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The C-Suite Skills That Matter Most
Leadership & Managing People SpotlightLanding a job as a CEO today is no longer all about industry expertise and financial savvy. What companies are really seeking are leaders with strong... -
Social-Impact Efforts That Create Real Value
Organizational Development SpotlightCompanies don't win over investors just by issuing sustainability reports and engaging in other standard ESG practices. What they need to do, says Harvard... -
CEO Incentives - It's Not How Much You Pay, But How
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleAttention to how much CEOs are paid diverts public attention from how they are paid. A statistical analysis of executive compensation concludes that top... -
Why Incentive Plans Cannot Work
Employee incentives Magazine ArticleWhen reward systems fail, don’t blame the program—look at the premise behind it. -
What Makes Great Boards Great
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleIn the wake of meltdowns at WorldCom, Tyco, and Enron, enormous attention has been focused on the companies' boards. It seems inconceivable that business... -
How Managers Become Leaders
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleFew managerial transitions are more difficult than making the move from leading a function to leading an entire enterprise for the first time. The scope... -
Stepping into a Leadership Role? Be Ready to Tell Your Story.
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleHit the ground running with a thoughtful personal pitch. -
How Well-Run Boards Make Decisions
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleIn the aftermath of seismic debacles like those that toppled Enron and WorldCom, corporate boards have been shaken up and made over. More directors are... -
Who Should Actually Have Say on Pay?
Compensation and benefits Digital ArticleHaving professional money managers vote on it hasn’t done much. -
What’s Lost When Shareholders Rule
Leadership Digital ArticleWhy commitment is crucial to corporate success. -
The Dark Side of CEO Succession
Succession planning Magazine ArticleMost CEOs and most board members manage the CEO’s succession well. In many companies, CEOs are bound by tradition or policy to step down at a certain age, and plan accordingly. Many have enough vision and insight to overcome any momentary desire to stay on, and indeed take pleasure in training and developing the next […] -
How Much Board Turnover Is Best?
Performance indicators Magazine ArticleSome criticize boards for leaving the evolution of their composition to chance, allowing director retirements to dictate the pace of change. Support for annual director elections and for increased transparency around director nominations suggests that some shareholders would like to see more turnover. Is there evidence that companies and shareholders actually benefit when boards add […] -
How Hewlett-Packard Lost the HP Way
Succession planning Digital ArticleReally, Hewlett-Packard? This is what’s become of the company of Bill and Dave — not just the founders of HP, but the founding fathers of Silicon Valley? Three CEOs in six years. Two of those CEOs who embarrassed themselves with inept campaigns for elective office. The other CEO who managed to get tossed out of […] -
The Sorry State of Nonprofit Boards
Boards Magazine ArticleSurveys show deficits in knowledge, experience, and procedures. -
Keep Your Sarbanes-Oxley Off My CFO
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleSelf-proclaimed shareholder advocates have extended Sarbanes-Oxley reforms deeper and deeper into the business. Now some are going too far, pushing those... -
How Boards Can Set a New CEO Up for Success
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Is It Time to Consider Co-CEOs?
Leadership & Managing People Spotlight"Two heads are better than one." It's a familiar expression--and one that businesses might want to heed. The authors' study of 87 companies led by co-CEOs... -
Microsoft and the Case for the Insider CEO
Succession planning Digital ArticleInsiders might not excite Wall Street, but their track record is superior. -
The Outstanding Outsider and the Fumbling Family
Succession planning Magazine ArticleIn 1945, after four years in the navy, Paul Ballisarian came home to a suburb of Chicago, married his childhood sweetheart, and joined his father in the family butcher shop. Paul was an energetic young man, and when his father retired several years later, he transformed the business from a retail shop into a meat […] -
What it Means Today to be ‘Connected’
Business communication Digital ArticleOnly connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die. — […]
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Amarnath Gupta and Sons: The Family Business
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Amarnath Gupta and Sons was a distributor of lubricants and owner of a petrol pump based in Alwar, Rajasthan, India. The business was originally set up... -
Business Leader's Involvement in the Improvement of Education
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Describes the alliance that Manuel Ariztia (Don Manuel), a highly respected owner of one of the leading poultry companies in Chile, has forged with Melipilla,... -
Rob Waldron at SCORE! Educational Centers (Abridged)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Describes Rob Waldron's actions upon assuming leadership of SCORE! Educational Centers, an after-school tutoring enterprise. Examines the issue of acquiring... -
Stoy Foods: Role Information for Milan Stoyanovic
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In this simulation exercise, four family members must negotiate over the future of the family business. Should the business be sold to a strategic buyer,... -
