Professional networks

Include a forwardable email with key details.

Start with relentless punctuality.

To realize their full potential, leaders need to be challenged by multiple perspectives outside their office walls. by Nick Morgan

It’s OK to build your own relationships with senior leaders.

Working parenthood was hard before Covid-19--now it's an all-out crisis. In "A Way Forward for Working Parents," Daisy Dowling argues that it's time to...

How businesses shift from selling products to building networks.

Tips for turning them into real connections.

Many people turn to networking when they’re looking for a job, but the best time to build your network is before you need something; and the best time to keep that network strong is always. But what is the best way to do that? Simply collecting business cards and attending events may expand your number […]

In a cross-disciplinary world, those who can make unexpected connections are king.

Focus on how you’re benefiting others and your desire to grow.

Questions, scripts, and sample language anyone can use.

Avoid these common mistakes.

Start a more interesting conversation.

Today markets are being reshaped by a new kind of firm--one in which artificial intelligence runs the show. This cohort includes giants like Google, Facebook,...

Seek out the support you need to fulfill your responsibilities both at home and on the job.

Entrepreneurs who take this advice get better, more serendipitous opportunities.

The answer is a highly qualified “yes.”

Artwork: Jessica Snow, Louis II, 2010, acrylic on paper, 13.5″ x 11.5″ Change is hard, especially in a large organization. Numerous studies have shown that employees tend instinctively to oppose change initiatives because they disrupt established power structures and ways of getting things done. However, some leaders do succeed—often spectacularly—at transforming their workplaces. What makes […]

Protect your time — without compromising your relationships.

Ask yourself, “Who has the power to make this happen?”

This case explores the use of social media to support product design, customer support, marketing and HR activities at National Instruments (NI). Based...

The Packet Design case looks at successful serial entrepreneur Judy Estrin and her efforts to build a technology incubator immediately before the Internet...

In the new world of hybrid work and AI, one thing is clear: the war for talent is over--and talent won. With sparsely populated offices and people working...

In 2014, the Patient Room of the Future (PRoF) was the largest European open innovation consortium in the healthcare sector. Established in 2009 by a...

After graduating from Harvard Business School in June 2006, Ken Pao and Bill Li were ready to fully commit to the Internet start-up they had been working...

Martin Sorrell has used WPP to acquire a large portfolio of marketing service firms including J. Walter Thompson and Ogilvy & Mather. How did he make...

Tamotsu Adachi, Managing Director of Carlyle Japan, wants to formulate a strategy to improve his firm's ability to source high-quality deals at competitive...

Designed to help executives identify patterns in their approaches to developing networks of relationships. A "network" refers to the set of relationships...

From 2000 to 2019, the department of corporate social responsibility and global supplier management at Huawei Technologies Company Limited had been trying...

In May 2005, JP Rangaswami, the chief information officer at investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DrKW), wonders how to extend the bank's use...

Supplements the (A) case.

In 2006, Sophia Tannis, a 36-year-old professional with the U.S.-based multinational company CPA Solutions (CPA), who had worked internationally for many...

Sarah Brown, co-owner and manager of the Green Alliance (GA), a for-profit company developed to foster and promote corporate sustainability was concerned...

A two-party, multiple-issue dollar-scoring negotiation exercise dealing with the formation and terms of an IT-industry joint venture. Subordinates have...

Supplement to case B5902. In April 2017, Mr. Kristian Groth, a successful entrepreneur and founder of the Leith Society, was considering his next move....

Worldwide, there is no parallel comparison to China's Tencent Holdings. The $22 billion tech giant is a collective answer to Facebook, WhatsApp, Spotify,...

James Reid, the newly appointed GM of Troubled Spain, has been given a mandate by the CEO of Troubled Inc. to turn the subsidiary around within six months....

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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....

Include a forwardable email with key details.

This case explores the use of social media to support product design, customer support, marketing and HR activities at National Instruments (NI). Based...

Start with relentless punctuality.

To realize their full potential, leaders need to be challenged by multiple perspectives outside their office walls. by Nick Morgan

It’s OK to build your own relationships with senior leaders.

The Packet Design case looks at successful serial entrepreneur Judy Estrin and her efforts to build a technology incubator immediately before the Internet...

Working parenthood was hard before Covid-19--now it's an all-out crisis. In "A Way Forward for Working Parents," Daisy Dowling argues that it's time to...

How businesses shift from selling products to building networks.

Tips for turning them into real connections.

Many people turn to networking when they’re looking for a job, but the best time to build your network is before you need something; and the best time to keep that network strong is always. But what is the best way to do that? Simply collecting business cards and attending events may expand your number […]