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AI Can Help You Ask Better Questions — and Solve Bigger Problems
Technology and analytics Digital ArticleLeaders should focus less on automation and more on innovation. -
What Leaders Really Do
Change management Magazine ArticleThey don’t make plans; they don’t solve problems; they don’t even organize people. What leaders really do is prepare organizations for change and help them cope as they struggle through it. -
Change Management Requires a Change Mindset
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleOur ability to manage change hinges on our ability to manage ourselves, including our fears and anxieties. -
Employees Are Losing Patience with Change Initiatives
Organizational Development Digital ArticleA Gartner survey found that employees' willingness to support enterprise change fell from 74% in 2016 to just 43% in 2022. -
The Hard Side of Change Management
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleEveryone agrees that managing change is tough, but few can agree on how to do it. Most experts are obsessed with "soft" issues, such as culture and motivation,... -
The Real Reason People Won’t Change
Managing people Magazine ArticleIt’s a psychological dynamic called a “competing commitment,” and until managers understand how it works and the ways to overcome it, they can’t do a thing about change-resistant employees. -
How to Survive a Recession and Thrive Afterward
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleAccording to an analysis led by Ranjay Gulati, during the recessions of 1980, 1990, and 2000, 17% of the 4,700 public companies studied fared very badly:... -
How to Deal with Resistance to Change
Change management Magazine ArticleThe real problem is not technical change but the human changes that often accompany technical innovations. -
The Most Successful Approaches to Leading Organizational Change
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleA closer look at four distinct ways to drive transformation. -
An Agile Approach to Change Management
Agile project management Digital ArticleSix lessons on moving quickly under pressure. -
The Top 20 Business Transformations of the Last Decade, Chinese Version
Organizational Development Digital ArticleNetflix, Adobe, and Amazon top the list. -
Ten Reasons People Resist Change
Change management Digital ArticleWhich ones are hurting your company? -
Putting the Balanced Scorecard to Work
Balanced scorecard Magazine ArticleWhat do companies like Rockwater, Apple Computer, and Advanced Micro Devices have in common? They’re using the scorecard to measure performance and set strategy. -
Radical Optionality
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThe next era of competition is at hand. To succeed in an environment of high uncertainty, greater short-term pressure, and tighter resource constraints,... -
Office of Strategy Management
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThere is a disconnect in most companies between strategy formulation and strategy execution. On average, 95% of a company's employees are unaware of,... -
4 Actions Transformational Leaders Take, Chinese Version
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleBecause the status quo won't cut it. -
6 Key Levers of a Successful Organizational Transformation
Organizational Development Digital ArticleLeaders, don't overlook your employees' emotional journey. -
How "Perspective Swaps" Can Unlock Organizational Change
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleStepping into a colleague's shoes can reveal surprising new ways of thinking. -
Implementing New Technology
Digital transformation Magazine ArticleFor all the dollars spent by American companies on R&D, there often remains a persistent and troubling gap between the inherent value of the technology they develop and their ability to put it to work effectively. At a time of fierce global competition, the distance between technical promise and genuine achievement is a matter of […] -
Choosing Strategies for Change (HBR Classic)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleThe rapid rate of change in the world of management continues to escalate. New government regulations, new products, growth, increased competition, technological...
