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- May 2024
- Teaching Note
Making Progress at Progress Software (A) and (B)
By: Katherine Baldiga Coffman, Hannah Riley Bowles, Emma Ronzetti and Alexis Lefort
In this case, the Human Capital team at Progress Software has identified that some employees have a hard time understanding how to advance within Progress. This realization leads the team to develop several major people-process innovations: the introduction of...
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- (Revised May 2024)
- Teaching Note
Lyric Dinner Theater (A) and (B)
By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Jim Sharpe and Noah Fisher
This teaching note is associated with HBS cases 813-043 and 813-044.
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- April 2024
- Case
Unleashing Human Magic at Best Buy
By: Leonard A. Schlesinger, Sunil Gupta and Amram Migdal
The case examines the transformation of Best Buy under CEO Hubert Joly's leadership from 2012. Facing significant business challenges, including competition from online and physical retailers, Joly implemented the "Renew Blue" turnaround strategy, which focused on...
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Keywords:
Change;
Change Management;
Transformation;
Transition;
Communication Intention and Meaning;
Communication Strategy;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Customers;
Health;
Digital Transformation;
Digital Strategy;
Job Cuts and Outsourcing;
Labor;
Leadership;
Leadership Development;
Leadership Style;
Leading Change;
Management;
Management Practices and Processes;
Management Style;
Business or Company Management;
Crisis Management;
Mission and Purpose;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Outcome or Result;
Failure;
Success;
Personal Development and Career;
Strategy;
Strategic Planning;
Adaptation;
Competition;
Retail Industry;
Minneapolis;
Minnesota;
United States
Schlesinger, Leonard A., Sunil Gupta, and Amram Migdal. "Unleashing Human Magic at Best Buy." Harvard Business School Case 524-072, April 2024.
- March 2024
- Case
From 'BIG' Ideas to Sustainable Impact at ICL Group (A)
By: Linda A. Hill and Lydia Begag
In the summer of 2023, Eduard (“Eddie”) Croitoru, Vice President (VP) of ICL Group (“ICL”) Corporate Initiatives, was reflecting on ICL’s internal ideation program, the Business Innovation for Growth (BIG) Accelerator. When Raviv Zoller became the CEO of ICL in 2018,...
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Keywords:
Change Management;
Agribusiness;
Accounting;
Communication;
Engineering;
Energy;
Renewable Energy;
Chemicals;
Machinery and Machining;
Metals and Minerals;
Mining;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Values and Beliefs;
Environmental Sustainability;
Natural Resources;
Globalization;
Information Technology;
Innovation and Invention;
Leadership;
Organizational Culture;
Personal Development and Career;
Manufacturing Industry;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Chemical Industry;
Israel;
China;
United States
Hill, Linda A., and Lydia Begag. "From 'BIG' Ideas to Sustainable Impact at ICL Group (A)." Harvard Business School Case 424-042, March 2024.
- March 2024 (Revised April 2024)
- Supplement
From 'BIG' Ideas to Sustainable Impact at ICL Group (B)
By: Linda A. Hill and Lydia Begag
In August 2023, Raviv Zoller, CEO of ICL Group, discussed his upcoming business trip to St. Louis with Eduard Croitoru, VP of ICL Corporate Initiatives, to commemorate the construction of ICL's new $400 million advanced manufacturing facility. In preparation for the...
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Keywords:
Change Management;
Agribusiness;
Accounting;
Communication;
Engineering;
Energy;
Renewable Energy;
Chemicals;
Machinery and Machining;
Metals and Minerals;
Mining;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Values and Beliefs;
Environmental Sustainability;
Natural Resources;
Globalization;
Information Technology;
Innovation and Invention;
Leadership;
Organizational Culture;
Personal Development and Career;
Manufacturing Industry;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Chemical Industry;
Israel;
United States;
China
Hill, Linda A., and Lydia Begag. "From 'BIG' Ideas to Sustainable Impact at ICL Group (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 424-043, March 2024. (Revised April 2024.)
- February 2024
- Technical Note
A Manager's Introduction to Passion for Work
Today, both organizations and employees are increasingly focused on passion. An analysis of 200 million U.S. job postings found that the use of the word “passion” increased nearly tenfold from 2007 to 2019, while a recent survey of thousands of college-educated workers...
