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Email and Calendar Data Are Helping Firms Understand How Employees Work
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Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail
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The Toxic Handler: Organizational Hero—and Casualty
Organizational culture Magazine ArticleWhen companies cause emotional pain through nasty bosses, layoffs, and change, a certain breed of “healing” manager steps in to keep the gears moving. They are toxic handlers—unsung corporate heroes who save the day, but often pay a high price. -
Turning of Atlanta: A Conversation with Shirley Franklin
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleWhen Shirley Franklin took over as mayor of Atlanta in 2001, city hall was flat broke, employee morale was in the basement, and the public had lost faith.... -
Companyism and Do More Better
Competitive strategy Magazine ArticleImagine yourself solving an arithmetic problem with the top managers of a leading Japanese automobile company. As a group, Japanese producers already export 2.3 million passenger vehicles a year to the United States. They are also building capacity for an additional 2.5 million vehicles in North America. You remind your friends across the table that […] -
When a New Manager Takes Charge
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Zombie Projects: How to Find Them and Kill Them
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Why Change Programs Don’t Produce Change
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Signs of the Times-How Do You Read Them?
Global Business Digital ArticleWe all know we're navigating uncharted economic waters. But here are a few pieces of data that bring this unprecedented environment into sharp relief-both... -
Managing Technological Change: A Box of Cigars for Brad
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleA hypothetical case illustrates managerial problems in a firm that has lost strategic control of technology and its competitive edge by becoming insulated... -
Creating Stability Is Just as Important as Managing Change
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6 Key Levers of a Successful Organizational Transformation
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Why Do Employees Resist Change?
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The Case of the Machinists’ Mutiny
Change management Magazine Article“You can’t be serious!” Mike Trail, the president and fourth-generation owner of Trail Manufacturing, stared at five older men standing uncomfortably in his small office. “I’m afraid we are, Mike.” Sandy Mulder, the most senior of the five, was polite but firm. “We won’t switch over to the new equipment. We want to continue to […] -
5 Ways to Help Employees Keep Up with Digital Transformation
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3 Things You're Getting Wrong About Organizational Change
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleInvert your assumptions about risk-taking. -
The Top 20 Business Transformations of the Last Decade
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Quest for Resilience
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To Change Someone’s Mind, Stop Talking and Listen
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New Business with the New Military
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleA $200 billion market has appeared on your business horizon, but you may not have noticed it. It's the new U.S. military. Virtually all aspects of the...
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The Premamrutha Dhaara Project: A Sustainable Drinking Water Solution with Social Impact
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Access to clean water is so critical for development and survival that the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal number 6 (SDG-6) was to ensure... -
First National City Bank Operating Group (C)
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details Provides a short summary of John Reed's succession at City Bank from Executive Vice President in 1976 to CEO in 1984. -
Transforming Arizona's Health Care System: Developing and Implementing the Health-e Connection Roadmap
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This case addresses the issues of leadership and change management in the process of transforming an industry through an innovative public-private partnership... -
Managing Business Risk of Information Technology
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Sets up a situation in which participants must create presentations that assess the IT risk of a large company. -
Citibank: Global Customer Management
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Describes Citibank's worldwide operations, which include activities in developing and developed markets. The bank's structure also varies across markets... -
Note on Managing the Growing Venture
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Focuses on the strategic and organizational challenges that confront growing enterprises and the entrepreneurs who lead them. Provides an overview of... -
Cathay Pacific (B): Implementing an Integrated e-Freight Solution
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I, Human: AI, Automation, and the Quest to Reclaim What Makes Us Unique
28.00View Details For readers of "Sapiens" and "Homo Deus" and viewers of "The Social Dilemma," psychologist Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic tackles one of the biggest questions... -
Getting Beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works
32.00View Details Who drives transformation in society? How do they do it? In this compelling book, strategy guru Roger L. Martin and Skoll Foundation President and CEO... -
H.E. Butt Grocery Co.: A Leader in ECR Implementation (A) (Abridged)
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Describes the industry context that has resulted in the development of efficient consumer response (ECR) within the grocery industry and its adoption... -
Tesla: Internationalization from Singapore to China
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Elon Musk, the CEO of the U.S.-headquartered Tesla Motors (Tesla), was considering how the company should enter the Chinese market. Less than a year earlier,... -
PremiumSoft: Managing Creative People
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details PremiumSoft had been a competitive player in the SQL software market for 10 years. Like many software companies, PremiumSoft's business model required... -
Godiva Japan: Think Local, Scale Global
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details This case tracks Jerome Chouchan's strategies and execution for a successful turn around of Godiva Japan's operations which was experiencing a decline... -
Giddings & Lewis: In Search of the Cutting Edge (Consolidated) (B)
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Jinnah Foundries: A Lesson in Change Management and Human Resources Restructuring
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Jinnah Engineering Works and Foundries had been a prominent foundry and machining business in Pakistan since its inception in 1950. In early 2018, it... -
Pathfinder Capital
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Two former consultants have raised a search fund and are looking for a company to buy and run. After eight months of looking at deals, they have just... -
The Genesis Labs at Novartis
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Novartis' Genesis Labs program, launched in 2016 as part of Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research (NIBR), hosted pitch competitions where teams... -
Executing Change: Seven Key Considerations
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Provides a 7S framework to complement the McKinsey 7S framework. Focuses on some of the critical choices that must be made in implementing change--Strategic... -
The Atchison Corporation (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. A rewritten version of an earlier supplement. -
Managing Blackout at Aluminum Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details The case opens in 2017 as Tim Murray, CEO of Aluminum Bahrain (Alba), the largest single-site aluminum smelter in the world outside China and a major...
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Email and Calendar Data Are Helping Firms Understand How Employees Work
Change management Digital ArticleAnd making reorgs more effective. -
The Premamrutha Dhaara Project: A Sustainable Drinking Water Solution with Social Impact
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Access to clean water is so critical for development and survival that the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal number 6 (SDG-6) was to ensure... -
First National City Bank Operating Group (C)
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details Provides a short summary of John Reed's succession at City Bank from Executive Vice President in 1976 to CEO in 1984. -
Transforming Arizona's Health Care System: Developing and Implementing the Health-e Connection Roadmap
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This case addresses the issues of leadership and change management in the process of transforming an industry through an innovative public-private partnership... -
Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail
Leadership Magazine ArticleLeaders who successfully transform businesses do eight things right (and they do them in the right order). -
The Toxic Handler: Organizational Hero—and Casualty
Organizational culture Magazine ArticleWhen companies cause emotional pain through nasty bosses, layoffs, and change, a certain breed of “healing” manager steps in to keep the gears moving. They are toxic handlers—unsung corporate heroes who save the day, but often pay a high price. -
Managing Business Risk of Information Technology
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Sets up a situation in which participants must create presentations that assess the IT risk of a large company. -
Turning of Atlanta: A Conversation with Shirley Franklin
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleWhen Shirley Franklin took over as mayor of Atlanta in 2001, city hall was flat broke, employee morale was in the basement, and the public had lost faith.... -
Companyism and Do More Better
Competitive strategy Magazine ArticleImagine yourself solving an arithmetic problem with the top managers of a leading Japanese automobile company. As a group, Japanese producers already export 2.3 million passenger vehicles a year to the United States. They are also building capacity for an additional 2.5 million vehicles in North America. You remind your friends across the table that […] -
When a New Manager Takes Charge
Organizational restructuring Magazine ArticleManagers who take the helm of new businesses or large divisions must go through predictable stages before they’ve truly mastered the job.