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Although specific research interests span a wide range of subjects, the faculty share a problem driven, interdisciplinary, multi method approach that has led to significant impact on theory and practice.</p> <p>Our current intellectual agenda builds on the rich history of OB at HBS and focuses squarely on the organizational changes and challenges arising from today's increasingly global and more competitive economy. In the last decade, the faculty have been recognized for their work on leadership in an increasingly diverse and dynamic environment, the evolution of managerial careers in our society, managing diversity, and organizational design and change to meet evolving needs and expectations in a changing world. </p> <div class="hr4" style="margin:40px 0px"></div> <div class="legacy-section-header"> <h2 class="legacy-section-header gamma-uc">Recent Publications</h2> </div> <div class="shim20"></div> <div class="fr-research-list"> <div class="media" data-wcm-edit-url=""> <div class="row-left"> <div class="span99"><a href="https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=66600" aria-label="Scaling Up Transformational Innovations faculty & research publication detail page"> <h2 class="eta">Scaling Up Transformational Innovations</h2></a><div class="nu add-underline">By: Peter Koen, Ananya Sheth, Mike DiPaola and <a href="https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=6479&click=byline">Linda A. Hill</a></div> <ul class="linear mu regular ash" style="margin-top: 5px;"> <li style="margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mu-uc regular">November–December 2024</span> | </li> <li style="margin-right: 0px;">Article | </li> <li>Harvard Business Review</li> </ul> <div class="shim10"></div> <div class="add-underline">For large companies operating in mature sectors—such as Procter & Gamble in consumer goods, Apple in consumer electronics, and Adobe in cloud software—driving growth is a perennial challenge. Growth through acquisition is always an option, but companies often quickly find that the costs outweigh the benefits. According to the authors, the only reliable path to maintaining market leadership is transformational innovation: major changes to products and services that redefine what customers expect by delivering significantly improved performance, providing new kinds of value, resolving long-standing trade-offs, and/or radically reducing manufacturing costs. To understand what makes transformational innovations successful, the authors studied two of them at Procter & Gamble: Oral-B iO, a “smart” electric toothbrush that step-changed the experience of oral hygiene, and Always Infinity, a best-in-class menstrual pad that resolved the long-standing tension between comfort and protection. In this article the authors present a playbook for scaling up transformational innovation, organized around four major challenges: providing sufficient leadership, building the right team, mobilizing resources and capabilities, and making big-bet decisions.</div> <div class="shim12"></div> <div class="mu regular add-underline"><span><strong>Keywords: </strong></span><a href="/faculty/research/publications/Pages/default.aspx?q=Growth and Development Strategy">Growth and Development Strategy</a>; <a href="/faculty/research/publications/Pages/default.aspx?q=Leadership">Leadership</a>; <a href="/faculty/research/publications/Pages/default.aspx?q=Innovation Strategy">Innovation Strategy</a>; <a href="/faculty/research/publications/Pages/default.aspx?q=Consumer Products Industry">Consumer Products Industry</a></div> <div class="shim10"></div> <div class="publication-extras-container toggle-container add-underline"> <div class="publication-extras" style="display: flex; flex-direction: row;"> <div><a href="#frCitation1" class="pub-extra-item toggle-plus toggle-button black mu" role="button" aria-label="Citation for Scaling Up Transformational Innovations">Citation</a></div> <div style="min-width:110px;"><a href="http://ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=180257756&site=ehost-live&scope=site" class="pub-extra-item black mu" aria-label="Find Scaling Up Transformational Innovations at Harvard">Find at Harvard</a></div> <div style="min-width:110px;"><a href="https://hbr.org/2024/11/scaling-up-transformational-innovations" class="pub-extra-item black mu" aria-label="Register to read Scaling Up Transformational Innovations">Register to Read</a></div> <div class="relatedpopout-trigger"><a href="#frRelated1" data-item-url="https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=66600" class="pub-extra-item toggle-plus toggle-button black mu" role="button" aria-label="Related publications about Scaling Up Transformational Innovations">Related</a></div> </div> <div id="frCitation1" class="frCitation nu has-slide" style="margin-top: 10px; display:none;">Koen, Peter, Ananya Sheth, Mike DiPaola, and Linda A. Hill. <A HREF="https://hbr.org/2024/11/scaling-up-transformational-innovations">"Scaling Up Transformational Innovations."