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Necessary Art of Persuasion (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThis article defines and explains the four essential elements of persuasion. Business today is largely run by teams and populated by authority-averse... -
Bringing Out the Best in Your People
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleSome leaders drain all the intelligence and capability out of their teams. Because they need to be the most capable person in the room, these managers... -
The Leadership Journey
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleIt isn't always easy to change leadership hats or to alter the way you assess a business problem. Under pressure, most executives fall back on the management... -
Executive as Coach
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleHow do you deal with the talented manager whose perfectionism paralyzes his direct reports? Or the high-performing expert who disdains teamwork under... -
How Do You Manage an Off-Site Team? (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleIn this fictitious case study, HBR editor Regina F. Maruca explores the challenges of managing employees in the alternative workplace. Allison Scher is... -
They're Not Employees, They're People
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleIn this essay, business thinker Peter Drucker examines the changing dynamics of the workforce--in particular, the need for organizations to take just... -
Transforming Corner-Office Strategy into Frontline Action
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleIn this article, Bain consultants Orit Gadiesh and James Gilbert explore the concept of the strategic principle--a memorable and actionable phrase that... -
Closing the Strategy-Execution Gap Means Focusing on What Employees Think, Not What They Do
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleEscape the tyranny of the tangible. -
Simpler Way to Pay (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleThere have been many changes in professional services since Egon Zehnder founded his executive search firm nearly four decades ago--not the least of which... -
What's Stifling the Creativity at CoolBurst? (HBR Case Study)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThis fictitious case study explores the challenges facing CoolBurst, a Miami-based fruit-juice company. For over a decade, CoolBurst had ruled the market... -
Learning to Lead at Toyota
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleMany companies have tried to copy Toyota's famous production system--but without success. Part of the reason why, says the author, is that imitators fail... -
Mastering the Management System
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleCompanies have always found it hard to balance pressing operational concerns with long-term strategic priorities. The tension is critical: World-class... -
Why I Encourage My Best Employees to Consider Outside Job Offers
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleIt sends a clear signal that you care about their career progression. -
Laughing All the Way to the Bank
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleExecutives who were rated "outstanding" by superiors used humor more than twice as often as those deemed just average. What's more, the funnier the executives... -
Best of Intentions (HBR Case Study)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleCynthia Mitchell has finally gotten a plum management opportunity at AgFunds, a Houston-based company that provides financial services to farmers and... -
Creative Meetings Through Power Sharing
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleMost managerial styles are characterized by an emphasis on the power and the right of the manager to pass judgment on the actions of his or her subordinates.... -
Manager: Master and Servant of Power (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleWhen workers withdraw commitment to their jobs or allow resentments toward bosses, subordinates, and others to grow and fester, it isn't because bosses... -
Highway of the Mind
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleBusinesspeople tend to be extroverts, taking a lively interest in others and preferring action to introspection. But to be fully effective as leaders,... -
Moonlighter (HBR Case Study)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleJeremy Hicks, Zagante Systems' lead programmer, walks into the office at eight o'clock on a Sunday night and does a double take when he spots his boss,... -
Quality Comes to City Hall
Global Business Magazine ArticleShrinking revenues and taxpayer uprisings that threatened the town of Madison, Wisconsin's financial security led the author, during his six years as...
