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How to Have an Honest Conversation About Your Business Strategy (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleToo many organizations descend into underperformance because they can't confront the painful gap between their strategy and the reality of their capabilities,... -
Philanthropy’s New Agenda: Creating Value
Corporate social responsibility Magazine ArticleSatisfied with doing good, too few foundations work strategically to do better. -
5 Simple Rules for Strategy Execution
Strategy Digital ArticleThe more you try to achieve, the less you’ll accomplish. -
When Managing Complexity, Less is More
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleHow does one successfully manage a company with a dozen diverse, decentralized businesses of varying sizes that employ over 100,000 people in 130 countries,... -
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. -
Starting Up in High Gear
Strategic planning Magazine ArticleEntrepreneurs have always needed imagination and daring. What’s different today, says one of the architects of the new economy, is that they have to move a lot faster than ever before, with a lot less room for error. -
The Transformer's Dilemma
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleInterviews with top executives reveal how to manage a new digital business alongside your core offering. -
In Praise of Middle Managers
Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleFor years, middle managers have gotten a bad rap as inflexible, unimaginative bureaucrats. But a new study shows that when it comes to implementing radical change, middle managers are your best bet for success. -
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. -
How to Excel at Both Strategy and Execution
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleOnly 8% of leaders do it. -
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... -
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. -
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... -
A Playbook for Moving Down Market
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleMy last post talked about Microsoft's predictable struggles to move down market into the Web-delivered application market. Predictable struggles must... -
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... -
Stress-Test Your Strategy: The 7 Questions to Ask
Labor Magazine ArticleAn economic downturn can quickly expose the shortcomings of your business strategy. But can you identify its weak points in good times as well? And can you focus on those weak points that really matter? A stress test—an assessment of how a system functions under severe or unexpected pressure—can help you home in on the […] -
When First Movers Are Rewarded, and When They're Not
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleWhat a study of mobile phone makers reveals. -
You've Been Reorganized. Now What?
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleOne of senior management's favorite pastimes is moving around the boxes - and the people inside them. I'm not suggesting that reorganizations are frivolous... -
Too Many Projects
Business management Magazine ArticleHow to deal with initiative overload -
What a Mature CSR Team Looks Like
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleSuccessful implementation happens when responsibility is decentralized and functional units are empowered.
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HP-Cisco Alliance (B)
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Copeland Corp.: Evolution of a Manufacturing Strategy--1975-82 (C)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details In the preceding case, Copeland had to choose between two alternative plant layouts for organizing its Sidney plant. Now it must get work force approval... -
ATH Technologies (E)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. Designed as an in-class handout. -
Ford vs. GM: The Evolution of Mass Production (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details This case explores the very different paths taken by the Ford Motor Company and the General Motors Corporation in the first three decades of the twentieth... -
Inside Intel Inside
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details In early 2002, Pamela Pollace, vice president and director of Intel's worldwide marketing operations, is debating whether the company should extend its... -
Fenix: Diversified Niche Marketing in the Lifestyle Business
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Fenix Group's business spans from general merchandise retailing to Italian fashion. The diversity stems from the management's multiniche marketing strategy.... -
TiVo 2007: DVRs and Beyond
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Tom Rogers, CEO of TiVo, had placed multiple strategic bets on his company. In September 2007, that strategy was due for a major test. TiVo was a maker... -
Harvard Business Review on Aligning Technology with Strategy
22.00View Details Most companies waste billions of dollars on technology. Don't be one of them. If you need the best practices and ideas for unleashing technology's strategic... -
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... -
Block 16: Indigenous Peoples' Perspective
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplements Block 16: Conoco's Green Oil Strategy (A). Provides the indigenous people's perspective on Conoco's Ecuadorian strategy. Designed to be distributed... -
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... -
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... -
Wal-Mart Stores in 2003
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Examines Wal-Mart's development over three decades and provides financial and descriptive detail of its domestic operations. In 2003, Wal-Mart's Supercenter... -
Hayman Capital Management
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details In late December 2011, Hayman Capital founder and portfolio manager Kyle Bass was reviewing Japanese government budget projections for 2012. The projections... -
Apple Computer, 2006
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Apple has reaped the benefits of its innovative music player, the iPod. However, its PC and server business continue to hold small market share relative... -
3M Optical Systems: Managing Corporate Entrepreneurship
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details A middle-level division manager must decide whether he should support an investment request for a third attempt at launching a new product developed by... -
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... -
Digital Transformation at Merck
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Big corporations have structured processes and frameworks for strategic projects review, and professionals are well trained and versed on developing detailed... -
The Carlyle Group: Carving Out Atotech
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details On January 31, 2017, The Carlyle Group ("Carlyle") closed its $3.2 billion acquisition of Atotech, an international Specialty Chemicals and Equipment... -
Arbor Health Care Co.
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details A venture-funded start-up runs into trouble when health care reimbursement policies change radically. With the help of its board, the company develops...
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Mastering the Management System
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleCompanies have always found it hard to balance pressing operational concerns with long-term strategic priorities. The tension is critical: World-class... -
DoubleDutch
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Lawrence Coburn and Pankaj Prasad, co-founders of the event solution startup DoubleDutch, have to make a significant decision about their young company's... -
Philanthropy’s New Agenda: Creating Value
Corporate social responsibility Magazine ArticleSatisfied with doing good, too few foundations work strategically to do better. -
ONE2ID B.V.
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details The case ONE2ID B.V., Growth Challenge explores the challenges a small company faces when the founder controls every aspect of the firm. Over the past... -
Dubai Ports Authority (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details The Dubai Ports Authority (DPA) wishes to digitize many of the documents it shares with its external partners, including shipping lines and agents, merchants,... -
Southwest Airlines (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details In 1994, both United Airlines and Continental Airlines launched low-cost airlines-within-an-airline to compete with Southwest Airlines. From 1991 to 1993,... -
Kunvarji Group
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Kunvarji Group was on its way to transform from a commodity trading business to a service-driven business. To become an integrated service provider in... -
Deadly Sins of Giving Assignments
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleOne organizational area that tends to tie a company in knots is the way leaders give assignments. Most managers struggle to find the right balance between... -
5 Simple Rules for Strategy Execution
Strategy Digital ArticleThe more you try to achieve, the less you’ll accomplish. -
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....