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What New Leaders Shouldn't Do
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleFive mistakes first-time managers make, and what to do instead. -
Middle Manager as Innovator (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleA study of 165 effective middle managers in five leading corporations explores creative managerial contributions and the conditions that stimulate innovation.... -
Why Managers Should Think More Like Hackers
Management philosophy Digital ArticleIt can help you work around obstacles, find opportunities across silos, and more. -
LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky: Skills, Not Degrees, Matter Most in Hiring
Business and society Digital ArticleEven if you don’t plan to change jobs, your job is going to change on you. -
Why Peter Drucker's Writing Still Feels So Relevant
Global Business Digital ArticleHe approached management as a historian, not as a guru. -
Executive as Coach
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleHow do you deal with the talented manager whose perfectionism paralyzes his direct reports? Or the high-performing expert who disdains teamwork under... -
Management by Fire: A Conversation with Chef Anthony Bourdain
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleWhen it comes to management styles, newer isn't always better, or so chef Anthony Bourdain tells us in his best-seller Kitchen Confidential and in this... -
How to Spot a Bad Boss During an Interview
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleTrust your instincts. -
Slow Deciders Make Better Strategists
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleEmbracing uncertainty helps too. -
Performance Appraisal: Useful but Still Resisted
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleA survey of 19 companies indicates that performance appraisal is still in use even though it is difficult to carry out. It is useful in identifying employee... -
Rebuilding Companies as Communities
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleDecades of short-term management have inflated the importance of CEOs and reduced employees to fungible commodities. Middle managers, who see the connections... -
How Do You Manage an Off-Site Team? (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleIn this fictitious case study, HBR editor Regina F. Maruca explores the challenges of managing employees in the alternative workplace. Allison Scher is... -
Six Basics for General Managers
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleSuccessful general managers stress fundamentals. Whatever their leadership style, they invariably focus their efforts on the six tasks that lay the foundation... -
Case of Big Mac's Pay Plans
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleA case study examines the history of McDonald's compensation schemes for managers. The initial plans, managers complained, based compensation on sales... -
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... -
How to Lead Your Fellow Rainmakers
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleIn most corporate settings, leaders are expected to inspire and direct employees--leading is something they do to followers. But in professional service... -
Executive as Coach (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleHow do you deal with the talented manager whose perfectionism paralyzes his direct reports? Or the high-performing expert who disdains teamwork under... -
Corporate Writing Doesn't Have to Sound Like It's Written by Committee
Communication Digital ArticleClarify your feedback process. -
Necessary Art of Persuasion (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThis article defines and explains the four essential elements of persuasion. Business today is largely run by teams and populated by authority-averse... -
The Leadership Journey
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleIt isn't always easy to change leadership hats or to alter the way you assess a business problem. Under pressure, most executives fall back on the management...
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KomTek (C)
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details Describes the deliberations of a problem-solving team at KomTek, a prosthetic hip manufacturer. The company's slight modification in one of its existing... -
Managing Xerox's Multinational Development Center
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Describes a manager's role in developing a staff group responsible for enhancing the efficiency of Xerox's worldwide logistics and inventory management... -
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... -
School of Rock: Tuning into Structured Empowerment (A)
Management Case Study11.95View Details In summer 2021, School of Rock was a youth-oriented music education company with 291 franchise- and company-owned schools globally. Before CEO Rob Price's... -
Starbucks, Howard Schultz, and the Trump Effect
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details After the former chief executive officer (CEO) of U.S.-based Starbucks started to voice his political opinions in September 2016, both Starbucks and the... -
Taran Swan at Nickelodeon Latin America (C)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Florida Power Light Quality Improvement (QI) Story Exercise (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Florida Power and Light (FPL) has developed a widely acclaimed quality improvement program (QIP). This exercise leads the students through the process... -
Malcolm Frank
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplements NerveWire, Inc. -
Thomas Green: Power, Office Politics and a Career in Crisis
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details The case describes the dilemma of a marketing manager, Thomas Green, who, after being rapidly promoted, is harshly criticized by his boss, Frank Davis.... -
C3.ai-Driven to Succeed
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details CEO Tom Siebel navigates his artificial intelligence (ai) startup through a series of pivots, market expansions, and even an elephant attack to become... -
Career Karma: Growth in a Time of Global Uncertainty (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Career Karma is a startup focused on helping individuals looking to transition careers into computer engineering roles or similar fields by preparing... -
Cambridge Consulting Group: Bob Anderson
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Describes the situation facing the head of a rapidly growing industry-focused group within a consulting company. Highlights the dilemmas of being a "producing... -
Ibrahim Dabdoub at the National Bank of Kuwait
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Ibrahim Dabdoub, the Group chief executive of the National Bank of Kuwait (NBK), reflects on his past 30 years at the helm of the Bank. Under his leadership,... -
Perspective on Entrepreneurship
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Designed to highlight alternative concepts of good management and the need for entrepreneurship as a response to societal changes. It argues that entrepreneurship... -
Coca-Cola Company (A): The Rise and Fall of M. Douglas Ivester (Abridged)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This is a shortened version of The Coca-Cola Company (A): The Rise and Fall of M. Douglas Ivester, HBS case #9-800-355. It eliminates some background... -
Teaming at GE Aviation
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Describes the challenges and successes encountered by GE's Aviation business in implementing a teaming work structure and culture in plants across its... -
Mat MacGregor (A)
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Mat MacGregor took charge of a failing project but failed to turn it around because of a variety of personal, technical, cultural, and political reasons.... -
Leaving
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details A company supervisor listens to an employee, an African American woman, announce she is leaving the company and tries to understand the situation. -
Knowlton Roberts II (A)
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details This case is an updated version of the Knowlton Roberts case series (UVA-OB-0737 and 0738). The case is best used as a vehicle to understand another person's... -
Orit Gadiesh: Pride at Bain & Co. (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Presents excerpts from a 1992 speech by Orit Gadiesh.
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KomTek (C)
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details Describes the deliberations of a problem-solving team at KomTek, a prosthetic hip manufacturer. The company's slight modification in one of its existing... -
Managing Xerox's Multinational Development Center
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Describes a manager's role in developing a staff group responsible for enhancing the efficiency of Xerox's worldwide logistics and inventory management... -
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... -
Don't Avoid Conflicts--Manage Them
Organizational Development Other Article4.50View Details Regardless of our hierarchical position in an organization, most of us believe it is expedient, and therefore preferable, to avoid conflict. However,... -
School of Rock: Tuning into Structured Empowerment (A)
Management Case Study11.95View Details In summer 2021, School of Rock was a youth-oriented music education company with 291 franchise- and company-owned schools globally. Before CEO Rob Price's... -
Starbucks, Howard Schultz, and the Trump Effect
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details After the former chief executive officer (CEO) of U.S.-based Starbucks started to voice his political opinions in September 2016, both Starbucks and the... -
What New Leaders Shouldn't Do
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleFive mistakes first-time managers make, and what to do instead. -
Middle Manager as Innovator (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleA study of 165 effective middle managers in five leading corporations explores creative managerial contributions and the conditions that stimulate innovation.... -
Taran Swan at Nickelodeon Latin America (C)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Why Managers Should Think More Like Hackers
Management philosophy Digital ArticleIt can help you work around obstacles, find opportunities across silos, and more.