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Make Your Strategy More Agile
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleIncorporate vision and improvisation. -
The Power of Small, Flexible Teams
Ed Gilligan, president of American Express Company, describes how a small, cross-functional team launched Small Business Saturday in three weeks. -
When Confidence Helps Project Managers - and When It Gets Them into Trouble
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleLessons from the spectacular success and crushing failure of the architect of the Suez Canal. -
The Risks of Botshit
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleDon't let inaccurate chatbot content harm your business. -
Way Faster than a Speeding Bullet
Innovation Magazine ArticleFemtosecond lasers emit pulses of light that last just a millionth of a billionth of a second. These lasers enable surgery so precise that a single mitochondrion can be removed without harming the rest of the cell, and machining so controlled that structures can be micromachined within a piece of glass. Eric Mazur, a professor […] -
Maximizing Your Return on People
Employee performance management Magazine ArticleNew tools can show you which investments in employees are driving company performance now and which you should emphasize to advance your strategic goals. -
How AI Is Helping Companies Redesign Processes
AI and machine learning Digital ArticleCompanies like Shell and DBS Bank are using it to change how their work gets done. -
Simplify Outdated Corporate Processes
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThree principles to help you bring order to chaos. -
Must Finance and Strategy Clash?
Finance and investing Magazine ArticleMarketers and finance people seldom see eye to eye. The makers say, “This product will open up a whole new market segment.” Finance people respond, “It’s a bad investment. The IRR is only 8%.” Why are they so often in opposition? The financial criteria used to decide if a project will be profitable are entirely […] -
How to Make Sure Agile Teams Can Work Together
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleCross-functional groups often have different incentives. -
Why Cross-Functional Collaboration Stalls, and How to Fix It
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleResearch shows that 78% of leaders report "collaboration drag" - too many meetings, too much peer feedback, and too much time spent getting buy-in from... -
Crap Circles
Analytics and data science Magazine ArticleThe most dubious business plan can look solid—even smart—if it’s cast as a virtuous circle. “See, we invest our profits in innovation to create delightful products that customers buy—which generate profits that we invest in innovation!” Who could argue with that? Indeed, the merit of self-reinforcing systems seems so obvious that businesspeople instinctively describe their […] -
A Framework for Designing Excellent Virtual Health Care
Organizational Development ResearchThe pandemic has illustrated the potential of virtual care - but realizing it has proven challenging. -
Why, What, and How of Management Innovation
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleFor organizations like GE, P&G, and Visa, management innovation is the secret to success. But what is management innovation? Why is it so important? And... -
The Biggest Mistake You (Probably) Make with Teams
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThroughout most of my career, I've made a big mistake in the way I've lead teams - and wouldn't be surprised if you have, too. Which is more important... -
Marketing Performance—What Do You Expect?
Project management Magazine ArticleA good plot, good friends, and full of expectation; an excellent plot, very good friends. Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I Special Report When trying to assess performance, there is no business function top executives worry about more than marketing. Most of them look at the marketers in their companies as something between vacuum-cleaner salespeople […] -
The Conflict Resolution Skills Every Project Manager Needs
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleHow to foster awareness, understanding, and respect for the different perspectives around the table. -
How Corporate Investors Can Improve Their Odds
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleAssume every investment will fail. -
How Low-Paying Retailers Can Adapt to Higher Minimum Wages
Managing people Digital ArticleKey questions investors will ask. -
Creating a Culture of Continuous Improvement
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleHow one Wisconsin health system did it.
