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      • February 10, 2023
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      The Case for Having a Boring CEO

      By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
      CEOs who avoid the cameras and minimize drama offer valuable leadership lessons. Their lifestyles aren’t splashed on the pages of magazines. They don’t speak out on every public issue, and their pronouncements are balanced and cautious. Sometimes when I name them as my...  View Details
      Keywords: CEO; Leadership; Company Management; Personal Brand; Reliability; Humility; Public Opinion
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      Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "The Case for Having a Boring CEO." Wall Street Journal (online) (February 10, 2023).
      • June 30, 2022
      • Article

      How to Build a Life: Don’t Surround Yourself with Admirers

      By: Arthur C. Brooks
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      Brooks, Arthur C. "How to Build a Life: Don’t Surround Yourself with Admirers." The Atlantic (June 30, 2022).
      • January 22, 2020
      • Article

      Making Honest Conversations the Norm

      By: Michael Beer
      Much admired companies like Boeing and Wells Fargo sacrifice their competitive advantage. Some make huge ethical blunders. As a result, shareholders suffer huge losses in value while employees, customers, and society lose trust and confidence in the institution. Based...  View Details
      Keywords: Honesty; Interpersonal Communication; Framework; Organizational Culture; Trust; Performance Effectiveness
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      Beer, Michael. "Making Honest Conversations the Norm." ChangeThis (blog) (January 22, 2020).
      • 2019
      • Working Paper

      Minimalism as a Status Symbol: When and Why We Admire Conspicuous Non-Consumption

      By: Anne Wilson, Silvia Bellezza and Michael I. Norton
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      Wilson, Anne, Silvia Bellezza, and Michael I. Norton. "Minimalism as a Status Symbol: When and Why We Admire Conspicuous Non-Consumption." Working Paper, October 2019.
      • July 2019
      • Article

      The Gravitational Pull of Expressing Passion: When and How Expressing Passion Elicits Status Conferral and Support from Others

      By: Jon M. Jachimowicz, Christopher To, Shira Agasi, Stéphane Côté and Adam D. Galinsky
      Prior research attributes the positive effects of passion on professional success to intrapersonal characteristics. We propose that interpersonal processes are also critical because observers confer status on and support those who express passion. These interpersonal...  View Details
      Keywords: Passion; Admiration; Support; Emotions; Communication; Perception; Status and Position; Success; Situation or Environment; Competition
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      Jachimowicz, Jon M., Christopher To, Shira Agasi, Stéphane Côté, and Adam D. Galinsky. "The Gravitational Pull of Expressing Passion: When and How Expressing Passion Elicits Status Conferral and Support from Others." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 153 (July 2019): 41–62.
      • September 2016 (Revised November 2017)
      • Case

      Casper Sleep Inc.: Marketing the 'One Perfect Mattress for Everyone'

      By: Robert J. Dolan
      “A Warby Parker of mattresses? Somebody is going to do it. Why not us?” This was the topic of a conversation begun in spring 2013 among Gabe Flateman, Philip Krim, Neil Parikh, and T. Luke Sherwin. The four met as members of a New York City venture accelerator...  View Details
      Keywords: Mattress; Sleep; Marketing; Business Model; Marketing Channels; Adoption; Sales; Consumer Products Industry
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      Dolan, Robert J. "Casper Sleep Inc.: Marketing the 'One Perfect Mattress for Everyone'." Harvard Business School Case 517-042, September 2016. (Revised November 2017.)
      • February 2016
      • Teaching Note

      Akın Öngör's Journey

      By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
      The case of Akın Öngör's Journey describes a highly successful former CEO with stellar leadership skills, who transformed a bank in Turkey into one of the world's best, steered it to contribute to his country's social agenda, influenced business practices of other...  View Details
      Keywords: Leadership; Change Management; Social Entrepreneurship; Business and Community Relations; Turkey
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      Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone. "Akın Öngör's Journey." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 316-062, February 2016.
      • January 2013 (Revised June 2016)
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      The Basque Country: Strategy for Economic Development

      By: Michael E. Porter, Christian H.M. Ketels and Jesus M. Valdaliso
      The Basque country, with a population of 2.1 million and covering 7,233 square kilometers, is an autonomous region located in the north of Spain, physically separated from it by the Pyrenees Mountains. Presents the history of the region—highly prosperous at the turn of...  View Details
      Keywords: History; Crime and Corruption; Industry Clusters; Competitive Strategy; Microeconomics; Developing Countries and Economies; Government and Politics; Basque Provinces; Spain
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      Porter, Michael E., Christian H.M. Ketels, and Jesus M. Valdaliso. "The Basque Country: Strategy for Economic Development." Harvard Business School Case 713-474, January 2013. (Revised June 2016.)
      • December 2012 (Revised May 2013)
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      Domaines Barons de Rothschild (Lafite): Plus ça change…

      By: Ray A. Goldberg, Arthur I. Segel, Elie Ofek and Carin-Isabel Knoop
      For centuries Lafite has been the most admired wine Estate in the world. How does Baron Eric de Rothschild protect this crown jewel in a conservative manner while DBR develops other Chateaux blending wine programs, reaches out to new areas such as China and begins to...  View Details
      Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Expansion; Market Entry and Exit; Global Strategy; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; France; China
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      Goldberg, Ray A., Arthur I. Segel, Elie Ofek, and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "Domaines Barons de Rothschild (Lafite): Plus ça change… ." Harvard Business School Case 913-402, December 2012. (Revised May 2013.)
      • October 2012 (Revised August 2014)
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      The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board: October 2012

