McCombs School of Business

The case Walton Arts Center also known as (WAC), has several key facts and issues presented in this chapter. One of the key factors presented in the case was the companies turn around. Anita Scism became the second president of the center. She joined the company with the goal and aspirations to move the center forward into the future (Lester, & Parnell, 2006). As a person from the community, she has a firsthand account of the community’s enthusiasm for the arts (Lester, Parnell, 2006). Her goal…

result is that this award is problematic, because it only recognized one winner, but what happen to the rest employees that are always on time and do their work everyday. The article published on April 8th, 2013, by Diana Gerderman on the Harvard Business School’s website, title “How to Demotivate Your Best Employees,” is destined to inform and demonstrated that awards such as "employee of the month,” in fact it is harmful to the employer’s motivation. Gerderman use evidence-base details to…

was published by Harvard Business Review in the July-August 2011 edition on pages 142-147. Tarun Khanna is Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School and the Director of Harvard’s South Asia Institute. Jaeyong Song and Kyungmook Lee are professors at the Seoul National University in South Korea. The intention of the article is to describe Samsung´s crucial approach of moving away from their previous business practices and how they transferred Western business practices into…

student at Harvard Business School, decided to enter an annual business plan contest. Hence he had teamed with his HBS classmate Dana Soiman and the founders of a start-up company Music Games International (MGI). The MGI founders – an HBS alumnus and two professional Musicians, then added two students from other institutions into the team, to create a group composed of diverse views and talents. Though the team was productive, conflicts are at its peak and the progress on the business plan had…

Introduction This review takes a closer look at the article written by T. Khanna, J. Song and K. Lee; “The Paradox of Samsung’s Rise” that was published in the Harvard Business Review in 2011, July-August edition, pages 142-147. They studied the process of Samsung’s development for seven years in order to provide insights for modern companies that are planning to enter the global market by identifying its essential success factors. The Samsung group is currently the largest company in South…

One secret to maintaining a thriving business is recognizing when it needs a fundamental change. 50 Harvard Business Review | December 2008 | hbr.org Business Reinventing Y our by Mark W. Johnson, Clayton M. Christensen, and Henning Kagermann Model IN 2003, APPLE INTRODUCED THE IPOD WITH THE ITUNES STORE, Jim Frazier revolutionizing portable entertainment, creating a new market, and transforming the company. In just three years, the iPod/iTunes combination became…

____________________________________________ Harvard Business School Professor Timothy Luehrman and HBS MBA Heide Abelli prepared this reading to accompany the Finance Simulation: Capital Budgeting (HBP No. 3357). This reading is fictionalized, is not a source of primary data or an illustration of elective or ineffective management and any resemblance to actual persons or entities is coincidental. Copyright © 2010 Harvard Business School Publishing. To order copies or request permission to…

fundamental changes in how business is conducted in order to help cope with a new, more challenging market environment. A few of these corporate change efforts have been very successful. A few have been utter failures. Most fall somewhere in between, with a distinct tilt toward the lower end of the scale. The lessons that can be drawn are interesting and will probably be relevant to even more or- page 2 Leading Change •• •B EST OF HBR ganizations in the increasingly competitive business…

Childhood is one of those precious and phenomenal time in which a child is transforming into an adult. We all been through childhood and we can all agree that childhood is one of the most significant moment of our lives because childhood is a delightful time in which life is extremely enjoyable and innocent. Childhood is the most beautiful of all life season. The poem Hide and Seek by Vernon Scannell presents an unbeautiful side of childhood life, in which the central theme is about growing up,…

Change is everywhere. In today’s business world, change is inevitable. To prosper and survive in the modern business environment, organizations must be aware of the drivers that stimulate change and implement initiatives in response to these changes. These drivers can include new competition, unfavorable economic conditions, and increased cost of raw materials, to name a few. Transformation planning is a process of developing a strategic plan for changing an organization’s systems, processes,…