, with a devastating impact on a company’s market cap and reputation. How to build and sustain trust requires fresh insight into why customers, employees,... View Details
    Keywords: Power; Corporate Culture; Future Of Work; Innovation; Technology Strategy; Automation; Stakeholder Engagement; Employee Attitude; Customer Behavior; Shareholder Value; Government And Business; Impact Investing; Corporate Change And Sustainability; Trust; Power and Influence; Globalization; Leadership; Organizational Culture; Innovation and Invention; Human Resources; Information Technology; Strategy; Corporate Accountability; Asia; Europe; South America; Middle East; North and Central America
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    • June 2019 (Revised July 2019)
    • Case

    Building a Meritocracy at Alghanim Industries

    By: Paul M. Healy, Susanna Gallani and Esel Çekin
    Building on his father’s legacy, Omar Alghanim (MBA 2002) had been working on strengthening a performance-driven culture based on meritocracy in the family business, Alghanim Industries. The task had been particularly challenging because of traditional Middle East... View Details
    Keywords: Meritocracy; Social Norms; Family Business; Organizational Culture; Performance; Diversity; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Middle East; Kuwait
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    • 10 Nov 2021
    • News

    How the Pandemic has Affected the Economy, From Empty Shelves to Higher Prices

    • 2024
    • Report

    The Eco-Digital EraTM: The Dual Transition to a Sustainable and Digital Economy

    By: Suraj Srinivasan, Andy Feinstein, Amol Khadikar, Jiani Zhang, Noémie Lauer, Hiral Shah, Sally Epstein, Jerome Buvat and Vaishnavee Ananth
    Since the proliferation of smartphones and social media in the late 2000s, digital has captured an increasingly large portion of the economy. In this Capgemini Research Institute report, The Eco-Digital EraTM: The dual transition to a sustainable and... View Details
    Keywords: Technology Adoption; Digital Transformation; Environmental Sustainability; Trends
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    • October 2010
    • Article

    The Emerging Capital Market for Nonprofits

    By: Robert S. Kaplan and Allen S. Grossman
    Many of our largest and most successful companies today did not exist 50 years ago. During this same time interval, companies that ranked among top in the 1960s have disappeared, been merged out of existence, or become much smaller presences in the U.S. industrial... View Details
    Keywords: Capital Markets; Investment Funds; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Corporate Accountability; Management Practices and Processes; Infrastructure; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance Effectiveness; Nonprofit Organizations
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    • September 2017 (Revised March 2023)
    • Case

    Careem: Raising a Unicorn

    By: Shikhar Ghosh and Alpana Thapar
    This case follows two ex-McKinsey consultants, Magnus Olsson and Mudassir Sheikha, who in search of their true purpose decide to found Careem, a Dubai-based ride-hailing service. Following its launch in July 2012, Careem experiences rapid growth of 30% per month in the... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Information Technology; Organizational Culture; Decision Making; Growth Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Transportation Industry; Technology Industry; Middle East; North Africa; United Arab Emirates
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    • 2019
    • Working Paper

    Southern Responses to Gold Certification: Cooperate, Compete, Reject, Revise

    By: Kristin Sippl
    Artisanal gold mining is a Southern subsistence livelihood posing both challenges and opportunities for sustainable development. In 2011, Fairtrade International launched a certification program to address sustainability problems in the sector. Southern activists,... View Details
    Keywords: Eco-labeling; Extractive Industries; Emerging Economies; Fair Trade; Environmental Sustainability; Standards; Programs; Governance Compliance; Competition; Adaptation; Mining Industry
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    • 08 Aug 2021
    • News

    Business Needs to Rethink Its Role in Politics

    • 04 Oct 2023
    • HBS Seminar

    Ithai Stern, INSEAD

    • Person Page

    Reviews for Beauty Imagined

    By: Geoffrey G. Jones

    “This illuminating account of the history of the beauty business, as well as its current challenges in the face of globalization, offers unique insights on the drivers of success and failure in an industry in which branding and marketing are at the heart of... View Details

    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    Networking Frictions: Evidence from Entrepreneurial Networking Events in Lomé

    By: Stefan Dimitiadis and Rembrand Koning
    Spatial proximity between firms plays a crucial role in entrepreneurship by creating knowledge spillovers, enabling resource sharing, and sparking productivity gains. Building on these insights, research has explored whether institutions and organizations can engineer... View Details
    Keywords: Local Range; Knowledge Sharing; Performance Productivity; Togo
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    • February 2024
    • Case

    Tony Elumelu Foundation: Democratizing Luck Across Africa

    By: Paul A. Gompers and Samir Saxena
    Founded in 2010, The Tony Elumelu Foundation is Africa’s leading philanthropy working to support entrepreneurs in Africa with access to seed capital, business management training, mentorship, and access to networks. Through a $100 million commitment by its founder,... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Innovation Leadership; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Mission and Purpose; Education Industry; Nigeria; Africa
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    • 10 Jul 2015
    • News

    Starbucks, #Racetogether, and How Companies Do Good the Right Way