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How Apple Is Organized for Innovation
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleWhen Steve Jobs returned to Apple, in 1997, it had a conventional structure for a company of its size and scope. It was divided into business units, each... -
Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleIn the past decade, the author has watched more than 100 companies try to remake themselves into better competitors. Their efforts have gone under many... -
Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail
Leadership & Managing People HBR BestsellerBusinesses hoping to survive over the long term will have to remake themselves into better competitors at least once along the way. These efforts have... -
How Generative AI Will Change Sales
Sales Digital ArticleMicrosoft and Salesforce have already rolled out sales-focused versions of this powerful tool. -
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 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. -
6 Key Levers of a Successful Organizational Transformation
Organizational Development Digital ArticleLeaders, don't overlook your employees' emotional journey. -
What Is Organizational Culture? And Why Should We Care?
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleWhat leaders need to know to change orgs for the better. -
What Companies Still Get Wrong About Layoffs, Spanish Version
Organizational Development Digital ArticleMany cling to the idea that reducing staff is the fastest, easiest way to cut costs. But there are smarter, more humane approaches. -
Protecting DEI Progress When Budgets Are Tight
Diversity and inclusion Digital ArticleThree strategies to embed DEI into your core business practices — and make your efforts recession-proof. -
Communities of Practice:Â The Organizational Frontier
Leading teams Magazine ArticleNot so long ago, companies were reinvented by teams. Communities of practice may reinvent them yet again—if managers learn to cultivate these fertile organizational forms without destroying them. -
First, Let’s Fire All the Managers
Corporate governance Magazine ArticleMorning Star, a leading food processor, demonstrates how to create an organization that combines managerial discipline and market-centric flexibility—without bosses, titles, or promotions. -
Layoffs That Don't Break Your Company
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleToday layoffs have become companies' default response to the challenges created by advances in technology and global competition. Yet research shows that... -
What Will Management Look Like in the Next 100 Years?
Global Business Big IdeaIn recent years, the practice of management has often felt like an exercise in putting out fires. Facing one social, environmental, and economic crisis... -
Evolution and Revolution as Organizations Grow
Managing people Magazine ArticleManagement practices that work well in one phase may bring on a crisis in another. -
A Guide to Implementing the 4-Day Workweek
Organizational Development Big IdeaAs organizations continue to explore a variety of flexible work options, one promising avenue is the four-day workweek: The standard 40 hours per week... -
What Every Leader Needs to Know About Followers
Organizational restructuring Magazine ArticleThe distinctions among followers are every bit as consequential as those among leaders—and have critical implications for how managers should manage. -
Driving Organizational Change - Without Abandoning Tradition, Spanish Version
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleTo shift entrenched ways of thinking, leaders need to understand and respect where people are coming from.
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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... -
Ten Thousand Villages in Crisis: Can the Fair Trade Pioneer Survive and Flourish in an Economic Downturn?
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This case examines major challenges faced by Ten Thousand Villages Canada in 2013, in the aftermath of the 2007-08 global financial crisis. Ten Thousand... -
Higashimaru Shoyu Co. Ltd. (B): Revitalizing the Organization
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Documents how Higashimaru's plant manager converted a reluctant workforce into one that was open to change. Illustrates "human reengineering" and shows... -
Buenos Aires Embotelladora S.A. (BAESA): A South American Restructuring, Spanish Version
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In 1998, BAESA, PepsiCo's largest bottler and distributor outside North America, experienced severe financial difficulty and had to restructure its debt... -
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... -
Schneider Electric: Becoming the Global Specialist in Energy Management
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Global electrical products company assesses growth and market demands in India. Company must decide between a products acquisition or developing a service... -
Central European Distribution Corporation: Hostile Takeover, Bankruptcy Makeover
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In early 2013, CEDC, a large publicly-traded producer and distributer of vodka and spirits in Eastern and Central Europe, has suffered significant declines... -
DePaul Industries in 2012: Financing Growth in a Social Venture
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Established in 1971, DePaul Industries was a social venture operated as one organization (and for short called DePaul Industries) but legally registered... -
Ayala Corp.
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Ayala Corporation is the oldest conglomerate in the Philippines and has been controlled by the Zobel de Ayala family for seven generations. Over the past... -
Laura Ashley (D)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details Describes the resignation of the CEO hired three years earlier to transform the company. -
Cat Is Out of the Bag: KANA and the Layoff Gone Awry (A)
Organizational Development Case Study6.95View Details Vicki Amon-Higa, vice president of KANA, a publicly traded, midsize development company, was working with Bryan Kettle, KANA's CFO, to plan a layoff in... -
County Department of Public Health: Organizing for Emergency Preparedness and Response
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details The anthrax attacks of 2001 exposed serious inadequacies in the response of the U.S. public health system to meet such grave threats. The public health... -
Suzhou Good-Ark Electronics: Creating and Implementing a Sage Culture
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Suzhou Good-Ark, a Chinese semiconductor implemented "Sage Culture" management based on traditional Chinese philosophy. Productivity doubled, turnover... -
Corning Glass Works International (B1)
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Evolving Kiva's Impact: Introduction of Kiva Labs and Kiva Zip
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Kiva.org was a website through which individuals could connect with opportunities to alleviate poverty via small-scale lending. Founded in 2005, the platform... -
The American Repertory Theater
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details When Diane Paulus, artistic director and CEO of the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T. - also seen spelled as American Repertory Theatre) first started... -
Tax-Deferred Acquisitive Reorganizations for C Corporations
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This technical note outlines the general judicial requirements an acquisition must meet to qualify as a tax-deferred reorganization. The variation in... -
Dressen (Abridged) (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details John Lynch, CEO of the Dressen Division of Westinghouse, was elated by the proposed leveraged buyout by the private equity firm, Warburg Pincus Ventures.... -
Star Cablevision Group (E): Voluntary Restructuring
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Fifth case in a series of six cases. This case describes the company during voluntary restructuring. -
Vector (A): Labour Negotiations at Maxime Platform
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This series of three sequential cases recounts the story of labour negotiations. The Maxime Platform, France, built in 1916 to accommodate the increasing...
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How Apple Is Organized for Innovation
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleWhen Steve Jobs returned to Apple, in 1997, it had a conventional structure for a company of its size and scope. It was divided into business units, each... -
Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleIn the past decade, the author has watched more than 100 companies try to remake themselves into better competitors. Their efforts have gone under many... -
Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail
Leadership & Managing People HBR BestsellerBusinesses hoping to survive over the long term will have to remake themselves into better competitors at least once along the way. These efforts have... -
How Generative AI Will Change Sales
Sales Digital ArticleMicrosoft and Salesforce have already rolled out sales-focused versions of this powerful tool. -
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 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. -
6 Key Levers of a Successful Organizational Transformation
Organizational Development Digital ArticleLeaders, don't overlook your employees' emotional journey. -
What Is Organizational Culture? And Why Should We Care?
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleWhat leaders need to know to change orgs for the better.