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Driving Organizational Change - Without Abandoning Tradition
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleTo shift entrenched ways of thinking, leaders need to understand and respect where people are coming from. -
The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs
Innovation Magazine ArticleSix months after Jobs’s death, the author of his best-selling biography identifies the practices that every CEO can try to emulate. -
CEOs, Step into the Front Lines or Risk Losing Touch
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleDriving organizational change requires getting closer to both your employees and customers. -
What Makes a Leader?
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleWhen asked to define the ideal leader, many would emphasize traits such as intelligence, toughness, determination, and vision--the qualities traditionally... -
5 Principles of Purposeful Leadership
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleUnderstanding why you're in the room is more important than being the smartest one in it. -
Six Rules for Effective Forecasting
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThe primary goal of forecasting is to identify the full range of possibilities facing a company, society, or the world at large. In this article, Saffo... -
Mastering the Value Chain: An Interview with Mark Levin of Millennium Pharmaceuticals
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleIn this interview with HBR senior editor David Champion, Mark Levin, the founder and CEO of Millennium Pharmaceuticals, describes his vision of the future... -
The Imperative: Innovation Inventory #1
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleIn just a few weeks, Harvard Business Publishing will release The Silver Lining: An Innovation Playbook for Uncertain Times. The book's central theme... -
HBR's Most-Watched Videos of 2022
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Are the Strategic Stars Aligned for Your Corporate Brand?
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleIn recent years, companies have increasingly seen the benefits of creating a corporate brand. Rather than spend marketing dollars on branding individual... -
You Don't Have to Be CEO to Be a Visionary Leader
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticlePeople want to know what they're working toward and why. -
Customer Service in a Crisis
Rene Carayol of Cass Business School explains how First Direct's commitment to customer service saved a life on 9/11. -
To Lead, Create a Shared Vision
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleWhat do followers want? A leader with a compelling vision of the future - which is not usually that leader's personal view. New research shows that followers... -
Sustainability's Faustian Dilemma
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleWe all remember the SunChips Episode of 2010. Frito-Lay introduced bio-degradable packaging for SunChips in March, and was surprised to see sales of the... -
Does It Feel Like Your Department Has Been Sidelined?
Leading teams Digital ArticleFive strategies to regain your influence. -
Great Intimidators
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleAfter Disney's Michael Eisner, Miramax's Harvey Weinstein, and Hewlett-Packard's Carly Fiorina fell from their heights of power, the business media quickly... -
Leading People Too Smart to Be Led
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleSix lessons from the Santa Fe Institute. -
How to Do Strategic Planning Like a Futurist
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleYou don't need a time line; you need a time cone. -
Three Things Your Company Can Learn from a Bottle of Water
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleConsider these three stories: At Enterprise Rent-A-Car you get a free bottle of chilled water when you pick up your car. That delights Enterprise's customers,... -
Delta CEO Ed Bastian on Leading an Airline Through Two Years of Pandemic Disruptions
Business and society Digital ArticleThe airline had to adapt to a seemingly endless series of dire, pandemic-related challenges.
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy (including featured article "What Is Strategy?" by Michael E. Porter)
Strategy & Execution Book24.95View Details Is your company spending enormous time and energy on strategy development, with little to show for your efforts? We've combed through hundreds of Harvard... -
Strategic Planning on a Military Air Station: Calm Skies or Turbulence Up Ahead?