Alrich Farms: Cash Flow Analysis
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In January 2016, the owners of a family farm near London, Ontario, Canada, wanted to evaluate the financial status of their business. After 30 years in... -
Belmont Industries, Inc. (B), Spanish Version
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. A rewritten version of an earlier supplement. -
Canadian Pacific Railway (B): CP Rising
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case W17568. -
CEO Succession at Cisco (B): Announcement Strategy
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case (417-031). This case supplement describes Cisco's communications strategy around the CEO announcement, which focused on controlling... -
Harvard Business School Executive Education: Balancing Online and Offline Marketing, Spanish Version
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details How does a small business set its online media budget? The HBS Executive Education Division can be viewed as a small-to-medium sized business unit with... -
Boston Lyric Opera
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The Boston Lyric Opera was the fastest growing opera company in North America during the 1990s. Having successfully completed a move to a larger facility... -
A Note on Getting the Most out of Your Board Meetings
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In your first year as chief executive officer (CEO), you will encounter a host of management challenges and opportunities-all of which can be navigated... -
Thomas Cook Group on the Brink (C): Transformation Year 2 Results
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Analyzes the results of the Thomas Cook turnaround plan after the second year under Harriet Green's leadership (November 2014). -
Chorus and Telecom: Building the Boards (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details This follow up to Chorus and Telecom: Building the Boards provides a one-page description of the new boards that were created at Telecom and Chorus. -
Novell (A): When an Activist Hedge Fund Came Calling on the Board
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details No corporation and its board of directors is immune to a disruptive shareholder activist attack. The Novell (A) and (B) cases take students through a... -
Belmont Industries, Inc. (C), Spanish Version
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. A rewritten version of an earlier supplement. -
Leadership Bestsellers Collection (Ebooks)
Leadership & Managing People Special Offer40.00View Details As a leader today, it's essential that you master two critical challenges before anything else: getting up to speed quickly in a new role, and building... -
Royal DSM: From Continuous Transformation to Organic Growth
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Royal DSM CEO Feike Sijbesma was pondering the challenges of shifting DSM's global organization from the constant transformations of the past 100 years... -
Sharks in the Water: Battling an Activist Investor for Corporate Control (B)
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details This case is a follow up to CG20A, and explains the actions taken by Tarco in response to threat from activist investor Barracuda. The case explains how... -
The Fall of Banco Espirito Santo: Holy Spirit or Devil in Disguise?
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details In 2014, after nearly 150 years as one of Portugal's most wealthy and powerful families, the Espírito Santo family completely lost control of its empire,...
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The C-Suite Skills That Matter Most
Leadership & Managing People SpotlightLanding a job as a CEO today is no longer all about industry expertise and financial savvy. What companies are really seeking are leaders with strong... -
Social-Impact Efforts That Create Real Value
Organizational Development SpotlightCompanies don't win over investors just by issuing sustainability reports and engaging in other standard ESG practices. What they need to do, says Harvard... -
CEO Incentives - It's Not How Much You Pay, But How
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleAttention to how much CEOs are paid diverts public attention from how they are paid. A statistical analysis of executive compensation concludes that top... -
Why Incentive Plans Cannot Work
Employee incentives Magazine ArticleWhen reward systems fail, don’t blame the program—look at the premise behind it. -
What Makes Great Boards Great
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleIn the wake of meltdowns at WorldCom, Tyco, and Enron, enormous attention has been focused on the companies' boards. It seems inconceivable that business... -
How Managers Become Leaders
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleFew managerial transitions are more difficult than making the move from leading a function to leading an entire enterprise for the first time. The scope... -
How to Become a Board Member Early in Your Career
Career planning AdviceMore organizations are beginning to bring on fresh perspectives. -
Stepping into a Leadership Role? Be Ready to Tell Your Story.
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleHit the ground running with a thoughtful personal pitch. -
Amarnath Gupta and Sons: The Family Business
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Amarnath Gupta and Sons was a distributor of lubricants and owner of a petrol pump based in Alwar, Rajasthan, India. The business was originally set up... -
How Well-Run Boards Make Decisions
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleIn the aftermath of seismic debacles like those that toppled Enron and WorldCom, corporate boards have been shaken up and made over. More directors are...