Leaders have always faced the job of inspiring others while making important decisions with incomplete information. Today's leaders are confronted with challenges and opportunities that have never been more dynamic or complex. We help leaders effectively understand and manage these forces.
Windsurf and the AI Code Assistant Market
- MAY 2025
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- Case
In April 2025, the founding team of Windsurf, an AI start-up specializing in code generation gathered in Mountain View, California, to assess its remarkable year of growth. The company had scaled from a niche GitHub Copilot alternative to a breakout player with over 700,000 individual users, 1,000...
Campbell's Recipe for Advancing School Nutrition
- APRIL 2025
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- Case
In 2021, The Campbell’s Company launched Full Futures, a collective impact initiative aimed at advancing school nutrition environments in underserved communities. The program started in Camden, NJ—home to Campbell’s headquarters—and later expanded to Charlotte, NC, and Hanover, PA with a $5 million...
Lisa Su and AMD (A)
- APRIL 2025
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- Case
This multimedia case study focuses on CEO Lisa Su’s turnaround and subsequent transformation of the technology company Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD). When Su accepted the top position in 2014, AMD was on the verge of collapse. Su focused the company’s culture, simplified its product roadmap,...
Governing Sustainability in a Shifting Context (A)
- APRIL 2025 (REVISED MAY 2025)
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- Case
In early 2025, boards of directors had to rethink corporate responsibility and sustainability efforts amid rapidly-shifting social, legal, regulatory, and economic forces. While just a few years earlier, calls to address racial justice and climate change reached into boardrooms, the pendulum seemed...
How to Manage for Collective Creativity
14 Sep 2014
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Pompeo Warns Against u.s. Pulling Back from Global Leadership Role
Re: jsebenius@phdbe1980.hbs.edu
- 07 May 2025
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- Harvard Gazette
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