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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 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... -
Managing Risks: A New Framework
Risk management Magazine ArticleSmart companies match their approach to the nature of the threats they face. -
Understanding China
Global Business SpotlightThis package begins with "What the West Gets Wrong About China," by Rana Mitter and Elsbeth Johnson, which discusses three fundamental misconceptions:... -
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
Strategic planning Magazine ArticleHow some large companies infuse their planning process with new entrepreneurial vigor, maintaining market leadership over the long haul. -
Strategic Leadership: The Essential Skills
Management skills Magazine ArticleThe storied British banker and financier Nathan Rothschild noted that great fortunes are made when cannonballs fall in the harbor, not when violins play in the ballroom. Rothschild understood that the more unpredictable the environment, the greater the opportunity—if you have the leadership skills to capitalize on it. Through research at the Wharton School and […] -
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
Business and society Magazine ArticleA data-driven approach to design, measurement, and implementation -
Office of Strategy Management
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThere is a disconnect in most companies between strategy formulation and strategy execution. On average, 95% of a company's employees are unaware of,... -
Strategy for Start-ups
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
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleMany organizations take big actions in the realm of DEI because of something they see another company do--such as publicly declaring themselves champions...
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Intel Corp.: Leveraging Capabilities for Strategic Renewal
Strategy & Execution Case Study6.95View Details Traces the history of Intel from its earliest days as a technology-driven memory company to its emergence as an increasingly market-focused microprocessor... -
Liconsa and the Program of Social Assistance for Milk
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In 2003, officials in Mexico's Ministry of Social Development were debating whether to eliminate a long-standing program that provided subsidized milk... -
Charles River Jazz Festival
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Charles River Jazz Festival must decide whether to press a compact disk (CD) of Friday's jazz performance for sale on Saturday and Sunday. The idea to... -
Cooper Industries' Corporate Strategy (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Brings students up to date regarding a recent decision by the chairman. -
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... -
Global Unichip Corporation (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplement for case 613048 -
Bausch & Lomb, Inc.: Pressure to Perform
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Bausch & Lomb is the subject of press attacks and experiences a sharp fall in stock price when management practices are exposed. Aggressive goal setting,... -
Willow Creek Community Church: What Really Makes a Difference?
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Willow Creek Community Church, located outside of Chicago, IL, was one of the best attended and most influential churches in the United States. It was... -
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... -
Hard-Won Accord: British Columbia & EDS Canada Negotiate a Complex Revenue Management Contract
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details When a public sector agency decides to privatize a large government function (as opposed to a more discreet job), the process of negotiating the service... -
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... -
Dealing with Corruption in the Police Force of La Paz
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details A reform mayor of Bolivia's capital city is taken aback by a consultant's report showing a shocking level of corruption on the part of municipal police-a... -
SM Entertainment
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details On the evening of June 10, 2011, the first European tour of Korean idol groups was held in Paris. With European fans demanding tickets and organizing... -
The Accidental Statesman: General Petraeus and the City of Mosul, Iraq: Epilogue
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details This case (1834.0 and related epilogue 1834.1 and abridged case 1834.3) tells the story of Major General David Petraeus and the US Army's 101st Airborne... -
Negotiate for Success Ebook Collection
Sales & Marketing Special Offer85.00View Details Negotiating is a tricky business. Despite your best efforts at the bargaining table, you may end up holding the short end of the stick. This specially-priced... -
Competing for Development (B1): The Intermediate Technology Development Group/Practical Action
Global Business Case Study5.00View Details This a role play supplement to Competing for Development (A): Fuel Efficient Stoves for Darfur, product # 908M61. The role plays feature additional background,... -
Sugary Drink Legislation in Massachusetts
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details In the fall of 2016, with the January 2017 deadline to file bills fast approaching, State Senator Jason Lewis was contemplating the details of a sugary...
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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 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... -
Managing Risks: A New Framework
Risk management Magazine ArticleSmart companies match their approach to the nature of the threats they face. -
Understanding China
Global Business SpotlightThis package begins with "What the West Gets Wrong About China," by Rana Mitter and Elsbeth Johnson, which discusses three fundamental misconceptions:... -
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
Strategic planning Magazine ArticleHow some large companies infuse their planning process with new entrepreneurial vigor, maintaining market leadership over the long haul.