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Don't Be Afraid to Rethink Your Services
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It's Time to Define Your Company's Principles
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Reflections on Leadership from Gettysburg
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Zooming: How Effective Leaders Adjust Their Focus
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School professor, explains why executives must constantly consider both the big picture and the details. -
5 Reasons Your Employees Don't Understand Your Company's Vision
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The Type of Purpose That Makes Companies More Profitable
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Delta CEO Ed Bastian on Leading an Airline Through Two Years of Pandemic Disruptions
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Lessons from Toyota's Long Drive: A Conversation with Katsuaki Watanabe
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Leadership When There Is No One to Ask: An Interview with ENI's Franco Bernabe
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleIn this interview with Harvard Business School professor Linda Hill and HBR senior editor Suzy Wetlaufer, Franco Bernabe discusses the six-year period... -
Five Messages Leaders Must Manage
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleIf you want to know why so many organizations sink into chaos, look no further than their leaders' mouths. Over and over, leaders present grand, overarching--yet... -
You Don’t Have to Be CEO to Be a Visionary Leader
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Why Multibusiness Strategies Fail and How to Make Them Succeed
Strategy Magazine ArticleCorporations should focus less on the makeup of their portfolios and more on managing them. -
Finding the Right Balance - and Flexibility - in Your Leadership Style
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The Three-Box Approach to Business Model Reinvention: Putting the Idea into Practice
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To Craft a Purpose That Motivates Your Team, Balance Pragmatism and Idealism
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What It Takes to Innovate Within Large Corporations
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How to Do Strategic Planning Like a Futurist
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Moon Shots for Management
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Leaders, Do You Have a Clear Vision for the Post-Crisis Future?
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Power, Influence, and CEO Succession
Succession planning SpotlightHow the board, the incumbent, and the new leader can ensure a successful transfer of authority
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Tesla Motors (in 2009) and the U.S. Auto Industry (Case A)
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Narayana Hrudayalaya Heart Hospital: Cardiac Care for the Poor (A)
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Design Thinking and Innovation at Apple
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Describes Apple's approach to innovation, management, and design thinking. For several years, Apple has been ranked as the most innovative company in... -
Jollibee Foods Corporation
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details When Tony Tan Caktiong had stepped down as president and CEO of Jollibee Foods Corporation in mid-2014, he had been succeeded by his younger brother,... -
Unilever's New Global Strategy: Competing through Sustainability
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details In January 2009, when Paul Polman was appointed CEO of Unilever, he inherited a company in long-term decline at the beginning of a major global financial... -
Vivendi: Revitalizing a French Conglomerate (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Examines corporate strategy for a diversified firm in the French business context. Issues include corporate governance, vision, and the management of... -
Get Backed: Craft Your Story, Build the Perfect Pitch Deck, and Launch the Venture of Your Dreams
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PayPal in 2015: Reshaping the Financial Services Landscape
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HBR Guide for Women at Work
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Numenta (in 2010): The Age of Truly Intelligent Machines?
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Viterra
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Avi Kremer
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What Makes Entrepreneurs Entrepreneurial?
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Wilbur-Ellis: Shaping the Board's Role in Continuity
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy (including featured article "What Is Strategy?" by Michael E. Porter)
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Prudential UK: Rebuilding a Mighty Business
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Better World Books (in 2013): Social Entrepreneurship and the Triple Bottom Line
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Managing in Corporate Aviation: Averting a Hard Landing
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GE's Growth Strategy: The Immelt Initiative
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The Vanguard Group
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Don't Be Afraid to Rethink Your Services
Your company can sharpen its competitive edge through service innovation. How? Transform the way you deliver services, which services you provide, and... -
It's Time to Define Your Company's Principles
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleCompanies need to develop strong guiding principles that go beyond generic mission statements and values, the authors argue. Well-articulated principles... -
Reflections on Leadership from Gettysburg
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleWhat the generals have to teach us. -
Zooming: How Effective Leaders Adjust Their Focus
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School professor, explains why executives must constantly consider both the big picture and the details. -
Tesla Motors (in 2009) and the U.S. Auto Industry (Case A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details After a series of entrepreneurial successes, Elon Musk invested and took a leadership role in Tesla Motors, a company dedicated to commercializing the... -
5 Reasons Your Employees Don't Understand Your Company's Vision
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThey can't follow a north star they can't see. -
The Type of Purpose That Makes Companies More Profitable
Organizational Development ResearchA new study suggests middle managers are the key. -
Narayana Hrudayalaya Heart Hospital: Cardiac Care for the Poor (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Describes the mission, vision, and strategy of a team of entrepreneurs headed by a charismatic heart surgeon who founded a heart hospital in Bangalore,... -
Design Thinking and Innovation at Apple
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Describes Apple's approach to innovation, management, and design thinking. For several years, Apple has been ranked as the most innovative company in... -
Jollibee Foods Corporation
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details When Tony Tan Caktiong had stepped down as president and CEO of Jollibee Foods Corporation in mid-2014, he had been succeeded by his younger brother,...