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  • January 2017 (Revised March 2017)
  • Case

Royal DSM: From Continuous Transformation to Organic Growth

By: William W. George, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Amram Migdal
Royal DSM CEO Feike Sijbesma was pondering the challenges of shifting DSM’s global organization from the constant transformations of the past 100 years to creating organic growth. When Sijbesma took the helm as CEO in 2007, he further pushed and completed the company’s... View Details
Keywords: Organic Growth; Organizational Change; M＆A; Mergers And Acquisitions; Divestment; Business Ventures; Business Divisions; Business Growth and Maturation; Restructuring; Change; Change Management; Transformation; Transition; Engineering; Chemicals; Mining; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Finance; Capital Markets; Financial Markets; Food; Globalization; Global Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Health; Nutrition; History; Leadership; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Management; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Management Practices and Processes; Management Style; Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Ownership; Public Ownership; Performance; Strategy; Adaptation; Consolidation; Corporate Strategy; Value; Value Creation; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Europe; Netherlands
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  • 13 Dec 2022
  • News

The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith

technology, at Eventide Asset Management in Boston. I'm always looking for companies developing new energy technologies and industries across America, including in West Virginia." Christine: "I was a 2020-21... View Details
  • 05 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017

subsequently. Our results are consistent with theory on the active role firms can play in managing their reputational capital through anticipatory actions to avoid negative media coverage. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2015
  • News

The Military and the MBA: Maura Corby Sullivan (MBA/MPA 2009)

critical management skill set. Having the ability to lead and run highly performing organizations is how I think I can make a difference for our country. Next: Chris Howard (MBA 2003) — A case study in... View Details
Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; National Security and International Affairs
  • Article

Recent Advances in the Empirics of Organizational Economics

By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
We present a survey of recent contributions in empirical organizational economics, focusing on management practices and decentralization. Productivity dispersion between firms and countries has motivated the improved measurement of firm organization across industries... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Management Practices and Processes; Performance Productivity; Geographic Location; Motivation and Incentives; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Competition; Human Capital; Markets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Multinational Firms and Management; India; Brazil; United States
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    Ting Zhang

    Ting Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School, where she teaches the Leadership and Organizational Behavior course (LEAD) in the Required Curriculum.

    Professor Zhang’s research... View Details
    • 03 Aug 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: August 3

    managerial engagement in process improvement promotes the latter. Our findings suggest that particular management practices can influence front-line workers' decisions about... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Web

    Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability Course | HBS Online

    This course is part of the Business in Society and Leadership & Management track. Introduction to Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability LIMITED TIME ONLY Extra... View Details
    • 18 Oct 2016
    • Op-Ed

    Why Business Should Invest in Community Health

    more pressing crisis management activities. Local sales organizations, which are often tasked with local-level implementation of community health activities, prioritize product sales, supply, and... View Details
    Keywords: by John Quelch, Howard Koh, and Pamela Yatsko; Health
    • October 2008
    • Article

    Organizational Responses to Environmental Demands: Opening the Black Box

    By: Magali Delmas and Michael W. Toffel
    This paper combines new and old institutionalism to explain differences in organizational strategies. We propose that differences in the influence of corporate departments lead their facilities to prioritize different external pressures and thus adopt different... View Details
    Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Management Practices and Processes; Decisions; Adoption
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    • December 2007 (Revised October 2008)
    • Case

    The American National Red Cross (A)

    By: Jay W. Lorsch, Eliot Sherman and David Chen
    Describes the governance issues facing the Board of Governors of the American Red Cross. After a series of issues--FDA consent decree on its blood operations; the response to 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina--the Red Cross board was under pressure to fix its governance from... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Practices and Processes; Service Operations; Business Processes; Non-Governmental Organizations; Service Industry
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    • 20 Oct 2020
    • Blog Post

    Changing the Face of Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital at Harlem Capital

    to legal, to tax, to portfolio management – which created a great preamble before Harlem Capital.” While working at ICV, Tingle and Pierre-Jacques were also part of the View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital / Private Equity
    • 28 Mar 2023
    • Blog Post

    Meet Professor Elisabeth Paulson: A Conversation on Life, Research, and Teaching

    In this blog, Loujaine AlMoallim (MBA 2024) interviews Technology and Operations Management Professor Elisabeth Paulson about her personal journey, her time at Harvard Business School, View Details
    • 30 Mar 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    How Your Employees and Customers Drive a New Value Profit Chain

    executives to provide on-the-scene examples of how the organization's values are lived on the job is important. This invariably requires a larger-than-normal travel and communication budget, incentives for top View Details
    Keywords: by Manda Mahoney

      The Sales Acceleration Formula: Using Data, Technology, and Inbound Selling to go from $0 to $100 Million

      The Sales Acceleration Formula provides a scalable, predictable approach to growing revenue and building a winning sales team. Everyone wants to build the next $100 million business and author Mark Roberge has actually done it using a unique methodology... View Details

      • 01 Dec 2019
      • News

      Action Plan: Tapping into a Legacy

      As the new managing director of Hall & Woodhouse, one of England’s leading regional breweries, Matt Kearsey (AMP 193, 2017) knows that the best-tasting beer requires more than premium hops and pure spring... View Details
      Keywords: Leah Flickinger; manufacturing; craft beer; leadership; management; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing
      • Web

      The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

      Skip to Main Content Exhibition Homepage Exhibition Introduction The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography Documenting the Wartime Effort... View Details
      • July 8, 2022
      • Article

      How to Conduct a Great Performance Review

      By: Frank V. Cespedes
      Dissatisfaction with performance appraisals is pervasive, but they remain an essential managerial responsibility. The purpose of performance reviews is two-fold: an accurate and actionable evaluation of performance, and then development of that person’s skills in line... View Details
      Keywords: Performance Review; Feedback; Employees; Management Skills
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      • 21 Nov 2019
      • Blog Post

      Finding My North Star at the Crossroads of Profit and Purpose

      learned how large companies think about sustaining businesses for decades, and what it means to manage shareholder value while thinking about its people, their families, and... View Details
      • Web

      Polaroid: At The Intersection of Science & Art: Edwin H. Land and the Polaroid Corporation

      invention and creativity within the culture of a small, science-based research and manufacturing company. He argued that the industrial process should be "dedicated to the... View Details