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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... -
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... -
The Year in Tech, 2024: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review
22.95View Details A year of HBR's essential thinking on tech--all in one place. Generative AI, Web3, neurotech, reusable rockets to power the space economy--new technologies... -
Cathay Pacific (B): Implementing an Integrated e-Freight Solution
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details This case is designed as the second part of a two-part case study on Cathay Pacific's cargo operations, but it can be used separately on a stand-alone... -
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... -
Strategy Execution Module 11: Using Diagnostic and Interactive Control Systems
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This module reading introduces diagnostic and interactive control systems. Diagnostic control systems are the management-by-exception systems that managers... -
Innovation in Assurance: Doing More, and More Effectively, with Less
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Back in early 2013, Jimmy Ng, the new head of Group Audit at DBS received an urgent call from Kelvin Lam, Country Head of Taiwan Audit, requesting an... -
Project Definition: Using the Logical Framework
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details The document presents the basics of the Logical Framework Approach (LFA), a methodology to ensure that the most critical parts of a project are well defined... -
Eurotunnel: Eyes Wide Shut
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Through the example of the high-profile Eurotunnel project, the case shows how important contracts and agreements are in project management. Seen through... -
An Overview of Corporate Venture Capital
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details This note examines the corporate venture capital (CVC) industry, which has played an increasingly large role in the global innovation ecosystem, especially... -
The Baminica Power Plant Project: What Went Wrong and What Can Be Learned
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details This case describes a series of events over an eight-year period involving a power plant project in the Caribbean. An executive from the project developer,... -
Sky Deutschland (A): Driving Customer Loyalty Through Supply Chain Execution
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Sky Germany is the leading pay TV provider in Germany and Austria. In 2010, the company was losing money and facing a lot of operational challenges such... -
IBM: The Iterative Software Development Method
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details This case follows IBM's use of iterative software development to manage projects. The head of IBM's Rational Product Development is asked by the head... -
UK Government Digital Service: Moving Beyond a Website
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details In 2011, the UK founded a new government agency known as the "Government Digital Service" (or GDS). Facing significant budget challenges, several high... -
USA Today Decision: Making Headlines Across the Nation (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Provides an update and supports additional discussion of the process by which Gannett pursued the USA Today project. -
Organizational Transformation in a Taiwanese Company
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details A senior human resources manager at the YUAN Group, a medium-size, multi-industry company, is reflecting on her first year on the job. She had implemented... -
Koo Foundation Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center: Breast Cancer Care in Taiwan
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Taiwan's Koo Foundation Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center has developed an integrated, team-based care delivery model for breast cancer care that is being expanded... -
NovaStar Financial: A Short Seller's Battle
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details The NovaStar case describes the challenges faced by short seller Marc Cohodes of hedge fund Rocker Partners as he tried to expose what he thought was... -
A Project Management Methodology
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details This technical note presents a project management methodology for managers. The methodology is applied over the course of the main phases of the project... -
Nestle's Globe Program (C): "Globe Day"
Global Business Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case.
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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... -
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... -
Make Your Strategy More Agile
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleIncorporate vision and improvisation. -
The Power of Small, Flexible Teams
Ed Gilligan, president of American Express Company, describes how a small, cross-functional team launched Small Business Saturday in three weeks. -
When Confidence Helps Project Managers - and When It Gets Them into Trouble
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleLessons from the spectacular success and crushing failure of the architect of the Suez Canal. -
The Risks of Botshit
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleDon't let inaccurate chatbot content harm your business. -
Way Faster than a Speeding Bullet
Innovation Magazine ArticleFemtosecond lasers emit pulses of light that last just a millionth of a billionth of a second. These lasers enable surgery so precise that a single mitochondrion can be removed without harming the rest of the cell, and machining so controlled that structures can be micromachined within a piece of glass. Eric Mazur, a professor […] -
Maximizing Your Return on People
Employee performance management Magazine ArticleNew tools can show you which investments in employees are driving company performance now and which you should emphasize to advance your strategic goals. -
How AI Is Helping Companies Redesign Processes
AI and machine learning Digital ArticleCompanies like Shell and DBS Bank are using it to change how their work gets done. -
The Year in Tech, 2024: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review
22.95View Details A year of HBR's essential thinking on tech--all in one place. Generative AI, Web3, neurotech, reusable rockets to power the space economy--new technologies...