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Developing Yourself as a Leader: A Framework for Millennial High Potentials & Emerging Leaders
Bernstein, Ethan S.; Lynde, KirstinCase HBS-419045-ELeadership and People ManagementMillennials are redefining what it means to develop future leaders. In business organizations, leadership development-defined as "the expansion of a person's capacity to be effective in leadership roles and processes"-has traditionally been the work of corporate development programs for select employees handpicked and cultivated by senior management. With the millennial generation of leaders, however, leadership self-development is becoming far m...Starting at €8.20
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Assembling Smartphones: Takt Time Cycle Time
Shih, Willy; Bernstein, Ethan S.Case HBS-611012-EService and Operations ManagementTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. The case was prepared to be used as part of a process review in the first year Technology and Operations Management course at HBS. It offers students an opportunity to discuss the context of a manufacturing process choice, and then examine actual production numbers that resulted from a series of choices. While there isn't a traditional case issue, the discussion should focus...Starting at €8.20
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Beyond the Holacracy Hype
Bernstein, Ethan S.; Bunch, John; Canner, Niko; Lee, MichaelArticle HBS-R1607B-ELeadership and People ManagementMost observers who have written about holacracy and other forms of self-management take extreme positions, either celebrating these "bossless," "flat" work environments for fostering flexibility and engagement or denouncing them as naive experiments that ignore how things really get done. To gain a more accurate, balanced perspective, the authors--drawing on examples from Zappos, Morning Star, and other companies--examine why these structures hav...Starting at €8.20
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Note on Hackathons
Bernstein, Ethan S.Case HBS-419021-ELeadership and People ManagementOrganizations have often sought to meet the pressures of rapid change through novel ways of managing human capital to boost innovation and productivity. Hackathons have emerged as one of the latest approaches to do just that. How can those responsible for managing human capital use hackathons as a new tool in their toolkit? This note is meant as a guide for academics and practitioners to understand what hackathons are, how they work, when and how...Starting at €8.20
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Note on Managing Workforce Reductions
Bernstein, Ethan S.; Knoop, Carin-IsabelCase HBS-419039-ELeadership and People ManagementEach individual who enters an organization will, at some point, leave. And yet most future leaders spend significantly more effort learning about recruiting than departures, despite the sensitivity and challenges associated with the latter. This note is intended to help address that imbalance. This note provides a roadmap for managers and employees to follow when instituting or facing layoffs. It aims to help managers consider the broader implica...Starting at €8.20
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The Case of the Unidentified Healthcare Companies -- 2010
Bohmer, Richard; Bernstein, Ethan S.; Krivitski, Margarita; Reddy, SrinidhiCase HBS-611043-EFinanceThis case presents financial statements and selected ratios for 14 unidentified healthcare organizations and asks that each set of financial information be matched with one of the following healthcare companies: a biotechnology firm, a community nursing company, a distributor (medical), a DME licensee and seller, a DME developer and seller, a home care provider, a hospital (diversified), an insurer, a lab/diagnostic firm, a medical device manufac...Starting at €8.20
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Note on Structured Interviewing
Bernstein, Ethan S.; Ross, AmyCase HBS-420032-ELeadership and People ManagementMaking good hiring decisions is a critical management activity, yet many leaders just "wing it" when interviewing candidates to fill openings by having an organic conversation to assess the candidate's fit, unknowingly subjecting the process to unconscious bias. Instead, organizations should employ structured interviewing techniques to carefully assess the skills needed for a given opening, to determine a consistent approach for fairly evaluating...Starting at €8.20
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Belk: Towards Exceptional Scheduling
Bernstein, Ethan S.; Kesavan, Saravanan; Staats, Bradley R.; Hassall, LukeCase HBS-415023-ELeadership and People ManagementWith 24,000 staff and over 300 stores, Belk Inc. sought to replace its entirely manual labor scheduling system with an automated software solution from Reflexis. Belk hoped the upgrade would simplify scheduling, reduce time employees spent in non-customer-facing roles, and result in improved allocation of resources through the use of big data, thereby increasing sales productivity. Like many other retailers, Belk expected the benefits from automa...Starting at €8.20
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Leader-as-Architect: Alignment
Bernstein, Ethan S.; Raffaelli, Ryan L.; Margolis, Joshua D.Case HBS-415039-ELeadership and People ManagementPart of a leader's job is to equip the organization to transform inputs into outputs by defining organizational strategy, shaping organizational identity, and then managing four organizational components-formal organizational structure, culture, people, and critical tasks-such that each component, and their interaction, aligns to produce performance. Substantial research has demonstrated that well-aligned organizations will be more capable of (1)...Starting at €8.20
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Opening the Valve: From Software to Hardware (B)
Bernstein, Ethan S.; Gino, Francesca; Staats, Bradley R.Case HBS-415016-ELeadership and People ManagementValve, one of the world's top video game software companies, has also become an iconic example of an organization with virtually no hierarchy. A 400-person organization, Valve's unique organizational form (described in detail in the case and accompanying employee handbook) includes 100% self-allocated time, no managers (and therefore no managerial oversight), a structure so fluid that all desks have wheels to allow free movement between ""cabals"...Starting at €5.74