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.
Oriental Weavers: Handing Over the Loom
- SEPTEMBER 2025
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- Case
Over the course of forty years, Oriental Weavers had grown from a modest Egyptian family business into one of the world’s largest manufacturers of machine woven carpets and rugs. Managing a family-led company at that scale was no easy task, but the business was guided by the firm and respected hand...
BairesDev: Culture and Growth
- SEPTEMBER 2025
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- Case
In February 2025, Nacho de Marco, CEO of BairesDev, the nearshoring tech company founded in Buenos Aires, Argentina, was planning the company’s next growth phase. After ten years of organic expansion, the COVID-19 pandemic had validated BairesDev’s fully remote model and fueled its rapid scale-up,...
Cristina Ventura at White Star Capital
- SEPTEMBER 2025
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- Case
[pre-abstract] This multimedia case should be assigned to students in advance of class. [abstract] This multimedia case study focuses on General Partner and Chief Catalyst Officer Cristina Ventura at White Star Capital, as she builds an ecosystem for investors and startups in Southeast Asia. The...
Uncornered (B): Bernard Franklin’s Path to Purpose
- AUGUST 2025
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- Case
In 2025, Dr. Bernard Franklin, managing director at Uncornered, weighed his next chapter. A veteran leader in higher education, philanthropy, and consulting, Franklin had joined the Boston-based nonprofit in 2023 to strengthen its trauma-informed systems and support its expansion. The role aligned...
How to Manage for Collective Creativity
14 Sep 2014
We offer programs that strengthen the leadership capacity of individuals and their organizations.
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.
The Company Founders Who Think They Need Not One but Two Successors
Re: Ranjay Gulati
- 30 Sep 2025
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- Wall Street Journal
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