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What Is Strategy?
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleToday's dynamic markets and technologies have called into question the sustainability of competitive advantage. Under pressure to improve productivity,... -
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... -
How to Write a Winning Business Plan
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleA well-conceived business plan is essential to the success of an enterprise. Whether you are starting up a venture, seeking additional capital for an... -
What VUCA Really Means for You
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleTo meet the challenges of a complex world, strategic planners need to understand the differences between the four elements of VUCA--volatility, uncertainty,... -
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... -
Managing Risks: A New Framework
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleRisk management is too often treated as a compliance issue that can be solved by drawing up lots of rules and making sure that all employees follow them.... -
Exploit the Product Life Cycle
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleThe product life cycle measures the likelihood, character, and timing of competitive and market events. A product strategy that includes some sort of... -
Strategic Management for Competitive Advantage
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleA four-phase model of multinational corporate planning proves useful for evaluating and improving corporate planning systems. Advances in explicit formulation... -
The Big Lie of Strategic Planning
Strategic planning Magazine ArticleA detailed plan may be comforting, but it’s not a strategy. -
What's Your Negotiation Strategy?
Communication Magazine ArticleMany people don't tackle negotiations in a proactive way; instead, they simply react to moves the other side makes. While that approach may work in a... -
Performing a Project Premortem
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleIn a premortem, team members assume that the project they are planning has just failed--as so many do--and then generate plausible reasons for its demise.... -
How to Do Strategic Planning Like a Futurist
Strategic planning Digital ArticleYou don’t need a time line; you need a time cone. -
Ending the War Between Sales and Marketing
Business communication Magazine ArticleIn many companies, sales forces and marketers feud like Capulets and Montagues—with disastrous results. Here’s how to get them to lay down their swords. -
The House of Quality
Analytics and data science Magazine ArticleDesign is a team effort, but how do marketing and engineering talk to each other? -
Ten Ways to Create Shareholder Value
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleExecutives have developed tunnel vision in their pursuit of shareholder value, focusing on short-term performance at the expense of investing in long-term... -
The Strategic Challenges of Decoupling
Global Business SpotlightMost business executives who have put time, effort, and investment into developing a presence in China resist the notion of decoupling. With the Biden... -
Competitive Advantage of Corporate Philanthropy
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleWhen it comes to philanthropy, executives increasingly see themselves as caught between critics demanding ever higher levels of "corporate social responsibility"... -
Strategies for High Market-Share Companies
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleDespite the benefit of high profits, as well as the enjoyment of a position of leadership, a company that has a high market share is a tempting target... -
Off-Sites that Work
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleOf all the meetings top executives attend in a year, none is more important than the strategy off-site, where the most essential conversations for the... -
The Revolution Will Be Managed
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleWhy some movements succeed and others fail.
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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,... -
Americhem: The Gaylord Division (A-1)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study6.95View Details The Gaylord Division of Americhem, a large chemical company, is in the midst of the first use of a new zero-base budgeting system. The general manager... -
Saving the Tuolumne: Sequel
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details In April 1983, the City and County of San Francisco and two irrigation districts in Merced and Stanislaus counties commissioned a feasibility study of... -
Understand the Big Picture, French Version
Strategy & Execution Tool99.00View Details Create value by viewing your organization and your role in it from a broad perspective. -
Note on Diversification as a Strategy
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Presents a discussion of corporate diversification. Covers historical background, the concept of strategy for a diversified company, and concepts of value... -
Balanced Scorecard Success: The Kaplan-Norton Collection (4 Ebooks)
Strategy & Execution BookThis collection highlights the most important ideas and concepts from Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton, authors of "The Balanced Scorecard," a revolutionary... -
Sino-Ocean Land: Responding to Change, Chinese Version
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In 2010, Sino-Ocean Land Holdings Limited was a highly successful, large real estate developer based in Beijing, China. Sino-Ocean Land had three main... -
Vanguard Group, Inc. (B)
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details A large mutual fund complex decides on its future product line. -
Terry Ann Lunt and Greater Boston Rehabilitation Services (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details At first glance, Greater Boston Rehabilitation Services appeared to be in excellent financial shape in the spring of 1991, when Terry Ann Lunt was named... -
NASCAR: Leading a Marketing Transformation in a Time of Crisis
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details It is February 2011 and Brian France, CEO of NASCAR (the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing), is facing a crisis. In the last five years,... -
Mothercare, 2014
Strategy & Execution Case Study14.00View Details In early 2014, Mothercare was the UK's leading retailer of mother-and-baby products. In fiscal 2013, it generated £341 million in revenues from its 255... -
Student Success at Georgia State University (B)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details This is a supplement to the Student Success at Georgia State University (A) case. The (B) case includes the results of a randomized control trial that... -
Shell: A Company of Opportunity?
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The Opportunity Hub was a cloud-based platform that enabled managers to market projects they were working on and associated resourcing needs as 'Opportunity... -
Welfare-to-Work Information and Statistics
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Summarizes information on the national issue of hiring people from the welfare roles. Organized by topics relevant to business, this note reviews research... -
What Went Wrong with Boeing's 737 Max?
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This case describes the development of the Boeing 737 Max airplane model and the events leading up to two tragic plane crashes, in which a total of 346... -
Matching Dell (B): 1998-2003, Spanish Version
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Akbank Part A: A Crisis Is a Terrible Thing to Waste
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case looks at the provision of financial services both when a banking system is weak and inefficient and when it is liquid, solvent, and highly competitive,... -
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 Fall of Circuit City Stores, Inc.
Strategy & Execution Case Study14.00View Details On January 16, 2009, after a dismal holiday season, Circuit City was forced into liquidation. Unable to meet creditors' demands, and with no acquirer... -
ToyWorld, Inc.: Information Technology Planning
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details ToyWorld, a fast growing retailer, was revitalizing its information technology (IT) infrastructure and called in AT&T to help plan for the future. Five...
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What Is Strategy?
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleToday's dynamic markets and technologies have called into question the sustainability of competitive advantage. Under pressure to improve productivity,... -
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... -
How to Write a Winning Business Plan
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleA well-conceived business plan is essential to the success of an enterprise. Whether you are starting up a venture, seeking additional capital for an... -
What VUCA Really Means for You
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleTo meet the challenges of a complex world, strategic planners need to understand the differences between the four elements of VUCA--volatility, uncertainty,... -
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... -
Managing Risks: A New Framework
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleRisk management is too often treated as a compliance issue that can be solved by drawing up lots of rules and making sure that all employees follow them.... -
Exploit the Product Life Cycle
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleThe product life cycle measures the likelihood, character, and timing of competitive and market events. A product strategy that includes some sort of... -
Strategic Management for Competitive Advantage
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleA four-phase model of multinational corporate planning proves useful for evaluating and improving corporate planning systems. Advances in explicit formulation... -
The Big Lie of Strategic Planning
Strategic planning Magazine ArticleA detailed plan may be comforting, but it’s not a strategy. -
What's Your Negotiation Strategy?
Communication Magazine ArticleMany people don't tackle negotiations in a proactive way; instead, they simply react to moves the other side makes. While that approach may work in a...