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What to Ask the Person in the Mirror
Organizational restructuring Magazine ArticleThere comes a point in your career when the best way to figure out how you’re doing is to step back and ask yourself a few questions. Having all the answers is less important than knowing what to ask. -
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. -
6 Key Levers of a Successful Organizational Transformation
Organizational transformation Digital ArticleLeaders, don’t overlook your employees’ emotional journey. -
Many Happy (Product) Returns
Marketing Magazine ArticleMost companies view the handling of product returns as a costly nuisance. But some savvy businesses are making the process profitable. -
Make Overhead Cuts that Last
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleOverhead value analysis identifies structural cuts that will reduce overhead costs by 15% to 30%. Overhead value analysis requires delegating to every... -
How to Grow Great Leaders
Organizational culture Magazine ArticleThe biggest test that rising leaders face is aggressively championing a business unit while looking out for the enterprise as a whole. Helping them meet that challenge demands a new approach to leadership development. -
When Social Capital Stifles Innovation
Innovation Magazine ArticleRegions where social ties are tight may be the worst places for creative operations. -
The Case of the Downsizing Decision
Decision making and problem solving Magazine ArticleAndrew Jordan sat at his desk, absentmindedly watching a barge chug slowly upstream on the Thames. The dinner meeting he had scheduled with a select group of senior managers at Universal Products Company, Ltd. would begin in an hour. For three years, it had seemed enough to focus on the business problems of UPC’s Connectors […] -
How to Improve Care for High-Need, High-Cost Medicaid Patients
Operations and supply chain management Digital ArticleA program in Memphis, Tennessee, reduced total spending by 37% per patient. -
Huawei’s Culture Is the Key to Its Success
Global strategy Digital ArticleThe company’s founder opens up. -
Right Way to Restructure Conglomerates in Emerging Markets
Global Business Magazine ArticleFinancial experts in the West suggest that diversified business groups--or affiliated companies under one parent--in emerging markets should break up.... -
Manage Beyond Portfolio Analysis
Organizational restructuring Magazine ArticleThe approach is as old as borrowing from Peter to pay Paul. If one of your divisions is not growing as quickly as it ought to, you take cash from a healthy, stable unit to fund the growth. Often this strategy works, but many times it doesn’t. The reason it may not work, the authors […] -
Building Deep Supplier Relationships
Analytics and data science Magazine ArticleTwo Japanese automakers have had stunning success building relationships with North American suppliers—often the same companies that have had contentious dealings with Detroit’s Big Three. What are Toyota and Honda doing right? -
Where Does the Customer Fit in a Service Operation?
Organizational restructuring Magazine ArticleWhile management skills can improve service systems, a manager is better off if he or she first has a clear understanding of the operating characteristics that set one service system apart from another. This author offers one view of services, which, if followed, results in a “rational approach to the rationalization” of services. His view, […] -
The Other Diversity Dividend
Organizational restructuring Magazine ArticleWe know that varied teams make better decisions. A new study shows they also make better investments. -
What to Do When You Get a New Boss Every Few Months
Managing up Digital ArticleIt’s on you to adapt. -
The Layoff (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleAstrigo is in trouble. The home improvement chain has missed its earnings forecast badly and sales are falling. A 10% reduction in staff looks like the... -
Coevolving: At Last, a Way to Make Synergies Work (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThe promise of synergy is the prime rationale for the existence of the multibusiness corporation. Yet for most corporations, the "1-plus-1-equals-3" arithmetic... -
Aligning Incentives in Supply Chains
Costing Magazine ArticleA supply chain stays tight only if every company on it has reasons to pull in the same direction. -
Innovation at the Speed of Information
Innovation Magazine ArticleDeveloping a new product involves trial and error, but beyond a certain point, redesign becomes wasteful. A practical and proven tool, the Design Structure Matrix, can help streamline the way a company innovates.