</A> <I>Harvard Business Review</I> 102, no. 6 (November–December 2024): 78–85.</div> <div id="frRelated1" class="frRelated nu has-slide" style="margin-top: 10px; display:none;"></div> </div> <div class="shim30"></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="media" data-wcm-edit-url=""> <div class="row-left"> <div class="span99"><a href="https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=66599" aria-label="Why Employees Quit faculty & research publication detail page"> <h2 class="eta">Why Employees Quit</h2></a><div class="nu add-underline">By: <a href="https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=17441&click=byline">Ethan Bernstein</a>, Michael B. Horn and Bob Moesta</div> <ul class="linear mu regular ash" style="margin-top: 5px;"> <li style="margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mu-uc regular">November–December 2024</span> | </li> <li style="margin-right: 0px;">Article | </li> <li>Harvard Business Review</li> </ul> <div class="shim10"></div> <div class="add-underline">The so-called war for talent is still raging. But in that fight, employers continue to rely on the same hiring and retention strategies they’ve been using for decades. Why? Because they’ve been so focused on challenges such as poaching by industry rivals, competing in tight labor markets, and responding to relentless cost-cutting pressures that they haven’t addressed a more fundamental problem: the widespread failure to provide sustainable work experiences. To stick around and give their best, people need meaningful work, managers and colleagues who value and trust them, and opportunities to advance in their careers, the authors say. By supporting employees in their individual quests for progress while also meeting the organization’s needs, managers can create employee experiences that are mutually beneficial and sustaining.</div> <div class="shim12"></div> <div class="mu regular add-underline"><span><strong>Keywords: </strong></span><a href="/faculty/research/publications/Pages/default.aspx?q=Retention">Retention</a>; <a href="/faculty/research/publications/Pages/default.aspx?q=Recruitment">Recruitment</a>; <a href="/faculty/research/publications/Pages/default.aspx?q=Talent and Talent Management">Talent and Talent Management</a>; <a href="/faculty/research/publications/Pages/default.aspx?q=Employee Relationship Management">Employee Relationship Management</a>; <a href="/faculty/research/publications/Pages/default.aspx?q=Motivation and Incentives">Motivation and Incentives</a></div> <div class="shim10"></div> <div class="publication-extras-container toggle-container add-underline"> <div class="publication-extras" style="display: flex; flex-direction: row;"> <div><a href="#frCitation2" class="pub-extra-item toggle-plus toggle-button black mu" role="button" aria-label="Citation for Why Employees Quit">Citation</a></div> <div style="min-width:110px;"><a href="http://ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=180257752&site=ehost-live&scope=site" class="pub-extra-item black mu" aria-label="Find Why Employees Quit at Harvard">Find at Harvard</a></div> <div style="min-width:110px;"><a href="https://hbr.org/2024/11/why-employees-quit" class="pub-extra-item black mu" aria-label="Register to read Why Employees Quit">Register to Read</a></div> <div class="relatedpopout-trigger"><a href="#frRelated2" data-item-url="https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=66599" class="pub-extra-item toggle-plus toggle-button black mu" role="button" aria-label="Related publications about Why Employees Quit">Related</a></div> </div> <div id="frCitation2" class="frCitation nu has-slide" style="margin-top: 10px; display:none;">Bernstein, Ethan, Michael B. Horn, and Bob Moesta. <A HREF="https://hbr.org/2024/11/why-employees-quit">"Why Employees Quit."</A> <I>Harvard Business Review</I> 102, no. 6 (November–December 2024): 44–54.