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How Midsize Companies Can Make the Most of Disruption
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Evolve (Again)
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How to Connect Employees to Your Company's Purpose
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Organizational Transformation Is an Emotional Journey
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Making Differences Matter: A New Paradigm for Managing Diversity
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleDiversity efforts in the workplace have been undertaken with great goodwill, but, ironically, they often end up fueling tensions. They rarely spur the... -
Accelerating Corporate Transformations (Don't Lose Your Nerve!)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleAsk any CEO who has overseen a corporate transformation what should have been handled differently, and you are likely to get this answer: "We should have... -
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... -
Yahoo, Tumblr, and the Loyalty Factor
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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... -
Have You Restructured for Global Success?
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleThe organizational structures of many multinational corporations are inadequate to the task of capitalizing on opportunities in emerging markets. Locating... -
What a Mature CSR Team Looks Like
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How Midsize Companies Can Access Capital in Turbulent Times
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How Leaders Get in the Way of Organizational Change
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Are You In with the In Crowd?
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Getting Your Team to Buy into a Big Change
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When to Change Your Company's P&L Responsibilities
Organizational Development Digital ArticleExecutives must carefully consider the timing and pacing of these changes. -
Retaining the Best of Your Culture Amid Organizational Change
Organizational culture Digital ArticleFour ways to preserve key values and behaviors while undergoing a transformation. -
How a Remote Australian Mine Became a Gender-Balanced Workplace
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThe transformation sheds light on how sexist and homophobic cultures in male-dominated industries can change. -
Reigniting Growth
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleMost successful new companies eventually face a predictable crisis that the authors call "stall-out"--a sudden large drop in revenue and profit growth... -
When to Hire an Extreme Leader
Gautam Mukunda, Harvard Business School assistant professor, explains why "abnormal" leaders make a real difference.
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Roche Pakistan (A): Turning Around an Organization Through Cultural Transformation
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details The Roche Pakistan case study focuses on a country in Roche Global's portfolio which was facing challenges. Farrukh Rehan was hired to turnaround the... -
Taco Bell--1994
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Taco Bell CEO, John Martin, boldly proclaims a growth goal of 200,000 points of access by the year 2000 (the company had approximately 3,600 in 1991).... -
InsideSales.com (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details This case focuses on growth requirements for a company moving from its base in SMB customers (Small and Mid-Sized businesses) to Enterprise customers... -
Sustainable Investing at J.P. Morgan Private Bank
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details This case features Monica Issar, then Global Head of J.P. Morgan Endowments & Foundations Group in the Private Bank. In just five years, she and J.P.... -
Being a Change Agent (C): Birth of a Movement?
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details "Being a Change Agent"is a three-part case series set in a rural district of Assam in India. It describes the efforts made by Kuladhar Saikia, Deputy... -
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... -
SAP's Transformation from a Product to a Service Provider: The Business Transformation Academy
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details The case discusses the strategic talent and stakeholder management issues that SAP faces as it transforms itself into a service provider. In 2000, SAP... -
The Proxy Fight at ADP
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details In July 2017, shares of Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (ADP) surged 12% following a report that the activist investor Bill Ackman had acquired a sizable... -
Organizational Reinvention
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This note is designed to introduce students to the fundamental concepts of leading innovation in established organizations. Reinvention is a process whereby... -
Hans Fritz at Novartis Thailand (A): The First Month
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Dr. Hans Fritz is 37 years old when he arrives in Bangkok on March 1, 1998 to assume his position as general manager of Novartis Thailand. Novartis is... -
Understanding Customer Profitability at Charles Schwab
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Charles Schwab is transforming into a customer-centric organization. Central to this cultural and organizational change is the utilization of customer... -
Jollibee Foods Corp. (A): International Expansion
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Noli Tingzon, newly-appointed international division VP at Jollibee, the Philippines-based hamburger chain, is faced with the challenge of expanding fast... -
Campbell Soup Co.: A Leader in Continuous Replenishment Innovations
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Campbell Soup, like most food manufacturers, faced grocery chain and wholesale demand for its goods driven by Campbell's own promotional pricing structure... -
SAP AG in 2006: Driving Corporate Transformation
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details In April 2006, SAP AG CEO Henning Kagermann faces several critical decisions. Over the past two years, Kagermann has put in place a bold growth strategy... -
Yvette Hyater-Adams and Terry Larsen at CoreStates Financial Corp.
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Yvette Hyater-Adams, senior VP of CoreStates Bank, and CEO Terry Larsen reflect on their five-year mentor-protege relationship. They describe how building... -
Merck: Conflict and Change
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Tracks Merck's efforts to adapt to changes in the pharmaceutical industry. Key challenges include adapting Merck's internally focused, science-led culture... -
Jacobs Suchard: Reorganizing for 1992
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Jacobs Suchard, the Swiss-based coffee and chocolate producer, is preparing for the common market and EEC 1992. At the time of the case, the company is... -
Bay State Milling
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Steve Mariotti and NFTE
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Less than three years ago, Steve Mariotti created NFTE, a nonprofit organization for teaching entrepreneurship to disadvantaged youths. The organization... -
Pizza Hut, Inc.
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Pizza Hut, Inc. is a franchisor of eat-in pizza restaurants. It has decided to enter the home delivery market and is in the process of implementing that...
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Roche Pakistan (A): Turning Around an Organization Through Cultural Transformation
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details The Roche Pakistan case study focuses on a country in Roche Global's portfolio which was facing challenges. Farrukh Rehan was hired to turnaround the... -
Taco Bell--1994
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Taco Bell CEO, John Martin, boldly proclaims a growth goal of 200,000 points of access by the year 2000 (the company had approximately 3,600 in 1991).... -
How Midsize Companies Can Make the Most of Disruption
Organizational Development Digital ArticleNew research shows three ways these smaller companies can drive change rather than react to it. -
Evolve (Again)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleIn an ever-changing technology landscape, continuous adaptation is key. -
InsideSales.com (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details This case focuses on growth requirements for a company moving from its base in SMB customers (Small and Mid-Sized businesses) to Enterprise customers... -
Sustainable Investing at J.P. Morgan Private Bank
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details This case features Monica Issar, then Global Head of J.P. Morgan Endowments & Foundations Group in the Private Bank. In just five years, she and J.P.... -
Being a Change Agent (C): Birth of a Movement?
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details "Being a Change Agent"is a three-part case series set in a rural district of Assam in India. It describes the efforts made by Kuladhar Saikia, Deputy... -
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... -
SAP's Transformation from a Product to a Service Provider: The Business Transformation Academy
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details The case discusses the strategic talent and stakeholder management issues that SAP faces as it transforms itself into a service provider. In 2000, SAP... -
The Proxy Fight at ADP
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details In July 2017, shares of Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (ADP) surged 12% following a report that the activist investor Bill Ackman had acquired a sizable...