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Can a Strong Culture Be Too Strong (HBR Case Study)
Garvin, David A.Article HBS-R1401X-ELeadership and People ManagementParivar, an IT services firm with a long history of attracting talented people with its family-like culture suddenly faces a spate of resignations among rank-and-file employees. As the vice president of HR tries to figure out what's behind the exodus, the CEO wants to create a brand-new function charged with reinforcing the company's culture. As Parivar prepares for global expansion, is emphasizing the family-like atmosphere the key to retaining ...Starting at €8.20
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Can a Strong Culture Be Too Strong (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Garvin, David A.Article HBS-R1401Z-ELeadership and People ManagementParivar, an IT services firm with a long history of attracting talented people with its family-like culture suddenly faces a spate of resignations among rank-and-file employees. As the vice president of HR tries to figure out what's behind the exodus, the CEO wants to create a brand-new function charged with reinforcing the company's culture. As Parivar prepares for global expansion, is emphasizing the family-like atmosphere the key to retaining ...Starting at €8.20
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Can a Strong Culture Be Too Strong? (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Garvin, David A.Article HBS-R1401L-ELeadership and People ManagementParivar, an IT services firm with a long history of attracting talented people with its family-like culture suddenly faces a spate of resignations among rank-and-file employees. As the vice president of HR tries to figure out what's behind the exodus, the CEO wants to create a brand-new function charged with reinforcing the company's culture. As Parivar prepares for global expansion, is emphasizing the family-like atmosphere the key to retaining ...Starting at €8.20
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The National Geographic Society (A) (Spanish version)
Garvin, David A.; Knoop, Carin-IsabelCase HBS-317S02Strategycreating a senior management position responsible for e-commerce to coordinate web-based offerings and outreach across the Society's various departments, transition NGS from its many disparate and independent direct mail efforts to a more integrated and strategic e-commerce strategy, and leverage the NGS relationship with its members-currently defined as magazine subscribers, since a subscription comes with Society membership. Putting the final ...Starting at €8.20
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Restoring American Competitiveness
Pisano, Gary P.Article HBS-R0907S-EEconomicsFor decades, U.S. companies have been outsourcing manufacturing in the belief that it held no competitive advantage. That's been a disaster, maintain Harvard professors Pisano and Shih, because today's low-value manufacturing operations hold the seeds of tomorrow's innovative new products. What those companies have been ceding is the country's industrial commons - that is, the collective operational capabilities that underpin new product and proc...Starting at €8.20
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The National Geographic Society (A) (Abridged)
Garvin, David A.; Lobb, AnnelenaCase HBS-312120-EIn January 2010, John Fahey, president, CEO, and chairman of the board of trustees' executive committee of the Washington, D.C.-based National Geographic Society (NGS), must decide how best to organize the 121-year old mission-driven organization for a world of accelerating digital convergence and decreasing magazine sales. Historically a proponent of evolutionary change, he is considering a radical move: creating a senior management position res...Starting at €8.20
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Wyeth Pharmaceuticals: Spurring Scientific Creativity with Metrics
Pisano, Gary P.; Rennella, Mark; Huckman, Robert S.Case HBS-607008-EService and Operations ManagementDescribes the reorganization of the drug discovery organization at Wyeth Pharmaceuticals and focuses on the decisions to: (1) centralize decision-making within drug discovery and (2) institute numerical metrics--jointly affecting all R&D scientists--for the progression of compounds through the Wyeth pipeline. Highlights issues concerning the degree to which scientific activity can be evaluated via numerical metrics, the extent to which R&D can be...Starting at €8.20
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The Hard Truth About Innovative Cultures
Pisano, Gary P.Article HBS-R1901C-ELeadership and People ManagementInnovative cultures are generally depicted as pretty fun. They're characterized by a tolerance for failure and a willingness to experiment. They're seen as being psychologically safe, highly collaborative, and nonhierarchical. And research suggests that these behaviors translate into better innovative performance. But despite the fact that innovative cultures are desirable, and that most leaders claim to understand what they entail, they are hard...Starting at €8.20
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Humanistic Capitalism at Brunello Cucinelli
Gino, Francesca; Pisano, Gary P.Case HBS-920007-EThis case explores one company's attempt to experiment with a different underlying model for a capitalist enterprise. Brunello Cucinelli, S.p.A. is a leading manufacturer of luxury fashion apparel. Despite being a publicly traded enterprise with annual revenues exceeding 500 million, the company follows a somewhat unique human resource and cultural model. The company's founder, Brunello Cucinelli, has striven to create an enterprise that follows ...Starting at €8.20
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Neurodiversity as a Competitive Advantage
Austin, Robert D.; Pisano, Gary P.Article HBS-R1703F-EMany people with neurological conditions such as autism spectrum disorder and dyslexia have extraordinary skills, including in pattern recognition, memory, and mathematics. Yet they often struggle to fit the profiles sought by employers. A growing number of companies, including SAP, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Microsoft, have reformed their HR processes in order to access neurodiverse talent--and are seeing productivity gains, quality improve...Starting at €8.20