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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 Competitive Forces Shape Strategy
Competitive strategy Magazine ArticleAwareness of these forces can help a company stake out a position in its industry that is less vulnerable to attack. -
How to Cut Costs More Strategically
Strategic planning Digital ArticleAcross-the-board cuts often backfire. -
Make Your Strategy More Agile
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleIncorporate vision and improvisation. -
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 […] -
Adaptability: The New Competitive Advantage
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleTraditional approaches to strategy assume that the world is relatively stable and predictable. But globalization, new technologies, and greater transparency... -
Preparing Your Business for a Post-Pandemic World
Global Business Digital ArticleFive strategic questions to ask. -
Many Strategies Fail Because They’re Not Actually Strategies
Strategy execution Digital ArticleThey’re goals. -
The Myth of the Intrapreneur
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleCompanies need an innovation process, not just innovative people. -
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...
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Apple Computer--1996
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Updates Apple Computer--1992. -
Apple Computer--1997
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Updates Apple Computer--1992. -
Redefining Global Strategy, with a New Preface: Crossing Borders in a World Where Differences Still Matter
Global Business Book35.00View Details New Tools for Succeeding Globally. Why do so many global strategies fail--despite companies' powerful brands and other border-crossing advantages? Because... -
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... -
Citibank: Global Customer Management
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Describes Citibank's worldwide operations, which include activities in developing and developed markets. The bank's structure also varies across markets... -
Passion for Learning
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Describes the challenges confronting a recent HBS graduate who has started a direct-mail toy company. The entrepreneur must evaluate industry conditions... -
Zopa.com: From a Hot Idea to an Established Market Player?
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Launched in early 2005, Zopa is a peer-to-peer online brokerage that couples British residents who want to lend with those who want to borrow. The company... -
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... -
StarMedia: Launching a Latin American Revolution
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details By the fall of 1999, StarMedia had sprinted to a sizable lead in the race to acquire Latin American Internet users. Its pan-regional, horizontal portal... -
Brown Bag Films (B)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Brown Bag Films produced programming for Disney, Amazon, BBC, and Nickelodeon, reaching an audience of more than 100 million pre-school children around... -
Kodak and the Digital Revolution (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details The introduction of digital imaging in the late 1980s had a disruptive effect on Kodak's traditional business model. Examines Kodak's strategic efforts... -
Wine in China: The Wild West of the Far East
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details The purpose of this case is to illustrate why Napa Valley wine producers find it both irresistible and challenging to enter the growing Chinese wine market.... -
Seattle Theatre Industry
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Seattle's theatre industry had a rich, 38-year history of producing top-quality plays and musicals. In a typical year, the theatres collectively sold... -
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... -
Transworld Auto Parts (B)
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
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... -
Encompass: Creating Innovation in Broadcast, Everyday (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details This is a two-part case series. Case A begins in October 2012, when Encompass Singapore has introduced innovative ways to increase the capacity of its... -
Participant and Leader Behavior: Group Decision Simulation (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This series provides the instructions for a group decision-making simulation in which students experience four different methods for leading a group decision... -
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...
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Apple Computer--1996
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Updates Apple Computer--1992. -
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 Competitive Forces Shape Strategy
Competitive strategy Magazine ArticleAwareness of these forces can help a company stake out a position in its industry that is less vulnerable to attack. -
Apple Computer--1997
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Updates Apple Computer--1992. -
How to Cut Costs More Strategically
Strategic planning Digital ArticleAcross-the-board cuts often backfire. -
Make Your Strategy More Agile
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleIncorporate vision and improvisation. -
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). -
Redefining Global Strategy, with a New Preface: Crossing Borders in a World Where Differences Still Matter
Global Business Book35.00View Details New Tools for Succeeding Globally. Why do so many global strategies fail--despite companies' powerful brands and other border-crossing advantages? Because... -
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...