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The Collaboration Blind Spot
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleLeaders are well aware of the central role that cross-group collaboration plays in business today. So in planning for collaborative initiatives, they... -
When Senior Managers Won't Collaborate
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleFor professional services firms, the only way to address clients' most complex issues is for specialists to work together across the boundaries of their... -
Collaboration Overload Is Sinking Productivity
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleHow forward-looking organizations are protecting employees' time and energy. -
Cross-Silo Leadership
Cross-functional management Magazine ArticleHow to create more value by connecting experts from inside and outside the organization -
Smart Rules: Six Ways to Get People to Solve Problems Without You
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleAs the world has become more complex, companies have steadily increased their performance requirements: Now they strive to offer low prices and high quality;... -
Leveraging Processes for Strategic Advantage: A Roundtable with Allaire, Herres, Leschly, and Weatherup
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleReengineering efforts are sweeping the country as companies shift from purely functional organizations to those that better accommodate horizontal work... -
For Cross-Functional Change, a Good Disruption Helps
Change management Digital ArticleThe gravitational force of silos and the status quo will always be formidable. -
Ideas for Helping Remote Colleagues Bond
Organizational Development Digital ArticleFrom book clubs to Fortnite. -
Lessons on Team Diversity
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleRecently, I've been collaborating with Lynda Gratton of London Business School on a large research study of team behavior. As the Right Brain-Left Brain... -
How "Perspective Swaps" Can Unlock Organizational Change
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleStepping into a colleague's shoes can reveal surprising new ways of thinking. -
Create a System to Grow Consistently
Strategy & Execution SpotlightDelivering consistent growth is one of the hardest things a company can do. A brilliant idea or product innovation can create a burst of episodic growth,... -
Why Consistent Growth Is So Challenging
Management Digital ArticleThis issue's Spotlight features three articles examining the crucial question of how to achieve and maintain growth. The first article, "How Fast Should... -
When Bureaucracy Is Actually Helpful, According to Research
Organizational Development ResearchRed tape isn't always a burden. -
The Team That Wasn't (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleEric Holt had one responsibility as FireArt's director of strategy: to put together a team of people from each division and create and implement a comprehensive... -
Can Absence Make a Team Grow Stronger?
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleSome projects have such diverse requirements that they need a variety of specialists to work on them. But often the best-qualified specialists are scattered... -
Rebuilding Relationships Across Teams in a Hybrid Workplace
Collaboration and teams Digital ArticleThree strategies to help restore the ties that frayed during the pandemic. -
Collaboration Overload Is a Symptom of a Deeper Organizational Problem
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleFive ways to solve it. -
How to Create Executive Team Norms - and Make Them Stick
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleA five-step plan. -
Eight Ways to Build Collaborative Teams
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleExecuting complex initiatives like acquisitions or an IT overhaul requires a breadth of knowledge that can be provided only by teams that are large, diverse,... -
Learning the Fine Art of Global Collaboration
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleCompanies that excel in managing partnerships for innovation put a great deal of effort into im-proving their ability to collaborate. Their plans address...
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Transforming Arizona's Health Care System: Developing and Implementing the Health-e Connection Roadmap
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This case addresses the issues of leadership and change management in the process of transforming an industry through an innovative public-private partnership... -
National Instruments
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details This case explores the use of social media to support product design, customer support, marketing and HR activities at National Instruments (NI). Based... -
Backstage at Boston Ballet
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details This case asks students to consider how to prioritize goals when placed in a new leadership role. In August 2014, Meredith "Max" Hodges became the youngest... -
The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Marc Buoniconti is the co-founder of the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, a nonprofit medical research organization. The project was founded in 1985 by... -
Naina Lal Kidwai: Investing in Her Country
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details This case showcases the 30-year career of Naina Lal Kidwai, Chairman of HSBC India, a leading woman business leader globally. It demonstrates how Kidwai... -
Toby Johnson (A): Leading After School
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details After completing her MBA in 2007, Toby Johnson, a former army pilot with the 18th Airborne Corps Rapid Deployment Force, joined PepsiCo's Leadership Development... -
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi (Abridged)
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details In 2006, the Cleveland Clinic and Mubadala Investment Company partnered with a bold ambition to deliver world class healthcare in the United Arab Emirates.... -
Babcom: Opening Doors
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Ctrip: Scientifically Managing Travel Services
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Ctrip is a $437 million Chinese on-line travel services company with a scientific, data driven approach to management. The case explores Ctrip's founding... -
Bill Connors and The Farm, a Comcast NBCUniversal Innovation Hub (Powered by Boomtown)
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details In 2017, Bill Connors, the President of Comcast's Central Division, launched a startup accelerator in Comcast's new Atlanta Regional headquarters. Comcast... -
SCORE! Educational Centers (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Describes the start-up, strategy, organizational design, and operations of SCORE! Educational Centers, an after-school tutoring enterprise. Alan Tripp,... -
Bennie Wiley at The Partnership, Inc.