</div> <div id="frRelated2" class="frRelated nu has-slide" style="margin-top: 10px; display:none;"></div> </div> <div class="shim30"></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="media" data-wcm-edit-url=""> <div class="row-left"> <div class="span99"><a href="https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=66431" aria-label="The Three Traps That Stymie Reinvention: Organizational Identity, Architecture, and Collaboration Can Be Either Assets or Liabilities to Pursuing Growth in New Sectors faculty & research publication detail page"> <h2 class="eta">The Three Traps That Stymie Reinvention: Organizational Identity, Architecture, and Collaboration Can Be Either Assets or Liabilities to Pursuing Growth in New Sectors</h2></a><div class="nu add-underline">By: <a href="https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=257292&click=byline">Ryan Raffaelli</a></div> <ul class="linear mu regular ash" style="margin-top: 5px;"> <li style="margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mu-uc regular">Fall 2024</span> | </li> <li style="margin-right: 0px;">Article | </li> <li>MIT Sloan Management Review</li> </ul> <div class="shim10"></div> <div class="add-underline">In more than a decade of researching innovation, I have observed how organizations respond to new opportunities, technological changes, or unexpected market shifts that threaten to upend their current business model. This process, which I call reinvention, may occur proactively or reactively. In interviews, focus groups, and workshops with 1,451 individuals who faced reinvention dilemmas across a broad array of sectors, I have found that a core challenge of reinvention is that an organization’s past success can either be the greatest asset or the chief liability to its future. The article introduces three traps that can limit a company’s ability to find new avenues for growth: organizational identity, architecture, and collaboration. It highlights how to avoid them by laying the appropriate communications groundwork to foster a coherent identity, setting up new organizational structures, and paying close attention to interpersonal dynamics at the team and individual level.</div> <div class="shim12"></div> <div class="mu regular add-underline"><span><strong>Keywords: </strong></span><a href="/faculty/research/publications/Pages/default.aspx?q=Innovation And Strategy">Innovation And Strategy</a>; <a href="/faculty/research/publications/Pages/default.aspx?q=Change Leadership">Change Leadership</a>; <a href="/faculty/research/publications/Pages/default.aspx?q=Collaboration">Collaboration</a>; <a href="/faculty/research/publications/Pages/default.aspx?q=Architecture">Architecture</a>; <a href="/faculty/research/publications/Pages/default.aspx?q=Transformation">Transformation</a>; <a href="/faculty/research/publications/Pages/default.aspx?q=Disruption">Disruption</a>; <a href="/faculty/research/publications/Pages/default.aspx?q=Leading Change">Leading Change</a>; <a href="/faculty/research/publications/Pages/default.aspx?q=Innovation Strategy">Innovation Strategy</a>; <a href="/faculty/research/publications/Pages/default.aspx?q=Identity">Identity</a>; <a href="/faculty/research/publications/Pages/default.aspx?q=Organizational Culture">Organizational Culture</a>; <a href="/faculty/research/publications/Pages/default.aspx?q=Organizational Structure">Organizational Structure</a></div> <div class="shim10"></div> <div class="publication-extras-container toggle-container add-underline"> <div class="publication-extras" style="display: flex; flex-direction: row;"> <div><a href="#frCitation3" class="pub-extra-item toggle-plus toggle-button black mu" role="button" aria-label="Citation for The Three Traps That Stymie Reinvention: Organizational Identity, Architecture, and Collaboration Can Be Either Assets or Liabilities to Pursuing Growth in New Sectors">Citation</a></div> <div style="min-width:110px;"><a href="https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=Raffaelli+SMR_The+Reinvention+Traps+2024.pdf" class="pub-extra-item black mu" aria-label="Read The Three Traps That Stymie Reinvention: Organizational Identity, Architecture, and Collaboration Can Be Either Assets or Liabilities to Pursuing Growth in New Sectors Now">Read Now</a></div> <div><a href="https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/the-three-traps-that-stymie-reinvention/" class="pub-extra-item black mu" aria-label="Purchase The Three Traps That Stymie Reinvention: Organizational Identity, Architecture, and Collaboration Can Be Either Assets or Liabilities to Pursuing Growth in New Sectors">Purchase</a></div> <div class="relatedpopout-trigger"><a href="#frRelated3" data-item-url="https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=66431" class="pub-extra-item toggle-plus toggle-button black mu" role="button" aria-label="Related publications about The Three Traps That Stymie Reinvention: Organizational Identity, Architecture, and Collaboration Can Be Either Assets or Liabilities to Pursuing Growth in New Sectors">Related</a></div> </div> <div id="frCitation3" class="frCitation nu has-slide" style="margin-top: 10px; display:none;">Raffaelli, Ryan. <A HREF="https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=Raffaelli SMR_The Reinvention Traps 2024.pdf">"The Three Traps That Stymie Reinvention: Organizational Identity, Architecture, and Collaboration Can Be Either Assets or Liabilities to Pursuing Growth in New Sectors."