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Patient Care Delivery Model at the Massachusetts General Hospital
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Examines the implementation of a new patient care delivery model at Massachusetts General Hospital. Uses clinical and financial data to examine different... -
Little Short Stop: Creating Strategy for a Shifting Industry
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details In early 2019, the general manager of Little Short Stop Stores, a chain of local, family-owned convenience stores in southwestern Ontario, Canada, was... -
Coca-Cola Company (A): The Rise and Fall of M. Douglas Ivester (Abridged)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This is a shortened version of The Coca-Cola Company (A): The Rise and Fall of M. Douglas Ivester, HBS case #9-800-355. It eliminates some background... -
Phil Knight: CEO at Nike--1983
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details An edited, shortened version of Phil Knight: CEO at Nike with parts of Nike (E) integrated into it. -
Major Global Stock Exchanges
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Describes the major global stock exchanges. -
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... -
Profit with Gratitude: Building the Foundations of a Grateful Organization
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Infusing a culture of gratitude into an organization can enhance employee engagement and effectiveness. This note makes the case that focusing on this... -
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,... -
Retaining Employees
15.00View Details What can you, as a manager, do to attract top talent and keep your company's high-performing employees? In Retaining Employees, you'll learn ways to stay... -
Aspect Medical Systems
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Entrepreneur Nassib Chamoun has created an innovative anesthesiology device that monitors patients' consciousness levels during surgery. This case tracks... -
Kirk Arnold
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplements NerveWire, Inc. -
Assistant Professor Jo Worthington (B)
Sales & Marketing Case Study5.00View Details A professor teaching a case discussion based on numeric analysis is pleased that a student finally "cracks" the case-but the numbers differ from her own.... -
HCC Industries
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Describes a corporation that switches its philosophy of budgeting from "stretch" targets to "minimum performance standard" targets. The change has implications... -
Bain & Co., Inc.: Making Partner
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details In June 1998, Bain's compensation and policy committee meets to review candidates for elevation to partnership. The case presents the profiles of four... -
The Leadership Code: Five Rules to Lead By
35.00View Details What makes a great leader? It's a question that has been tackled by thousands. In fact, there are literally tens of thousands of leadership studies, theories,... -
Thomas Green: Power, Office Politics and a Career in Crisis
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details The case describes the dilemma of a marketing manager, Thomas Green, who, after being rapidly promoted, is harshly criticized by his boss, Frank Davis.... -
KPMG Peat Marwick U.S.: One Giant Brain
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Demonstrates how organizations can move toward creation of processes and information technology infrastructures for effective knowledge management in... -
SCORE! Educational Centers (D)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Describes Rob Waldron's actions upon assuming leadership of SCORE! Educational Centers, an after-school tutoring enterprise. Examines the issue of acquiring... -
What Makes a Leader? (Harvard Business Review Classics)
9.99View Details When asked to define the ideal leader, many would emphasize traits such as intelligence, toughness, determination, and vision--the qualities traditionally... -
Nike in Transition (A): The Ascendancy of Bob Woodell
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Explores Bob Woodell's tenure as Nike's first COO. Describes development of Woodell's management style, his attempts to develop the organization, and...
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Patient Care Delivery Model at the Massachusetts General Hospital
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Examines the implementation of a new patient care delivery model at Massachusetts General Hospital. Uses clinical and financial data to examine different... -
Necessary Art of Persuasion (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThis article defines and explains the four essential elements of persuasion. Business today is largely run by teams and populated by authority-averse... -
Little Short Stop: Creating Strategy for a Shifting Industry
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details In early 2019, the general manager of Little Short Stop Stores, a chain of local, family-owned convenience stores in southwestern Ontario, Canada, was... -
Bringing Out the Best in Your People
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleSome leaders drain all the intelligence and capability out of their teams. Because they need to be the most capable person in the room, these managers... -
The Leadership Journey
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleIt isn't always easy to change leadership hats or to alter the way you assess a business problem. Under pressure, most executives fall back on the management... -
Coca-Cola Company (A): The Rise and Fall of M. Douglas Ivester (Abridged)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This is a shortened version of The Coca-Cola Company (A): The Rise and Fall of M. Douglas Ivester, HBS case #9-800-355. It eliminates some background... -
Phil Knight: CEO at Nike--1983
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details An edited, shortened version of Phil Knight: CEO at Nike with parts of Nike (E) integrated into it. -
Major Global Stock Exchanges
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Describes the major global stock exchanges. -
Executive as Coach
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleHow do you deal with the talented manager whose perfectionism paralyzes his direct reports? Or the high-performing expert who disdains teamwork under... -
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...