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Is the Business of America Still Business?
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Putting the Balanced Scorecard to Work
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Is America in Decline?
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Strategic Plans Are Less Important than Strategic Planning
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Seek Strategy the Right Way at the Right Time
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleDeliberate, emergent, and analogical approaches to finding the best strategy all have their advan-tages, depending on where an industry is in its life... -
5 Ways the Best Companies Close the Strategy-Execution Gap
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Why Hard-Nosed Executives Should Care About Management Theory (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleTheory often gets a bum rap among managers because it's associated with the word "theoretical," which connotes "impractical." But it shouldn't. Because... -
Your Strategy Has to Be Flexible - But So Does Your Execution
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Finding Competitive Advantage in Adversity
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleHow do some entrepreneurs, corporate innovators, and investors turn adverse conditions to competitive advantage? Chakravorti, of McKinsey and Harvard... -
Are "Great" Companies Just Lucky?
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleStudies that examine high-performing companies to unearth the secrets of their success have a critical flaw: Very few of those companies are truly remarkable.... -
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,... -
Managing Alliances with the Balanced Scorecard
Balanced scorecard Magazine ArticleFifty percent of corporate alliances fail. But you can increase your partnership’s odds of success by applying these techniques. -
Two Questions to Ask Before Setting Your Strategy
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The Emerging Capital Market for Nonprofits
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleWhy is it that effective business start-ups frequently grow into corporate giants, but effective new nonprofits rarely reach national scale? Because,... -
8 Reasons Companies Don’t Capture More Value
Business models Digital ArticleIt’s not just about innovation; it’s maximizing what you already have. -
Using the Balanced Scorecard as a Strategic Management System
Finance & Accounting HBR BestsellerThe balanced scorecard revolutionized conventional thinking about performance metrics. When Robert Kaplan and David Norton first introduced the concept... -
Are You Solving the Right Problem?
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleThe rigor with which a problem is defined is the most important factor in finding a good solution. Many organizations, however, are not proficient at... -
Having Trouble with Your Strategy? Then Map It
Balanced scorecard Magazine ArticleThe key to executing your strategy is to have people in your organization understand it—including the crucial but perplexing processes by which intangible assets will be converted into tangible outcomes. Strategy maps can help chart this difficult terrain. -
How to Implement a New Strategy Without Disrupting Your Organization
Change management Magazine ArticleStrategic dreams often turn into nightmares if companies start engaging in expensive and distracting restructurings. It’s far more effective to choose a design that works reasonably well, then develop a strategic system to tune the structure to the strategy. -
Capitalism in Japan: Cartels and Keiretsu
Global Business Magazine ArticleJapan is organized in a fundamentally different way from the economies of the rest of the industrialized world. It is a nation girded by cartels and bound...
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Can GenAI Do Strategy?
Strategy Digital ArticleResults from an experiment that pitted a team of MBAs against MBAs plus AI. - SPONSORED CONTENT FROM Workday
Optimizing the Supply Chain by Aligning the Planning and Sourcing Functions
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Do You Really Understand Your Best (and Worst) Customers?
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Navigating the Data Deluge
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Using Value Stream Management to Speed Digital Transformation and Eliminate Silos
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Partnering in Complex Times: Turning to the Experts for Best-In-Class Customer Experience
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Two Questions to Ask Before Setting Your Strategy
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How People Analytics Can Help You Change Process, Culture, and Strategy
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5 Ways the Best Companies Close the Strategy-Execution Gap
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleTest and learn, then test some more. -
Your Strategy Has to Be Flexible - But So Does Your Execution
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Whiteboard Session: 5 Principles for Innovation in Emerging Markets
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A Good Digital Strategy Creates a Gravitational Pull
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleThanks to social media, the most important influences on your business often happen when you aren't in the room. When people connect peer-to-peer, there... -
The Explainer: Core Competence
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Strategic Plans Are Less Important than Strategic Planning
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Lean Strategy
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleStrategy and entrepreneurship are often seen as polar opposites. Strategy means rigorously defining and pursuing one clear path, while entrepreneurship... -
How to Live with Risks
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleFor years "risk management" has been characterized chiefly by caution--preventing the business from doing things that would create exposure. Although... -
8 Reasons Companies Don’t Capture More Value
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Defining Strategy, Implementation, and Execution
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleThe three are different, though their boundaries are hard to draw. -
The Explainer: The Balanced Scorecard
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Strategize First, Analyze Later
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleRemember that strategy is a creative process.