</A> <I>MIT Sloan Management Review</I> 66, no. 1 (Fall 2024): 46–52. (Cover story.)</div> <div id="frRelated3" class="frRelated nu has-slide" style="margin-top: 10px; display:none;"></div> </div> <div class="shim30"></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="media" data-wcm-edit-url=""> <div class="row-left"> <div class="span99"><a href="https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=66077" aria-label="Skills-First Hiring at IBM faculty & research publication detail page"> <h2 class="eta">Skills-First Hiring at IBM</h2></a><div class="nu add-underline">By: <a href="https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=10650&click=byline">Boris Groysberg</a> and Sarah Mehta</div> <ul class="linear mu regular ash" style="margin-top: 5px;"> <li style="margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mu-uc regular">October 2024</span> | </li> <li style="margin-right: 0px;">Supplement | </li> <li>Faculty Research</li> </ul> <div class="shim10"></div> <div class="add-underline">A video supplement to accompany "Skills-First Hiring at IBM" (case no. 422-013)</div> <div class="shim12"></div> <div class="mu regular add-underline"><span><strong>Keywords: </strong></span><a href="/faculty/research/publications/Pages/default.aspx?q=Competency and Skills">Competency and Skills</a>; <a href="/faculty/research/publications/Pages/default.aspx?q=Experience and Expertise">Experience and Expertise</a>; <a href="/faculty/research/publications/Pages/default.aspx?q=Talent and Talent Management">Talent and Talent Management</a>; <a href="/faculty/research/publications/Pages/default.aspx?q=Human Resources">Human Resources</a>; <a href="/faculty/research/publications/Pages/default.aspx?q=Employees">Employees</a>; <a href="/faculty/research/publications/Pages/default.aspx?q=Recruitment">Recruitment</a>; <a href="/faculty/research/publications/Pages/default.aspx?q=Retention">Retention</a>; <a href="/faculty/research/publications/Pages/default.aspx?q=Selection and Staffing">Selection and Staffing</a>; <a href="/faculty/research/publications/Pages/default.aspx?q=Jobs and Positions">Jobs and Positions</a>; <a href="/faculty/research/publications/Pages/default.aspx?q=Job Design and Levels">Job Design and Levels</a>; <a href="/faculty/research/publications/Pages/default.aspx?q=Job Interviews">Job Interviews</a>; <a href="/faculty/research/publications/Pages/default.aspx?q=Society">Society</a>; <a href="/faculty/research/publications/Pages/default.aspx?q=Social Issues">Social Issues</a>; <a href="/faculty/research/publications/Pages/default.aspx?q=Technology Industry">Technology Industry</a>; <a href="/faculty/research/publications/Pages/default.aspx?q=United States">United States</a>; <a href="/faculty/research/publications/Pages/default.aspx?q=New York (state, US)">New York (state, US)</a></div> <div class="shim10"></div> <div class="publication-extras-container toggle-container add-underline"> <div class="publication-extras" style="display: flex; flex-direction: row;"> <div><a href="#frCitation4" class="pub-extra-item toggle-plus toggle-button black mu" role="button" aria-label="Citation for Skills-First Hiring at IBM">Citation</a></div> <div><a href="http://hbr.org/search/425707" class="pub-extra-item black mu" aria-label="Purchase Skills-First Hiring at IBM">Purchase</a></div> <div class="relatedpopout-trigger"><a href="#frRelated4" data-item-url="https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=66077" class="pub-extra-item toggle-plus toggle-button black mu" role="button" aria-label="Related publications about Skills-First Hiring at IBM">Related</a></div> </div> <div id="frCitation4" class="frCitation nu has-slide" style="margin-top: 10px; display:none;">Groysberg, Boris, and Sarah Mehta. <A HREF="http://hbr.org/product/Skills-First-Hiring-at-IB/an/425707-VID-ENG">"Skills-First Hiring at IBM."</A> Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 425-707, October 2024.</div> <div id="frRelated4" class="frRelated nu has-slide" style="margin-top: 10px; display:none;"></div> </div> <div class="shim30"></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="media" data-wcm-edit-url=""> <div class="row-left"> <div class="span99"><a href="https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=65837" aria-label="Strategic Decision Making at Platform Transitions: The Case of Nokia (2010-2011). faculty & research publication detail page"> <h2 class="eta">Strategic Decision Making at Platform Transitions: The Case of Nokia (2010-2011).