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How to Avoid the Ethical Nightmares of Emerging Technology
AI and machine learning Big IdeaA framework for navigating the worst of what AI, quantum computing, and other new technologies could create. -
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. -
The Hard Side of Change Management
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleEveryone agrees that managing change is tough, but few can agree on how to do it. Most experts are obsessed with "soft" issues, such as culture and motivation,... -
The Truth About CSR
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleDespite the widely accepted ideal of "shared value," research led by Harvard Business School's Kasturi Rangan suggests that this is not the norm--and... -
Putting the Balanced Scorecard to Work
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleIn an earlier, groundbreaking article, Balanced Scorecard -- Measures That Drive Performance, the authors proposed a new measurement system that provided... -
Office of Strategy Management
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThere is a disconnect in most companies between strategy formulation and strategy execution. On average, 95% of a company's employees are unaware of,... -
Digital Transformation Is Not About Technology
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleStrategy, culture, and customer experience are just as important. -
McKinsey’s Three Horizons Model Defined Innovation for Years. Here’s Why It No Longer Applies.
Disruptive innovation Digital ArticleIt assumes that breakthrough innovations will take years to develop. -
Strategy Under Uncertainty
Decision making and problem solving Magazine ArticleWhat makes for a good strategy in highly uncertain business environments? Some executives seek to shape the future with high-stakes bets. Eastman Kodak Company, for example, is spending $500 million per year to develop an array of digital photography products that it hopes will fundamentally change the way people create, store, and view pictures. Meanwhile, […] -
The Competitive Advantage of Corporate Philanthropy
Competitive strategy Magazine ArticleMost companies feel compelled to give to charity. Few have figured out how to do it well. -
Your Strategy Needs a Story
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleA well-told story can help employees and other stakeholders understand how your business works and where it's heading. -
The Discipline of Teams
Teams Magazine ArticleWhat makes the difference between a team that performs and one that doesn’t? -
Strategy and Society: The Link Between Competitive Advantage and Corporate Social Responsibility
Social enterprise HBR BestsellerGovernments, activists, and the media have become adept at holding companies to account for the social consequences of their activities. Myriad organizations rank companies on the performance of their corporate social responsibility (CSR), and, despite sometimes questionable methodologies, these rankings attract considerable publicity. As a result, CSR has emerged as an inescapable priority for business […] -
The Secrets to Successful Strategy Execution
Strategy execution Magazine ArticleResearch shows that enterprises fail at execution because they go straight to structural reorganization and neglect the most powerful drivers of effectiveness—decision rights and information flow. -
Many Strategies Fail Because They’re Not Actually Strategies
Strategy execution Digital ArticleThey’re goals. -
Designing Your Company’s Sustainability Report
Business and society Digital ArticleThere’s no one-size-fits-all approach. This matrix can help you determine the best option for your organization. -
Capitalizing on Capabilities
Corporate strategy Magazine ArticleAssets like leadership, talent, and speed are what produce superior market value. A capabilities audit can show you how you measure up—and how to build on your intangible strengths. -
Chief Strategy Officer
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThey're nominally and ultimately responsible for strategy, but today's CEOs have less and less time to devote to it. As a result, CEOs are appointing... -
Core Competence of the Corporation
Strategy & Execution HBR BestsellerA company's competitiveness derives from its core competencies and core products. Core competence is the collective learning in the organization, especially... -
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.
