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Your Rainbow Logo Doesn't Make You an Ally
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleHere's how to materially benefit LGBTQ+ communities year-round instead. -
Are You Paying Too Much for That Acquisition?
Mergers and acquisitions Magazine ArticleThe key is knowing what your top price is—and having the discipline to stick to it. -
The Evolving Role of Chief Sustainability Officers
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleThe role of the CSO is undergoing a rapid and dramatic transformation. Historically CSOs have acted like stealth PR executives-their primary task was... -
Hiring Without Firing
Leadership Magazine ArticleHitting the hiring bull’s-eye is one of an executive’s most important—and most difficult—responsibilities. Ten common mistakes can get in the way, but a pointed and systematic approach can virtually guarantee success. -
Collaborating with Congregations: Opportunities for Financial Services in the Inner City
Economics Magazine ArticleBy pooling the resources of the poor and by sharing information, religious and financial institutions can work together to change inner-city economies. -
Gathering Green Data: Tools and Tips
Costing Digital ArticleIn my last post, I talked about the ways you can use green data — footprinting information on your products and services up and down the value chain — to create enormous value for your company. As they say, you can’t manage what you don’t measure. And those with the best information can cut costs, […] -
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 […] -
Should You Reward Your CEO with Stock Options?
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The Drucker Forum: Three Messages for Managers
Leadership Digital ArticleI recently returned from the Peter Drucker Global Forum Vienna, Austria, an event held as part of the centennial celebration of Peter Drucker’s birth. Having studied and written about Drucker extensively, spent years infusing his thinking into my own management consulting work, and befriended him late in his life, I take three messages from the […] -
Companies that Practice “Conscious Capitalism” Perform 10x Better
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A Question of Character
Leadership Magazine ArticleJoe Ryan turned a small-town cosmetics company into a national powerhouse, making employees happy and shareholders rich in the process. Does it really matter that he cheats on his wife? -
Developing Your Leadership Pipeline
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleWhy do so many newly minted leaders fail so spectacularly? Part of the problem is that in many companies, succession planning is little more than creating... -
5 Kinds of Ownership Roles in a Family Business
Organizational Development Digital ArticleSticking to "this is just how we do things around here" can have disastrous consequences, even for the closest family owner group. -
Reskilling Workers Is a Central Part of Corporate Social Responsibility
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Should Nonprofits Seek Profits?
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleTwenty years ago, it would have been shocking for a children's choir to sell singing telegrams or for an organization serving the homeless to dabble in... -
Abraham Lincoln and the Global Economy
Global Business Magazine ArticleAbraham Lincoln would have well understood the challenges facing many modern emerging nations. In Lincoln's America, as in many developing nations today,... -
Beware of Bad Microcredit
Global Business Magazine ArticleFailing to reduce poverty by supporting the wrong microcredit program can tarnish a company's good name. Executives in charge of corporate social responsibility... -
5 Ways Executives Can Manage Conflict with the Board
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleFoster a healthy dialogue by taking these steps early and often. -
When and Why Diversity Improves Your Board's Performance
Leadership & Managing People ResearchYou need the right culture and structure. -
Research: When Women Are on Boards, Male CEOs Are Less Overconfident
Boards ResearchA diversity of perspectives in the boardroom leads to better decisions.
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Ketan Logistics-Charting the Next Route
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Rohit Gupta, the oldest third generation member of a family business, has to decide whether to continue working for the business, towards which he has... -
Rock Valley Physical Therapy: Private equity and culture
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details In April of 2018, Mike Horsfield, CEO of Rock Valley Physical Therapy (RVPT), was scheduled to meet with shareholders to discuss the future ownership... -
Barrick Gold Corporation - Tanzania
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This case examines the giant Canadian mining corporation, Barrick Gold Corporation (Barrick), (called Africa Barrick Gold plc since 2009), and the way... -
Governance Reform at Research in Motion (RIM) Ltd.
