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- August 2024 (Revised September 2024)
- Case
Dishoom: From Bombay with Love
By: Anjali M. Bhatt and Thomas J. DeLong
Shamil and Kavi Thakrar, co-founders of Dishoom, faced critical decisions as they looked to expand the UK-based restaurant group. Shamil, the CEO, was confident in Dishoom's potential for growth but he was concerned about preserving the culture and values centered... View Details
- July 2023
- Case
Schuberg Philis: From Success to Significance
By: Thomas J. DeLong and Daniela Beyersdorfer
The founders of Dutch professional services firm Schuberg Philis, and the new leadership team entrusted with the day-to-day management, must set the path forward in 2019. The company has grown into a €70 million revenue strong IT provider with top ranks in the... View Details
- July 2023
- Supplement
Schuberg Philis: From Success to Significance (B)
By: Thomas J. DeLong and Daniela Beyersdorfer
Three years into their “Ambition” growth plan, in 2022, the management team of Dutch professional service firm Schuberg Philis is taking stock. The global COVID-19 pandemic and other headwinds required adjustments to their growth targets, but they believe that their... View Details
- 2022
- Working Paper
On the Origins of Our Discontent
By: Rawi Abdelal and Thomas J. DeLong
Signs of discontent with global capitalism and national capitalisms abound. Unless we find ways to create better jobs and then improve those jobs further with empathic management and thoughtful mentoring, then we will be unable to create a more stable, purposeful... View Details
- 2020
- Book
Teaching by Heart: One Professor's Journey to Inspire
By: Thomas J. DeLong
The best teachers are leaders, and the best leaders are teachers. Teaching by Heart summarizes the author's key insights gained from more than 40 years of teaching and managing. It illustrates how teachers can both lift people up and let them down. It proposes... View Details
- November 2017
- Case
One Life; One Love (A)
By: Thomas DeLong and Kerry Herman
Katie Hood, CEO of the One Love Foundation (One Love), a group dedicated to the prevention of relationship violence, had grown the organization's base of funding support to $6 million by 2017 and broadened its mandate to include relationships across many demographics.... View Details
- November 2017
- Supplement
One Life; One Love (B)
By: Thomas DeLong and Kerry Herman
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
- November 2016 (Revised April 2025)
- Case
Lynda Bussgang's Stages
By: Thomas J. DeLong and Carin-Isabel Knoop
Lynda Bussgang is getting ready for her 25th Harvard College reunion and for the first time she is actually looking forward to it. Unlike some of her classmates she has charted her own course to happiness. This path took her from musical theater, to non-profit work to... View Details
- April 2015
- Supplement
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp: Redefining Success in the U.S. (B)
By: Gautam Mukunda, Thomas DeLong and Aldo Sesia
This (B) case describes the actions André Wyss, president of Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, took in early 2012 to transform the company's General Medicines group and build its specialty medications, marketing the selling capabilities in the face of falling... View Details
- March 2015
- Case
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp: Redefining Success in the U.S. (A)
By: Gautam Mukunda, Thomas DeLong and Aldo Sesia
Over the course of a tumultuous weekend in April 2010, André Wyss was put in charge of Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation (NPC), the U.S. sales and marketing subsidiary of Novartis Pharma AG. He was brought in at a critical point in the organization's evolution with... View Details
- March 2015
- Teaching Note
Gerry Pasciucco at AIG Financial Products
By: Gautam Mukunda and Thomas J. DeLong
- February 2015
- Supplement
Leadership at Echoing Green (B)
By: Julie Battilana, Thomas DeLong and James Weber
Keywords: Leadership
- February 2015
- Case
Sarah Sullivan at Greater Marketing Solutions (GMS)
By: Thomas J. DeLong, Paul McKinnon and Rebecca McCue
Sarah Sullivan, the new Managing Director of Greater Marketing Solutions, faces the difficult challenge of letting seven professionals go within a short span of time. In doing so she faces two greater challenges: figuring out which individuals to let go and getting her... View Details
- November 2012 (Revised July 2013)
- Case
Gerry Pasciucco at AIG Financial Products
By: Gautam Mukunda and Thomas J. DeLong
Gerry Pasciucco was appointed to lead American International Group's Financial Products (AIGFP) group after the government bailout of AIG in 2008 and charged with the task of shutting down the division while minimizing the government's losses. AIGFP's failed trades had... View Details
- September 2012
- Article
Should You Listen to the Customer?
By: Thomas J. DeLong and Vineeta Vijayaraghavan
- March 2012
- Case
Schuberg Philis
By: Thomas J. DeLong and Daniela Beyersdorfer
The Dutch professional service firm Schuberg Philis has within a few years grown into a well-known player in the Dutch IT outsourcing market and regularly wins high customer- satisfaction marks. The growing workload and 100% promise to customers have increased the... View Details
- March 2012 (Revised January 2015)
- Case
Leadership at Echoing Green (A)
By: Julie Battilana, Thomas DeLong and James Weber
Keywords: Leadership
- Article
How to Avoid Executive Stress
By: Thomas J. DeLong
When teaching various groups of executives, the author relates the story of a man addicted to prescription drugs and his brother who is addicted to achievement. Each group relates to these two professionally successful men and sees that they live largely on the edge of... View Details