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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,... -
The Questions Every Entrepreneur Must Answer
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleDiversify your product line. Stick to your knitting. Hire a professional manager. Watch fixed costs. Those are some of the suggestions that entrepreneurs... -
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... -
Strategic Leadership: The Essential Skills
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThe more uncertain your environment, the greater the opportunity--if you have the leadership skills to capitalize on it. Research at the Wharton School... -
You Need an Innovation Strategy
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleWhy is it so hard to build and maintain the capacity to innovate? The reason is not simply a failure to execute but a failure to articulate an innovation... -
How to Create a Stakeholder Strategy
Global Business Magazine ArticleLately companies have come to recognize the limitations of the view that they must create value only for shareholders. Recognizing that every stakeholder... -
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. -
Strategy for Start-ups, Arabic Version
Innovation & Entrepreneurship SpotlightSome start-up founders follow a business plan; others operate by the seat of their pants. This package looks at how entrepreneurs can carefully craft... -
The Big Lie of Strategic Planning
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleStrategy making forces executives to confront a future they can only guess at. It's not surprising, then, that they try to make the task less daunting... -
A Short Guide to Building Your Team's Critical Thinking Skills
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleCritical thinking isn't an innate skill. It can be learned. -
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.... -
The Five Stages of DEI Maturity
Diversity and inclusion Magazine ArticleHow to move from promises to results -
How to Do Strategic Planning Like a Futurist
Strategic planning Digital ArticleYou don’t need a time line; you need a time cone.
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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,... -
Regional Development in the Chinese Mainland
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details China's economic rise became one of the most important stories in the world economy once the Chinese economy began to open to the rest of the world in... -
Clothing Chris and Chrissie
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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... -
R&B Falcon, Spanish Version
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details R&B Falcon is the world's leading offshore drilling contractor. Amid surging exploration budgets and increasing deepwater drilling activity, the company... -
Tale of Two Cities: Water Supply in Hong Kong and Macau
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Investigates the role of the private sector in improving the operating performance of a water utility. Compares the productivity of Water Supply Department... -
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. -
MW Petroleum Corp. (A), Spanish Version
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Amoco Corp. is negotiating to sell a wholly-owned subsidiary, MW Petroleum, to Apache Corp. MW owns large reserves of oil and gas comprising many properties... -
Rosabeth Moss Kanter on the Frontiers of Management
29.95View Details A Harvard Business Review Book. This book brings together all of Rosabeth Moss Kanter's Harvard Business Review articles and many of the editorial columns... -
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... -
Laura Ashley (D)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details Describes the resignation of the CEO hired three years earlier to transform the company. -
Vanguard Group, Inc. (B)
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details A large mutual fund complex decides on its future product line. -
Marriott Corporation
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case describes management's sequential reevaluation of Marriott's debt capacity and the decision about how to invest this unused debt. Videotape... -
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... -
Robert Mondavi: Competitive Strategy
Strategy & Execution Case Study6.95View Details Describes the competitive situation facing Robert Mondavi, the leading premium California winery. Mondavi has been an industry innovator and has recently... -
Simulation as a Decision Aid
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details A brief introduction to simulation--what it is, why it's used, etc. Meant to set context for a first class on simulation. A rewritten version of an earlier... -
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,...
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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,... -
The Questions Every Entrepreneur Must Answer
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleDiversify your product line. Stick to your knitting. Hire a professional manager. Watch fixed costs. Those are some of the suggestions that entrepreneurs... -
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... -
Strategic Leadership: The Essential Skills
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThe more uncertain your environment, the greater the opportunity--if you have the leadership skills to capitalize on it. Research at the Wharton School...