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Francisco de Narvaez at Tia: Selling the Family Business
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In January 1999, Francisco de Narvaez sold Tia, his family's retail business in Argentina. De Narvaez reflects on the decision to sell and the selling... -
Honest Tea
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case examines the decisions of Seth Goldman and Barry Nalebuff, founders of Honest Tea. Honest Tea is a start-up in the ready-to-drink tea market.... -
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... -
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... -
Business Research Corp. (B)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Contains a description of a set of related decisions confronting the management and directors of Business Research Corp. (BRC) in April of 1984. BRC needs... -
Chemical Bank: Implementing the Balanced Scorecard, Chinese Version
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The retail bank division of Chemical Bank faces declining margins and increased competition in its credit and deposit gathering and processing business.... -
EILEEN FISHER: Repositioning the Brand, Spanish Version
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Well-established fashion brand Eileen Fisher has traditionally appealed to older women. However, to drive growth, Eileen Fisher's management team wants... -
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... -
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,... -
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... -
Nestle: Sustainable Agriculture Initiative
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Swiss food giant Nestle attempts to improve the performance of its suppliers of agricultural commodities to raise quality, lower costs, and contribute... -
Digital Equipment Corp.: The Endpoint Model (B2)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details Should follow Digital Equipment Corp.: The Endpoint Model (B1). A new plant manager has been hired; the case describes her experience, management philosophy,... -
Shanghai Bell--The Collaborative Product Commerce Systems (CPC)
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details The research and development improvement manager at Shanghai Bell has just gotten out of a meeting with top management on strategic initiatives suggested... -
Delivering Strategic Human Resource Management
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details This note reviews the history of the human resources (HR) function and the strategic human resources management (SHRM) movement, wherein HR managers'... -
Managing Rapid Growth, Spanish Version
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Describes the issues that entrepreneurs and their firms must deal with in attempting to make the transition from entrepreneurial to professional management.... -
Buckman Laboratories (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Explores the implementation of a cutting-edge knowledge management system in a midsize, specialty chemical company. The initiative, begun in the early... -
Zappos.com (A): Bring the Shoe Store to Your Home
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This is the first part of two-case series of Zappos's blue ocean strategic move as an innovative online shoe retailer. Part A focuses on how Zappos reconstructed... -
Sustaining Customer Centricity at Chateauform'
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The Châteauform' case describes how Jacques Horovitz founded a unique concept in the saturated hotel and seminar market that existing hotel chains find... -
Walmart Update, 2011, Japanese Version
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In 2011, Walmart was the world's largest company, with $420 billion in sales and operations in 14 countries. Yet it found itself searching for the right... -
Strategy Execution Module 11: Using Diagnostic and Interactive Control Systems
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This module reading introduces diagnostic and interactive control systems. Diagnostic control systems are the management-by-exception systems that managers...
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How to Avoid the Ethical Nightmares of Emerging Technology
AI and machine learning Big IdeaA framework for navigating the worst of what AI, quantum computing, and other new technologies could create. -
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. -
The Hard Side of Change Management
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleEveryone agrees that managing change is tough, but few can agree on how to do it. Most experts are obsessed with "soft" issues, such as culture and motivation,... -
The Truth About CSR
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleDespite the widely accepted ideal of "shared value," research led by Harvard Business School's Kasturi Rangan suggests that this is not the norm--and... -
Putting the Balanced Scorecard to Work
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleIn an earlier, groundbreaking article, Balanced Scorecard -- Measures That Drive Performance, the authors proposed a new measurement system that provided... -
Office of Strategy Management
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThere is a disconnect in most companies between strategy formulation and strategy execution. On average, 95% of a company's employees are unaware of,... -
Digital Transformation Is Not About Technology
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleStrategy, culture, and customer experience are just as important. -
McKinsey’s Three Horizons Model Defined Innovation for Years. Here’s Why It No Longer Applies.
Disruptive innovation Digital ArticleIt assumes that breakthrough innovations will take years to develop. -
Strategy Under Uncertainty
Decision making and problem solving Magazine ArticleWhat makes for a good strategy in highly uncertain business environments? Some executives seek to shape the future with high-stakes bets. Eastman Kodak Company, for example, is spending $500 million per year to develop an array of digital photography products that it hopes will fundamentally change the way people create, store, and view pictures. Meanwhile, […] -
The Competitive Advantage of Corporate Philanthropy
Competitive strategy Magazine ArticleMost companies feel compelled to give to charity. Few have figured out how to do it well.