Leaders have always faced the job of inspiring others while making important decisions with incomplete information. Today's leaders are confronted with challenges and opportunities that have never been more dynamic or complex. We help leaders effectively understand and manage these forces.
Creating Value by Splitting Aster: Can One Minus One Equal Two?
- JANUARY 2025
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- Case
Aster DM Healthcare (Aster), founded by Dr. Azad Moopen in 1987, is a prominent healthcare conglomerate with operations spanning hospitals, clinics, retail pharmacies, and diagnostic centers across India and the GCC. After its 2018 listing on India’s National Stock Exchange, Aster’s stock...
Ole Rosgaard at Greif
- JANUARY 2025
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- Case
Since taking over as CEO of industrial packaging giant Greif, Ole Rosgaard has focused on growing the company and improving the perception of its value by the capital markets. He and his senior leadership team have made inroads to this end, including adjusting the company’s portfolio mix to...
Shifting Winds: DEI in Corporate America
- JANUARY 2025
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- Case
In the 2020s, intense and conflicting social and political pressures challenged organizational leaders around the world. Prominent among these were powerful competing views on workplace diversity, equity, and inclusion programs (DEI) in the United States. Public outrage over the deaths of Black...
Demond Martin and WellWithAll
- NOVEMBER 2024
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- Case
This case study chronicles into the transformative entrepreneurial path of Demond Martin, co-founder and CEO of WellWithAll, a health and wellness startup. Motivated by a pivotal life experience and deep concern for racial health inequities, Martin transitions from a successful hedge fund career to...
How to Manage for Collective Creativity
14 Sep 2014
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Students exercise the leadership skills they will practice in business and beyond, and leave with lessons in leadership that are practical, priceless, and most importantly, real.
Looking Back on the Notre-Dame Fire: Could It Have Been Avoided?
Re: Amy Edmondson
- 07 Jan 2025
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- HBS Working Knowledge
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