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Prabhu Bank Limited: The Challenges of Merging with Ailing Banks
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In FY2018-19, Prabhu Bank, an 'A' class Nepalese commercial bank, reported its operating profit of Rs1.74 billion, a significant decrease of 34 per cent... -
Should It Survive? Charles Dunlap and the National Family Legal Foundation
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This nonprofit strategic planning case tells the story of the Phoenix-based National Family Legal Foundation, an anti-pornography advocacy group which,... -
Cray Research, Inc., Spanish Version
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Cray Research faces several management problems as a result of rapid growth and the need for continued growth. Issues to be discussed include 1) whether... -
Mastering the Art of Change: Managing Convergence and Upheaval
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Outlines the differences between convergent change, which is a process of incremental innovation and continuous improvement, and divergent change, which... -
When a Pandemic Hits: Treading H2O and the Possible Pox (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details This five-case series, sold as a package, presents an opportunity for students to understand that having the leadership mindset is not about going from... -
Foremostco, Inc. (A), Chinese Version
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Describes the rocky transition from an outdated, nonintegrated information system to a new customized system built by programmers in a small, IT-dependent... -
Implementing a Culture of Health
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Focused Philanthropy: The Steans Family Foundation North Lawndale Initiative
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The Chicago-based Steans Family Foundation decides, in 1995, to depart from its historic focus on aiding individual, needy Chicago public school students.... -
Business Process Reengineering: IT-Enabled Radical Change, Spanish Version
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Provides a conceptual framework for understanding business process redesign and change management. -
Waking the Bear (B): "Danonizing" the Bolshevik Biscuit Factory
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case IN1056. Direct foreign investment in Russia was only 1% of GDP in 1999, and Russian industry was only half as productive in that year... -
Agile Auditing at DBS: Embracing the Future
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The case describes the efforts of Group Audit at DBS Bank Singapore to enhance the value of services it offers to the organisation by adopting various... -
Sabina: Adapting Proactively to Change
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This case is about Sabina, one of the leaders in the Thai lingerie market, and its proactive adaptation to changes in its business environment over two... -
Sealed Air Corps Leveraged Recapitalization (A), Chinese Version
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Less than a year after Sealed Air embarked on a program to improve manufacturing efficiency and product quality, the company borrowed almost 90% of the... -
Union Square Hospitality Group: Hospitality Included
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details In 2015, Union Square Hospitality Group (USHG), helmed by famous restauranteur Danny Meyer, sent shockwaves through the restaurant industry by announcing... -
Coco-Mat: The Spartan Mattress Revolution
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details The Coco-Mat case tracks the development of the bedding brand from its initial concept in 1989 to the iconic status it had achieved by 2016. During that... -
Donna Dubinsky and Apple Computer, Inc. (C), Japanese Version
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Dubinsky and her boss' boss reflect on what was learned through this difficult chapter in Apple's history. May be used with Donna Dubinsky and Apple Computer,... -
Westeron: Rallying "The Crowd" To Reboot Innovation
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Westeron, a well-known kitchen, bath and home products retailer, created the "Takeoff" program in 2015 to enhance its product pipeline by connecting emerging... -
Peter Browning and Continental White Cap (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Presents a new divisional vice president's entry into a well-established and still successful manufacturing organization which is nevertheless facing... -
The Zuellig Family Foundation: A Bridge to a Better Future
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In 2008, the chairman of the Zuellig Family Foundation and former Secretary of Foreign Affairs for the Philippines, asked the foundation's president to... -
Kjell and Company: Motivating Salespeople with Incentive Compensation (D)
Sales & Marketing Case Study5.00View Details Kjell & Company was a Swedish retail electronics chain. The company's products consisted of home electronics and accessories. The company was noted for...
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AI Can Help You Ask Better Questions — and Solve Bigger Problems
Technology and analytics Digital ArticleLeaders should focus less on automation and more on innovation. -
What Leaders Really Do
Change management Magazine ArticleThey don’t make plans; they don’t solve problems; they don’t even organize people. What leaders really do is prepare organizations for change and help them cope as they struggle through it. -
Change Management Requires a Change Mindset
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleOur ability to manage change hinges on our ability to manage ourselves, including our fears and anxieties. -
Employees Are Losing Patience with Change Initiatives
Organizational Development Digital ArticleA Gartner survey found that employees' willingness to support enterprise change fell from 74% in 2016 to just 43% in 2022. -
The Hard Side of Change Management
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleEveryone agrees that managing change is tough, but few can agree on how to do it. Most experts are obsessed with "soft" issues, such as culture and motivation,... -
The Real Reason People Won’t Change
Managing people Magazine ArticleIt’s a psychological dynamic called a “competing commitment,” and until managers understand how it works and the ways to overcome it, they can’t do a thing about change-resistant employees. -
How to Survive a Recession and Thrive Afterward
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleAccording to an analysis led by Ranjay Gulati, during the recessions of 1980, 1990, and 2000, 17% of the 4,700 public companies studied fared very badly:... -
How to Deal with Resistance to Change
Change management Magazine ArticleThe real problem is not technical change but the human changes that often accompany technical innovations. -
The Most Successful Approaches to Leading Organizational Change
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleA closer look at four distinct ways to drive transformation. -
An Agile Approach to Change Management
Agile project management Digital ArticleSix lessons on moving quickly under pressure.