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What Is Disruptive Innovation?
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleFor the past 20 years, the theory of disruptive innovation has been enormously influential in business circles and a powerful tool for predicting which... -
The Five Stages of Small Business Growth
Entrepreneurial management Magazine ArticleNo researcher has explored the earliest period of a business’s development in detail—until now. -
Understanding China
Global Business SpotlightThis package begins with "What the West Gets Wrong About China," by Rana Mitter and Elsbeth Johnson, which discusses three fundamental misconceptions:... -
Innovation Doesn’t Have to Be Disruptive
Innovation Magazine ArticleCreate new markets for growth without destroying existing companies or jobs. -
The Office of Strategy Management
Balanced scorecard Magazine ArticleStrategy at many companies is almost completely disconnected from execution. Establishing a dedicated unit to orchestrate both will help to bridge the divide. -
How to Create a Stakeholder Strategy
Business and society Magazine ArticleA data-driven approach to design, measurement, and implementation -
The One Number You Need to Grow
Growth strategy Magazine ArticleIf growth is what you’re after, you won’t learn much from complex measurements of customer satisfaction or retention. You simply need to know what your customers tell their friends about you. -
Ten Ways to Create Shareholder Value
Corporate governance Magazine ArticleCompanies profess devotion to shareholder value but rarely follow the practices that maximize it. What will it take to make your company a level 10 value creator? -
China's New Innovation Advantage
Global Business SpotlightEight of the 10 fastest companies ever to reach a $1 billion valuation are Chinese, and six of them were founded in 2014 alone. Whatever has propelled... -
Managing Your Innovation Portfolio
Innovation Magazine ArticlePeople throughout your organization are energetically pursuing the new. But does all that activity add up to a strategy? -
The Core Competence of the Corporation
Strategic analysis HBR BestsellerHow companies cultivate the skills and resources for growth. -
The New M&A Playbook
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleCompanies spend more than $2 trillion on acquisitions every year, yet the M&A failure rate is between 70% and 90%. Executives can dramatically increase... -
Know Your Customers' Jobs to Be Done
Companies can design better products by looking at the jobs that customers are struggling to do. Learn how in this video slide deck. -
Stick to the Core—or Go for More?
Strategic planning Magazine ArticleAdvaark achieved phenomenal success selling one service very well. But now customers are asking for more, creating a strategic dilemma that could tear the company apart. -
How Dell, HP, and Apple Rediscovered Their Founders' Vision
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleAnd why your company should do it too. -
From Accountant to Yogi: Making a Radical Career Change
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleQuit being the person you're "supposed" to be. -
Case Study: Should You Adjust Your Business Model for a Major Customer?
Business models Magazine ArticleA manufacturer evaluates a tempting deal. -
The CEO of Heinz on Powering Growth in Emerging Markets
Brand management Magazine ArticleThe Idea: This year more than 20% of Heinz’s revenues will come from emerging markets such as China, India, Indonesia, Russia, and Brazil, versus less than 5% a few years ago. Longtime CEO Bill Johnson describes his strategy for growing sales in developing economies. -
Growth as a Process
Globalization Magazine ArticleGeneral Electric is bending every waking effort to an audacious aim—to grow organically two to three times faster than world GDP. Pursuing that goal, the company has invented a whole new set of management methods. -
If Private Equity Sized Up Your Business
Entrepreneurial financing Magazine ArticleBuyout firms would see opportunity for value enhancement in five key areas. Why not beat them to the punch?
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Tools from "The Innovator's Guide to Growth"
69.95View Details There's a pervasive belief that innovation is random and unpredictable. The Innovator's Guide to Growth, however, argues that there are patterns that... -
Sunkist Growers, Inc.
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details A new media strategy for lemon advertising involving the concentration of the entire budget in a single-print vehicle, is under consideration. -
Locally Laid Egg Company: No Time for Laying Around
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details The Locally Laid Egg Company is a family-owned company based out of Duluth, Minnesota. The company was established in 2012 as the first commercial grade... -
Beleza Natural: Marketing Strategies for Empowering Social Change
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details This case features an entrepreneur striving to rapidly grow a successful chain of hair salons that serve women with afro hair. After doubling from 13... -
Ant Financial (C), Chinese Version
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details Headquartered in Hangzhou (China), Ant Financial has grown into a fintech "Unicorn." The fintech empire that the company established spanned verticals... -
Othellonia: Growing a Mobile Game
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details In the summer of 2019, Yu Sasaki, Head of the Game Division of DeNA, a Japanese mobile gaming company, is evaluating various growth strategies for its... -
Identify the Industries--1996
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Common-size balance sheets and financial ratios are given for thirteen companies. Students must identify which company is in which of thirteen industries.... -
Ganong Bros. Ltd.
