Publications

December 1999 (Revised April 2000)
Case

Franco Bernabe: Reflections on Telecom Italia (A)

By: Linda A. Hill and Kristin Doughty

In November 1998, Franco Bernabe left ENI to become CEO of Telecom Italia, Italy's primary telecommunications provider. Three months later, Roberto Colaninno, CEO of Olivetti SpA, an Italian computer and telecom company one fifth the size of Telecom Italia, launched a... View Details

Keywords: Management Teams; Mergers and Acquisitions; Planning; Telecommunications Industry; Italy

autumn 1999
Book Review

Book Review of Charismatic Leadership in Organizations

Keywords: Leadership; Organizations

August 1999 (Revised June 2008)
Case

Taran Swan at Nickelodeon Latin America (A)

By: Linda A. Hill and Kristin Doughty

Eighteen months after launching Nickelodeon Latin America, general manager Taran Swan must leave the company's Miami headquarters for her New York home because of complications with her pregnancy. Unable to travel for at least the next six months, Swan must decide how... View Details

Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Leadership Style; Managerial Roles; Organizational Culture; Groups and Teams

August 1999 (Revised March 2000)
Case

Taran Swan at Nickelodeon Latin America (C)

By: Linda A. Hill and Kristin Doughty

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Latin America; Miami

August 1999 (Revised March 2000)
Case

Taran Swan at Nickelodeon Latin America (D)

By: Linda A. Hill and Kristin Doughty

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Media and Broadcasting Industry; Latin America

August 1999 (Revised March 2000)
Case

Taran Swan at Nickelodeon Latin America (B)

By: Linda A. Hill and Kristin Doughty

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Latin America; Miami

August 1999 (Revised February 2000)
Background Note

What It Really Means to Manage: Exercising Power and Influence

Describes the realities versus the myths of what it means to be a manager. In particular, it focuses on the limitations of formal authority as a source of power and identifies other sources of power that effective managers rely upon. Also outlines a framework of... View Details

Keywords: Framework; Management Teams; Alliances; Power and Influence

June 1999
Supplement

Jeanne Lewis at Staples (Video)

By: Linda A. Hill and Kristin Doughty

June 1999
Course Overview Note

Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD), Course Overview (Abridged)

Course overview for the first-year required MBA course Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD). View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Organizations; Behavior

February 1999 (Revised June 1999)
Case

Transformation of Pratt & Whitney North Haven (Abridged)

By: H. Kent Bowen, Jeffrey L. Bradach, Linda A. Hill and Kristin Doughty

Business unit manager Tom Hutton has empowered a group of hourly workers to purchase grit blast equipment for two cells. The capital purchase decision runs into some problems when the two cells fail to reach an agreement on which equipment to purchase. A rewritten... View Details

Keywords: Business Units; Decision Making; Labor; Managerial Roles; Failure; Problems and Challenges; Power and Influence; Hardware

January 1999 (Revised July 2003)
Case

Shady Trail

By: Arthur I Segel

Holt Lunsford was intrigued by the packet of papers that lay in front of him. The papers comprised a brochure that Lonestar Bank had put together in an effort to sell the Shady Trail Distribution Center in Dallas, Texas. Shady Hill was a five-year-old,... View Details

Keywords: Investment; Acquisition; Buildings and Facilities; Property; Partners and Partnerships; Decision Choices and Conditions; Distribution Industry; Real Estate Industry; Texas

1999
Article

Developing the Star Performer

Keywords: Growth and Development; Performance

1999
Article

Harvard Manage Mentor

Keywords: Boston

January 1999
Case

Lark International Entertainment, Ltd. (Video)

Keywords: Entertainment and Recreation Industry

December 1998
Supplement

Franco Bernabe, Video

By: Linda A. Hill and Jennifer Suesse

Contains interview excerpts. Franco Bernabe discusses becoming a leader, reflections on leadership vision, ethics, leadership style, changes in the future of ENI. View Details

Keywords: Change; Ethics; Leadership Development; Leadership Style

December 1998
Article

Franco Bernabe: The Lone Strategist

By: Linda A. Hill and S. Wetlaufer

Keywords: Strategy