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Why Conflicting Ideas Can Make Your Strategy Stronger
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleIn a volatile world, think of your strategy as a portfolio of options, not a roadmap. -
The Hard Side of Change Management
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleEveryone agrees that managing change is tough, but few can agree on how to do it. Most experts are obsessed with "soft" issues, such as culture and motivation,... -
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. -
McKinsey's Three Horizons Model Defined Innovation for Years. Here's Why It No Longer Applies.
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleIt assumes that breakthrough innovations will take years to develop. -
Putting the Balanced Scorecard to Work
Balanced scorecard Magazine ArticleWhat do companies like Rockwater, Apple Computer, and Advanced Micro Devices have in common? They’re using the scorecard to measure performance and set strategy. -
Radical Optionality
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThe next era of competition is at hand. To succeed in an environment of high uncertainty, greater short-term pressure, and tighter resource constraints,... -
The Truth About CSR
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleDespite the widely accepted ideal of "shared value," research led by Harvard Business School's Kasturi Rangan suggests that this is not the norm--and... -
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,... -
How to Avoid the Ethical Nightmares of Emerging Technology
Technology & Operations Big IdeaNext-generation technologies are poised to cause society-shaking shifts at unprecedented speed and scale. Generative AI, quantum computing, blockchain,... -
Designing Your Company’s Sustainability Report
Business and society Digital ArticleThere’s no one-size-fits-all approach. This matrix can help you determine the best option for your organization. -
The Discipline of Teams
Teams Magazine ArticleWhat makes the difference between a team that performs and one that doesn’t? -
The Secrets to Successful Strategy Execution
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleWhen a company finds itself unable to execute strategy, all too often the first reaction is to redraw the organization chart or tinker with incentives.... -
Competitive Advantage of Corporate Philanthropy
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleWhen it comes to philanthropy, executives increasingly see themselves as caught between critics demanding ever higher levels of "corporate social responsibility"... -
Chief Strategy Officer
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThey're nominally and ultimately responsible for strategy, but today's CEOs have less and less time to devote to it. As a result, CEOs are appointing... -
Off-Sites that Work
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleOf all the meetings top executives attend in a year, none is more important than the strategy off-site, where the most essential conversations for the... -
Why Good Companies Go Bad
Organizational culture Magazine ArticleWhen business conditions change, the most successful companies are often the slowest to adapt. To avoid being left behind, executives must understand the true sources of corporate inertia. -
Seizing Opportunities When Advantages Don’t Last
Strategy Digital ArticleBe quick and decisive when entering, and exiting, a business. -
Discipline of Teams
Organizational Development HBR BestsellerGroups don't become teams just because that is what someone calls them. Nor do teamwork values alone ensure team performance. So what is a team? How can... -
In Big Companies, Lean Is Only One Piece of the Puzzle
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleAt mature companies, it’s tougher to turn on a dime. -
Getting Real About Virtual Commerce
Competitive strategy Magazine ArticleA second generation of electronic commerce is emerging, one that will be shaped more by strategy than by experimentation. The battle for competitive advantage will be waged along three dimensions: reach, affiliation, and richness.
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Wells Fargo: Setting the Stagecoach Thundering Again
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This case raises contemporary issues pertaining to strategy and leadership. It helps to demonstrate that (a) sound economic rationale is a necessary but... -
ATH Technologies (D)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. Designed as an in-class handout. -
P&G Japan: The SK-II Globalization Project, Video
Global Business Case Study150.00View Details Paolo de Cesare and A.G. Lafley review the strategic and organizational challenges they face in deciding whether to make the prestigious Japanese beauty... -
ATH Technologies (E)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. Designed as an in-class handout. -
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... -
Jones Lang LaSalle: Reorganizing around the Customer (2005)
Organizational Development Case Study6.95View Details Peter Roberts, CEO of Jones, Lang, LaSalle (JLL) Americas division, has been charged with expanding the company's presence in its core geographic markets... -
Cooper Industries' Corporate Strategy (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Brings students up to date regarding a recent decision by the chairman. -
Profiling at National Mutual (B)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details Relates the expert system's pilot phase of implementation. -
Autobytel.com
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Autobytel enjoys first-mover advantage in the Internet new car buying space. According to a number of metrics, it is the online leader in this category.... -
HP-Cisco Alliance (A)
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details In 2002, Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems strove to develop their long-standing partnership into a strategic alliance with increasing impact. Critical... -
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.... -
Equitas Microfinance (C): Advent of Regulation
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Supplement for case 510104 -
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... -
Haiti Hope: Innovating the Mango Value Chain
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Haiti Hope was to provide 25,000 Haitian farmers with world-class business and industry expertise to help them grow mangos more efficiently and abundantly,... -
Profiling at National Mutual (C)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details Implementation is about to move into the limited deployment phase. -
FIJI Water: Carbon Negative?
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Seeking to go beyond global best practices in reducing environmental impacts, FIJI Water, a premium artesian bottled water company in the United States,... -
Customer Loyalty Schemes in the Retail Sector
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Customer loyalty schemes (or programs) are explicit efforts by retailers to gain long-term patronage from customers. Loyalty schemes are developed for... -
Corning Glass Works: The Electronic Products Division (A)
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Describes a division of Corning Glass Works that finds itself with deep financial and organizational problems. Severe conflict and lack of coordination...
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Why Conflicting Ideas Can Make Your Strategy Stronger
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleIn a volatile world, think of your strategy as a portfolio of options, not a roadmap. -
The Hard Side of Change Management
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleEveryone agrees that managing change is tough, but few can agree on how to do it. Most experts are obsessed with "soft" issues, such as culture and motivation,... -
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. -
McKinsey's Three Horizons Model Defined Innovation for Years. Here's Why It No Longer Applies.
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleIt assumes that breakthrough innovations will take years to develop. -
Putting the Balanced Scorecard to Work
Balanced scorecard Magazine ArticleWhat do companies like Rockwater, Apple Computer, and Advanced Micro Devices have in common? They’re using the scorecard to measure performance and set strategy. -
Radical Optionality
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThe next era of competition is at hand. To succeed in an environment of high uncertainty, greater short-term pressure, and tighter resource constraints,... -
The Truth About CSR
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleDespite the widely accepted ideal of "shared value," research led by Harvard Business School's Kasturi Rangan suggests that this is not the norm--and... -
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,... -
How to Avoid the Ethical Nightmares of Emerging Technology
Technology & Operations Big IdeaNext-generation technologies are poised to cause society-shaking shifts at unprecedented speed and scale. Generative AI, quantum computing, blockchain,... -
Designing Your Company’s Sustainability Report
Business and society Digital ArticleThere’s no one-size-fits-all approach. This matrix can help you determine the best option for your organization.