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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... -
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. -
Make Your Values Mean Something
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleTake a look at this list of corporate values: Communication. Respect. Integrity. Excellence. They sound pretty good, don't they? Maybe they even resemble... -
Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleBusinesses 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 Companies Can Improve Employee Engagement Right Now
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleStart by connecting what people do to what they care about. -
Proof That Positive Work Cultures Are More Productive
Organizational culture Digital ArticleFour ways bosses can create them. -
Why Diversity Programs Fail
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleAfter Wall Street firms repeatedly had to shell out millions to settle discrimination lawsuits, businesses started to get serious about their efforts... -
The Key to Inclusive Leadership
Organizational Development Digital ArticleOvercome unconscious bias using humility and empathy. -
Strategies for Learning from Failure
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleMany executives believe that all failure is bad (although it usually provides lessons)-and that learning from it is pretty straightforward. The author,... -
How Netflix Reinvented HR
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleWhen Netflix executives wrote a PowerPoint deck about the organization's talent management strategies, the document went viral--it's been viewed more... -
How Spotify Balances Employee Autonomy and Accountability
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Beware a Culture of Busyness
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleOnce upon a time, leisure was a sign of prestige. Today that idea has been turned on its head, and busyness is the new status symbol. Busy people are... -
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. -
The Leader's Guide to Corporate Culture
Organizational Development SpotlightExecutives are often confounded by culture, because much of it is anchored in unspoken behaviors, mindsets, and social patterns. But when properly managed,... -
The Ordinary Heroes of the Taj
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleWhen terrorists attacked the Indian city of Mumbai in 2008, employees of the Taj Mumbai hotel displayed uncommon valor. They placed the safety of guests... -
The Secrets of Great Teamwork
Leadership & Managing People HBR BestsellerOver the years, as teams have grown more diverse, dispersed, digital, and dynamic, collaboration has become more complex. But though teams face new challenges,... -
Company Culture Is Everyone's Responsibility
Organizational Development Digital ArticleA top-down approach doesn't work anymore. -
It’s a New Era for Mental Health at Work
Burnout Digital ArticleResearch on how the past 18 months have affected U.S. employees — and how companies should respond. -
The Costs of Code-Switching
Race Big IdeaThe behavior is necessary for advancement — but it takes a great psychological toll. -
Research: How Successful Health Care Organizations Keep Worker Morale Up
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleA workforce burnout and retention crisis has dominated the industry for the last three years, but data (finally) shows some encouraging trends.
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Webster Industries (B)
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Dan Stewart (C)
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Theranos: The Unicorn that Wasn't
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details In 2003, 19-year-old Elizabeth Holmes founded a startup dedicated to making blood testing easier and more affordable. By 2015, her company, Theranos,... -
Michael Ovitz and The Walt Disney Co. (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Faced with the need to hire a new president, The Walt Disney Co. pursued Michael Ovitz, a founder of the Creative Artist Agency. Although initially disinterested,... -
ChatChat (VC Version)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This is a role-play case, intended for use in a leadership development course for MBA students. The case has four roles: two for students playing the... -
Steven A. Cohen: From Industry Pariah to Industry Standard-Bearer? (C)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case 417013. This (C) case provides events in late 2014 and 2015. In March 2016, Point72 Asset Management is contemplating whether it should... -
Man Jit Singh at Sony Entertainment Television (A)
Organizational Development Case Study14.00View Details Explores the role of CEO Man Jit Singh and his senior management committee in leading Multi Screen Media Pvt. Ltd. (formerly SET Pvt. Ltd.), a leading... -
Fujifilm: A Second Foundation
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Fujifilm was the second largest manufacturer of photographic film in the world when digital imaging began to substitute for its core business. In contrast... -
General Mills Canada: Building a Culture of Innovation (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The president of General Mills Canada wants to build a culture of innovation in his firm. Prior to a senior management meeting in 2010 to review the company's... -
Slade Co.
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Describes a conflict between the values and norms of a segment of an internal social system and those of management and the wider culture. -
Coca-Cola Co. (B): Douglas Daft Takes Over
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Describes Douglas Daft's first quarter as chairman and CEO of The Coca-Cola Co. Highlights actions taken to resolve issues that arose under M. Douglas... -
Dabur India: Growing Professional Management from Family Roots
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The case opens in December of 2018, with Sunil Duggal, the CEO of Dabur India (a multinational consumer goods conglomerate with a focus in Ayurvedic products)... -
Lisa Benton (B)
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details Provides a follow-up to Lisa Benton (A). -
The Sustainability Sweet Spot at Jiu Zhen Nan Taiwan Pastry
Management Case Study8.95View Details Set in 2022, the case follows the sustainability journey of Jiu Zhen Nan, a 133-year-old Taiwanese pastry brand headquartered in Kaohsiung, the southern... -
Swagbucks
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details In early 2016, Chuck Davis, chairman and CEO of Prodege LLC, parent company of the brand promotion business Swagbucks, and Josef Gorowitz, Prodege's founder... -
Apple Powerbook (A): Design Quality and Time to Market
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details This case examines the design of Apple's first notebook computer in a context of extreme time-to-market pressures that challenge Apple's "time-to-perfection"... -
Tesla, Inc. in 2018
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Margaret Huebner: Building the Human Resources Function at Oman's Port of Salalah
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This case describes how consultant Margaret Huebner successfully updated the human resources (HR) function for the emergent Port of Salalah in the Sultanate... -
The New Year's Eve Crisis
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Mike Valenti, founder and president of Michael's Homestyle Pasta of Connecticut, has just finished a four-hour conference call with his top managers,...
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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... -
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. -
Make Your Values Mean Something
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleTake a look at this list of corporate values: Communication. Respect. Integrity. Excellence. They sound pretty good, don't they? Maybe they even resemble... -
Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleBusinesses 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 Companies Can Improve Employee Engagement Right Now
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleStart by connecting what people do to what they care about. -
Proof That Positive Work Cultures Are More Productive
Organizational culture Digital ArticleFour ways bosses can create them. -
Why Diversity Programs Fail
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleAfter Wall Street firms repeatedly had to shell out millions to settle discrimination lawsuits, businesses started to get serious about their efforts... -
The Key to Inclusive Leadership
Organizational Development Digital ArticleOvercome unconscious bias using humility and empathy. -
Strategies for Learning from Failure
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleMany executives believe that all failure is bad (although it usually provides lessons)-and that learning from it is pretty straightforward. The author,... -
How Netflix Reinvented HR
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleWhen Netflix executives wrote a PowerPoint deck about the organization's talent management strategies, the document went viral--it's been viewed more...