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Jachimowicz, Jon M. "A Manager's Introduction to Passion for Work." Harvard Business School Technical Note 424-071, February 2024.
- January 18, 2024
- Article
America's Top Talent Incubators Are Organizations Where People Want to Stay
By: Sarah Abbott and Boris Groysberg
Organizations like GE, IBM, and Procter & Gamble (P&G) have long been touted as the classic "academy companies." Academy companies produce first-rate executives who populate their own senior ranks and also go on to lead other companies. We wondered if academy companies...
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Abbott, Sarah, and Boris Groysberg. "America's Top Talent Incubators Are Organizations Where People Want to Stay." Newsweek (January 18, 2024).
- January–February 2024
- Article
The Challenge of Maintaining Passion for Work over Time: A Daily Perspective on Passion and Emotional Exhaustion
By: Joy Bredehorst, Kai Krautter, Jirs Meuris and Jon M. Jachimowicz
Passion for work is highly coveted, but many employees report struggling to maintain their passion over time. In the current research, we explain the challenge of pursuing passion by conceptualizing passion as an attribute with temporal variation. Viewed through a...
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Bredehorst, Joy, Kai Krautter, Jirs Meuris, and Jon M. Jachimowicz. "The Challenge of Maintaining Passion for Work over Time: A Daily Perspective on Passion and Emotional Exhaustion." Organization Science 35, no. 1 (January–February 2024): 364–386.
- December 8, 2023
- Article
What Makes a Company Great at Producing Leaders?
By: Sarah Abbott, Robin Abrahams and Boris Groysberg
GE is well known as an “academy company”—a talent incubator that exports effective leaders to other organizations and even industries. To better understand which companies are top talent incubators today, the authors worked with the Official Board, a firm that provides...
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Keywords:
Personal Development and Career;
Talent and Talent Management;
Training;
Organizational Culture
Abbott, Sarah, Robin Abrahams, and Boris Groysberg. "What Makes a Company Great at Producing Leaders?" Harvard Business Review (website) (December 8, 2023).
- October 2023
- Case
Making Progress at Progress Software (A)
By: Katherine Coffman, Hannah Riley Bowles and Alexis Lefort
In this case, the Human Capital team at Progress Software has identified that some employees have a hard time understanding how to advance within Progress. This realization leads the team to develop several major people-process innovations: the introduction of...
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- October 2023
- Supplement
Making Progress at Progress Software (B)
By: Katherine Coffman, Hannah Riley Bowles and Alexis Lefort
In this case, the Human Capital team at Progress Software has identified that some employees have a hard time understanding how to advance within Progress. This realization leads the team to develop several major people-process innovations: the introduction of...
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- August 2023
- Case
Stay or Go? Sarah Reynolds at Kensington Partners
By: David G. Fubini, Amr Seifeldin and Patrick Sanguineti
Sarah Reynolds, a Partner at the global Kensington Partners strategy consulting firm, has headed the firm's Telecommunications Group for a few years. Thanks to her stellar track record with clients, she has brought the group, and herself, a range of accolades and...
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Keywords:
Consulting;
Consulting Firms;
Client Service;
Career Management;
Success;
Time Management;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Personal Development and Career
Fubini, David G., Amr Seifeldin, and Patrick Sanguineti. "Stay or Go? Sarah Reynolds at Kensington Partners." Harvard Business School Case 424-020, August 2023.
- August 2023
- Case
Salma Qarnain: Spaceships to Broadway
By: Leslie Perlow, Mel Martin and Hannah Weisman
Salma Qarnain, daughter of Pakistani Muslim immigrants, is an engineer trained at Stanford and MIT. She began her career building spacecrafts but 30 years later finds herself pursuing her calling, acting on Broadway. The case explores Qarnain’s career path, family...
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Keywords:
Personal Development and Career;
Job Search;
Job Design and Levels;
Happiness;
Identity;
Well-being;
Work-Life Balance;
Family and Family Relationships;
Theater Entertainment;
Film Entertainment;
Talent and Talent Management;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
Motion Pictures and Video Industry;
Aerospace Industry;
United States;
New York (city, NY);
Boston;
California
- July 2023
- Article
The Old Boys' Club: Schmoozing and the Gender Gap
By: Zoë B. Cullen and Ricardo Perez-Truglia
Offices are social places. Employees and managers take breaks together and talk about
family and hobbies. In this study, we show that employees’ social interactions with their managers
can be advantageous for their careers, and that this phenomenon contributes to the...