      By: Josh Lerner, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and Nathaniel Burbank
      The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) is one of the largest and fastest-growing pools of investment capital in the world and follows an unusually active program of investment management. In October of 2012, Mark Wiseman was just 12 weeks into his role as...  View Details
      Keywords: Canada; CPPIB; Pensions; Private Equity; Financial Services Industry; Canada
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      Lerner, Josh, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, and Nathaniel Burbank. "The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board: October 2012." Harvard Business School Case 813-103, October 2012. (Revised August 2014.)
      • October 2012 (Revised January 2014)
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      Building Brand Infosys

      By: Rohit Deshpandé and Vidhya Muthuram
      Infosys Limited was India's second largest exporter of IT services with annual revenues of $7 billion and a market capitalization of nearly $26 billion in 2012. The company, headquartered in Bangalore, India, had built its reputation as the Indian IT bellwether whose...  View Details
      Keywords: Marketing; Information Technology; Information Technology Industry; India
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      Deshpandé, Rohit, and Vidhya Muthuram. "Building Brand Infosys." Harvard Business School Case 513-003, October 2012. (Revised January 2014.)
      • 2011
      • Working Paper

      The Institutional Logic of Great Global Firms

      By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
      Theories of the firm have been dominated by a legacy of ideas from early industrialization that pose zero-sum opposition between capital and labor (or capital and nearly everything else), differentiating the economy from society and often posing irreconcilable...  View Details
      Keywords: Economy; Capital; Globalized Firms and Management; Labor; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Practice; Conflict of Interests; Social Issues; Theory
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      Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "The Institutional Logic of Great Global Firms." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-119, May 2011.
      • 2009
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      Let Me Explain: Eugene G. Fubini's Life in Defense of America

      By: David G. Fubini
      There is no necessary relationship between fame and power, and great influence is often wielded in willful obscurity. So it was with the irascible, indomitable Eugene Fubini. A physics prodigy who fled Italy when the fascists came to power, his searing intelligence and...  View Details
      Keywords: Biography; Personal Development and Career; National Security; United States
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      Fubini, David G. Let Me Explain: Eugene G. Fubini's Life in Defense of America. Santa Fe: Sunstone Press, 2009.
      • November 2007 (Revised May 2008)
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      Haier Hefei Electronics Co. (A)

      By: Lynn Sharp Paine
      The Haier Group, the first mainland Chinese company to make the Financial Times list of Asia's "most admired companies," attributes its success in large measure to the new value system it has sought to instill throughout the organization. However, when Haier takes over...  View Details
      Keywords: Public Ownership; Business and Government Relations; Organizational Culture; Transformation; Ethics; Labor and Management Relations; Business or Company Management; Contracts; Electronics Industry; China
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      Paine, Lynn Sharp. "Haier Hefei Electronics Co. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 308-075, November 2007. (Revised May 2008.)
      • January 2006 (Revised May 2006)
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      Akin Ongor's Journey

      By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
      A retired bank CEO, one of Turkey's most admired leaders, wants to start a leadership institute to develop emerging leaders in the eastern Mediterranean region. Describes his biography and values, the models he established for excellent financial performance and...  View Details
      Keywords: Leadership Development; Values and Beliefs; Partners and Partnerships; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business Startups; Environmental Sustainability; Retirement; Education Industry; Turkey; United States
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      Kanter, Rosabeth M. "Akin Ongor's Journey." Harvard Business School Case 306-072, January 2006. (Revised May 2006.)
      • January 2006 (Revised December 2006)
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      Wal-Mart's Business Environment

      By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee
      In 2004, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. proposed to build a new supercenter in Inglewood, a low-income community near Los Angeles. The proposal was a part of Wal-Mart's strategy to bring its supercenter format to California. Introduced in the late 1980s, supercenters added a...  View Details
      Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Expansion; Market Entry and Exit; Corporate Strategy; Labor Unions; Conflict and Resolution; Retail Industry; Los Angeles
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      Oberholzer-Gee, Felix. "Wal-Mart's Business Environment." Harvard Business School Case 706-453, January 2006. (Revised December 2006.)
      • April 2005
      • Background Note

      Strategies of Unrelated Diversification

      By: Bharat N. Anand and Samhita Patwardhan Jayanti
      Conglomerates lie at the heart of debates in corporate strategy. They include, perhaps, the best known companies in history--Beatrice Corp., General Electric, ITT, Siemens, and ABB--and at various times over the last few decades have been both admired and vilified as a...  View Details
      Keywords: Diversification; Business Conglomerates; Corporate Strategy; Value
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      Anand, Bharat N., and Samhita Patwardhan Jayanti. "Strategies of Unrelated Diversification." Harvard Business School Background Note 705-480, April 2005.
      • September 1994
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      Marks & Spencer: Sir Richard Greenbury's Quiet Revolution

      By: Joseph L. Bower and John B. Matthews Jr.
      Marks & Spencer (M&S) is one of the world's greatest companies. In 1994, its management was chosen the most admired in Europe by 637 peers. The case explores how Sir Richard Greenbury, appointed the new chairman of the company in 1991, transformed his inheritance into...  View Details
      Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Business or Company Management; Business Strategy; Management Teams; Global Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Europe; United States
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      Bower, Joseph L., and John B. Matthews Jr. "Marks & Spencer: Sir Richard Greenbury's Quiet Revolution." Harvard Business School Case 395-054, September 1994.
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