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Diversity and Inclusion Efforts That Really Work
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The Secret to Leading Organizational Change Is Empathy
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Which Way Should You Grow
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleKeeping a tight focus on your value proposition will light the way toward your company's most profitable growth strategy. -
Getting Your Team to Buy into a Big Change
Change management Digital ArticleResearchers studied backlash to change at five elite law firms — and how leadership eventually won the skeptics over. -
A Futurist’s Guide to Preparing Your Company for Constant Change
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Leadership and the Psychology of Turnarounds
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleTurnaround champions--those leaders who manage to bring distressed organizations back from the brink of failure--are often acclaimed for their canny financial... -
Enlightened Experimentation: The New Imperative for Innovation
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleThe high cost of experimentation has long put a damper on companies' attempts to create great new products. But new technologies are making it easier... -
Should You Compromise Your Founding Principles for Faster Growth? (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThree years ago, Marjorie Rodriguez founded a company with the goal of supporting the LGBTQ+ community through employment opportunities. Now she needs... -
Boards Need a New Approach to Technology
Boards Magazine ArticleBy worrying primarily about security and IT, they’re missing out on big opportunities across the sciences. -
10 Signs Your Company Is Resistant to Change
Business management Digital ArticleToo often employees develop effective ways to tolerate a problem — instead of fixing it. -
Human Due Diligence
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleMost companies do a thorough job of financial due diligence when they acquire other companies. But all too often, deal makers simply ignore or underestimate... -
Is Your Plan a Bridge Too Far?
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleMy father was a young boy during World War II. He grew up in a small village in the Netherlands just south of the river Maas, which, parallel to two arms... -
Will This Open Space Work? (Commentary to HBR Case Study)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleNorthern Oil is moving offices, and CEO Fritz Schumacher wants to make the most of the move in this fictional case study. He believes that adopting an... -
Reigniting Growth
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleMost successful new companies eventually face a predictable crisis that the authors call "stall-out"--a sudden large drop in revenue and profit growth... -
Change Management in Government
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleSince the days of John F. Kennedy's New Frontier, the American public's regard for the competence of public agencies and the value of the services they... -
Do M&A Deals Ever Really Create Synergies?
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Why Do Employees Resist Change?
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleDespite the best efforts of senior executives, major change initiatives often fail. Those failures have at least one common root: Executives and employees... -
10 Emotions That Are Undervalued in the Workplace
Business management Digital ArticleIn addition to being powerful tools of persuasion and influence, emotions ground us in our humanity and give us important data about our environments. -
Convincing Your Company Leaders to Invest in New Technology
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleOvercoming resistance starts with understanding the psychological barriers at play. -
Too Old to Learn?
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleC.J. Albert, the head of family-owned Armor Coat Insurance, receives an unsettling phone call from his star salesman. Fifty-two-year-old Ed McGlynn has...
