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Executive Incentives vs. Corporate Growth
Boards Magazine ArticleBonuses and other forms of incentive compensation are an effective motivator of executives to achieve ever higher earnings per share. The drive to produce short-term results, however, often influences management to forgo investment in capital equipment and R&D that would benefit the corporation several years hence even more than improved earnings next year would. The […] -
How to Cut Costs More Strategically
Strategic planning Digital ArticleAcross-the-board cuts often backfire. -
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). -
Getting IT Right
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleModern information technology started four decades ago, yet in most major corporations, IT remains an expensive mess. This is partly because the relatively... -
Predicting the Present
Strategic planning Magazine ArticleThe Idea in Brief Science fiction writer Cory Doctorow shares his insights on how technology and the internet are changing society and the economy in the twenty-first century. Far from dumbing down people or giving government and business too much power, technology and the internet are great enablers of individual freedom. The internet provides universal […] -
Preparing Your Business for a Post-Pandemic World
Global Business Digital ArticleFive strategic questions to ask. -
Effective Public Management
Strategic planning Magazine ArticlePolitical scientists, legislators, educators, business executives, lawyers, consumerists—practically everyone, it sometimes seems—is calling for better public management. For businessmen, the need is especially important because they feel surrounded by government institutions with which they are legally required to interact. But enthusiasm for good government is one thing; understanding the nature of it, to say nothing […] -
To Make Money with Digital, Be an Innovator - Not a Strategist
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleThere's no need to get everything right all at once. -
Delivering on the Promise of Nonprofits
Strategic planning Magazine ArticleNonprofit leaders face unique challenges in achieving results, but a growing number are showing it can be done—by rigorously confronting questions related to strategy, capital, and talent. -
Holes at the Top: Why CEO Firings Backfire (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleFor better or worse, investors now view chief executives as the primary determinant of corporate performance. But the reality is that most companies perform... -
Managing as if Tomorrow Mattered
Finance and investing Magazine ArticleFew economic decisions are as difficult as those involving the choice between present and future consumption. Some people, unable to place much faith in the future, happily borrow to fund present pleasures; others, with longer time horizons, are wary of such “fly now, pay later” policies. They fear that the required payments, when viewed up […] -
New Business with the New Military
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleA $200 billion market has appeared on your business horizon, but you may not have noticed it. It's the new U.S. military. Virtually all aspects of the... -
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 […] -
The Future Is Scary. Creative Thinking Can Help.
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThree ways your company can embrace uncertainty instead of trying to remove it. -
The CEO of UPS on Taking the Reins Amid Surging Pandemic Demand
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleWhen the author agreed to accept the top job at UPS, the global shipping service, in late winter of 2019, she expected to steer the company toward a brighter... -
Preparing for the Perfect Product Launch
Innovation Magazine ArticleA failure of execution forced Steelcase to ramp up the critical thinking that goes into product development. -
How to Map Your Industry's Profit Pool
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThis article provides invaluable advice on the complexities of value-chain analysis. Many managers chart strategy without a full understanding of the... -
Shirt-Sleeve Approach To Long-Range Plans
Analytics and data science Magazine ArticleOne bothersome aspect about the future when you’re trying to plan is all the uncertainty that surrounds it. In past years forecasters have tried to cope with the problem by coming up with a best guess—a “most probable” scenario—by extrapolating from trends, making a few assumptions, and then suggesting that management plan as if the […] -
Managing Risks: A New Framework
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleRisk management is too often treated as a compliance issue that can be solved by drawing up lots of rules and making sure that all employees follow them.... -
A Tool to Help You Reach Your Goals in 4 Steps
Managing yourself Digital Article“If-then” planning is the key.