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Ganong Bros. Ltd. is a fifth-generation family chocolate company facing financial difficulties. The firm has spread its resources too thin and needs to... -
Mia by Tanishq: Jewellery to Entice the Working Woman in India
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In 1995, Titan launched the first branded range of jewellery - 'Tanishq' - in India's highly fragmented and disorganised jewellery market. Tanishq performed... -
Graphic Packaging: Project Cowboy (A)
Management Case Study8.95View Details In July 2019, Graphic Packaging CEO Michael Doss was proposing a $600 million investment in a new machine to produce coated recycled board (CRB), a type... -
Dabur India: Growing Professional Management from Family Roots
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The case opens in December of 2018, with Sunil Duggal, the CEO of Dabur India (a multinational consumer goods conglomerate with a focus in Ayurvedic products)... -
Beryl: E-commerce Livestreaming Strategy
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Beryl is a leading brand in China's goji berry market that has stayed ahead of the competition quality-wise and is the only one to build a name for itself... -
Bernd Beetz: Creating the New Coty
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Considers the creation of one of the world's largest beauty and fragrance companies by Bernd Beetz, appointed chief executive of Coty Inc. in 2001. The... -
General Manager's Organizational Challenge: Embedding and Leveraging Capability
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Describes how general managers can build organizational capability in their firms. -
Endo Pharmaceuticals (E): Judge Stein Rules
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details An abstract is not available for this product. -
Taco Bell, Inc.--1983-94
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Details the actions of John Martin, newly named CEO, as he leads Taco Bell through a decade of incremental and radical changes. By the end of the case,... -
Rent the Runway (Abridged), Spanish Version
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Two months after a successful launch In November 2009, the cofounders of Rent the Runway (RTR), a website that rented designer dresses, are debating whether... -
Ace Company: Breadth or Depth Growth Strategy?
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Ace Company (Ace) was a Chinese start-up developing software for the Internet of Things (IoT). The company was founded in February 2015 by three colleagues... -
Shouldice Hospital Ltd., Japanese Version
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Various proposals are set forth for expanding the capacity of the hospital. In assessing them, serious consideration has to be given to the culture of... -
Winning in Emerging Markets: A Road Map for Strategy and Execution
Global Business Book38.00View Details The best way to select emerging markets to exploit is to evaluate their size or growth potential, right? Not according to Krishna Palepu and Tarun Khanna....
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What Is Disruptive Innovation?
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleFor the past 20 years, the theory of disruptive innovation has been enormously influential in business circles and a powerful tool for predicting which... -
The Five Stages of Small Business Growth
Entrepreneurial management Magazine ArticleNo researcher has explored the earliest period of a business’s development in detail—until now. -
Understanding China
Global Business SpotlightThis package begins with "What the West Gets Wrong About China," by Rana Mitter and Elsbeth Johnson, which discusses three fundamental misconceptions:... -
Innovation Doesn’t Have to Be Disruptive
Innovation Magazine ArticleCreate new markets for growth without destroying existing companies or jobs. -
The Office of Strategy Management
Balanced scorecard Magazine ArticleStrategy at many companies is almost completely disconnected from execution. Establishing a dedicated unit to orchestrate both will help to bridge the divide. -
How to Create a Stakeholder Strategy
Business and society Magazine ArticleA data-driven approach to design, measurement, and implementation -
The One Number You Need to Grow
Growth strategy Magazine ArticleIf growth is what you’re after, you won’t learn much from complex measurements of customer satisfaction or retention. You simply need to know what your customers tell their friends about you. -
Ten Ways to Create Shareholder Value
Corporate governance Magazine ArticleCompanies profess devotion to shareholder value but rarely follow the practices that maximize it. What will it take to make your company a level 10 value creator? -
China's New Innovation Advantage
Global Business SpotlightEight of the 10 fastest companies ever to reach a $1 billion valuation are Chinese, and six of them were founded in 2014 alone. Whatever has propelled... -
Managing Your Innovation Portfolio
Innovation Magazine ArticlePeople throughout your organization are energetically pursuing the new. But does all that activity add up to a strategy?