</h2></a><div class="nu add-underline">By: Timo O. Vuori and <a href="https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=6584&click=byline">Michael Tushman</a></div> <ul class="linear mu regular ash" style="margin-top: 5px;"> <li style="margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mu-uc regular">October 2024</span> | </li> <li style="margin-right: 0px;">Article | </li> <li>Strategic Management Journal</li> </ul> <div class="shim10"></div> <div class="add-underline">We studied Nokia’s decision to adopt the Windows platform in 2011 to induce new theory on the emotional dynamics of incumbent firms’ strategic decision making at platform transitions. We find that platform companies’ entry into an established industry activates a cosmological episode—a period when long-held core assumptions about the industry become invalid—for incumbent senior teams, triggering anxiety and stunting self regulation. Distinct mechanisms then influence incumbent senior team’s emotions toward external platform options—myopic appraisals of firm competitiveness inside a platform (vs. platform competitiveness against other platforms), appraisals of changing firm boundaries, and emotional resonance of potential partners. These emotions contribute to emotional drift, with top managers ultimately favoring the emotionally attractive option. These findings extend theory on platforms, strategy, and emotion.</div> <div class="shim12"></div> <div class="mu regular add-underline"><span><strong>Keywords: </strong></span><a href="/faculty/research/publications/Pages/default.aspx?q=Emotions">Emotions</a>; <a href="/faculty/research/publications/Pages/default.aspx?q=Technology Adoption">Technology Adoption</a>; <a href="/faculty/research/publications/Pages/default.aspx?q=Corporate Strategy">Corporate Strategy</a>; <a href="/faculty/research/publications/Pages/default.aspx?q=Transition">Transition</a></div> <div class="shim10"></div> <div class="publication-extras-container toggle-container add-underline"> <div class="publication-extras" style="display: flex; flex-direction: row;"> <div><a href="#frCitation5" class="pub-extra-item toggle-plus toggle-button black mu" role="button" aria-label="Citation for Strategic Decision Making at Platform Transitions: The Case of Nokia (2010-2011).">Citation</a></div> <div><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smj.3608" class="pub-extra-item black mu" aria-label="Read Strategic Decision Making at Platform Transitions: The Case of Nokia (2010-2011). Now">Read Now</a></div> <div class="relatedpopout-trigger"><a href="#frRelated5" data-item-url="https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=65837" class="pub-extra-item toggle-plus toggle-button black mu" role="button" aria-label="Related publications about Strategic Decision Making at Platform Transitions: The Case of Nokia (2010-2011).">Related</a></div> </div> <div id="frCitation5" class="frCitation nu has-slide" style="margin-top: 10px; display:none;">Vuori, Timo O., and Michael Tushman. <A HREF="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smj.3608">"Strategic Decision Making at Platform Transitions: The Case of Nokia (2010-2011)."</A> <I>Strategic Management Journal</I> 45, no. 10 (October 2024): 2018–2062.</div> <div id="frRelated5" class="frRelated nu has-slide" style="margin-top: 10px; display:none;"></div> </div> <div class="shim30"></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="media" data-wcm-edit-url=""> <div class="row-left"> <div class="span99"><a href="https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=66458" aria-label="Moss & Associates: 'Empower to Create the Exceptional' faculty & research publication detail page"> <h2 class="eta">Moss & Associates: 'Empower to Create the Exceptional'</h2></a><div class="nu add-underline">By: <a href="https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=10650&click=byline">Boris Groysberg</a> and Sarah L. Abbott</div> <ul class="linear mu regular ash" style="margin-top: 5px;"> <li style="margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mu-uc regular">September 2024 (Revised November 2024)</span> | </li> <li style="margin-right: 0px;">Case | </li> <li>Faculty Research</li> </ul> <div class="shim10"></div> <div class="add-underline">In 2023, Moss & Associates, a Fort Lauderdale-based general contractor, celebrated its 20th anniversary. The business was founded by Bob Moss and his sons, Chad and Scott. The company had grown to 3,800 employees generating over $3 billion in revenues via two business lines: construction management and solar EPC. Moss cultivated a “Moss-first” culture. As Moss continued to grow, how should the culture grow with it?