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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,... -
Why Business Leaders Must Resist the Anti-ESG Movement
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleRetreat isn't just inadvisable; it's dangerous. -
The Office of Strategy Management
Balanced scorecard Magazine ArticleStrategy at many companies is almost completely disconnected from execution. Establishing a dedicated unit to orchestrate both will help to bridge the divide. -
Ten Ways to Create Shareholder Value
Corporate governance Magazine ArticleCompanies profess devotion to shareholder value but rarely follow the practices that maximize it. What will it take to make your company a level 10 value creator? -
Research: The Average Age of a Successful Startup Founder Is 45
Innovation & Leadership ResearchThe most successful entrepreneurs aren't 20-somethings. -
Who Has the D?: How Clear Decision Roles Enhance Organizational Performance
Decision making and problem solving Magazine ArticleYour organization can become more decisive—and can implement strategy more quickly—if you know where the bottlenecks are and who’s empowered to break through them. -
Off-Sites That Work
Decision making and problem solving Magazine ArticleThe top team’s annual strategic off-site differs from all other meetings in its potential impact on the company. That’s why it should be designed and managed differently. -
A Brief Guide to U.S. Corporate Tax Reform
Government policy and regulation Digital ArticleHow the current system works, and why it needs fixing. -
Innovate at Your Own Risk: Deborah Wince-Smith on Competitiveness
Emerging markets Magazine ArticleThe U.S. may be the world’s leading innovator, but it won’t be for long if investors, regulators, and the legal establishment continue to penalize companies for risk taking, says Deborah Wince-Smith, president of the Council on Competitiveness. Recently, the council’s National Innovation Initiative, a leadership network of CEOs and university presidents, released a report in […] -
What Men Think They Know About Executive Women
Market research Magazine ArticleHow do people in business feel about women in executive roles? The short answer is, attitudes have improved, but not as much as men seem to think. In the July–August 1965 issue of HBR, Garda W. Bowman, N. Beatrice Worthy, and Stephen A. Greyser examined the views of 2,000 U.S. executives (half were men, half […] -
Turning an Industry Inside Out: A Conversation with Robert Redford
Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleHow can you change an industry? According to the Oscar-winning director who upended the movie business, be prepared to start small and accept setbacks. -
Landing Amazon HQ2 Isn’t the Right Way for a City to Create Jobs. Here’s What Works Instead
Economics Digital ArticleFocus on the people who already live in your community. -
How Companies Can Help Rebuild America's Common Resources
Global Business Digital ArticleStart investing in them again. -
Bringing Silicon Valley Inside
Finance and investing Magazine ArticleIn Silicon Valley, exciting new business ideas rapidly attract capital and talent away from less worthy ventures. But in big companies, ideas, capital, and talent are stagnant—prisoners of traditional bureaucratic ways of allocating resources. To capture the Valley’s entrepreneurial magic, your company needs to move from resource allocation to resource attraction. -
Patient-Reported Data Can Help People Make Better Health Care Choices
Organizational culture Digital ArticleAnd electronic tools can help them do it. -
Taking the Measure of Mood
Organizational culture Magazine ArticleThe Inn at Little Washington, in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, is one of America’s most acclaimed restaurants, rated number one in North America by Travel + Leisure magazine and listed among the top ten in the world by the International Herald Tribune. Yet, as co-owner and chef Patrick O’Connell explains, exquisite food is the norm at […] -
Understanding the Debate Over Inequality, Skills, and the Rise of the 1%
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleOccam's razor doesn't apply. -
Think of Start-ups as Shots on Goal
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Who Has the Power to Cut Drug Prices? Employers.
Pricing strategy Digital ArticleEmployers have a lot of indirect influence. -
The New Tools of Trade
Labor Magazine ArticleToday, most multinationals have a conspicuous social conscience. They publicize their internal codes of conduct, monitor labor conditions in their global supply chains, and require suppliers to meet basic labor practice standards. But despite efforts to be better global citizens, companies by themselves are unable to eliminate abuses in their supply chains. In fact, so […]
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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,... -
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.... -
Eataly: Reimagining the Grocery Store
Sales & Marketing Tool25.00View Details Within a few years of its operations, the Italian-based supermarket Eataly created a lot of buzz and excitement among consumers and media. Eataly's initial... -
Trader Joe's: At a crossroads?