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details The case looks at the board structure of Research in Motion Limited (RIM) since the probe of the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) and Securities Exchange... -
Taiwan's Formosa Plastics Group in Transition: The Interplay of Succession, Inheritance and Family Strife
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details The case covers the ongoing Wang family dispute over the inheritance of YC Wang, the billionaire founder of Formosa Plastics Group, one of Taiwan's most... -
Jupiter Bach: Committing to Sustainability
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details The case documents the efforts by Lone Stubberup, Global Director of Quality, Health, Safety and Environment (QHSE) to convert her employer, Danish wind-mill... -
Zenefits Board of Directors (C)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details In early 2018, the time seemed right for Zenefits investor and director Lars Dalgaard to reflect on whether Zenefits had the right board of directors... -
Sustainable Development at Shell (C)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Scott Tucker (B): The Feds Catch Up
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details The case tells the story of the rise and fall of Scott Tucker, an entrepreneur, businessman, passionate race car driver, competitor, and owner of a professional... -
Vigeo and CSR-The Daughter of Globalization
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details The Vigeo case is used in Darden's Global EMBA ""Business Ethics"" course. The case raises the issue of how we determine what constitutes a socially responsible... -
Funding Philanthropy: Creating a Service NGO for Mothers
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details This case is about an affluent and educated woman who decided to start her own organization to support young mothers. Shortly after the birth of her first... -
Real-Time Leadership: Find Your Winning Moves When the Stakes Are High
30.00View Details The best leaders, in the biggest moments, know how to read the situation, respond in the most effective way possible, and move forward. You can, too.... -
Jonathon Elderslie and the Board Decision
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Jonathon Elderslie, recently retired after running his own company for 30 years, must decide what questions he should ask before deciding whether to join... -
Railroads and the Beginnings of Modern Management
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Consists of three selections by the most innovative of the early American railroad managers which describe the organizational structures and control systems... -
Alphexo Corp.: Confidential Negotiation Information
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details A two-party, multiple-issue dollar-scoring negotiation exercise dealing with the formation and terms of an IT-industry joint venture. Subordinates have... -
Martin Blair
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Martin Blair is a first-time entrepreneur who draws on his experience in the food service industry to develop two different restaurant concepts almost... -
Renewable Energy at the National Aquarium
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Christina Gomez, energy and sustainability manager for the National Aquarium in Maryland, is looking back at the success the organization has had over... -
CompUSA
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details CompUSA was performing poorly until new management reorganized and redirected the business. Consequently, CompUSA became the top retailer in its industry.... -
Royal Dutch Shell and Beyond: Strategizing the Future of ESG Compliance
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Businesses have traditionally assessed their climate risks primarily by reference to regulatory compliance requirements and related costs. However, recent...
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Your Rainbow Logo Doesn't Make You an Ally
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleHere's how to materially benefit LGBTQ+ communities year-round instead. -
Are You Paying Too Much for That Acquisition?
Mergers and acquisitions Magazine ArticleThe key is knowing what your top price is—and having the discipline to stick to it. -
The Evolving Role of Chief Sustainability Officers
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleThe role of the CSO is undergoing a rapid and dramatic transformation. Historically CSOs have acted like stealth PR executives-their primary task was... -
Hiring Without Firing
Leadership Magazine ArticleHitting the hiring bull’s-eye is one of an executive’s most important—and most difficult—responsibilities. Ten common mistakes can get in the way, but a pointed and systematic approach can virtually guarantee success. -
Collaborating with Congregations: Opportunities for Financial Services in the Inner City
Economics Magazine ArticleBy pooling the resources of the poor and by sharing information, religious and financial institutions can work together to change inner-city economies. -
Gathering Green Data: Tools and Tips
Costing Digital ArticleIn my last post, I talked about the ways you can use green data — footprinting information on your products and services up and down the value chain — to create enormous value for your company. As they say, you can’t manage what you don’t measure. And those with the best information can cut costs, […] -
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 […] -
Ketan Logistics-Charting the Next Route
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Rohit Gupta, the oldest third generation member of a family business, has to decide whether to continue working for the business, towards which he has... -
Should You Reward Your CEO with Stock Options?
Organizational Development Digital ArticleThe record is spottier than you might think. -
Rock Valley Physical Therapy: Private equity and culture
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details In April of 2018, Mike Horsfield, CEO of Rock Valley Physical Therapy (RVPT), was scheduled to meet with shareholders to discuss the future ownership...