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Dressen
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Divisional management must decide whether to support a leveraged buyout by a private equity group and, if so, what percent of ownership should go to the... -
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... -
Nippon Steel Corporation
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Nippon Steel Corporation, the largest Japanese steel producer and second largest in the world faces challenges in pursuing strategy to become a true global... -
DuPont Sustainable Solutions (A): DuPont's Carve-Out Decision
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details In May 2019, the management team of DuPont de Nemours Inc. (DuPont) was assessing whether to retain the business entity DuPont Sustainable Solutions (DSS)... -
Sara Lee: A Tale of Another Turnaround
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Sara Lee Corporation's acquisition binge in the 1980s and 1990s left the company with a portfolio of vastly different businesses operating independently... -
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... -
Kerr-McGee
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Activist investors Carl Icahn and Barry Rosenstein acquire a stake in Oklahoma-based company Kerr-McGee. They demand two board seats and ask the company... -
Buck & Pulleyn
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details A woman CEO believes that industry and organizational conditions require for a reengineering/restructuring job her company. However, she wants to gain... -
Colt Industries
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Students must estimate the selling price of Colt stock on the day following the announcement of a drastic financial restructuring, estimating the value... -
Magna International, Inc. (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Magna International, Inc., a Canadian-based automotive parts manufacturer, is considering whether and how to unwind its dual-class ownership structure.... -
Gordon Brothers: Collateralizing Corporate Loans by Brands
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details The case explores the collateralization of intellectual property in a loan agreement between a highly leveraged apparel company and a large US bank. Leveraging... -
Shanghai Euclid Printing Machine Co.: Navigating through Layoffs and Closure
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details In late 2012, Shanghai Euclid Printing Machine Co. (Shanghai Euclid), a joint venture between a Chinese state-owned enterprise and an American multinational... -
New World Development Co. Ltd.: Diversify or Focus?
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details New World Development Co. Ltd. (NWD) was a leading conglomerate based in Hong Kong. After more than 20 years of operations, the group had expanded its... -
Star Cablevision Group (D): Financial Crisis and Managing Constituencies
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Fourth case in a series of six cases. This case describes the company as it reaches financial crisis and manages constituencies. -
Solo Cup in 2007: Dollars in the Details
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details The case discusses the operational, strategic, and financial turnaround at Solo Cup, a manufacturer of disposable dining wares. Solo Cup's troubles were... -
Integron, Inc.: The Integrated Components Division (ICD)
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details A high-technology manufacturing company was recently given profit-and-loss "stand-alone" status by its parent. No longer a captive supplier, it must seek... -
Pacesetters
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details City Sealcoating CEO Keith Chaney had just publicly called out the Boston Chamber of Commerce for their slow progress on their supplier diversity program,... -
China Aviation Oil (B): Stormy Waters
Global Business Case Study5.00View Details The three-part China Aviation Oil (CAO) case series documents the overseas adventure-the rise, fall and subsequent restructuring and rebuilding-of a leading... -
Endo Pharmaceuticals (E): Judge Stein Rules
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details An abstract is not available for this product. -
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.--1988
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Set two years after a takeover attempt forced the company to restructure by leveraging up, selling assets, and repurchasing stock. The case affords an...
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What to Ask the Person in the Mirror
Organizational restructuring Magazine ArticleThere comes a point in your career when the best way to figure out how you’re doing is to step back and ask yourself a few questions. Having all the answers is less important than knowing what to ask. -
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. -
Dressen
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Divisional management must decide whether to support a leveraged buyout by a private equity group and, if so, what percent of ownership should go to the... -
6 Key Levers of a Successful Organizational Transformation
Organizational transformation Digital ArticleLeaders, don’t overlook your employees’ emotional journey. -
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... -
Nippon Steel Corporation
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Nippon Steel Corporation, the largest Japanese steel producer and second largest in the world faces challenges in pursuing strategy to become a true global... -
Many Happy (Product) Returns
Marketing Magazine ArticleMost companies view the handling of product returns as a costly nuisance. But some savvy businesses are making the process profitable. -
Make Overhead Cuts that Last
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleOverhead value analysis identifies structural cuts that will reduce overhead costs by 15% to 30%. Overhead value analysis requires delegating to every... -
How to Grow Great Leaders
Organizational culture Magazine ArticleThe biggest test that rising leaders face is aggressively championing a business unit while looking out for the enterprise as a whole. Helping them meet that challenge demands a new approach to leadership development. -
DuPont Sustainable Solutions (A): DuPont's Carve-Out Decision
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details In May 2019, the management team of DuPont de Nemours Inc. (DuPont) was assessing whether to retain the business entity DuPont Sustainable Solutions (DSS)...