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Infosys' Relationship Scorecard: Measuring Transformational Partnerships
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This case analyzes Infosys' innovative approach to measuring performance in client relations. Infosys' strategy is evolving to build transformational... -
Deutsche Telekom in 2023: Building the World's Leading Digital Telco
Management Case Study11.95View Details CEO Tim Höttges had successfully led Deutsche Telekom (DT) on an ambitious mission to become Europe's leading telecommunications service provider. All... -
Playgrounds and Performance: Results Management at KaBOOM! (B)
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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... -
CSIRO: The Light Metals Flagship Decision
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details This case explores the challenge of investing in basic research as a public good. CSIRO was Australia's leading science and research agency, and it was... -
China Resources Corp. (A): 6S Management
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details In 2006, Jiang Wei, CFO of China Resources Corporation, was seeking to implement a variety of new management control systems in a complex diversified... -
Wells Fargo Online Financial Services (B)
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Describes how the Balanced Scorecard built by the Online Financial Services (OFS) group is used to select the highest-priority initiatives for the organization.... -
Spectacled Caiman Breeding and Slaughtering Flowchart
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The Workforce Scorecard: Managing Human Capital to Execute Strategy
40.00View Details In a marketplace fueled by intangible assets, anything less than optimal workforce success can threaten a firm's survival. Yet, in most organizations,... -
Note on Political Risk Analysis
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Describes the emergence and subsequent decline of the political risk analysis industry. Discusses what political risk means for multinational firms and... -
Beyond Competitive Advantage: How to Solve the Puzzle of Sustaining Growth While Creating Value
Strategy & Execution Book35.00View Details Your company is turning in regular profits every year, and its market share is only getting bigger. Competitors can't touch you. So why is your stock... -
Store24
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Illustrates how nonfinancial performance measures can be used to manage a business and evaluate the success of a strategy. -
Bob Malott and Product Liability Law Reform
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Robert Malott, Chairman and CEO of FMC, must decide whether or not to continue his work on product liability law reform, an issue on which he has worked... -
Johansen's: The New Scorecard System-Southeast Regional Manager (Handout 7)
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Mobil USM&R (A1)
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details First of a two-part case on the development and use of a Balanced Scorecard (BSC) at Mobil's US Marketing and Refining Division. Split from the original... -
Chemical Bank: Implementing the Balanced Scorecard
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details The retail bank division of Chemical Bank faces declining margins and increased competition in its credit and deposit gathering and processing business.... -
Strategy That Works: How Winning Companies Close the Strategy-to-Execution Gap
Strategy & Execution Book35.00View Details How to close the gap between strategy and execution. Two-thirds of executives say their organizations don't have the capabilities to support their strategy.... -
Head Ski Co., Inc.
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Describes the development of the company to its present preeminence in high-priced skis and the avenues that it can follow to obtain new growth. -
Arkansas Egg Company: Cracks in the Specialty Egg Market
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Michael Cox, a third generation producer of eggs based in the small town of Summers, Arkansas, converted production in 2007 from conventional caged white... -
Verizon Communications, Inc.: Implementing a Human Resources Balanced Scorecard
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details In early 2000, Verizon Communications implemented a Human Resources Balanced Scorecard to evaluate the effectiveness of and payoffs from human resource...
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Infosys' Relationship Scorecard: Measuring Transformational Partnerships
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This case analyzes Infosys' innovative approach to measuring performance in client relations. Infosys' strategy is evolving to build transformational... -
Is the Business of America Still Business?
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleGraduates of Harvard Business School overwhelmingly favor foreign over U.S. locations for new investment. Data from the International Finance Corporation... -
Deutsche Telekom in 2023: Building the World's Leading Digital Telco
Management Case Study11.95View Details CEO Tim Höttges had successfully led Deutsche Telekom (DT) on an ambitious mission to become Europe's leading telecommunications service provider. All... -
Playgrounds and Performance: Results Management at KaBOOM! (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
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... -
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. -
Is America in Decline?
Global Business Magazine ArticleAmerica, a nation once celebrated for its irrepressible optimism, now appears to be obsessed by "declinism"--the idea that something is fundamentally... -
CSIRO: The Light Metals Flagship Decision
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details This case explores the challenge of investing in basic research as a public good. CSIRO was Australia's leading science and research agency, and it was... -
China Resources Corp. (A): 6S Management
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details In 2006, Jiang Wei, CFO of China Resources Corporation, was seeking to implement a variety of new management control systems in a complex diversified... -
Wells Fargo Online Financial Services (B)
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Describes how the Balanced Scorecard built by the Online Financial Services (OFS) group is used to select the highest-priority initiatives for the organization....