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Leading Transformation
Immelt, Jeffrey R.; Gulati, Ranjay; Prokesch, StevenArticle HBS-R1705B-EDuring his 16 years as CEO, Jeffrey Immelt engineered a radical makeover of GE, repositioning the firm as a digital industrial company looking to define the future of the internet of things. In the main Spotlight article, he shares what he learned about leading a giant organization through massive changes. There are several lessons: (1) Be disciplined. This means nesting initiatives within one another and staying away from new ideas that don't fi...Starting at €8.20
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Creativity and the Role of the Leader
Amabile, Teresa M.; Khaire, MuktiArticle HBS-R0810G-EThis article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. In today's innovation-driven economy, understanding how to generate great ideas has become an urgent managerial priority. Suddenly, the spotlight has turned on the academics who've studied creativity for decades. How relevant is their research to the practical chal...Starting at €8.20
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Micromax: Scaling the Largest Indian Mobile Handset Company
Gulati, Ranjay; Tahilyani, Rachna; DeSantola, AliciaCase HBS-415034-ELeadership and People ManagementIt is January 2014 and Rahul Sharma, cofounder of Micromax Informatics (Micromax), the largest Indian mobile handset company, is preparing for an emergency conference call with his private equity investors. In the last six years, Micromax had grown its annual product revenues from $54M to over $1B. Unfortunately, it was difficult for the founding team to keep up with Micromax's rapid growth, triggering a series of missteps in 2010 that brought th...Starting at €8.20
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Ministry of Supply: Will Professionals Demand Its Performance
Khaire, Mukti; Catzen, HannahCase HBS-814042-EEntrepreneurshipMinistry of Supply is an entrepreneurial venture in the apparel sector. The firm focuses on a specific segment - 'performance professional wear' - within the sector, specializing in clothes that use fabrics with high-tech performance features (such as moisture-wicking, deodorizing, and temperature control) to make professional attire (button-down shirts, dress pants, etc.) for men. The firm has had success in fund-raising and its innovative produ...Starting at €8.20
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Leading Transformation (Spanish version)
Immelt, Jeffrey R.; Gulati, Ranjay; Prokesch, StevenArticle HBS-R1705BStrategy(1) Be disciplined. This means nesting initiatives within one another and staying away from new ideas that don't fit. (2) Soak. Effective leaders don't instantly react to emerging trends; they read, contemplate, and listen until they believe to their cores that the world is profoundly changing. (3) Make it existential. Every time Immelt drove a big change, he treated it as if it were life or death. (4) Be all in. You can't regard a transformatio...Starting at €8.20
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How to Execute on the Promise of Customer Focus (Spanish version)
Gulati, RanjayArticle HBS-R0705Finformation sharing, division of labor, and decision making. Sometimes this involves replacing traditional silos with customer-focused ones, but more often it entails transcending existing boundaries. JLL has experimented with both approaches. Cooperation. Customer-centric companies, such as Cisco Systems, develop metrics for customer satisfaction and incentives that reward customer-focused cooperation. Most also shake up the power structure so ...Starting at €8.20
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GE's Global Growth Experiment (Spanish Version)
Gulati, RanjayArticle HBS-S17052Knowledge and CommunicationDurante sus 16 años como CEO, Jeffrey Immelt diseñado un cambio de imagen radical de GE, el reposicionamiento de la empresa como una empresa industrial digitales mirando para definir el futuro de la Internet de las cosas. En el artículo principal de Spotlight, que comparte lo que aprendió sobre dirigir una organización gigante a través de cambios masivos. Hay varias clases: (1) Ser disciplinado. Este medio de anidación iniciativas dentro de la ot...Starting at €8.20
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Excel Entertainment
Khaire, Mukti; Arora, NamrataCase HBS-813169-EEntrepreneurshipStarting at €8.20
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GLOBIS
Khaire, Mukti; Kanno, Akiko; Sato, NobuoCase HBS-811061-EEntrepreneurshipYoshito Hori, dean of the Graduate School of Management, GLOBIS University, was planning to launch a full-time English MBA program in September 2012. GLOBIS University was already offering successful part-time MBA programs in English and Japanese. The full-time English program was a necessary step to fulfill Hori's ambition to make GLOBIS the No. 1 business school in Asia, however it remained to be seen whether the school could attract internatio...Starting at €8.20
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BlackRock (C): Integrating BGI
Gulati, Ranjay; Rivkin, Jan W.; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-717406-EStrategyThis (C) case is a supplement to HBS case no. 717-404 "BlackRock (A): Selling the Systems?"Starting at €5.74