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Innovation Doesn’t Have to Be Disruptive
Innovation Magazine ArticleCreate new markets for growth without destroying existing companies or jobs. -
What Is Strategy?
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleToday's dynamic markets and technologies have called into question the sustainability of competitive advantage. Under pressure to improve productivity,... -
The Five Stages of Small-Business Growth
Entrepreneurial management Magazine ArticleNo researcher has explored the earliest period of a business’s development in detail—until now. -
What Is Disruptive Innovation?
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleFor the past 20 years, the theory of disruptive innovation has been enormously influential in business circles and a powerful tool for predicting which... -
Why Conflicting Ideas Can Make Your Strategy Stronger
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleIn a volatile world, think of your strategy as a portfolio of options, not a roadmap. -
Strategic Secret of Private Equity
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleThe huge sums that private equity firms make on their investments evoke admiration and envy. Typically, these returns are attributed to the firms' aggressive... -
Compensation Packages That Actually Drive Performance
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleBy aligning executives' financial incentives with company strategy, a firm can inspire its management to deliver superior results. But it can be hard... -
How to Design a Winning Business Model
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleMost executives believe that competing through business models is critical for success, but few have come to grips with how best to do so. One common... -
Understanding China
Global Business SpotlightThis package begins with "What the West Gets Wrong About China," by Rana Mitter and Elsbeth Johnson, which discusses three fundamental misconceptions:... -
Company Culture Is Everyone's Responsibility
Organizational Development Digital ArticleA top-down approach doesn't work anymore. -
The Strategy That Will Fix Health Care
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleIn health care, the days of business as usual are over. Around the world, every health care system is struggling with rising costs and uneven quality,... -
How to Create a Stakeholder Strategy
Business and society Magazine ArticleA data-driven approach to design, measurement, and implementation -
Radical Optionality
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThe next era of competition is at hand. To succeed in an environment of high uncertainty, greater short-term pressure, and tighter resource constraints,... -
Kodak's Downfall Wasn't About Technology
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleWhat it missed was the business model. -
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,... -
What Is a Business Model?
Business models Digital ArticleA history, from Drucker to Christensen. -
The Circular Business Model
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleMore and more manufacturing companies are talking about what's often called the circular economy--in which businesses can create supply chains that recover... -
Social-Impact Efforts That Create Real Value
Organizational Development SpotlightCompanies don't win over investors just by issuing sustainability reports and engaging in other standard ESG practices. What they need to do, says Harvard... -
One Number You Need to Grow
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleCompanies spend lots of time and money on complex tools to assess customer satisfaction. But they're measuring the wrong thing. The best predictor of... -
First, Let's Fire All the Managers
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleExecutives don't realize it, but a hierarchy of managers exacts a hefty tax on any organization: Managers are expensive, increase the risk of bad decisions,...
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Debt Financing, Firm Value, and the Cost of Capital
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This note explores how managers determine the proper amount of debt financing to use to fund a firm's operations. It examines the fundamental differences... -
Drowling Mountain
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details It was August 2011 and Martin Cartier, senior board member, was beginning to feel the pressure of Drowling Mountain's 2010 general meeting that was coming... -
zipRealty: Leading a Start-up to the Next Level (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Start-up company zipRealty is a real estate brokerage that leveraged the Internet on the belief that selling or buying a home could be faster, easier,... -
Allianz (D2): The Dresdner Transformation
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
The National Hockey League (NHL)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This case profiles the National Hockey League (NHL), the most prestigious professional hockey league in the world. It presents the league's history, highlighting... -
Brand Extension through Innovation: Sound Agriculture Grows the Greens
Management Case Study8.95View Details "This case follows the decision-making process of Erik Wolfe, senior product marketing manager at Sound Agriculture, an agriculture technology company,... -
Ingvar Kamprad and IKEA
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Traces the development of a Swedish furniture retailer under the leadership of an innovative and unconventional entrepreneur whose approaches redefine... -
Natura &Co: Sustainability at Scale
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Established in 1969 as a cosmetics lab in the city of São Paulo, Natura grew briskly over the ensuing decades and by 2004 it had become Brazil's largest... -
Maybank: Organisational Transformation Through Human Resources
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details It was January 2018. Nora Abd Manaf, Group Chief Human Capital Officer, Maybank, the largest bank by market capitalisation in Malaysia, is contemplating... -
Walmart - Flipkart Deal: In Search of Stability
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In May 2018, US-based multinational retail giant Walmart Inc. (Walmart) took control of India's biggest e-commerce platform Flipkart Internet Private... -
Fresh to Table
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details After the contentious firing of an office manager, the leadership at Fresh to Table, a software-as-a-service provider for luxury hotels and restaurants,... -
Apollo Hospitals--First-World Health Care at Emerging-Market Prices
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The Apollo Hospitals Group, one of Asia's premier health care organizations, had come to rival the best health care organizations on the globe. Apollo... -
Privatization of Li & Fung: Rationales and Implications
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case explores the corporate finance issues arising from the privatization of Li & Fung Limited (Li & Fung, prior stock code: 494.HK) in May 2020.... -
Bay State Milling Co.
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Flour milling in recent years has had a great deal of consolidation. The fourth generation of a privately held firm is debating how to protect themselves... -
Eastern Cape Clinic (C)
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Thandeka Sisulu had just been hired as the new administrative director for the Eastern Cape Clinic, located in the outskirts of the South African city... -
zipRealty: Leading a Start-up to the Next Level (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case B5705. Start-up company zipRealty is a real estate brokerage that leveraged the Internet on the belief that selling or buying a home... -
Identifying Opportunities Ladders: A Tool from "The Innovator's Guide to Growth"
6.95View Details Jobs-based thinking illuminates opportunities to innovate in the marketplace. These opportunities stem primarily from identifying jobs for which existing... -
Eddie Bauer (C)
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details The Eddie Bauer (B) case describes the events leading up to February 2007, when shareholders of Eddie Bauer, the specialty apparel retailer, were scheduled... -
Bulb 2018: Hypergrowth
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details After a wild and volatile year, Bulb, a new entrant in the UK residential energy market, ended March 2018 with 329,171 properties, 1.2% of the total residential...
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Innovation Doesn’t Have to Be Disruptive
Innovation Magazine ArticleCreate new markets for growth without destroying existing companies or jobs. -
What Is Strategy?
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleToday's dynamic markets and technologies have called into question the sustainability of competitive advantage. Under pressure to improve productivity,... -
The Five Stages of Small-Business Growth
Entrepreneurial management Magazine ArticleNo researcher has explored the earliest period of a business’s development in detail—until now. -
What Is Disruptive Innovation?
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleFor the past 20 years, the theory of disruptive innovation has been enormously influential in business circles and a powerful tool for predicting which... -
Why Conflicting Ideas Can Make Your Strategy Stronger
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleIn a volatile world, think of your strategy as a portfolio of options, not a roadmap. -
Strategic Secret of Private Equity
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleThe huge sums that private equity firms make on their investments evoke admiration and envy. Typically, these returns are attributed to the firms' aggressive... -
Compensation Packages That Actually Drive Performance
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleBy aligning executives' financial incentives with company strategy, a firm can inspire its management to deliver superior results. But it can be hard... -
How to Design a Winning Business Model
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleMost executives believe that competing through business models is critical for success, but few have come to grips with how best to do so. One common... -
Understanding China
Global Business SpotlightThis package begins with "What the West Gets Wrong About China," by Rana Mitter and Elsbeth Johnson, which discusses three fundamental misconceptions:... -
Company Culture Is Everyone's Responsibility
Organizational Development Digital ArticleA top-down approach doesn't work anymore.