-
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 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 Generative AI Will Change Sales
Sales & Marketing Digital ArticleMicrosoft and Salesforce have already rolled out sales-focused versions of this powerful tool. -
Employees Are Losing Patience with Change Initiatives
Organizational change 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
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleSix lessons on moving quickly under pressure. -
The Top 20 Business Transformations of the Last Decade
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
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
Change management Digital ArticleTo shift entrenched ways of thinking, leaders need to understand and respect where people are coming from.
-
Webster Industries (B)
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Malaysia Airlines: Culture Transformation While Flying Through Turbulence
Management Case Study8.95View Details This case study follows Malaysia Airlines Berhad (MAB) through its Culture Journey (2018-2021), an initiative to rebuild the corporate culture as part... -
Value Pricing at Procter & Gamble (A)
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Executive Vice President Durk Jager was convinced that the huge sums being spent on trade and consumer promotion could be put to better use, and that... -
Argos Soditic--The Kermel Proposal
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In April 2002, Guy Semmens, a partner in Argos Soditic, has to decide whether to take the lead in the management buyout (MBO) of Kermel, a niche player... -
The Berkeley-Haas School of Business: Codifying, Embedding, and Sustaining Culture (B)
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details The case discusses the challenges the dean faced as well as future challenges to sustain the culture after the dean steps down at the end of the 2017/2018... -
Mega Oil Corporation
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Scoping the situation at the Mega Oil Corporation, a major management-consulting firm, had been the easy part. The firm is seriously behind its best competitors... -
Arcelik: From a Dealer Network to an Omnichannel Experience
Sales & Marketing Case Study15.05View Details Arcelik Turkey, the country's market leader in household appliances, was at an omnichannel crossroads in January 2020. Arcelik was a B2B player utilizing... -
GE's Talent Machine: The Making of a CEO, Video
Leadership & Managing People Case Study150.00View Details CEO Jeff Immelt, ex-CEO Jack Welch, and HR Chief Bill Conaty discuss how GE has made talent development a source of sustainable competitive advantage.... -
E-Business Transformation in the Banking Industry: The Case of Citibank
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Citibank reshaped considerably its e-business program after the financial crisis of 2008 focusing on leveraging its geographical reach, rolling out global... -
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... -
TCS: Agility at Scale-Managing Change
Management Case Study8.95View Details The head of Agile Initiative Network (AIN) at TCS, an India based multinational IT services-consulting-business solutions enterprise, has been mandated... -
Philip Morris Companies and Kraft, Inc.
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Gives students the opportunity to explore the effect of substantial free cash flow on corporate acquisition and operating strategies. Students are also... -
ConAgra Foods: The Next Chapter
Strategy & Execution Case Study6.95View Details In 2005, CEO Bruce Rohde has almost completed the integration of ConAgra Foods' collection of 90 independent operating companies into a focused, value-added... -
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing in a Downturn, Expanded Edition (with bonus article "Preparing Your Business for a Post-Pandemic World' by Carsten Lund Pedersen and Thomas Ritter)
24.95View Details How do the most resilient companies survive--and even thrive--during a slowdown? If you read nothing else on surviving a tough economy and coming back... -
Mahindra Financial Services: Restructuring for Growth
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Mahindra Financial Services (MMFSL) is an Indian non-banking financial services organization largely involved with financing of tractors, commercial,... -
Pierre Frankel in Moscow (A): Unfreezing Change
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details A young and upcoming French executive in a global technology company is sent to Moscow as deputy managing director to turn around the Russia subsidiary.... -
PlaceWare: Issues in Structuring a Xerox Technology Spinout
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Xerox has established a process to spin out technologies it develops that do not fit with its current business needs. To structure these "spinouts," a... -
Jeepers! Inc. in 2000
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details After the company's IPO is withdrawn, the company enters a period of severe financial distress. The consultants recommend that the company be liquidated.... -
Cat Is Out of the Bag: KANA and the Layoff Gone Awry (A)
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View 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...
-
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 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 Generative AI Will Change Sales
Sales & Marketing Digital ArticleMicrosoft and Salesforce have already rolled out sales-focused versions of this powerful tool. -
Employees Are Losing Patience with Change Initiatives
Organizational change 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
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleSix lessons on moving quickly under pressure. -
The Top 20 Business Transformations of the Last Decade
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.