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The Leadership Journey
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleIt isn't always easy to change leadership hats or to alter the way you assess a business problem. Under pressure, most executives fall back on the management... -
How to Manage an Employee Who Cries Easily
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleAcknowledge their feelings without getting sidetracked. -
Tips for Cold-Emailing Intimidatingly Powerful People
Communication Digital ArticleBe politely persistent. -
What Really Works
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleWhen it comes to improving business performance, managers have no shortage of tools and techniques from which to choose. But what really works? What's... -
Change Through Persuasion
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleFaced with the need for a massive change, most managers respond predictably. They revamp the organization's strategy, shift around staff, and root out... -
What's Stifling the Creativity at CoolBurst? (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThis fictitious case study explores the challenges facing CoolBurst, a Miami-based fruit-juice company. For over a decade, CoolBurst had ruled the market... -
LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky: Skills, Not Degrees, Matter Most in Hiring
Business and society Digital ArticleEven if you don’t plan to change jobs, your job is going to change on you. -
When Salaries Aren't Secret (HBR Case Study)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleThe day before Treece McDavitt was to leave RightNow!, an off-price women's fashion retailer, the 26-year-old computer wizard accessed HR's files and... -
Are You Picking the Right Leaders? (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleWhen it comes time to hire or promote, top executives routinely overvalue certain skills and traits while overlooking others. Intuitively, for example,... -
Why Peter Drucker's Writing Still Feels So Relevant
Global Business Digital ArticleHe approached management as a historian, not as a guru. -
VW's Problem Is Bad Management, Not Rogue Engineers
Organizational Development Digital ArticleThe tone at the top let roguery take root. -
When Followers Become Toxic
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleLeaders are vulnerable, too. That is, they can be led astray just as their followers can--actually, by their followers. Sometimes, good leaders end up... -
How Private Equity Firms Infuse a Positive Attitude
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleTimes change and markets transform themselves overnight. The half-life of common wisdom is shorter than ever. But top private equity firms have distilled... -
Beyond the Holacracy Hype
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleMost observers who have written about holacracy and other forms of self-management take extreme positions, either celebrating these "bossless," "flat"... -
How to Speak Confidently to Your Team During Chaotic Times
Leadership and managing people Digital ArticleWhat to say when you don’t have all the information. -
How Polls Overestimate Support for Third-Party Candidates
Technology & Operations Digital ArticlePutting support for Gary Johnson and Jill Stein in perspective. -
Finding the Right Balance — and Flexibility — in Your Leadership Style
Leadership styles Digital ArticleToday’s leaders need to cultivate a range of approaches, rather than a fixed style. -
Harley's Leadership U-Turn
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleWhen Rich Teerlink, now retired chairman and CEO of Harley-Davidson, became president and COO of its motorcycle division in 1987, the hard work of saving... -
New Game Plan for C Players
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleIt's a big driver of business success, but one that executives are loath to talk about: upgrading the management talent pool by weeding out "C" players--those... -
Management Is (Still) Not Leadership
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleAfter years of debate, people still confuse these ideas - at their peril.
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Sell Yourself!
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Helps students develop an effective sales pitch for their greatest asset--themselves. Also, broadens their understanding of how salespeople sell products... -
David Dunwood
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details The protagonist,David Dunwood, is a second-time search fund entrepreneur who in mid-2004 purchased Mountain Auto, a leading auto parts retailer in the... -
School of Rock: Tuning into Structured Empowerment (A)
Management Case Study11.95View Details In summer 2021, School of Rock was a youth-oriented music education company with 291 franchise- and company-owned schools globally. Before CEO Rob Price's... -
Chadwick, Inc.: The Balanced Scorecard
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details The pharmaceutical division of a diversified company has been asked to develop a Balanced Scorecard. Research and development projects take about ten... -
Bennett, Strang & Farris
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details A law firm must decide how to split partnership profits among the partners. Issues of seniority versus performance, performance evaluation, and lack of... -
Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details What happens when an MBA buys a football team and hires a bunch of MBAs and a coach with an economics degree to run it? In this case, a historic three... -
Jamie Turner at MLI, Inc.
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details The case describes the evolution of an interpersonal mismatch between a previously successful manager, Jamie Turner, and his new boss, Pat Cardullo. Turner,... -
Redesigning Nissan (A): Carlos Ghosn Takes Charge
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details This is the first of a two-case series. When Renault sent Carlos Ghosn to turnaround its alliance partner Nissan, observers were skeptical of his chances.... -
SCORE! Educational Centers (D)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Describes Rob Waldron's actions upon assuming leadership of SCORE! Educational Centers, an after-school tutoring enterprise. Examines the issue of acquiring... -
Knowlton Roberts II (A)
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details This case is an updated version of the Knowlton Roberts case series (UVA-OB-0737 and 0738). The case is best used as a vehicle to understand another person's... -
Shelley Metzenbaum and Improving Federal Government Performance
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details In late September 2009, nine months after he took office, President Barack Obama appointed Shelley Metzenbaum to the position of associate director for... -
Elizabeth Parker (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details A new political appointee with years of volunteer experience takes over a highly responsible job in the state government and is met with bureaucratic... -
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... -
Leadership in Law: Amy Schulman at DLA Piper
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details What does it take to build a successful career over time? Describes Amy Schulman's career progression and role as a star senior litigator and top executive... -
Alibaba.com
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details On 6 November 2007, Alibaba.com debuted on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, raising US$1.5 billion to become the world's biggest internet offering since... -
SCORE! Educational Centers (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Describes the start-up, strategy, organizational design, and operations of SCORE! Educational Centers, an after-school tutoring enterprise. Alan Tripp,... -
Tobacco and the Future of Rural Kentucky
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Governor Patton decides how to use settlement funds to develop a long-term plan for Kentucky's tobacco producers and rural communities. -
Coaching Makena Lane
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Makena Lane has a gift for producing results, even in the challenging retail context of the 2010s, but she also has a knack for "ruffling some feathers"... -
Kazuo Inamori, a Japanese Entrepreneur
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details The case provides insight into a business leader whose cognizance of contextual forces (social, economic, and political) allowed him to drive significant...
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Sell Yourself!
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Helps students develop an effective sales pitch for their greatest asset--themselves. Also, broadens their understanding of how salespeople sell products... -
David Dunwood
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details The protagonist,David Dunwood, is a second-time search fund entrepreneur who in mid-2004 purchased Mountain Auto, a leading auto parts retailer in the... -
The Leadership Journey
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleIt isn't always easy to change leadership hats or to alter the way you assess a business problem. Under pressure, most executives fall back on the management... -
School of Rock: Tuning into Structured Empowerment (A)
Management Case Study11.95View Details In summer 2021, School of Rock was a youth-oriented music education company with 291 franchise- and company-owned schools globally. Before CEO Rob Price's... -
How Do Firms Adapt to Discontinuous Change? Bridging the Dynamic Capabilities and Ambidexterity Perspectives
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThis article develops a conceptual integration of the dynamic capabilities and ambidexterity perspectives in order to understand how firms adapt to discontinuous... -
Chadwick, Inc.: The Balanced Scorecard
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details The pharmaceutical division of a diversified company has been asked to develop a Balanced Scorecard. Research and development projects take about ten... -
How to Manage an Employee Who Cries Easily
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleAcknowledge their feelings without getting sidetracked. -
Tips for Cold-Emailing Intimidatingly Powerful People
Communication Digital ArticleBe politely persistent. -
What Leadership Style Do You Major In?
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What Really Works
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleWhen it comes to improving business performance, managers have no shortage of tools and techniques from which to choose. But what really works? What's...