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May 1997 (Revised July 1997)
Case

Vermeer Technologies (E): New Beginning

By: Ashish Nanda

The Vermeer team is pleasantly surprised by the benefits and hospitality that their new surroundings offer. Their happiness is tempered, however, by discomfort with some elements of the "Microsoft Way." As the Vermeer engineers embark on a punishing schedule for the... View Details

Keywords: Performance Expectations; Horizontal Integration; Organizational Design; Organizational Culture; Product Development; Information Technology Industry

October 2012
Case

GSK's Acquisition of Sirtris: Independence or Integration? (Abridged)

By: Toby Stuart and James Weber

An executive from pharmaceutical company GSK must choose how much to integrate a recently acquired biotechnology firm, Sirtris. Moncef Slaoui, GSK's global head of R&D, championed the acquisition of Sirtris to gain access to its potentially revolutionary science.... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Resource Allocation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Research and Development; Science-Based Business; Integration

Web

Systems for Scaling Ventures (SSV) - Course Catalog

to culture . Beyond holding employees accountable, growth-stage organizations need to build a culture promoting the pursuit of shared goals in line with the organization’s... View Details

Web

Creating Brand Value - Course Catalog

firms, consumers, and other cultural producers, and of brands as meaning-based, relational assets that must be carefully designed, curated, and negotiated to unlock their considerable value. As branding becomes more participatory,... View Details

01 Oct 1999
News

The Same the World Over: Focusing on Customers and Innovation Brings Success

found that in Asia, the prevalent organizational culture varies among countries. "While we had previously seen that Japanese firms, for instance, typified the clan-like culture symbolized in the Monkey,"... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs

April 2000 (Revised December 2005)
Case

Garanti Bank: Transformation in Turkey

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Maximilian Martin and Daniel Galvin

Discusses the complete transformation and turnover in every division of Garanti Bank. Describes the multiple change projects managed and cross-cultural issues confronted during the 1990s and the organizational challenge of transforming Garanti Bank into one of Turkey's... View Details

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Private Ownership; Restructuring; Business Divisions; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Culture; Change Management; Expansion; Corporate Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Projects; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Turkey

27 May 2021
News

History’s Future

Courtesy Amr AlMadani Courtesy Amr AlMadani Millennia ago, the AlUla region in northwestern Saudi Arabia was a thriving commercial and cultural center, a stop on the trade routes that connected the spices, silks, and other luxuries of... View Details

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

July 2024
Case

Board Director Dilemmas: Strategic Leadership

By: David G. Fubini and Patrick Sanguineti

Professor John Michaels, a distinguished scholar of corporate strategy, has served on the Board of OmniCo, a diversified industrial giant, for four years. Three months ago, the Board appointed a new CEO, Andrew Bennett, to lead growth, develop a more cooperative... View Details

Keywords: Board; Board Dynamics; Strategic Leadership; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Strategy; Organizational Culture; Leadership Style; Management Succession

September 2023 (Revised December 2023)
Case

Twiddy & Company: Trust in a Chaotic Environment

By: Sandra J. Sucher, Shalene Gupta and Tom Quinn

Twiddy & Company, known for Southern hospitality rooted in personal interactions, needed to adjust to contactless remote customer service as fear of the contagious virus prevented person-to-person contact. Local elected officials, in a bid to stop tourists from... View Details

Keywords: Trust; Health Pandemics; Organizational Culture; Disruption; Government Legislation; Transportation; Tourism Industry; North Carolina; United States

July 2019
Case

Instabeat—One More Lap?

By: Shikhar Ghosh, Nicole Tempest Keller and Alpana Thapar

This case follows Lebanese entrepreneur, Hind Hobeika, an engineer and competitive swimmer who spends seven years trying to launch a wearable heartrate monitor and motion sensor to help swimmers track their performance while swimming. While the Beirut-based... View Details

Keywords: Startup; Manufacturing; Prototyping; Female Protagonist; Business Startups; Decision Making; Entrepreneurship; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology; Design; Organizational Culture; United States; Lebanon

July 2011
Teaching Note

Buro Happold (TN)

By: Robert G. Eccles and Erin McFee

Teaching Note for 409021. View Details

Keywords: Leadership Development; Training; Organizational Culture; Service Operations; Performance Effectiveness; Management Skills; Service Industry

March 2008 (Revised February 2009)
Case

Russell Reynolds Associates, Inc.

By: Robert G. Eccles and David Lane

This brief document presents the schedule of events for Russell Reynolds Associates 2007 New Associates Program, an opportunity for recent hires to spend time with each other and the firm's senior leadership while learning subtleties of the search process amid bonding... View Details

Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Learning; Recruitment; Leadership; Organizational Culture; Programs; Consulting Industry; Service Industry

Profile

Durdana Achakzai

an MBA. In these environments, getting accepted is all about performance. "Prove to other stakeholders that you're there to add value to the organization and you'll eventually win respect," Durdana says. "Women just have to... View Details

November 2012
Teaching Note

On Weldon's Watch: Recalls at Johnson & Johnson from 2009 to 2010 (TN)

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Clayton S. Rose

Teaching Note for On Weldon's Watch: Recalls at Johnson & Johnson from 2009 to 2010 HBS case 311-029. View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Values and Beliefs; Leadership; Crisis Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Quality; Pharmaceutical Industry

April 2009
Case

GSK's Acquisition of Sirtris: Independence or Integration?

By: Toby E. Stuart and James Weber

An executive from pharmaceutical company GSK must choose how much to integrate a recently acquired biotechnology firm, Sirtris. Moncef Slaoui, GSK's global head of R&D, championed the acquisition of Sirtris to gain access to its potentially revolutionary science.... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Resource Allocation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Research and Development; Science-Based Business; Integration

September 2007 (Revised October 2007)
Supplement

Children's Hospital and Clinics (B)

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Ingrid M. Nembhard and Kate Roloff

Explores the numerous initiatives Children's Hospital and Clinics has undertaken to improve patient safety since the late 1990s--from the perspective of 2007. The case thus updates the A case by revisiting the hospital to find out what happened as a result of the... View Details

Keywords: Safety; Change Management; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Legal Liability; Leadership; Management Teams; Health Industry

26 Jan 2009
Research & Ideas

Where is Home for the Global Firm?

well-integrated will not be able to handle such reallocations, as trust and preexisting relationships will be particularly critical in these settings. Growing a culture is also much more challenging in such a 'decentered' setup, and such... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

July 2018
Teaching Note

Verizon 2018

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen

Teaching Note for HBS No. 318-114. In 2018, CEO Lowell McAdam led efforts to transform Verizon through digital innovation, media acquisitions and integration, and changes to the company culture. He sought to manage change at the company as growth in traditional areas... View Details

Keywords: Change; Change Leadership; Change Management; Innovation; Digital; Management; Leading Change; Innovation and Management; Acquisition; Integration; Organizational Culture; Telecommunications Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States

October 2008
Article

Gender in Job Negotiations: A Two-Level Game

By: Hannah Riley Bowles and Kathleen McGinn

We propose taking a two-level-game perspective on gender in job negotiations. At Level One, candidates negotiate with employers. At Level Two, candidates negotiate with household members. In order to illuminate the interplay between these two levels, we review research... View Details

Keywords: Perspective; Negotiation; Research; Organizational Culture; Body of Literature; Jobs and Positions; Gender; Labor