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When Great Minds Don't Think Alike
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleTemple Grandin on how to harness different kinds of thinking for creativity, problem-solving, and innovation. -
The Most Common Type of Incompetent Leader
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleWhy an absentee boss is worse than an abusive one. -
Understanding Leadership (HBR Classic)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThe would-be analyst of leadership usually studies popularity, power, showmanship, or wisdom in long-range planning. But none of these qualities is the... -
Creating Psychological Safety for Black Women at Your Company
Organizational Development Digital ArticleWhat organizations tend to get wrong - and how to get it right. -
How Apple Is Organized for Innovation
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleWhen Steve Jobs returned to Apple, in 1997, it had a conventional structure for a company of its size and scope. It was divided into business units, each... -
How "Perspective Swaps" Can Unlock Organizational Change
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleStepping into a colleague's shoes can reveal surprising new ways of thinking. -
Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleAs the demands of the workplace keep rising, many people respond by putting in ever longer hours, which inevitably leads to burnout that costs both the... -
What Is Psychological Safety?
Leadership and managing people Digital ArticleA culture of trust and belonging doesn’t just happen. Here’s how you make one. -
The Surprising Power of Questions
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleMuch of an executive's workday is spent asking others for information--requesting status updates from a team leader, for example, or questioning a counterpart... -
The Elements of Good Judgment
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleJudgment--the ability to combine personal qualities with relevant knowledge and experience to form opinions and make decisions--is "the core of exemplary... -
The Leader as Coach
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleIn the face of rapid, disruptive change, companies are realizing that managers can't be expected to have all the answers and that command-and-control... -
Employees Are Losing Patience with Change Initiatives
Organizational change Digital ArticleA Gartner survey found that employees’ willingness to support enterprise change fell from 74% in 2016 to just 43% in 2022. -
Management Time: Who’s Got the Monkey?
Delegating Magazine ArticleThe burdens of subordinates always seem to end up on the manager’s back. Here’s how to get rid of them. -
The Case for a Chief of Staff
Cross-functional management Magazine ArticleCEOs need more support than an executive assistant can provide. -
The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy
Competitive strategy HBR BestsellerAwareness of the five forces can help a company understand the structure of its industry and stake out a position that is more profitable and less vulnerable to attack. -
Consulting Is More Than Giving Advice
Management Magazine ArticleBy building on a hierarchy of goals, consultants and managers can work toward mutual interests. -
9 Trends That Will Shape Work in 2023 and Beyond
Business management Digital ArticleAmid a looming economic downturn, employers can expect another tumultuous year. -
How to Approach an Office Romance (and How Not To)
Communication Best PracticeMany people meet their partners at work - but proceed carefully. -
Power of Talk: Who Gets Heard and Why
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleMost managerial work happens through talk--discussions, meetings, presentations, negotiations. And it is through talk that managers evaluate others and... -
The Set-Up-To-Fail Syndrome
Managerial behavior Magazine ArticleHow bosses create their own poor performers.