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details This disguised case provides a strategic plan devised and used on a military base. Senior officers clarified their strategy, outlined capabilities needed,... -
Ashok Leyland (A): Reaching For the Stars - Embarking on a New Vision and Strategy
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This case documents the history of Ashok Leyland (AL), the second largest commercial vehicle manufacturer in India, and captures its growth and journey... -
Mondavi Winery
Communication Case Study8.95View Details Examines Mondavi Winery's struggle to communicate its value proposition to the market following an apparently successful IPO. The Mondavi Winery had a... -
TWA Parts (Abridged)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Transworld Auto Parts had to implement its new strategy flawlessly to survive the auto industry upheaval. The new CEO asked her leadership team to craft... -
Miles Everson at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Spanish Version
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Miles Everson, a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), is the Global Engagement Partner (GEP) for a large U.S. financial institution and about to take... -
PayPal in 2015: Reshaping the Financial Services Landscape
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The case follows PayPal, a digital payments platform that found early success processing online payments for purchases on eBay, which acquired the company... -
Narayana Hrudayalaya Heart Hospital: Cardiac Care for the Poor (A), Spanish Version
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study6.95View Details Describes the mission, vision, and strategy of a team of entrepreneurs headed by a charismatic heart surgeon who founded a heart hospital in Bangalore,... -
The Freelancers Union (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details One month after the launch of the Freelancers Insurance Company Sara Horowitz, Founder and CEO, holds a staff meeting to discuss the outcome. The discussion... -
The Vanguard Group
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In 2019, The Vanguard Group with $5.1 trillion in assets under management was the largest global provider of mutual funds, and the second largest provider... -
Mirvac (B): Building Balance
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details This award-winning case case explores the challenges facing Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz, the CEO of Mirvac, an Australian property group, as she leads a major... -
FOTILE: Building a Great Company Guided by Confucianism, Chinese Version
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In early 2018, the chairman and chief executive officer of FOTILE, based in Ningbo, China, announced a change in the company's mission statement from... -
DEUTSCHE TELEKOM: A TRANSFORMATION JOURNEY (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details When he took over as chief executive, the former state-owned telecom monopoly was in bad shape. Having long been one of the dominant players in Europe,... -
Avi Kremer
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details If you were diagnosed with a terminal illness, how would you respond and what would you do with your remaining time? Avi Kremer contemplates four options... -
Get Your Venture Backed with Persuasive Data Viz: An HBR Collection for Building the Perfect Pitch Deck
Communication Book65.00View Details Communicating your idea in a clear, compelling, and persuasive manner is critical when trying to launch a new venture. This Harvard Business Review collection... -
Transformation at the IRS, Spanish Version
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Describes the service transformation occurring at the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. Plagued by a history of poor service, enormous complexity, and an... -
Unilever's New Global Strategy: Competing through Sustainability, Portuguese Version
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details In January 2009, when Paul Polman was appointed CEO of Unilever, he inherited a company in long-term decline at the beginning of a major global financial... -
Vivendi: Revitalizing a French Conglomerate (A), Spanish Version
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Examines corporate strategy for a diversified firm in the French business context. Issues include corporate governance, vision, and the management of... -
HBR Guide for Women at Work
21.95View Details How to lean in at work. Women regularly face unfair challenges in the workplace--from being passed over for promotion to being ignored in conversation.... -
Elon Musk's Big Bets Update, 2019, Spanish Version
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This short case provides an update to Elon Musk's strategy and tactical moves with Tesla, Solar City, and SpaceX from 2016-2019.
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Driving Organizational Change - Without Abandoning Tradition
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleTo shift entrenched ways of thinking, leaders need to understand and respect where people are coming from. -
The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs
Innovation Magazine ArticleSix months after Jobs’s death, the author of his best-selling biography identifies the practices that every CEO can try to emulate. -
CEOs, Step into the Front Lines or Risk Losing Touch
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleDriving organizational change requires getting closer to both your employees and customers. -
What Makes a Leader?
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleWhen asked to define the ideal leader, many would emphasize traits such as intelligence, toughness, determination, and vision--the qualities traditionally... -
5 Principles of Purposeful Leadership
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleUnderstanding why you're in the room is more important than being the smartest one in it. -
Six Rules for Effective Forecasting
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThe primary goal of forecasting is to identify the full range of possibilities facing a company, society, or the world at large. In this article, Saffo... -
A Guide to Building Psychological Safety on Your Team
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy (including featured article "What Is Strategy?" by Michael E. Porter)
Strategy & Execution Book24.95View Details Is your company spending enormous time and energy on strategy development, with little to show for your efforts? We've combed through hundreds of Harvard... -
Strategic Planning on a Military Air Station: Calm Skies or Turbulence Up Ahead?
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details This disguised case provides a strategic plan devised and used on a military base. Senior officers clarified their strategy, outlined capabilities needed,... -
Managing the Multiple Identities of the Corporation
Organizational Development Digital ArticleIn the wake of corporate acquisitions, mergers, and spin-offs, considerable senior management attention has been devoted to corporate identity and its...