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Polaroid-Kodak
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Describes Kodak's long-awaited challenge to Polaroid in the field of instant photography. Provides technological and company background of both Polaroid... -
Winning in Turbulence
Strategy & Execution Book18.00View Details The current downturn may prove more brutal than most previous recessions. It's already hammering companies in markets around the globe. It will test businesses... -
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... -
Developing a Superior Strategic Marketing Plan
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details While both management and marketing courses detail the importance of having a strategy, there is a dearth of tools available that can help students understand... -
Peace Games: A Non-Profit's Journey from Birth to National Expansion (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details As a Harvard University freshman in 1992, Eric Dawson began working on a social service project known as Peace Games, a one-day festival to teach school-age... -
Hello Alfred: Come Home Happy
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details On a mission to "automate the on-demand economy," Harvard Business School classmates Marcela Sapone and Jessica Beck launched Hello Alfred in 2013 to... -
Stakeholder Analysis Tool
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This exercise enables users to: identify stakeholders and analyze their interests and expectations; categorize interests and expectations based on importance;... -
Merging Esso Iceland and Bilanaust (A2)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Hermann Gudmundsson, the CEO of Esso Iceland (provider of fuel and lubricants) was expected to begin merging Esso Iceland with Bilanaust, an Icelandic... -
HBR Classics Boxed Set (16 Books)
150.00View Details Build your professional library and advance your career with these 16 timeless business classics. The classic Harvard Business Review articles every manager... -
Brannigan Foods: Strategic Marketing Planning
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details The soup division at Brannigan Foods contributes over 40% of the firm's revenue. The general manager is concerned that the soup industry is declining... -
To Understand a Growing Organization: Greater Miami Neighborhoods
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details This case study explores the factors that are important in analyzing the health and soundness of a project in a growing nonprofit housing company with... -
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... -
Sagacity Tea: What Direction for Growth?
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Kate Moran, CEO and cofounder of Sagacity Tea, a small, Vermont-based ready-to-drink tea brand, is considering a consumer-product group (CPG) broker's... -
Bio-Tech, Inc.
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Financial vice president is expected to prepare a financing plan for Bio-Tech matching the most recent long-range plans of three operating groups. The... -
BlueOrchard Finance: Connecting Microfinance to Capital Markets
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Microfinance is a field that has received increasing attention over the years in the development community. It consists of the delivery of financial services... -
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... -
Leader-as-Architect: Alignment
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Part of a leader's job is to equip the organization to transform inputs into outputs by defining organizational strategy, shaping organizational identity,... -
Strategy Planning Sequence
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This document provides a step-by-step guide to the sequence of tasks involved in the strategy development process including the eight activities necessary... -
Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE)
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBEO) must decide how to respond to new competition in the market for financial options. Options have typically been...
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Executive Incentives vs. Corporate Growth
Boards Magazine ArticleBonuses and other forms of incentive compensation are an effective motivator of executives to achieve ever higher earnings per share. The drive to produce short-term results, however, often influences management to forgo investment in capital equipment and R&D that would benefit the corporation several years hence even more than improved earnings next year would. The […] -
How to Cut Costs More Strategically
Strategic planning Digital ArticleAcross-the-board cuts often backfire. -
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). -
Polaroid-Kodak
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Describes Kodak's long-awaited challenge to Polaroid in the field of instant photography. Provides technological and company background of both Polaroid... -
Getting IT Right
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleModern information technology started four decades ago, yet in most major corporations, IT remains an expensive mess. This is partly because the relatively... -
Predicting the Present
Strategic planning Magazine ArticleThe Idea in Brief Science fiction writer Cory Doctorow shares his insights on how technology and the internet are changing society and the economy in the twenty-first century. Far from dumbing down people or giving government and business too much power, technology and the internet are great enablers of individual freedom. The internet provides universal […] -
Preparing Your Business for a Post-Pandemic World
Global Business Digital ArticleFive strategic questions to ask. -
Winning in Turbulence
Strategy & Execution Book18.00View Details The current downturn may prove more brutal than most previous recessions. It's already hammering companies in markets around the globe. It will test businesses... -
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...