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What Makes a Leader?
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleWhen asked to define the ideal leader, many would emphasize traits such as intelligence, toughness, determination, and vision--the qualities traditionally... -
The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs
Innovation Magazine ArticleSix months after Jobs’s death, the author of his best-selling biography identifies the practices that every CEO can try to emulate. -
5 Principles of Purposeful Leadership
Leadership development Digital ArticleUnderstanding why you’re in the room is more important than being the smartest one in it. -
How to Do Strategic Planning Like a Futurist
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleYou don't need a time line; you need a time cone. -
CEOs, Step into the Front Lines or Risk Losing Touch
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleDriving organizational change requires getting closer to both your employees and customers. -
Six Rules for Effective Forecasting
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThe primary goal of forecasting is to identify the full range of possibilities facing a company, society, or the world at large. In this article, Saffo... -
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. -
Curse of the Superstar CEO
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleWhen struggling companies look for a new chief executive today, the one quality they prize above all others is charisma. But once they've recruited a... -
The Imperative: Innovation Inventory #1
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleIn just a few weeks, Harvard Business Publishing will release The Silver Lining: An Innovation Playbook for Uncertain Times. The book's central theme... -
Coaching for Change
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleWhether you're a boss, a colleague, or a friend, you can help the people around you make important life-enhancing changes. But the way to do that isn't... -
Unite Your Team Across Distance
With teams becoming more distributed than ever before, managers need to cultivate a sense of team unity, regardless of where everyone is located. Here's... -
How One Health System Overcame Resistance to a Surgical Checklist
Organizational Development Digital ArticleA case study for effecting change in a change-averse industry. -
To See the Way Forward, Look Back
Organizational Development SpotlightMost business leaders focus on the future much more than on the past, believing that their job is to embrace disruption and innovation, transform their... -
Why Real-Time Leadership Is So Hard
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It’s Time to Define Your Company’s Principles
Corporate strategy Magazine ArticleMission, vision, and values are not enough. -
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.... -
Prioritize Your Digital Initiatives
Technology leads to near-endless possibilities. Here's a quick practice for sorting through which options are worth pursuing. -
How to Be a Better Leader Amid Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleAn updated approach to VUCA. -
Management Is Much More Than a Science
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThe idea that management is a hard science, which MBA programs have promoted for the past six decades, has become even more entrenched in the era of big... -
When Managing Through Ambiguity, Develop a Clear Vision
Decision making and problem solving Digital ArticleDecide what success looks like and work backwards from there.
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Ashok Leyland (B): Shattered Dreams - Transformation For Survival
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details The second part of this two-part case examines the actions that Ashok Leyland (AL) took to achieve its aggressive growth plan and the consequences it... -
Design Thinking and Innovation at Apple
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Describes Apple's approach to innovation, management, and design thinking. For several years, Apple has been ranked as the most innovative company in... -
Quabbin Cablevision Co.
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Several entrepreneurs are considering the purchase of an existing cable TV business with the financial assistance of several investors. They must decide... -
McDonald's Corporation
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details McDonald's newly appointed CEO Chris Kempczinski, who assumed office on November 4, 2019, is the protagonist of the case. With $21 billion in sales (in... -
Climeworks (A): A Visionary Business to Help Stop Climate Change
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Christoph Gebald and Jan Wurzbacher founded Zurich-based start-up Climeworks in 2009 based on technology they had developed, which they claimed would... -
Miles Everson at PricewaterhouseCoopers
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Miles Everson, a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), is the Global Engagement Partner (GEP) for a large U.S. financial institution and about to take... -
Know What Matters: Lessons from a Lifetime of Transformations
30.00View Details Ron Shaich, founder and former CEO of Panera Bread, shares the lessons he learned from a lifetime of asking what really matters and then making the transformations... -
Bluefin Labs: The Acquisition by Twitter
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details What is the value of Bluefin Labs's social listening data to Twitter? Acquired by Twitter in 2013, Bluefin had built a system that gathered millions of... -
Define Yourself as a Leader
To be an effective leader, be clear about what you value and the goals you're working to achieve. -
Mobil USM&R (A): Linking the Balanced Scorecard
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The CEO of the marketing and refining division of a major oil company is in the midst of implementing a profit turnaround. He transforms the strongly... -
Unilever's New Global Strategy: Competing through Sustainability
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details In January 2009, when Paul Polman was appointed CEO of Unilever, he inherited a company in long-term decline at the beginning of a major global financial... -
Elon Musk's Big Bets Update, 2019
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This short case provides an update to Elon Musk's strategy and tactical moves with Tesla, Solar City, and SpaceX from 2016-2019. -
Ashok Leyland: Shattered Dreams - Transformation For Survival (Combined Version)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Case A & B (ISB113 & ISB115) have also been made available in a combined version. -
DEUTSCHE TELEKOM: A TRANSFORMATION JOURNEY (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplement for IMD509 -
Harvard Business Review Leader's Handbook: Make an Impact, Inspire Your Organization, and Get to the Next Level
The one primer you need to develop your leadership skills. Put aside all the overhyped new frameworks, the listicles, the "10 best things you need to... -
Kent Thiry: "Mayor" of DaVita
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Kent Thiry, CEO of dialysis provider DaVita, is considering how to integrate employees from recently acquired Gambro Healthcare without damaging DaVita's... -
Triangle Community Foundation
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In February 2000, Triangle Community Foundation (TCF) director of Philanthropic Services Tony Pipa presented the foundation's new mission statement and... -
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd.: Driving Change Through Internal Communication
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Hindustan Petroleum (HPCL), confronted in 2003 with an urgent need to change how it operated externally, adopted a highly innovative approach to communicating... -
Climeworks (B): Business Modeling - Creating New Market Opportunities
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Climeworks took a multipronged approach when seeking markets for its end product: emissions reversal, beverages and fuel. Climeworks emissions reversal...
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What Makes a Leader?
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleWhen asked to define the ideal leader, many would emphasize traits such as intelligence, toughness, determination, and vision--the qualities traditionally... -
The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs
Innovation Magazine ArticleSix months after Jobs’s death, the author of his best-selling biography identifies the practices that every CEO can try to emulate. -
5 Principles of Purposeful Leadership
Leadership development Digital ArticleUnderstanding why you’re in the room is more important than being the smartest one in it. -
How to Do Strategic Planning Like a Futurist
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleYou don't need a time line; you need a time cone. -
CEOs, Step into the Front Lines or Risk Losing Touch
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleDriving organizational change requires getting closer to both your employees and customers. -
A Guide to Building Psychological Safety on Your Team
Early career Survival GuideTips for first-time managers. -
Six Rules for Effective Forecasting
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThe primary goal of forecasting is to identify the full range of possibilities facing a company, society, or the world at large. In this article, Saffo... -
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. -
Curse of the Superstar CEO
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleWhen struggling companies look for a new chief executive today, the one quality they prize above all others is charisma. But once they've recruited a... -
Ashok Leyland (B): Shattered Dreams - Transformation For Survival
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details The second part of this two-part case examines the actions that Ashok Leyland (AL) took to achieve its aggressive growth plan and the consequences it...