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Keywords:
Career;
Promotions;
Social Interactions;
Networking;
Interpersonal Communication;
Familiarity;
Equality and Inequality;
Gender
Cullen, Zoë B., and Ricardo Perez-Truglia. "The Old Boys' Club: Schmoozing and the Gender Gap." American Economic Review 113, no. 7 (July 2023): 1703–1740. (Lead Article.)
- May 2023
- Supplement
Alicia Keys and Swizz Beats Video Supplement Playlist
By: Boris Groysberg
Keywords:
Entertainment;
Music Entertainment;
Personal Development and Career;
Entrepreneurship;
Goals and Objectives;
Power and Influence;
Music Industry;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
Fine Arts Industry
Groysberg, Boris. "Alicia Keys and Swizz Beats Video Supplement Playlist." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 422-701, May 2023.
- May 17, 2023
- Article
Don't Let Passion Lead to Burnout on Your Team
By: Joy Bredehorst, Kai Krautter, Jirs Meuris and Jon M. Jachimowicz
Passion is often heralded as the key to a fulfilling and successful career, but the authors’ recent research suggests that it can also come at a cost: Feeling passionate about work can lead to exhaustion and even burnout. Through studies with more than 700 employees...
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Bredehorst, Joy, Kai Krautter, Jirs Meuris, and Jon M. Jachimowicz. "Don't Let Passion Lead to Burnout on Your Team." Harvard Business Review (website) (May 17, 2023).
- May 2023 (Revised May 2023)
- Case
Stay or Go? Sarah Reynolds Kensington Partners
By: David G. Fubini, Amr Seifeldin and Patrick Sanguineti
Sarah Reynolds, a relatively new Partner at the global Kensington Partners strategy consulting firm, has headed the firm's Telecommunications Group for a few years. Thanks to her stellar track record with clients, she has brought the group a range of accolades and...
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- April 2023
- Case
Ryan Serhant: Time Management for Repeatable Success (A)
By: Ashley Whillans and Hawken Lord
From an open-concept 90’s-style stone and wood cabin in Dublin, New Hampshire, Ryan Serhant reflected on his career as a real estate broker. As Ryan stared into the fireplace that featured prominently in the center of the house, he wondered whether the period of...
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Keywords:
Real Estate;
Time Management;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Personal Development and Career;
Real Estate Industry
Whillans, Ashley, and Hawken Lord. "Ryan Serhant: Time Management for Repeatable Success (A)." Harvard Business School Case 923-048, April 2023.
- March 2023 (Revised May 2023)
- Supplement
OneTen At Delta Air Lines: Catalyzing Family-Sustaining Careers for Black Talent (B)
By: Linda A. Hill and Lydia Begag
In January 2023, Delta Air Lines (Delta) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Ed Bastian and his team had just launched the third iteration of an internal skills-first apprenticeship program, designed to move frontline employees into "merit" positions in four job categories....
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Keywords:
Change Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Diversity;
Race;
Talent and Talent Management;
Training;
Human Resources;
Air Transportation Industry;
United States
Hill, Linda A., and Lydia Begag. "OneTen At Delta Air Lines: Catalyzing Family-Sustaining Careers for Black Talent (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 423-073, March 2023. (Revised May 2023.)
- March 2023 (Revised May 2023)
- Supplement
OneTen at Delta Air Lines: Catalyzing Family-Sustaining Careers for Black Talent (C)
By: Linda A. Hill and Lydia Begag
In February 2023, Delta Air Lines (Delta) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Ed Bastian, celebrated the airline’s OneTen partnership in a room full of Atlanta’s prominent business leaders, educators, and public servants in Atlanta, at a OneTen/Delta Launch Event. To support...
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Keywords:
Talent and Talent Management;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Business and Community Relations;
Race;
Leading Change;
Air Transportation Industry;
United States;
Atlanta
Hill, Linda A., and Lydia Begag. "OneTen at Delta Air Lines: Catalyzing Family-Sustaining Careers for Black Talent (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 423-075, March 2023. (Revised May 2023.)