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The Founder’s Dilemma
Entrepreneurs and founders Magazine ArticleMost entrepreneurs want to make a lot of money and to run the show. New research shows that it’s tough to do both. If you don’t figure out which matters more to you, you could end up being neither rich nor king. -
Only the CEO Can Make the Big Bets
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleThis blog was written with Jay Terwilliger and Mark Sebell, managing partners at Creative Realities, a Boston-based innovation management collaborative.... -
New Books from the Press in September (Let Us Know What You Think!)
Decision making and problem solving Digital ArticleAs a matter of policy, we don’t review our own books, but we hope you will. Keep an eye out for the following Press titles in September, and let us know what you think of them in the comments. Empowered: Unleash Your Employees, Energize Your Customers, and Transform Your Business by Josh Bernoff and Ted […] -
A Process for Human-Algorithm Decision Making
Decision making and problem solving Digital ArticleYour people will have new roles and need new skills. -
Is it Time for Mutiny?
Managing people Digital ArticleA close study of the real thing — seafarers’ insurrections during the Age of Discovery — might help you decide. -
Ethics in Practice
Business ethics Magazine ArticleAs the 1990s overtake us, public interest in ethics is at a historic high. While the press calls attention to blatant derelictions on Wall Street, in the defense industry, and in the Pentagon, and to questionable activities in the White House, in the attorney general’s office, and in Congress, observers wonder whether our society is […] -
The Biases That Keep Good R&D Projects from Getting Funded
Innovation & Leadership ResearchAnd how to overcome them, according to a new study. -
In Praise of Uncertainty
Decision making and problem solving Magazine ArticleThe information technology explosion was set off by visionaries who thrive on uncertainty. Today that innovation-fueling uncertainty is in danger, a victim of its own success and excess. IT producers have historically built platforms that are useless standing alone, inviting others to parlay them into a variety of useful applications. The first PC makers shipped […] -
Are You Listening to Your Most Important Customers?
Customer experience Digital ArticleThe “silent majority” in the middle can make or break your business. -
On Bear Stearns, the Democratic Primary, and Other Avoidable Disasters
Risk management Digital Article“The wise men were all fools…What to do?” So sings Bruce Springsteen in his searing rocker, “Last to Die,” a lament about the endless miscalculations that led to our endless war in Iraq. That line was ringing in my ears as I read this morning’s headlines about the fiascoes gripping almost every element of our […] -
Managing Hypergrowth
Decision making and problem solving Magazine ArticleEarly in their lives most markets go through a short period of dizzying growth that defines the competitive landscape. Heed the advice of a person who has survived the ride: If you don’t make the right moves then, you won’t get a second chance. -
Decisions and Desire
Organizational culture Magazine ArticleThe primitive, emotional parts of our brains have a powerful influence on the choices we make. Now, neuroscientists are mapping the risk and reward systems in the brain that drive our best—and worst—decision making. -
When Success is Born Out of Serendipity
Managing yourself Digital ArticleSeemingly well-planned “strategies” are often the result of random moments. -
The Case of the Downsizing Decision
Decision making and problem solving Magazine ArticleAndrew Jordan sat at his desk, absentmindedly watching a barge chug slowly upstream on the Thames. The dinner meeting he had scheduled with a select group of senior managers at Universal Products Company, Ltd. would begin in an hour. For three years, it had seemed enough to focus on the business problems of UPC’s Connectors […] -
Spitzer: Another Leader Led Astray
Leadership Digital ArticleThe details don’t matter. For whatever the exact end of the story of Eliot Spitzer, it is the end. His immediate admission of transgression means curtains on the fabled if controversial career of Eliot the erstwhile dragon slayer. The question everyone is asking the morning after the night before is why. Why did a man […] -
How Working Parents Can Strategically Prioritize Their Time
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleStart by asking yourself what you - and only you - can do. -
Four Lessons in Adaptive Leadership
Decision making and problem solving Magazine ArticleArtwork: Stacy Pearsall, Leg Up, March 22, 2007, Fort Jackson, South Carolina The armed services have been in the business of leadership development much longer than the corporate world has. For more than two centuries, America has trained its officers to be effective leaders in combat and beyond—the U.S. Military Academy at West Point dates […] -
Decision Trees for Decision Making
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThe "decision tree" is an analytical tool which helps business managers resolve uncertainties in making investment decisions. It clarifies the choices,... -
How to Embrace Complex Change
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Who Has the D?: How Clear Decision Roles Enhance Organizational Performance
Decision making and problem solving Magazine ArticleYour organization can become more decisive—and can implement strategy more quickly—if you know where the bottlenecks are and who’s empowered to break through them.
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Selecting Stocks for a Hedge Fund
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details The popularity of hedge funds grew in the volatile markets surrounding the technology bubble. Hedge funds take both long and short investment positions... -
WaveRider Communications, Inc.: The Wireless Last Mile
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details WaveRider Communications, Inc., a Toronto-based company, had a mission to become the leader in global wireless technology by developing, selling, and... -
Sturdivant Electric Corp.
