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- 10 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
From Product Development to Business School
I sat there silently screaming. Eyes flitting across the room at the faces sitting around the table gathered for a Brita leadership team meeting. They couldn’t possibly do it, I thought to myself, clutching...
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- July–August 2014
- Article
How the Other Fukushima Plant Survived
By: Ranjay Gulati, Charles Casto and Charlotte Krontiris
In March 2011, Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was devastated by three reactor explosions and two core meltdowns in the days following a 9.0 earthquake and a tsunami that produced waves as high as 17 meters. The world is familiar with Daiichi's fate; less...
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Gulati, Ranjay, Charles Casto, and Charlotte Krontiris. "How the Other Fukushima Plant Survived." Harvard Business Review 92, nos. 7/8 (July–August 2014): 111–115.
- November 2021 (Revised January 2022)
- Case
Nicole M. Jones and The Hangar℠: Delta Air Lines' Global Innovation Center
By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Tedards
In 2016, Nicole M. Jones was hired to lead The Hangar, Delta Air Lines’ new innovation center in Atlanta, Georgia. Delta’s leadership had intended for The Hangar to catalyze a new approach to innovation at the company. After conducting three months of research on...
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Keywords:
Innovation Lab;
Breakthrough Innovation;
Biometric Technology;
Innovation and Invention;
Leadership;
Innovation and Management;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Innovation Strategy;
Technological Innovation;
Georgia (state, US)
Hill, Linda A., and Emily Tedards. "Nicole M. Jones and The Hangar℠: Delta Air Lines' Global Innovation Center." Harvard Business School Case 422-042, November 2021. (Revised January 2022.)
- 20 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The 5 Strategy Rules of Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs
they were not good at, and they were able to fill those gaps by recruiting individuals and forming teams to do the things they couldn't do or wouldn't do or shouldn't do." That kind of self-aware recognition of weakness is not...
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- August 2006
- Background Note
Analyzing Work Groups
By: Linda A. Hill and Michel Anteby
Work groups are the building blocks of organizations. They are found in all areas of an organization, from research and development to customer service, and at all levels, from the executive suite to the factory floor. Some are incredibly successful, while others are...
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Keywords:
Framework;
Leadership Style;
Service Operations;
Organizational Culture;
Performance Effectiveness;
Groups and Teams;
Research and Development;
Behavior
Hill, Linda A., and Michel Anteby. "Analyzing Work Groups." Harvard Business School Background Note 407-032, August 2006.
- 08 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Balancing Act: Kate Eberle Walker’s Action Plan for C-suite Diversity
In a snapshot of the PresenceLearning leadership team taken this spring, CEO Kate Eberle Walker (MBA 2005) stands, smiling, just right of center. She’s flanked by three other women and four men—the...
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Entrepreneurship
- June 1991 (Revised June 1993)
- Case
Becton Dickinson (B): Global Management
By: Michael Beer
The president of Becton Dickinson (BD) and his top management team struggle with issues of: 1) how to manage the top of the organization, focusing on leadership style, the committee structure, and the role of sector presidents, and 2) how to manage a multinational...
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Keywords:
Globalized Firms and Management;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Human Resources;
Leadership Style;
Management Teams;
Corporate Strategy;
Health Industry
Beer, Michael. "Becton Dickinson (B): Global Management." Harvard Business School Case 491-152, June 1991. (Revised June 1993.)
- 14 Aug 2006
- HBS Case
On Managing with Bobby Knight and “Coach K”
"Is it better to be loved or feared?" Machiavelli asked. At Harvard Business School, Professor Scott Snook uses this classic quote to help students become more effective leaders. Using two of the most successful college basketball coaches in history—coaches...
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Jeffrey T. Polzer
Jeff Polzer is the UPS Foundation Professor of Human Resource Management in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. He studies how people collaborate in teams and across organizational networks to accomplish their individual and collective... View Details
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
performance. Molinas and her largely female and Turkish senior leadership team grapple with the significant financial impact of massive protests in Turkey, the rise of anti-American sentiments, growing...
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Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- November 1990 (Revised March 1994)
- Case
Digital Equipment Corp.: The Kodak Outsourcing Agreement (A)
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Herminia M. Ibarra
Describes grassroots effort which culminated in Digital's winning a competitive bid for the outsourcing of Kodak's internal telecommunications business. Describes the "Telstar" project, from the initial identification of the business opportunity to the process of...
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Keywords:
Innovation and Management;
Partners and Partnerships;
Leading Change;
Agreements and Arrangements;
Business or Company Management;
Bids and Bidding;
Decision Making;
Management Teams;
Telecommunications Industry
Applegate, Lynda M., and Herminia M. Ibarra. "Digital Equipment Corp.: The Kodak Outsourcing Agreement (A)." Harvard Business School Case 191-039, November 1990. (Revised March 1994.)
- September 2002
- Case
Seattle Public Schools, 1995-2002 (A): The Freedom Agenda
Describes efforts in Seattle Public Schools, under the leadership of Superintendent Joseph Olchefske, to replace the district's centralized budgeting process with school-level budgets. Olchefske's decentralization effort, referred to locally as the Freedom Agenda,...
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Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Management Practices and Processes;
Operations;
Education;
Education Industry;
Seattle
Leschly, Stig. "Seattle Public Schools, 1995-2002 (A): The Freedom Agenda." Harvard Business School Case 803-037, September 2002.
- 04 Apr 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Does Remote Work Affect Innovation?
team weren’t even on the ads team It was the culture that attracted . These five engineers . To the company in the first place. How would this story play out if Google had relied heavily on remote work at...
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by James Heskett
- October 2009
- Supplement
Don Soderquist: Negotiating the Wal-Mart-P&G Relationship (B)
By: James K. Sebenius and Ellen Knebel
This case follows the A case and describes the negotiations and strategic choices of Don Soderquist, who as Chief Operating Officer of Wal-Mart, helped to forge a major partnership with P&G in the 1980s and 1990s. The case chronicles the challenging barriers to success...
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- June 2018
- Teaching Note
The Transformation of Microsoft
By: C. Fritz Foley and F. Katelynn Boland
Teaching Note for HBS No. 218-048. In early 2015, Amy Hood, CFO of Microsoft, and the rest of the senior leadership team faced a set of fundamental choices. The firm had opportunities to serve customers in ways that would be associated with higher growth but lower...
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- 20 Dec 2022
- Op-Ed
Employee Feedback: The Key to Retention During the Great Resignation
between advocacy and inquiry. The senior team advocates an organizational direction and then launches an inquiry into the organization’s strengths and its barriers to success. 3. Make sure the conversation is constructive. Keep the...
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by Michael Beer
Nancy F. Koehn
Nancy F. Koehn is a historian at the Harvard Business School where she holds the James E. Robison chair of Business Administration. Koehn's research focuses on crisis leadership and how leaders and their teams rise to the challenges of high-stakes situations. Her... View Details
- 16 Mar 2022
- News