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Kvadrat: Leading for Innovation, Teaching Note
Groysberg, Boris; Abbott, Sarah L.Teaching Note HBS-418088-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching note for case 413120.Starting at €0.00
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Delhaize Group: Developing Leaders
Groysberg, Boris; Abbott, Sarah L.Case HBS-415019-ELeadership and People ManagementDelhaize Group, the Belgian-based global food retailer, was focused on competing in the food retailing industry by developing leading positions in key markets via localized retailing strategies. Delhaize was committed to offering its customers superior value while maintaining high social, environmental, and ethical standards. For Frans Muller, Delhaize's president and CEO, the key to executing on this strategy was ensuring that the Group was deve...Starting at €8.20
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Doing Deals and Leading Teams at XAF Partners, Teaching Note
Groysberg, Boris; Abbott, Sarah L.; Abrahams, RobinTeaching Note HBS-414060-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching note for case 413032.Starting at €0.00
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Chorus and Telecom: Building the Boards
Groysberg, Boris; Abbott, Sarah L.Case HBS-413030-ELeadership and People ManagementIn 2011, Sarah Naud and Matt Stanley sat down with the chairman of Telecom New Zealand, Wayne Boyd. Telecom, a publicly listed company and the largest telecom provider in New Zealand, was being divided into two publicly traded companies, Chorus, a telecom infrastructure company, and new Telecom, a telecom retail services provider. In connection with this split, Naud and Stanley were charged with overseeing the process of creating two new boar...Starting at €8.20
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Talent Incubator Rankings
Groysberg, Boris; Abbott, Sarah L.Case HBS-424038-ELeadership and People ManagementIn 2023, The Official Board surveyed 853 executives on the topic of talent incubators/academy companies. Executives were asked to list the top three academy companies within their function, industry, and country. They were also asked: what practices differentiate these companies; if they matter when hiring; and if talent academies were harder to identify today than in the past. The note summarizes the findings.Starting at €8.20
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Amazon: Cult or Culture
Groysberg, Boris; Abbott, Sarah L.; Gregg, TriciaCase HBS-421008-ELeadership and People ManagementAmazon was one of the first entrants in e-commerce. Under the leadership of founder Jeff Bezos, Amazon had expanded beyond books to manufacturing and selling a wide range of products and services globally. Bezos had built a customer-centric culture that permeated all aspects of the company. As Amazon continued to grow and expand into new business areas, would it be able to maintain its culture and practices? How much of Amazon's success depended ...Starting at €8.20
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Cowen Inc.: Leveraging Data
Groysberg, Boris; Abbott, Sarah L.; Lobb, AnnelenaCase HBS-418035-ELeadership and People ManagementCowen Inc.'s broker-dealer, Cowen and Company, LLC, boasted a number of analysts who had made prescient stock calls on the basis of creative data analysis. Now Cowen Inc. had opened a new subsidiary, Kyber, which would attempt to monetize new data science products. Robert Fagin, head of research, had to consider what Kyber's risks were, even as the unit opened the possibility up for new revenue streams. How could Cowen continue to exploit its com...Starting at €8.20
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Maggie Wilderotter: The Evolution of an Executive
Groysberg, Boris; Abbott, Sarah L.; Abrahams, RobinCase HBS-417091-ELeadership and People ManagementIn a career that spanned over 30 years, Maggie Wilderotter served as CEO of two publicly traded companies and served on 32 corporate and nine association and non-profit boards of directors. As CEO of Frontier Communications, a U.S. telecom company with over $25 billion in assets, Wilderotter executed three major acquisitions, transforming the company's business mix and more than doubling its size. This case explores Wilderotter's career, examinin...Starting at €8.20
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Transpower New Zealand: Evaluating Board Performance
Groysberg, Boris; Healy, Paul M.; Abbott, Sarah L.Case HBS-416024-ELeadership and People ManagementMark Verbiest, Chairman of Transpower New Zealand, initiated a performance review of Transpower's board of directors. The review, which took four months to complete, provided board members with individualized feedback on their performance, as well as information on how the overall board functioned as a team. As Verbiest considered the feedback from this process he questioned, was Transpower's board operating at optimal performance levels? Was Tra...Starting at €8.20
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Macy's Reinvents its Millennial Business
Groysberg, Boris; Abbott, Sarah L.Case HBS-416020-ELeadership and People ManagementMolly Langenstein, Macy's executive vice president for fashion and new business development, and members of Macy's senior team were rethinking the company's approach to serving millennial customers, customers born between the years of 1980 and 2000. To tackle this challenge, a dedicated Millennial team was created. The team looked at the preferences of millennial consumers and how those consumers were served by existing retailers. The team moved ...Starting at €8.20