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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum
generation of Internet-savvy consumers, and how today's CEOs can transform their own focus and that of their organizations from "dot-com" concerns to a more sweeping "dot-corp" vision. Next up was Microsoft president Steve Ballmer, who...
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- November 2012 (Revised January 2013)
- Case
SANY: Going Global
By: Rajiv Lal, Stefan Lippert, Nancy Hua Dai and Di Deng
April 17, 2012, was a special day for SANY Group and for its founder Liang Wen'gen. Headquartered in Changsha, SANY Group had transformed itself in two decades from a small welding material factory in 1989 to a leading global construction equipment manufacturer with 5...
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Keywords:
China;
Expansion;
Business Growth;
Heavy Industry;
Strategy Development;
Globalization;
Growth and Development;
Emerging Markets;
Strategy;
Construction Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
Industrial Products Industry;
Asia;
China;
Europe;
Germany;
India;
North and Central America;
South America
Lal, Rajiv, Stefan Lippert, Nancy Hua Dai, and Di Deng. "SANY: Going Global." Harvard Business School Case 513-058, November 2012. (Revised January 2013.)
- April 2016
- Teaching Note
Whither the Weather (Company): Forecasting 2016
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen
This Note was created for the purpose of aiding classroom instructors in the use of the Harvard Business School case, "Whither the Weather (Company): Forecasting 2016." As chairman and CEO, David Kenny guided the Weather Company's transformation from a cable television...
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- July 2012 (Revised August 2012)
- Case
Friend Bank: The Time for Hope (Abridged)
By: Clayton Rose and Aldo Sesia
In 2010, Friend Bank was entering the fifth year of Hope Harris Johnson's ambitious 20-year growth plan to transform her family's one-branch community bank into an institution with a substantial presence in southeastern Alabama. Harris Johnson was pleased, so far, with...
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Keywords:
Banking;
Family Business;
Strategy And Execution;
Banks and Banking;
Family Ownership;
Financial Institutions;
Strategy;
Banking Industry;
United States;
Alabama
Rose, Clayton, and Aldo Sesia. "Friend Bank: The Time for Hope (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 313-010, July 2012. (Revised August 2012.)
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Historic Industry & Trade Literature | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Library Databases Ask Us Special Collections Fast Answers All Services Hours Plan Your Visit Exhibits Hollis Working Knowledge HBS Home About Academic Programs Alumni Faculty & Research Baker Library Campaign Harvard Business Review...
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Special Collections and Archives Exhibits | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Library Databases Ask Us Special Collections Fast Answers All Services Hours Plan Your Visit Exhibits Hollis Working Knowledge HBS Home About Academic Programs Alumni Faculty & Research Baker Library Campaign Harvard Business Review...
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Fit In, Stand Out: Mastering the FISO FACTOR - The Key to Leadership Effectiveness in Business and Life
In Fit In, Stand Out, McGarvie presents her breakthrough program that will help you become a more effective leader. She reveals how integration and transformation function as the yin and yang of business, working together and balancing each other to form... View Details
- November 2016 (Revised December 2020)
- Case
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation in Motion
By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott
Evan Siddall, newly appointed CEO of Canada Mortgage Housing Corporation, a governmental organization focused on the residential housing market, is charged with leading change at the organization. The case follows this process of change step by step and looks at the...
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Keywords:
Leadership, Personal Strategy & Style;
Government Organizations;
Performance Management;
Organizational Change And Transformation;
Culture;
Leading Change;
Change;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Performance Evaluation;
Government Administration;
Risk Management;
Restructuring;
Leadership;
Performance;
Change Management;
Financial Services Industry;
Canada
Groysberg, Boris, and Sarah L. Abbott. "Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation in Motion." Harvard Business School Case 417-049, November 2016. (Revised December 2020.)
- May 2019
- Case
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation: 'One CMHC' and Version 3.0
By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott
When Evan Siddall was appointed CEO of Canada Mortgage Housing Corporation (CMHC) five years earlier, he had embarked on a major organizational restructuring. Now he is spearheading another round of changes. CMHC has adopted an ambition vision and five year strategic...
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Keywords:
Government Organizations;
Culture;
Organizational Change And Transformation;
Human Resource Practices;
Future Of Work;
Change Management;
Leading Change;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Design;
Government Administration;
Restructuring;
Leadership;
Human Resources;
Talent and Talent Management;
Diversity;
Work-Life Balance;
Financial Services Industry;
Public Administration Industry;
Canada
Groysberg, Boris, and Sarah L. Abbott. "Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation: 'One CMHC' and Version 3.0." Harvard Business School Case 419-068, May 2019.
- February 2020 (Revised February 2022)
- Case
Sustainable Product Management at Solvay
By: George Serafeim, Vincent Dessain and Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej
In November 2019, Ilham Kadri, CEO of Solvay, a Belgian specialty chemicals and advanced materials group, with annual revenues of more than €10 billion in 2018, announced the group’s mid-term strategy, eight months after she took the helm as Solvay’s 11th CEO. The case...