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Intuit, Inc.: Transforming an Entrepreneurial Company into a Collaborative Organization (A)
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Describes how Intuit, Inc.'s CEO, Steve Bennett, changes the company from an entrepreneurial "siloed" organization into a collaborative one. -
Walt Disney's Dennis Hightower: Weaving Together the European Operations
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details The case describes the actions taken by Dennis Hightower as president of Disney Consumer Products in Europe and the Middle East from 1988 to 1994. It... -
Procter & Gamble Brazil (A): 2 1/2 Turnarounds
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Juliana Azevedo Schahin, a local marketing director for Procter & Gamble in Sao Paulo, had worked closely with Tarek Fahahat, a regional executive based... -
KPMG (B): Risk and Reform
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Under the leadership of Tim Flynn, Chairman and CEO of KPMG, the firm made a number of changes in compensation, governance, and culture in order to address... -
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In the summer of 2019, Mike Klingensmith, CEO of the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the Twin Cities metro region's largest newspaper, reviewed subscription... -
Organizational Alignment Exercise
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Presents an overview of a method for diagnosing and developing an organization's capability to achieve its goals and implement its strategy, with exercises... -
Strategic Human Resource Management Applications Exercise
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Overview of a method for diagnosing and developing an organization's capability to achieve its goals and implement its strategy, with exercises for application.... -
Sonoco Products Co. (B): The Hybrid Model
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Strategic Review at Egon Zehnder International (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details The case describes the history of the executive search firm Egon Zehnder International (EZI) from its inception through 2000. Internal and environmental... -
Human Resources at Hewlett-Packard (B)
Organizational Development Case Study3.75View Details Designed as an in-class handout as a source of further discussion of the issues. -
Leading Change in Talent at L'Oreal
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Jean-Claude Le Grand just stepped into a new role as Executive Vice-President for Human Resources at the global cosmetics company, L'Oréal. He is now... -
Momentum and Metropolitan's Merger: Authentic Transformational Leadership
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details The merger of Momentum and Metropolitan into MMI Holdings Limited, one of South Africa's largest insurers, played out against the setting of South Africa's... -
Relational Investors and Home Depot (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In 2006, amidst shareholder upset over CEO Robert Nardelli's compensation and Home Depot's declining stock price, Relational Investors decided to further... -
Trian Partners and DuPont (A)
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The AI-Savvy Leader: Nine Ways to Take Back Control and Make AI Work
Management Book32.00View Details Leaders, don't let AI get the best of you. The AI transformation is underway, but where are the leaders who will ensure their companies implement AI successfully... -
Jollibee Foods Corp. (A): International Expansion
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Noli Tingzon, newly-appointed international division VP at Jollibee, the Philippines-based hamburger chain, is faced with the challenge of expanding fast... -
Zoom: The Challenge of Scaling with COVID-19 on the Horizon (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In January 2020, when the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in the United States, American business leaders were only beginning to understand the potential... -
Recovering Trust After Corporate Misconduct at Wells Fargo
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details The case describes widespread misconduct at Wells Fargo Community Bank in the period leading up to 2017 and the company's subsequent attempts to improve... -
Bernd Sterzel at the IVth Medizinische Klinik (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details After 10 years of running a small laboratory at Yale Medical School, Dr. R. Bernd Sterzel assumes leadership of a nephrology clinic in Nurnberg and Erlangen,...
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Intuit, Inc.: Transforming an Entrepreneurial Company into a Collaborative Organization (A)
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Describes how Intuit, Inc.'s CEO, Steve Bennett, changes the company from an entrepreneurial "siloed" organization into a collaborative one. -
Walt Disney's Dennis Hightower: Weaving Together the European Operations
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details The case describes the actions taken by Dennis Hightower as president of Disney Consumer Products in Europe and the Middle East from 1988 to 1994. It... -
Procter & Gamble Brazil (A): 2 1/2 Turnarounds
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Juliana Azevedo Schahin, a local marketing director for Procter & Gamble in Sao Paulo, had worked closely with Tarek Fahahat, a regional executive based... -
Diversity and Inclusion Efforts That Really Work
Organizational Development Digital ArticleFive best practices. -
KPMG (B): Risk and Reform
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Under the leadership of Tim Flynn, Chairman and CEO of KPMG, the firm made a number of changes in compensation, governance, and culture in order to address... -
The Secret to Leading Organizational Change Is Empathy
Organizational Development Digital ArticleYou're leading people, after all. -
Which Way Should You Grow
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleKeeping a tight focus on your value proposition will light the way toward your company's most profitable growth strategy. -
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In the summer of 2019, Mike Klingensmith, CEO of the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the Twin Cities metro region's largest newspaper, reviewed subscription... -
Organizational Alignment Exercise
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Presents an overview of a method for diagnosing and developing an organization's capability to achieve its goals and implement its strategy, with exercises... -
Strategic Human Resource Management Applications Exercise
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Overview of a method for diagnosing and developing an organization's capability to achieve its goals and implement its strategy, with exercises for application....