This case relates to a novel human resource initiative undertaken by IOCL, one of India''s largest public sector organizations. IOCL, a Fortune 500 organization, had 33,000 employees spread across seven business divisions and 40 offices across India and abroad. When Ranjan Mahapatra assumed office as Director of Human Resources at IOCL in February 2018, he realized that many IOCL employees perceived that the human resources department is distant .....more

Spreadsheet supplement to case 222064.

This background Note introduces the implications of climate change (global warming) for American cities. In the U.S., partisan political divides and unaddressed economic and racial disparities in climate vulnerabilities can inhibit action. The two main fronts for action are mitigation (reducing emissions) and adaptation (preparing for change by building resilience). The Note reviews main sources of emissions - energy, buildings, transportation, waste .....more

This general experience case tells the story of SearchLight Cures, a fictional biotechnology startup. Having discovered a new therapy for a rare disease, the company''s co-founders find themselves at an impasse over a pricing disagreement.

In December 2021, Unilever-one of the world''s largest producers of consumer goods-was in the midst of a pilot project to digitize its manufacturing facilities and enable remote work for factory employees. This was possible because of an earlier project to retrofit a facility in Brazil with state-of-the art sensors on factory equipment to collect real-time data. The data was then analyzed using machine learning applications on the cloud so .....more

Supplement to case 616020

This Note introduces a module of cases used at Harvard Business School to teach fundamental concepts about navigating nascent industries and product categories. It elaborates a set of ''innovation tensions'' that managers must address in these domains. In connecting the cases to scholarly research on nascent industries (including research by the author), the module builds out a structured process for identifying the tensions and proposes .....more

In an effort to make compensation drive collaboration, Russell Reynolds Associates'' (RRA) CEO Clarke Murphy sought to re-engineer the bonus system for his executive search consultants in 2016. As his HR analytics guru, Kelly Smith, points out, that risks upsetting-and maybe even losing-some of the "big billers" (rainmakers) who were heavily rewarded under the current system that motivated individual, ''entrepreneurial'' .....more

In an effort to make compensation drive collaboration, Russell Reynolds Associates'' (RRA) CEO Clarke Murphy sought to re-engineer the bonus system for his executive search consultants in 2016. As his HR analytics guru, Kelly Smith, points out, that risks upsetting-and maybe even losing-some of the "big billers" (rainmakers) who were heavily rewarded under the current system that motivated individual, ''entrepreneurial'' .....more