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Keywords:
Sustainability;
Sustainable Business And Innovation;
Sustainability Management;
Sustainable Development;
Management Accounting;
Innovation;
Carbon Emissions;
Sustainability Reporting;
Sustainability Targets;
Target-setting;
Product;
Management;
Transformation;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Climate Change;
Environmental Sustainability;
Chemical Industry;
Europe;
Belgium
Serafeim, George, Vincent Dessain, and Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej. "Sustainable Product Management at Solvay." Harvard Business School Case 120-081, February 2020. (Revised February 2022.)
- September 2020
- Teaching Note
Miami's Tech Future (C): Reaching Another Miami
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Joyce J. Kim
The effects of Miami’s startup scene have not reached many “left-behind” lower-income Black communities, which are disproportionately affected by problems such as segregation and racial discrimination, lack of transportation access, crime, education quality, government...
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Keywords:
Technology;
Change;
Transformation;
Progress;
Community;
Scaling;
Income Inequality;
Racism;
Community Impact;
Community Relations;
Change Management;
Business Startups;
Information Technology;
Diversity;
Race;
Equality and Inequality;
Social Issues;
Business and Community Relations;
Miami;
Florida
- January 2016 (Revised March 2016)
- Case
Whither the Weather (Company): Forecasting 2016
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen
CEO David Kenny led the transformation of the Weather Company from a television business to a Big Data technology company from 2012 until 2016, when IBM acquired its digital assets. This case discusses major decisions taken by Kenny starting in 2014 as he sought to...
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Keywords:
Weather Company;
IBM;
Digital;
Technology;
David Kenny;
Television;
Weather Channel;
Legacy Business;
Mainstream;
Newstream;
Reorganization;
Acquisitions;
Transformation;
Information Technology;
Television Entertainment;
Acquisition;
Consolidation;
Change;
Leadership
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Jonathan Cohen. "Whither the Weather (Company): Forecasting 2016." Harvard Business School Case 316-143, January 2016. (Revised March 2016.)
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Alumni Authored Books | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
in Business and BeyondSchmidt, Jessica (Jess). The Creative Executive: How to Get Innovative and Go with the Flow: 25 New Tools for Transformation in Business and Beyond...
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Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Skip to Main Content Contemporary Black Artists at Harvard Business School Search Baker Library Search Search Search Overview SEEN AND UNSEEN REPRESENTATIONS OFNATIVE AMERICANS IN ART,ADVERTISING, AND COMMERCE November 2022 - February...
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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Faculty Books
Buy-In: Saving Your Good Idea from Being Shot Down by John P. Kotter and Lorne A. Whitehead (Harvard Business Review Press) Professor Emeritus Kotter and his coauthor reveal how to win the support ideas need to deliver results. The key is...
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- December 2017 (Revised May 2018)
- Case
Amazon Buys Whole Foods
By: José B. Alvarez, David Lane and Joni Coughlin
The June 2017 news that e-commerce giant Amazon was paying $13.7 billion for organic supermarket chain Whole Foods precipitated a broad sell-off in the shares of grocery retailers and suppliers. Behind the precipitous declines lay recognition that Amazon’s bold move...
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Keywords:
Amazon;
Whole Foods;
Grocery;
Grocery Delivery;
Mergers & Acquisitions;
Business Models;
Food Value Chain;
Agribusiness;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Operations;
Competitive Strategy;
E-commerce;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Retail Industry;
Web Services Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
United States
Alvarez, José B., David Lane, and Joni Coughlin. "Amazon Buys Whole Foods." Harvard Business School Case 518-056, December 2017. (Revised May 2018.)
- August 2021
- Case
Mylestone: Can Multiple Pivots Preserve the Life of a Death Tech Startup?
By: Shikhar Ghosh and Marilyn Morgan Westner
Dave Balter and Jim Myers co-founded Mylestone, a death tech startup that applied technology to transform how grieving people memorialize the dead. The startup addressed a cultural problem and promised to solve a pressing need in the antiquated, multi-billion dollar...
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Keywords:
Pivot;
Startup;
Business Model;
Cryptocurrency;
Ethical Decision Making;
Emotions;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Ethics;
Market Entry and Exit;
Customer Relationship Management;
Loss;
Change Management;
Relationships
Ghosh, Shikhar, and Marilyn Morgan Westner. "Mylestone: Can Multiple Pivots Preserve the Life of a Death Tech Startup?" Harvard Business School Case 822-018, August 2021.
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Shaping the Corporate Image | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
homogeneous account to the benefit of the business, ideological and commercial interests of the factory owners.”57 The powerful images commissioned by U.S. Steel document the story of the industrial advances, technological might, and human enterprise entailed in View Details
- 19 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
From Retail to HBS: How I’m Building a Career Path at the Intersection of Arts, Culture, and Business
business. I had often felt that my interests were non-traditional and I had sometimes doubted how I could carve out a path that would fit these disparate parts together, but HBS showed me how much opportunity is out there. For one, Professor Anita Elberse’s View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
entrepreneurship and a fascinating case study of a large media business both experiencing and driving change. In their groundbreaking book, The Venture Imperative: A New Model for Corporate Innovation, Heidi Mason and Tim Rohner — leading...
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