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What Makes a Leader?
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleWhen asked to define the ideal leader, many would emphasize traits such as intelligence, toughness, determination, and vision--the qualities traditionally... -
The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs
Innovation Magazine ArticleSix months after Jobs’s death, the author of his best-selling biography identifies the practices that every CEO can try to emulate. -
5 Principles of Purposeful Leadership
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleUnderstanding why you're in the room is more important than being the smartest one in it. -
How to Do Strategic Planning Like a Futurist
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleYou don't need a time line; you need a time cone. -
CEOs, Step into the Front Lines or Risk Losing Touch
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleDriving organizational change requires getting closer to both your employees and customers. -
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. -
Driving Organizational Change — Without Abandoning Tradition
Change management Digital ArticleTo shift entrenched ways of thinking, leaders need to understand and respect where people are coming from. -
Propose Your Own Job
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How the Best Leadership Teams Navigate Uncertain Times
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleSeven factors that set high-performing executive teams apart. -
Lean Strategy
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleStrategy and entrepreneurship are often seen as polar opposites. Strategy means rigorously defining and pursuing one clear path, while entrepreneurship... -
CEOs, Here's How to Lead in an Era of Constant Change
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticlePrioritize, build trust, simplify, and prepare. -
Six Components of a Great Corporate Culture
Organizational Development Digital ArticleFrom a vision to your people, the foundation for shaping - or changing - your organization. -
Coaching for Change
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleWhether you're a boss, a colleague, or a friend, you can help the people around you make important life-enhancing changes. But the way to do that isn't... -
Make Learning Stick
Learning new digital skills can be challenging, but the real trick is making sure past habits and mindsets don't get in your way. -
Everyone Needs to Think Strategically
Strategy & Execution VideoBy practicing strategic thinking, managers at all levels know where they're going and how to get there. -
Curse of the Superstar CEO
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleWhen struggling companies look for a new chief executive today, the one quality they prize above all others is charisma. But once they've recruited a... -
The Former and Current Chairs of Mastercard on Executing a Strategic CEO Succession
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleAs the chairman of a publicly traded multinational corporation, it's difficult to contemplate replacing a charismatic, visionary CEO who tripled your... -
Moon Shots for Management
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleIn May 2008, a group of management scholars and senior executives worked to define an agenda for management during the next 100 years. The so-called renegade... -
Using the Balanced Scorecard as a Strategic Management System
Finance & Accounting HBR BestsellerThe balanced scorecard revolutionized conventional thinking about performance metrics. When Robert Kaplan and David Norton first introduced the concept...
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Sheikh Mohammed and the Making of 'Dubai, Inc.'
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has converted Dubai from a sleepy little coastal village into a world-class city, famous for its ambition, drive,... -
Herschend Enterprises: Unifying and Communicating the Voice of Ownership
Global Business Case Study8.95View 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... -
Introduction to Change Management Collection
Leadership & Managing People Special Offer39.95View Details This specially priced set includes: A true leadership classic and an international bestseller "Leading Change" (Hardcover) --now with a new preface by... -
Navigating Boardroom Politics at Molson (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details This two-part case covers the discussions and events that took place in 2004 at the family, board, and executive levels at Molson Inc. (Molson). At that... -
Transformation at the IRS
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Describes the service transformation occurring at the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. Plagued by a history of poor service, enormous complexity, and an... -
Avi Kremer
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details If you were diagnosed with a terminal illness, how would you respond and what would you do with your remaining time? Avi Kremer contemplates four options... -
Kent Thiry: "Mayor" of DaVita
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Kent Thiry, CEO of dialysis provider DaVita, is considering how to integrate employees from recently acquired Gambro Healthcare without damaging DaVita's... -
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd.: Chasing a Daring Vision
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Describes the leadership dilemmas facing the top management team of a leading Indian pharmaceutical company--the first in its industry to be listed on... -
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... -
SpaceX, Economies of Scale, and a Revolution in Space Access
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details From the time he transformed the world of online banking, Elon Musk had established himself as a bold innovator eager to challenge the status quo in hopes... -
Vivendi: Revitalizing a French Conglomerate (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Design Thinking and Innovation at Apple
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Describes Apple's approach to innovation, management, and design thinking. For several years, Apple has been ranked as the most innovative company in... -
Tesla Motors: Facing the Model 3
Strategy & Execution Case Study14.00View Details In mid-2013, Tesla Motors was riding a wave of success: It had launched its first really mass-produced car-the model S-to rave reviews; had recently raised... -
Ça Va de Soi: A Phoenix Rises from the Ashes of a Failed IT Project - Part B - The Rise
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case HEC138. This two-part case study of a Canadian knitwear SME called Ça Va de Soi (CVDS) presents a real-life situation: an IT project... -
Aventis SA (A): Planning for a Merger
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Eight executives at Hoechst and Rhone-Poulenc must make four crucial decisions on the eve of merging their companies to become Aventis--what would become... -
Vivendi: Revitalizing a French Conglomerate (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study6.95View Details Examines corporate strategy for a diversified firm in the French business context. Issues include corporate governance, vision, and the management of... -
Apple (in 2011) after Steve Jobs
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Apple Inc.'s rise to success was punctuated by culture that Founder/CEO Steve Jobs had instilled in the company for over thirty years. This culture created... -
Apple (in 2013): How to Sustain a Competitive Advantage?
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Tim Cook took over as CEO of Apple, Inc. in August of 2011 after the resignation of the legendary Steve Jobs. Though Jobs left big shoes to fill, Cook... -
Aventis SA (B): A Company Is Born
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FOTILE: Building a Great Company Guided by Confucianism
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In early 2018, the chairman and chief executive officer of FOTILE, based in Ningbo, China, announced a change in the company's mission statement from...
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What Makes a Leader?
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleWhen asked to define the ideal leader, many would emphasize traits such as intelligence, toughness, determination, and vision--the qualities traditionally... -
The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs
Innovation Magazine ArticleSix months after Jobs’s death, the author of his best-selling biography identifies the practices that every CEO can try to emulate. -
5 Principles of Purposeful Leadership
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleUnderstanding why you're in the room is more important than being the smartest one in it. -
How to Do Strategic Planning Like a Futurist
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleYou don't need a time line; you need a time cone. -
CEOs, Step into the Front Lines or Risk Losing Touch
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleDriving organizational change requires getting closer to both your employees and customers. -
A Guide to Building Psychological Safety on Your Team
Early career Survival GuideTips for first-time managers. -
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. -
Driving Organizational Change — Without Abandoning Tradition
Change management Digital ArticleTo shift entrenched ways of thinking, leaders need to understand and respect where people are coming from. -
Propose Your Own Job
Propose a job for yourself that doesn't even exist yet -
How the Best Leadership Teams Navigate Uncertain Times
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleSeven factors that set high-performing executive teams apart.