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details A unit manager on a field computer installation job is faced with recurring conflict between a programmer and his immediate supervisor. -
Data Analytics Collection
Strategy & Execution Special Offer105.00View Details Most companies have massive amounts of data at their disposal, yet fail to utilize it in any meaningful way. Big data and the analytics based on it promise... -
Best Financial Services Inc.
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details The founder and sole shareholder of a financial planning company must decide whether to hire a new adviser or purchase a block of business from another... -
Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence
Strategy & Execution Book30.00View Details Disruption resulting from the proliferation of AI is coming. The authors of the bestselling "Prediction Machines" can help you prepare. Artificial intelligence... -
Jeanne Lewis at Staples, Inc. (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Jeanne Lewis, after six years with Staples, Inc., is promoted to senior vice president of marketing. She is to work for fifteen months alongside her predecessor,... -
Building Community at Terra Nova Consulting
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This case describes the challenges faced by the president of an engineering and environmental services consulting firm (Terra Nova Consulting) as it seeks... -
Genzyme Center (B)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details Genzyme Corporation is in the midst of planning its new corporate headquarters, which incorporates many innovative green building features. After learning... -
Spectacled Caiman Breeding and Slaughtering Flowchart
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Move Fast and Fix Things: The Trusted Leader's Guide to Solving Hard Problems
30.00View Details Bestselling authors and cohosts of the TED podcast Fixable, Frances Frei and Anne Morriss reinvent the playbook for how to lead change--with a radical... -
The Stories Behind the Numbers
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Group Process in the Challenger Launch Decision (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details The night before the launch of the Challenger shuttle, officials from Morton Thiokol (Solid Rocket Booster manufacturer) and NASA participated in a teleconference... -
Controlling Acid Rain, 1986
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details This case is designed to support a discussion of how to apply an economic evaluation of the appropriate level of control of an externality to a real problem... -
Urban Homesteading Assistance Board
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Thirty years after its founding in 1973, New York City's Urban Homesteading Assistance Board (UHAB) found itself at a crossroads. The nonprofit, church-related... -
Process Fundamentals
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details This note provides an introduction for a course or module covering the basic elements of production or service operations and how processes are managed.... -
ECOALF: Fashion for the Future
Management Case Study11.95View Details ECOALF, a Spanish fashion brand and sustainability pioneer, aimed to tackle the industry's challenges of excessive consumption and production. The brand's... -
To Dare or Not to Dare: The Story of an Entrepreneur's Passion - The Case of Delhi International Airport
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details This case studies the unique traits of a serial entrepreneur through the story of Indian entrepreneur G. M. Rao, Chairman of the GMR Group. It describes... -
Edward Jones in 2006: Confronting Success
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details When Jim Weddle took over as Managing Partner of Edward Jones in January 2006, the brokerage firm was at a critical juncture. The firm's distinctive strategy... -
Ransomware Attack at Springhill Medical Center
Management Case Study11.95View Details In July, 2019, Springhill Medical Center ("SMC") in Mobile, Alabama fell prey to a malicious ransomware attack that crippled the hospital's internal network...
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Manage Your Personal Finances with These Timeless Strategies
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The Founder’s Dilemma
Entrepreneurs and founders Magazine ArticleMost entrepreneurs want to make a lot of money and to run the show. New research shows that it’s tough to do both. If you don’t figure out which matters more to you, you could end up being neither rich nor king. -
Only the CEO Can Make the Big Bets
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleThis blog was written with Jay Terwilliger and Mark Sebell, managing partners at Creative Realities, a Boston-based innovation management collaborative.... -
New Books from the Press in September (Let Us Know What You Think!)
Decision making and problem solving Digital ArticleAs a matter of policy, we don’t review our own books, but we hope you will. Keep an eye out for the following Press titles in September, and let us know what you think of them in the comments. Empowered: Unleash Your Employees, Energize Your Customers, and Transform Your Business by Josh Bernoff and Ted […] -
A Process for Human-Algorithm Decision Making
Decision making and problem solving Digital ArticleYour people will have new roles and need new skills. -
Is it Time for Mutiny?
Managing people Digital ArticleA close study of the real thing — seafarers’ insurrections during the Age of Discovery — might help you decide. -
Ethics in Practice
Business ethics Magazine ArticleAs the 1990s overtake us, public interest in ethics is at a historic high. While the press calls attention to blatant derelictions on Wall Street, in the defense industry, and in the Pentagon, and to questionable activities in the White House, in the attorney general’s office, and in Congress, observers wonder whether our society is […] -
The Biases That Keep Good R&D Projects from Getting Funded
Innovation & Leadership ResearchAnd how to overcome them, according to a new study. -
In Praise of Uncertainty
Decision making and problem solving Magazine ArticleThe information technology explosion was set off by visionaries who thrive on uncertainty. Today that innovation-fueling uncertainty is in danger, a victim of its own success and excess. IT producers have historically built platforms that are useless standing alone, inviting others to parlay them into a variety of useful applications. The first PC makers shipped […] -
Are You Listening to Your Most Important Customers?
Customer experience Digital ArticleThe “silent majority” in the middle can make or break your business.