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Benaree Wiley, an African American, female HBS graduate (class of 1972), was appointed CEO and president in 1991 of The Partnership, a Boston-based nonprofit... -
Paula Evans and the Redesign of the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Paula Evans is in her second year as principal of the only high school in Cambridge, MA. Her mandate when she arrived was to redesign the high school... -
Financing the Mozal Project
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details It is June 1997, and a team from the International Finance Corp. (IFC) is recommending that the board approve a $120 million investment in a $1.4 billion... -
Global Leadership in a Dynamic and Evolving Region: Molinas @ The Coca-Cola Company (A)
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Galya Frayman Molinas, President of Coca-Cola's Turkish Business and a 20-year company veteran, is unexpectedly asked to take the helm of a newly expanded... -
Taking Dell Private
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details In July 2012, Michael Dell, CEO and founder of Dell, Inc., met with a representative of Silver Lake Partners to explore taking his company private. The... -
Sanford C. Bernstein Goes to Asia
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Sanford C. Bernstein, a premier sell-side research firm, is expanding globally. Three years after launching Bernstein's Asian business, senior management... -
Magazine Luiza: Building a Retail Model of "Courting the Poor"
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Describes the innovative retail model of the Brazilian firm Magazine Luiza. Magazine Luiza enables low-income consumer credit by applying a flexible and... -
Kathy Fish at Procter & Gamble: Navigating Industry Disruption by Disrupting from Within
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details When Kathy Fish, Procter & Gamble's Chief Research, Development & Innovation Officer, and a 40-year company veteran, stepped into her role in 2014, she... -
Arctic Timber AB: Engineered Woods Division (A)
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Describes the leadership challenges involved in managing strategic innovation and change in a highly mature business unit. Allows systematic exploration...
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Transforming Arizona's Health Care System: Developing and Implementing the Health-e Connection Roadmap
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This case addresses the issues of leadership and change management in the process of transforming an industry through an innovative public-private partnership... -
National Instruments
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details This case explores the use of social media to support product design, customer support, marketing and HR activities at National Instruments (NI). Based... -
Backstage at Boston Ballet
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details This case asks students to consider how to prioritize goals when placed in a new leadership role. In August 2014, Meredith "Max" Hodges became the youngest... -
The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Marc Buoniconti is the co-founder of the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, a nonprofit medical research organization. The project was founded in 1985 by... -
Naina Lal Kidwai: Investing in Her Country
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details This case showcases the 30-year career of Naina Lal Kidwai, Chairman of HSBC India, a leading woman business leader globally. It demonstrates how Kidwai... -
Toby Johnson (A): Leading After School
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details After completing her MBA in 2007, Toby Johnson, a former army pilot with the 18th Airborne Corps Rapid Deployment Force, joined PepsiCo's Leadership Development... -
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi (Abridged)
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details In 2006, the Cleveland Clinic and Mubadala Investment Company partnered with a bold ambition to deliver world class healthcare in the United Arab Emirates.... -
Babcom: Opening Doors
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The Collaboration Blind Spot
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleLeaders are well aware of the central role that cross-group collaboration plays in business today. So in planning for collaborative initiatives, they... -
Ctrip: Scientifically Managing Travel Services
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Ctrip is a $437 million Chinese on-line travel services company with a scientific, data driven approach to management. The case explores Ctrip's founding...