</div> <div class="shim12"></div> <div class="mu regular add-underline"><span><strong>Keywords: </strong></span><a href="/faculty/research/publications/Pages/default.aspx?q=Solar">Solar</a>; <a href="/faculty/research/publications/Pages/default.aspx?q=Growth">Growth</a>; <a href="/faculty/research/publications/Pages/default.aspx?q=Community">Community</a>; <a href="/faculty/research/publications/Pages/default.aspx?q=Culture">Culture</a>; <a href="/faculty/research/publications/Pages/default.aspx?q=Family Business">Family Business</a>; <a href="/faculty/research/publications/Pages/default.aspx?q=Construction">Construction</a>; <a href="/faculty/research/publications/Pages/default.aspx?q=Growth Management">Growth Management</a>; <a href="/faculty/research/publications/Pages/default.aspx?q=Construction Industry">Construction Industry</a>; <a href="/faculty/research/publications/Pages/default.aspx?q=United States">United States</a></div> <div class="shim10"></div> <div class="publication-extras-container toggle-container add-underline"> <div class="publication-extras" style="display: flex; flex-direction: row;"> <div><a href="#frCitation6" class="pub-extra-item toggle-plus toggle-button black mu" role="button" aria-label="Citation for Moss & Associates: 'Empower to Create the Exceptional'">Citation</a></div> <div><a href="http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/425006-PDF-ENG" class="pub-extra-item black mu" aria-label="Educators for Moss & Associates: 'Empower to Create the Exceptional'">Educators</a></div> <div><a href="http://hbr.org/search/425006" class="pub-extra-item black mu" aria-label="Purchase Moss & Associates: 'Empower to Create the Exceptional'">Purchase</a></div> <div class="relatedpopout-trigger"><a href="#frRelated6" data-item-url="https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=66458" class="pub-extra-item toggle-plus toggle-button black mu" role="button" aria-label="Related publications about Moss & Associates: 'Empower to Create the Exceptional'">Related</a></div> </div> <div id="frCitation6" class="frCitation nu has-slide" style="margin-top: 10px; display:none;">Groysberg, Boris, and Sarah L. Abbott. <A HREF="http://hbr.org/product/Moss---Associates---Empow/an/425006-PDF-ENG">"Moss & Associates: 'Empower to Create the Exceptional'."</A> Harvard Business School Case 425-006, September 2024. 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this.debug.html(html); if (pageY >= this.appearsAt) { this.triggerAppear(); } if ($(".page-header").hasClass('page-header-online') && $('.table-of-contents-wrapper').length && $('.table-of-contents-wrapper.jump-to').length == 0){ var tocWrap = $('.table-of-contents-wrapper'); var toc = tocWrap.children('.table-of-contents'); var tocItems = toc.find('.toc-item'); var stickyHeight = this.maxHeight; if ((pageY + stickyHeight) > tocWrap.offset().top && !toc.hasClass('sticky')) { toc.addClass('sticky'); } else if ((pageY + stickyHeight) <= tocWrap.offset().top && toc.hasClass('sticky')) { toc.removeClass('sticky'); } if (toc.hasClass('sticky')) { tocItems.each(function( index ) { var section = $($(this).children("a.toc-jump").attr("href")); if (section.length) { var sectionTop = section.offset().top - 45; var pageHeight = pageY + stickyHeight + toc.height(); if ((pageHeight > sectionTop) && !$(this).hasClass('current')) { tocItems.removeClass('current'); $(this).addClass('current'); } else if ((pageHeight <= sectionTop) && $(this).hasClass('current')) { $(this).removeClass('current'); } } }); } } if (pageY <= 0) { this.triggerDisappear(); } else if (scrollUp) { console.log('scroll up'); if ($(".page-header").hasClass('page-header-online') && pageY < (this.appearsAt - this.maxHeight)) { this.triggerDisappear(); } else if (velocity > 5 || pageY < this.appearsAt) { this.triggerExpand(); } } else if (pageY > this.appearsAt) { // If HBS online and mobile hide the sticky header if ($(".page-header").hasClass('page-header-online') && $( '.ua-mobile, .ua-tablet' ).length > 0) { this.triggerDisappear(); } this.triggerShrink(); } this.lastScrollTop = pageY; } this.hasScrolled = false; }; var _domready = _domready || []; _domready.push(function(){ if (document.getElementById('wcm-react-root')) return; if (window.stickyHeaderDisabled) return; window.stickyHeader = new StickyHeader(); var _onScroll = function () { if (!window.stickyHeader.hasScrolled) { window.requestAnimationFrame(function(){ window.stickyHeader.redraw(); }); } window.stickyHeader.hasScrolled = true; window.requestAnimationFrame(_onScroll); }; _onScroll(); //without this, the header flickers on online window.setTimeout(function(){ _onScroll(); },250) $(document).on('delay-sticky-nav',function(){ window.stickyHeader.temporarilyDisabled(); }) // needed for facet pages http://www.hbs.edu/news/Pages/default.aspx $(document).on('click',".facetctrl-sticky.active",function(){ $(document).trigger('delay-sticky-nav'); }) $(document).on('click',".filter-sticky.fixed",function(){ $(document).trigger('delay-sticky-nav'); }) }); </script> </body> </html>

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