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Leadership Voice and Style
Communication Case Study8.95View Details This technical note is used in management communications or strategic communication courses in MBA or executive education programs where students are... -
Perspective on Entrepreneurship, Spanish Version
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Designed to highlight alternative concepts of good management and the need for entrepreneurship as a response to societal changes. It argues that entrepreneurship... -
Banc One--1993
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details From a small local bank, Banc One has grown to one of the largest and most profitable banks in the United States under the leadership of its CEO, John... -
Daka International, Inc. (B)
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details Describes the resolution to the dilemma raised in the (A) case. -
Groom Energy Solutions: Selling Efficiency
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Groom Energy Solutions helps organizations reduce their energy use and costs through the implementation of energy efficiency measures, which create long-term... -
Hewlett-Packard: Culture in Changing Times, Portuguese Version
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details HP had been a highly successful and respected company for decades. It was well known for its company culture and management practices--the HP way--which... -
ConAgra Foods
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In 2002, ConAgra Foods CEO Bruce Rohde was deliberating the next steps in the process of transforming the company from an agribusiness giant to a value-added... -
Alive at Work: The Neuroscience of Helping Your People Love What They Do
16.00View Details Poll after poll has confirmed that an astonishing number of workers are disengaged from their work. Why is this happening? And how can we fix the problem?... -
Shelley Metzenbaum and Improving Federal Government Performance
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details In late September 2009, nine months after he took office, President Barack Obama appointed Shelley Metzenbaum to the position of associate director for... -
Managing Stakeholders with Corporate Social Responsibility, Course Overview
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The note articulates the ways in which strong stakeholder-company relationships developed through corporate social responsibility initiatives and other... -
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... -
Changing Corporate Identity: The Case of a Regional Hospital
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Facing competitive pressure from local health care suppliers and a shift in patient demand, the hospital's executive management team develops a strategic... -
VINSUN Infra Engineering: ERP on Premise or on Cloud
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The managing director of a small- to medium-sized electrical firm faces a major challenge: he realizes that the firm he founded has grown so significantly... -
Yum! China
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Since the first KFC opened in China in 1987, Yum--under Sam Su's leadership--had built the largest restaurant company by far in mainland China. Averaging... -
Fiat-Chrysler Alliance: Launching the Cinquecento in North America
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Fiat ended its 27-year absence in the North American automobile market when the first Cinquecento (500)-a very small, iconic Italian car that had strong... -
Australia-Japan Cable: Structuring the Project Company, Japanese Version
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In late September 1999, representatives from Telstri, Japan Telecom, and Teleglobe met to discuss the structure of the Australia-Japan Cable (AJC) project,... -
HBR's 10 Must Reads for New Managers (with bonus article "How Managers Become Leaders" by Michael D. Watkins)
24.95View Details Develop the mindset and presence to successfully manage others for the first time. If you read nothing else on becoming a new manager, read these 10 articles.... -
Vancom Transportation, Inc. (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Describes the outcome of the labor relations issues. -
First Federal Savings (A)
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Raises questions about basing a reward system on profit and changing MBO indicators through time. -
Net Zero to Net Hero - Can We Gross It? Part 2
Management Case Study5.00View Details NET ZERO TO NET HERO - CAN WE GROSS IT? is a two-part case that highlights the pressing need for businesses to move towards sustainable practices. This...
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When Great Minds Don't Think Alike
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleTemple Grandin on how to harness different kinds of thinking for creativity, problem-solving, and innovation. -
The Most Common Type of Incompetent Leader
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleWhy an absentee boss is worse than an abusive one. -
Understanding Leadership (HBR Classic)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThe would-be analyst of leadership usually studies popularity, power, showmanship, or wisdom in long-range planning. But none of these qualities is the... -
Creating Psychological Safety for Black Women at Your Company
Organizational Development Digital ArticleWhat organizations tend to get wrong - and how to get it right. -
How Apple Is Organized for Innovation
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleWhen Steve Jobs returned to Apple, in 1997, it had a conventional structure for a company of its size and scope. It was divided into business units, each... -
How "Perspective Swaps" Can Unlock Organizational Change
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleStepping into a colleague's shoes can reveal surprising new ways of thinking. -
Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleAs the demands of the workplace keep rising, many people respond by putting in ever longer hours, which inevitably leads to burnout that costs both the... -
What Is Psychological Safety?
Leadership and managing people Digital ArticleA culture of trust and belonging doesn’t just happen. Here’s how you make one. -
The Surprising Power of Questions
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleMuch of an executive's workday is spent asking others for information--requesting status updates from a team leader, for example, or questioning a counterpart... -
The Elements of Good Judgment
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleJudgment--the ability to combine personal qualities with relevant knowledge and experience to form opinions and make decisions--is "the core of exemplary...