Filter Results
:
(119)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (387)
- Faculty Publications (28)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (387)
- Faculty Publications (28)
Sort by
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
the board of directors at Tyco International a little more than a year when the company's CEO, Dennis Kozlowski, and other top executives were accused of fraud, which ultimately led to resignations, imprisonments, lawsuits, and SEC...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals
Michael Beer and his coauthors at the Center for Higher Ambition Leadership, the executives underscored the importance of higher-ambition goals, including engaging with and developing employee and customer commitment, contributing to the...
View Details
Keywords:
by Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Jan 2024
- Op-Ed
Why Boeing’s Problems with the 737 MAX Began More Than 25 Years Ago
corporate executives from its engineering and product decisions and alienated its Seattle-based engineers. Leader turnover, ethical lapses, and buybacks After Condit resigned in 2003 following an ethics scandal, Boeing’s board convinced...
View Details
- 26 Apr 2024
- HBS Case
Deion Sanders' Prime Lessons for Leading a Team to Victory
After retiring from playing sports in 2006, Sanders became a commentator and then moved into football coaching. In 2020, he took over at Jackson State University in Mississippi, joining a losing program whose budget was one-thirtieth of...
View Details
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
in an overarching aspiration coupled with a contradictory strategic challenge. The challenge to simultaneously explore and exploit provides the logic, tension, and requirement for experimentation that helps an extended management community collectively learn how to...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
firms will have a new CEO within the next four years; your company could very well be next. Senior executives know that a CEO transition means they're in for a round of firings, organizational reshuffles, and other unwelcome career...
View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- 27 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?
action for executives and boards in America than in Asia. But more common in America are firms that are run by professional managers who are replaced by other professional managers, either as a consequence of View Details
Keywords:
by D. Quinn Mills
- 03 Oct 2023
- HBS Case
Layoffs Can Be Bad Business: 5 Strategies to Consider Before Cutting Staff
consider cutting operational costs without cutting staff, through measures such as reducing inventories, payables, and supply chain costs. Labor expenses can be contained with hiring freezes, wage freezes, furloughs, and early retirement...
View Details
- 20 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2007
Tata & Sons helped revolutionize business practices in India. From instituting the eight-hour work day and paid leave to providing a retirement gratuity, Tata's policies created a standard to which other companies—and eventually...
View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
Moreover, we use the Global Settlement as an exogenous shock, which limited outside opportunities and therefore exacerbated career concerns, and show that this forecast pattern is more pronounced after the Settlement. Both analysts and bank View Details
- 16 Nov 2021
- HBS Case
How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves
reportedly linked to job-related misery. In a landmark ruling in 2019—the first of its kind—a French court found that a number of executives at France Télécom had fostered an environment of institutional harassment in the ruthless means...
View Details
Keywords:
by Michael Blanding
- 16 Oct 2023
- HBS Case
Advancing Black Talent: From the Flight Ramp to 'Family-Sustaining' Careers at Delta
taking off. Then COVID hit, and the airline industry went into lockdown, along with the rest of the country. Delta offered early retirement and buyouts to its workforce, and in August 2020, 25 percent—more than 20,000 employees—took the...
View Details
- 18 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 18, 2008
publicly traded firms in the United States under scrutiny. This case examines perceived excessive pay and severance packages at several firms implicated in the credit crisis of 2008, the executive compensation provisions in the Emergency...
View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
UnileverA Case Study
the purchase of the toothpaste company Pepsodent in 1944. Expansion into margarine followed with the purchase of a Chicago firm in 1948. The postwar years proved very disappointing for Lever Brothers, for a number of partly related reasons. Countway, on his View Details
- 18 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Your Best Employees Are Burning Out: A Framework for Retaining Talent
While gains were focused at the executive and investor levels, these cuts fostered a transactional relationship between businesses and their workers. So, it should be a shock to no one that in recent years, the power dynamic has switched...
View Details
Keywords:
by Hise Gibson and MaShon Wilson
- 18 Mar 2013
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: LEGO
explores how the company-one of the most profitable toymakers in the world-grew to global dominance from humble beginnings; the mistakes that led it near bankruptcy; and why one turnaround attempt failed while a second succeeded. LEGO View Details
- August 2019 (Revised September 2019)
- Case
Dirk Nowitzki: Changing the Game
By: Boris Groysberg, Sascha L. Schmidt and Evan M.S. Hecht
NBA Superstar Dirk Nowitzki was unsure whether the 2018–2019 season would be his last as an NBA player. He had not faced such uncertainty since 1998, when he had navigated a difficult decision regarding the timing of his move to the NBA. He also did not know what he...
View Details
Keywords:
Career Decisions;
Career Journey;
"Sports Organizations,;
Mentoring;
Retirement;
Sports;
Performance;
Training;
Personal Development and Career;
Sports Industry;
United States
Groysberg, Boris, Sascha L. Schmidt, and Evan M.S. Hecht. "Dirk Nowitzki: Changing the Game." Harvard Business School Case 420-031, August 2019. (Revised September 2019.)
- 08 Sep 2022
- Book
Gen Xers and Millennials, It’s Time To Lead. Are You Ready?
for Boomers to step aside, and for the new generation to step up,” says George, now an executive fellow at Harvard Business School. “They are the leaders we need.” Many Baby Boomers in the US are rejecting the idea of a quiet Florida...
View Details
Keywords:
by Lane Lambert
- 28 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 28
case explores maximizing shareholder value as a goal in executive decision making. Over a period of nine years, three different Pfizer CEOs make critical decisions intended to increase shareholder value. But the results are disappointing....
View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
attracting new business from corporate and retail customers. The merger was therefore also viewed as a vehicle for increasing top-line revenue growth. Internal cost cutting alone would not have enabled either bank to achieve this second goal. Scott Paper's chief...
View Details
Keywords:
by Stuart C. Gilson