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Is Yours a Learning Organization
Garvin, David A.; Edmondson, Amy C.; Gino, FrancescaArticle HBS-R0803H-ELeadership and People ManagementThis article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. An organization with a strong learning culture faces the unpredictable deftly. However, a concrete method for understanding precisely how an institution learns and for identifying specific steps to help it learn better has remained elusive. A new survey instrument ...Starting at €8.20
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Fighting a Government Threat (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Gino, FrancescaArticle HBS-R1303Z-EIn this fictionalized case study, an in-house lawyer at a cosmetics company is trying to decide the best approach to negotiating with a government entity. The company is the largest extractor of volcanic ash in the Northern Mariana Islands and the governor of the territory has proposed a large tax increase. The lawyer believes the company should approach the negotiation carefully, but the company's CEO wants to take a harder line and threaten to ...Starting at €8.20
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Can You Fix a Toxic Culture Without Firing People (HBR Case Study)
Gino, FrancescaArticle HBS-R1806X-ELeadership and People ManagementFB Holdings had made it through the financial crisis of 2008 without losing money, but Franklin, its automotive climate control systems division, had not fared as well. It had the unfortunate distinction of having been the group's poorest-performing unit for nearly a decade. As CFO, Noelle Freeman was, of course, concerned about the numbers. But after spending time in Little Rock, she worried they might be facing a bigger problem. She knew the pl...Starting at €8.20
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Can You Fix a Toxic Culture Without Firing People (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Gino, FrancescaArticle HBS-R1806Z-ELeadership and People ManagementFB Holdings had made it through the financial crisis of 2008 without losing money, but Franklin, its automotive climate control systems division, had not fared as well. It had the unfortunate distinction of having been the group's poorest-performing unit for nearly a decade. As CFO, Noelle Freeman was, of course, concerned about the numbers. But after spending time in Little Rock, she worried they might be facing a bigger problem. She knew the pl...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
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Opening the Valve: From Software to Hardware, Teaching Note
Bernstein, Ethan S.; Gino, Francesca; Staats, Bradley R.Teaching Note HBS-417060-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching note for 415015 and 415016.Starting at €0.00
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Mellody Hobson at Ariel Investments
Gino, Francesca; Ramarajan, LakshmiCase HBS-419041-ELeadership and People ManagementIn 2018, Mellody Hobson, President of Ariel Investments, the largest minority-owned investment firm in the U.S., was considering how best to divide her time and use her position and personal characteristics to push for positive change at her firm and in society at large.Starting at €8.20
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The Future of BioPasteur -- Supplement
Gavetti, Giovanni; Gino, FrancescaCase HBS-711509-EStrategyThe purpose of this exercise is to let students experience a few biases that can be deleterious to strategic decision-making. In particular, students are induced to fall into a confirmatory trap, and to experience other biases such as anchoring and sampling bias. Although the exercise can be performed individually, it is a better vehicle to explore how some team-level dynamics and structural choices can either increase or reduce the probability o...Starting at €8.20
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BioPasteur: Instructions for the Group Discussion
Gavetti, Giovanni; Gino, FrancescaCase HBS-711510-EStrategyThe purpose of this exercise is to let students experience a few biases that can be deleterious to strategic decision-making. In particular, students are induced to fall into a confirmatory trap, and to experience other biases such as anchoring and sampling bias. Although the exercise can be performed individually, it is a better vehicle to explore how some team-level dynamics and structural choices can either increase or reduce the probability o...Starting at €8.20
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Larry Miller
Gino, Francesca; Frei, Frances X.; Gibson, Hise; Dadlani, AliciaCase HBS-922041-ELeadership and People ManagementUnder the leadership of Larry Miller, chairman and former president of Nike's Air Jordan brand, annual revenues for the Jordan brand soared from $150 million to over $4 billion. But for over 40 years, Miller guarded a secret. When he was younger, he spent nearly a decade in and out of prison for homicide and armed robberies. While incarcerated, he focused on his education, and graduated with honors from college. After a potential employer rescind...Starting at €8.20