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The C-Suite Skills That Matter Most
Succession planning SpotlightMore than ever, companies need leaders who are good with people. -
Stepping into a Leadership Role? Be Ready to Tell Your Story.
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleHit the ground running with a thoughtful personal pitch. -
The Successor’s Dilemma
Collaboration and teams Magazine ArticleLeadership transitions go awry with alarming frequency, often the result of an emotionally charged power struggle between the CEO and his would-be heir. Four practices, however, can help successors defuse the crisis—and make it to the top. -
Will Tim Cook Ever Escape Steve Jobs's Shadow?
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleYesterday's extravaganza is a cause for concern. -
Even When Women Ask for a Raise, They Don't Ask for Enough
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThey need to up their expectations. -
Criteria for Choosing Chief Executives
Succession planning Magazine Article“Did I find it frustrating as the White House Chief of Staff? Toughest job I ever had, but…if you find it unpleasant to cope with a complex problem that is simultaneously the business of four or five Cabinet departments, several public interest groups, and the Congress, and one that the President will finally decide, then […] -
How to Onboard New Hires at Every Level
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleWhat a company with 120,000 employees learned about doing it well. -
Creating a Win Win
Communication VideoWhen employees struggle to make decisions, offer broad guidelines but allow them to gain confidence in making their own judgments. -
How Managers Become Leaders
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Leadership Lessons from Great Family Businesses
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleAccording to the Family Business Institute, only 30% of family businesses last into the second generation, 12% remain viable into the third, and 3% operate... -
Upwork's CEO on How an Introverted Engineer Learned to Lead
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleKasriel grew up around computers and started writing programs when he was 12. In a way, he says, he was like one of today's typical Silicon Valley kids,... -
The Job No CEO Should Delegate
Leadership Magazine ArticleHow does Larry Bossidy explain the turnaround of AlliedSignal? He never let go of a grueling job that many CEOs simply delegate—finding and developing great leaders. -
The Promise and Peril of Complementary Leadership
Organizational Development Digital Article"What should I be thinking about as I assess and build my leadership team?" My colleague Steve Miles and I have an article in the April 2007 issue of... -
Which Women Are Rising to the Top?
Organizational Development Digital ArticleNew research show how these top executives have taken charge of their careers. -
The CEO 100, 2019 Edition
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleUnlike rankings that are based on subjective evaluations or short-term metrics, HBR's annual list of the best-performing CEOs in the world relies on objective... -
What to Ask the Person in the Mirror
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleEvery leader gets off track from time to time. As leaders rise through the ranks, they have fewer and fewer opportunities for honest and direct feedback.... -
The Dangers of Nepotism
Hiring and recruitment Digital ArticleGill Corkindale, executive coach and former management editor of the Financial Times. While nepotism is accepted in some countries, it poses dangers. These include damaged morale when employees hired by family underperform on the job or receive special treatment. -
Seven Surprises for New CEOs
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleAs a newly minted CEO, you may think you finally have the power to set strategy, the authority to make things happen, and full access to the finer points... -
Outsider CEOs Are on the Rise at the World’s Biggest Companies
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The Dark Side of CEO Succession
Succession planning Magazine ArticleMost CEOs and most board members manage the CEO’s succession well. In many companies, CEOs are bound by tradition or policy to step down at a certain age, and plan accordingly. Many have enough vision and insight to overcome any momentary desire to stay on, and indeed take pleasure in training and developing the next […]
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Founder-CEO Succession at Wily Technology
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Before he accepts the new CEO position, Dick Williams wants founder Lew Cirne to step down as chairman. While considering Williams' incredible demand,... -
Webster Industries (B)
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
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... -
Asociacion Chilena de Seguridad (ACHS)
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Outlines the history of the Asociacion Chilena de Seguridad (ACHS), a nonprofit organization dedicated to the prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation... -
A Non-Traditional Female Entrepreneur (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The president and founder of New Deantronics (ND), launched her sales office in San Francisco, California, in 1985 and then set up her factory in Taiwan... -
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... -
Disney's "The Lion King" (C): Repeat Performance?
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details Three of Disney's animated films that followed "The Lion King"-"Pocahontas," "Toy Story," and "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"-were significantly less successful... -
Tom Tierney at Bain & Co. (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Bain managing director Tom Tierney is contemplating how best to rotate the office head position between two partners at one of the firm's offices. The... -
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... -
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... -
Massachusetts Pay-for-Success Contracts: Reducing Juvenile and Young Adult Recidivism
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details The case describes the nature of juvenile recidivism in Massachusetts and explores the potential structure of a privately funded, publicly guaranteed... -
August Thyssen and German Steel
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Presents an important story in the industrial development of Germany. August Thyssen, the head of the company from 1871 until his death in 1926, was one... -
When Governance Rhymes with Turbulence
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Tunisia has been the only country to emerge from the Arab Spring with a successful transition to democracy. This case focuses on a critical period in... -
ATH Technologies (A): Making the Numbers
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details An exercise that takes students through five stages of growth in an entrepreneurial start-up in the medical devices industry: 1) founding, 2) growth,... -
Wily Technology: Interview With Lew Cirne and Henry McCance, Video
Leadership & Managing People Case Study150.00View Details Interview with Lew Cirne from Wily Technology and Henry McCance, Chairman of Greylock Partners, on CEO succession. -
DSM Industrial: A Question of Succession
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In 2017, the chief executive officer (CEO) and chair of the board for DSM Industrial (DSM), a family-owned business in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada,... -
First National City Bank Operating Group (B)
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details Growth in demands on the bank's "back office" required a totally new approach to management. New stress on systems orientation, objectives, measurement,... -
Signature Security: Providing Alarm Systems for the Countries Down Under
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Signature Security, an entrepreneurial company, was created to roll up the electronic security industry in Australia and New Zealand. Signature was created... -
Jeanne Lewis at Staples, Inc., Video (Streaming)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study20.00View Details Jeanne Lewis, EVP/Marketing at Staples, talks with an MBA class. She describes her actions in the Jeanne Lewis at Staples, Inc. (B) case and gives general...
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The C-Suite Skills That Matter Most
Succession planning SpotlightMore than ever, companies need leaders who are good with people. -
Stepping into a Leadership Role? Be Ready to Tell Your Story.
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleHit the ground running with a thoughtful personal pitch. -
Founder-CEO Succession at Wily Technology
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Before he accepts the new CEO position, Dick Williams wants founder Lew Cirne to step down as chairman. While considering Williams' incredible demand,... -
Webster Industries (B)
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
The Successor’s Dilemma
Collaboration and teams Magazine ArticleLeadership transitions go awry with alarming frequency, often the result of an emotionally charged power struggle between the CEO and his would-be heir. Four practices, however, can help successors defuse the crisis—and make it to the top. -
Will Tim Cook Ever Escape Steve Jobs's Shadow?
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleYesterday's extravaganza is a cause for concern. -
Even When Women Ask for a Raise, They Don't Ask for Enough
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThey need to up their expectations. -
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... -
Criteria for Choosing Chief Executives
Succession planning Magazine Article“Did I find it frustrating as the White House Chief of Staff? Toughest job I ever had, but…if you find it unpleasant to cope with a complex problem that is simultaneously the business of four or five Cabinet departments, several public interest groups, and the Congress, and one that the President will finally decide, then […] -
The Aristizabal Family: Growth of a Family Firm?, Teaching Note
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleTeaching note for case AN0073.