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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. -
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). -
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. -
The Right Way to Restructure Conglomerates in Emerging Markets
Government Magazine ArticleIn many countries, diversified business groups substitute for the institutions that support effective markets in capital, labor, and goods and services. Their capacity for doing this must be strengthened through restructuring, not destroyed through dismantling. -
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... -
The Secret Ingredient of Thriving Companies? Human Magic.
Organizational Development Digital ArticleYour company purpose can't materialize without it. -
The Top 20 Business Transformations of the Last Decade
Organizational transformation Digital ArticleNetflix, Adobe, and Amazon top the list. -
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. -
Accelerating Corporate Transformations (Don’t Lose Your Nerve!)
Organizational transformation Magazine ArticleSix mistakes that can derail your company’s attempts to change. -
Convincing Your Company Leaders to Invest in New Technology
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleOvercoming resistance starts with understanding the psychological barriers at play. -
Hershey CEO Michele Buck on Empowering Internal Change Agents
Global Business Digital ArticleGive the disruptors within your own company the freedom to drive change. -
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? -
The Messy but Essential Pursuit of Purpose
Leadership & Managing People SpotlightMost forward-thinking executives have embraced the notion that purpose-driven companies can solve social and environmental problems while also generating...
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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. -
The Berkeley-Haas School of Business: Codifying, Embedding, and Sustaining Culture (B)
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details The case discusses the challenges the dean faced as well as future challenges to sustain the culture after the dean steps down at the end of the 2017/2018... -
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... -
Sun Ray Scheme: Building Leadership Capabilities in the Social Service Sector
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details It was March 2019, and Fermin Diez, Deputy CEO of the National Council of Social Service (NCSS), ran the Sun Ray scheme that had been launched in 2014... -
Konecta: Strategic Transformations in a Digital Era
Management Case Study11.95View Details The case analyzes the evolution of the business model of the Spanish multinational Konecta, which, since its origin, was dedicated to providing Contact... -
Pinewood Mobile Homes, Inc.
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case presents a realistic situation in which a firm in financial distress attempts an out-of-court financial restructuring by means of a debt exchange.... -
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... -
PAREXEL International Corp.: Scaling Up
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Through the lens of biopharmaceutical contract research organization (CRO) PAREXEL, this case traces the evolution of the firm as it reinvents itself... -
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... -
Zhongshan Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University: Where Smart Healthcare Meets the Future
Management Case Study11.95View Details Zhongshan Hospital was one of the best medical institutions in China, maintaining a leading position in domestic rankings thanks to its extensive capabilities.... -
McKesson
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details McKesson, a large, diversified drug distribution and health care IT company, is considering development of new business offerings to help private practice... -
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... -
Bell Atlantic and the Union City Schools (C1): Project Explore
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details The third in a five-part series about Bell Atlantic Corp.'s technology-in-education partnership with the Union City, New Jersey school system. Describes... -
The Leveraged Buyout of TXU (B): Energy Future Holdings
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details This case is designed to support a lively discussion about the relative merits of shareholder vs. stakeholder perspectives in the context of a company... -
Lessons from Private Equity Any Company Can Use
Strategy & Execution Book32.00View Details Private equity firms are snapping up brand-name companies and assembling portfolios that make them immense global conglomerates. They're often able to... -
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...
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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. -
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. -
The Berkeley-Haas School of Business: Codifying, Embedding, and Sustaining Culture (B)
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details The case discusses the challenges the dean faced as well as future challenges to sustain the culture after the dean steps down at the end of the 2017/2018... -
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). -
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. -
The Right Way to Restructure Conglomerates in Emerging Markets
Government Magazine ArticleIn many countries, diversified business groups substitute for the institutions that support effective markets in capital, labor, and goods and services. Their capacity for doing this must be strengthened through restructuring, not destroyed through dismantling. -
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... -
Sun Ray Scheme: Building Leadership Capabilities in the Social Service Sector
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details It was March 2019, and Fermin Diez, Deputy CEO of the National Council of Social Service (NCSS), ran the Sun Ray scheme that had been launched in 2014... -
Konecta: Strategic Transformations in a Digital Era
Management Case Study11.95View Details The case analyzes the evolution of the business model of the Spanish multinational Konecta, which, since its origin, was dedicated to providing Contact... -
6 Key Levers of a Successful Organizational Transformation
Organizational transformation Digital ArticleLeaders, don’t overlook your employees’ emotional journey.