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Leadership in a Combat Zone (HBR Classic)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleLeadership is often presented as an abstract undertaking, a matter of vision and values rather than practical details. But in the author's world, the... -
The Marshmallow Test for Grownups
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleYour entire day revolves around willpower. -
Leadership: Sad Facts and Silver Linings (HBR Classic)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleSenior managers are used to hearing advice about how they can combat sloppiness and introduce rationality or neatness into their decision making. In this... -
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... -
Getting Serious About Stakeholder Capitalism
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleBusiness can't thrive in an environment of unhealthy employees, customers, and communities, an at-risk planet, and a fractured society. To transition... -
5 Reasons Your Employees Don’t Understand Your Company’s Vision
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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. -
Tools of Cooperation and Change
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleEmployers can choose from lots of tools when they want to encourage employees to work together toward a new corporate goal. One of the rarest managerial... -
You Don’t Have to Be CEO to Be a Visionary Leader
Leadership vision Digital ArticlePeople want to know what they’re working toward and why. -
Ten Years of News Corp. Income Data in Less Than a Minute
Sales & Marketing Digital ArticleHow an animated treemap can tell a better financial story over time. -
Keeping Sight of Your Company's Long-Term Vision
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThere will always be short-term distractions. Here's how to stay focused. -
Six Rules for Effective Forecasting
Economic cycles and trends Magazine ArticleThe goal of forecasting is not to predict the future but to tell you what you need to know to take meaningful action in the present. -
3 Ways Our Brains Undermine Our Ability to Be a Good Leader
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleUnderstanding the science of what's going on can help us counteract these self-sabotaging tendencies. -
Research: What Companies Don’t Know About How Workers Use AI
AI and machine learning Digital ArticleThree Gallup studies shed light on when and why AI is being used at work — and how employees and customers really feel about it. -
How to Do Strategic Planning Like a Futurist
Strategic planning Digital ArticleYou don’t need a time line; you need a time cone. -
Don't Let the Pandemic Set Back Gender Equality
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleWhat CEOs can do to reverse the trend. -
The Ideas That Inspire Us
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleHarvard Business Review published its first issue 100 years ago with a mission to help leaders put the best management thinking into practice. To mark... -
What's So Special About Founders?
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticlePopular notions about founders are often wrong, as demonstrated by five new books: "Amazon Unbound," by Brad Stone; "The Cult of We," by Eliot Brown and... -
Leaders, Do You Have a Clear Vision for the Post-Crisis Future?
Crisis management Digital ArticleDon’t let your short-term response get in the way of your long-term plan. -
Defining Your Organization's Values
Organizational Development Digital ArticleWhat are the bedrock principles underlying your company's mission? This issue's Spotlight package examines how understanding and openly recognizing them...
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Elon Musk's Big Bets Update, 2019
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details This short case provides an update to Elon Musk's strategy and tactical moves with Tesla, Solar City, and SpaceX from 2016-2019. -
InterfaceRAISE (in 2010): Raising the Bar in Sustainability Consulting
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Teaching Note for Product #MH0004 Following Ray Anderson's guidance and vision, Interface, a modular carpet and commercial broadloom company, had implemented... -
Miles Everson at PricewaterhouseCoopers
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View 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... -
Quabbin Cablevision Co.
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Several entrepreneurs are considering the purchase of an existing cable TV business with the financial assistance of several investors. They must decide... -
PMI'S VISION OF A SMOKE-FREE FUTURE: CAN A TOBACCO COMPANY BE SUSTAINABLE (ABRIDGED)
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Philip Morris International (PMI) CEO André Calantzopoulos announced in 2016 a radical pivot in the Marlboro cigarette manufacturer's strategy: the company... -
Herschend Enterprises: Unifying and Communicating the Voice of Ownership
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details This case features a family business working to better integrate the voice of the whole family into corporate governance. In November 2019, the Herschend... -
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy (Paperback + Ebook)
Strategy & Execution Special Offer34.95View 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... -
Better World Books (in 2013): Social Entrepreneurship and the Triple Bottom Line
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Better World Books was founded as a for-profit "B corporation" committed to a triple bottom-line of financial, social, and environmental performance.... -
The Walt Disney Company
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details With 195,000 employees, operations in 45 countries, and $55 billion in annual revenues, Disney is the largest media and entertainment company in the world.... -
Envision Charlotte: Building an Energy Cluster
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details On October 28, 2011, 1,500 people, including many civic and business leaders, gathered outdoors in a Charlotte, North Carolina city square to celebrate... -
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... -
Bluefin Labs: The Acquisition by Twitter
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details What is the value of Bluefin Labs's social listening data to Twitter? Acquired by Twitter in 2013, Bluefin had built a system that gathered millions of... -
Narayana Hrudayalaya Heart Hospital: Cardiac Care for the Poor (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View 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,... -
Purpose, Meaning, and Passion (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)
19.99View Details In an ideal world, our work lives would be completely fulfilling and intrinsically motivating. But what if you're stuck in a job and your heart isn't... -
Know What Matters: Lessons from a Lifetime of Transformations
30.00View Details Ron Shaich, founder and former CEO of Panera Bread, shares the lessons he learned from a lifetime of asking what really matters and then making the transformations... -
DEUTSCHE TELEKOM: A TRANSFORMATION JOURNEY (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View 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,... -
Ça Va de Soi: A Phoenix Rises from the Ashes of a Failed IT Project - Part A - The Fall
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details This two-part case study of a Canadian knitwear SME called Ça Va de Soi (CVDS) presents a real-life situation: an IT project failure (part A) and how... -
Aventis SA (B): A Company Is Born
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Integrated Reporting at Aegon
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In 2011, Aegon adopted integrated reporting - a corporate reporting approach that sought to present company performance in a holistic light by considering... -
Strategy and the Strategist
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details This short case presents a series of brief accounts, observations, and quotations that challenge students to think about the role of the CEO - and of...
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Leadership in a Combat Zone (HBR Classic)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleLeadership is often presented as an abstract undertaking, a matter of vision and values rather than practical details. But in the author's world, the... -
Elon Musk's Big Bets Update, 2019
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details This short case provides an update to Elon Musk's strategy and tactical moves with Tesla, Solar City, and SpaceX from 2016-2019. -
InterfaceRAISE (in 2010): Raising the Bar in Sustainability Consulting
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Teaching Note for Product #MH0004 Following Ray Anderson's guidance and vision, Interface, a modular carpet and commercial broadloom company, had implemented... -
Miles Everson at PricewaterhouseCoopers
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View 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... -
Quabbin Cablevision Co.
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Several entrepreneurs are considering the purchase of an existing cable TV business with the financial assistance of several investors. They must decide... -
PMI'S VISION OF A SMOKE-FREE FUTURE: CAN A TOBACCO COMPANY BE SUSTAINABLE (ABRIDGED)
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Philip Morris International (PMI) CEO André Calantzopoulos announced in 2016 a radical pivot in the Marlboro cigarette manufacturer's strategy: the company... -
The Marshmallow Test for Grownups
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleYour entire day revolves around willpower. -
Leadership: Sad Facts and Silver Linings (HBR Classic)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleSenior managers are used to hearing advice about how they can combat sloppiness and introduce rationality or neatness into their decision making. In this... -
Herschend Enterprises: Unifying and Communicating the Voice of Ownership
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details This case features a family business working to better integrate the voice of the whole family into corporate governance. In November 2019, the Herschend... -
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...