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details When Covid-19 hit the US in 2020, the grocery retail industry underwent a greatly accelerated digital transformation as consumers' habits changed drastically... -
Shoring Up Child Protection in Massachusetts: Commissioner Spears & the Push to Go Fast
Management Case Study8.95View Details In January 2015, when incoming Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker chose Linda Spears as his new Commissioner of the Department of Children and Families,... -
Blue Ocean Leadership: How to Achieve High Impact at Low Cost
Management Case Study8.95View Details This highly engaging exercise is designed to give participants a keen understanding of Blue Ocean Leadership and how to achieve high impact at low cost... -
American Electric Power: Investing in Forest Conservation
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details This case focuses on an opportunity that American Electric Power (AEP) has to invest, with The Nature Conservancy (TNC), in one of the world's first projects... -
Shaklee Corporation: Corporate Social Responsibility
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Having bought Shaklee Corporation from Yamanouchi, Roger Barnett, its owner and CEO, wrestled with the question of how to grow the company and its reputation... -
Roche: ESG and Access to Healthcare
Management Case Study8.95View Details In May 2022, Roche Group, one of the largest healthcare companies in the world, hosted its first ESG investor event focused exclusively on its efforts... -
Starbucks: Venti Leases
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case depicts a financial analyst trying to make sense of Starbucks' finances and drawing from recent projects of the IASB and FASB to identify lease... -
Jones Lang LaSalle (2012): Integrated Services and the Architecture of Complexity (D)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details This case describes the strategic and organizational challenges that Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) faced between 2008 and 2012. In 2008, in order to strengthen... -
Amazon's Second Headquarters: (A) Choosing the City
Management Case Study8.95View Details Case A reviews Amazon's location choices from its founding in 1994 to 2017, explaining how it moved its offices from Bellevue, Washington, to various... -
Yildiz Holding's Corporate Strategy: Managing Diversification for Growth
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The case opens in May 2018 with Nurtac Ziyal Afridi, chief strategy and growth officer of Yildiz Holding, a Turkish conglomerate, reflecting on the group's... -
Inclusion and Diversity at Mars Petcare
Management Case Study8.95View Details In 2018, Erica Coletta became Mars Petcare's Chief Human Resources Officer, and immediately found herself dealing with high-stakes inclusion and diversity... -
Hurricane Katrina (C): Responding to an 'Ultra-Catastrophe' In New Orleans (Abridged)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details On Tuesday, August 23, 2005, meteorologists in the US National Weather Service spotted a tropical depression in the southeastern Bahamas. As it strengthened... -
Net Zero to Net Hero - Can We Gross It? Part 2
Management Case Study5.00View Details NET ZERO TO NET HERO - CAN WE GROSS IT? is a two-part case that highlights the pressing need for businesses to move towards sustainable practices. This... -
Just a Little Something from All of Us: Conflicting Expectations for Gift Fund Management Lead to Dissatisfaction
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Jeanette Williams, the administrative assistant of the IT department of a large firm, had suggested creating a departmental gift fund to which employees... -
The Flawed Emergency Response to the 1992 Los Angeles Riots (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details When a jury acquitted four Los Angeles police officers in the famous, videotaped beating of a black motorist stopped for speeding, the decision sparked... -
LEGO® Products: Building Customer Communities Through Technology
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details This case takes students through the evolution of LEGO's business model from a traditional product-centric "make and sell" model to a more customer-centric... -
Voyager Search: Virtual Workforce, Real Growth?
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Voyager Search is a rapidly growing company in the enterprise search and geospatial information systems (GIS) industry. Although headquartered in Southern...
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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,... -
Why Business Leaders Must Resist the Anti-ESG Movement
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleRetreat isn't just inadvisable; it's dangerous. -
The Office of Strategy Management
Balanced scorecard Magazine ArticleStrategy at many companies is almost completely disconnected from execution. Establishing a dedicated unit to orchestrate both will help to bridge the divide. -
Ten Ways to Create Shareholder Value
Corporate governance Magazine ArticleCompanies profess devotion to shareholder value but rarely follow the practices that maximize it. What will it take to make your company a level 10 value creator? -
Research: The Average Age of a Successful Startup Founder Is 45
Innovation & Leadership ResearchThe most successful entrepreneurs aren't 20-somethings. -
Who Has the D?: How Clear Decision Roles Enhance Organizational Performance
Decision making and problem solving Magazine ArticleYour organization can become more decisive—and can implement strategy more quickly—if you know where the bottlenecks are and who’s empowered to break through them. -
Off-Sites That Work
Decision making and problem solving Magazine ArticleThe top team’s annual strategic off-site differs from all other meetings in its potential impact on the company. That’s why it should be designed and managed differently. -
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,... -
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.... -
Eataly: Reimagining the Grocery Store
Sales & Marketing Tool25.00View Details Within a few years of its operations, the Italian-based supermarket Eataly created a lot of buzz and excitement among consumers and media. Eataly's initial...