Strategy
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What Is Strategy? (HBR Bestseller)
Strategy & Execution
HBR Bestseller
Blue Ocean Strategy (HBR Bestseller)
Strategy & Execution
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What Professional Service Firms Must Do to Thrive
Managing organizations Magazine ArticleThey have to tightly align their practices and clients. -
Case Study: Protect Your Company or Your Cousin?
Ethics Magazine ArticleA manager gets inside information that could affect the future of her firm. -
Manage the Suppliers That Could Harm Your Brand
Supply chain Magazine ArticleKnow when to avoid, engage, or drop them. -
Protect Your Company or Your Cousin? (HBR Case Study)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleIn this fictional case, a customer experience manager is torn between loyalty to her family and to her employer after she gets inside information from... -
The Former and Current Chairs of Mastercard on Executing a Strategic CEO Succession
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleAs the chairman of a publicly traded multinational corporation, it's difficult to contemplate replacing a charismatic, visionary CEO who tripled your... -
Protect Your Company or Your Cousin? (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleIn this fictional case, a customer experience manager is torn between loyalty to her family and to her employer after she gets inside information from... -
Are You Doing the SWOT Analysis Backwards?
Strategic planning Digital ArticleDon’t worry about strengths and weaknesses until you’ve identified opportunities and threats. -
Is China Emerging as the Global Leader in AI?
International business Digital ArticleIt has rapidly caught up with the U.S. — but there is no guarantee it’ll pull ahead. -
How to Capitalize On the Coming M&A Wave
Mergers & acquisitions Digital ArticleFive missteps to avoid. -
Is Your Midsize Company Designed for a Post-Pandemic Future?
Managing organizations Digital ArticleDon’t let short-termism drive decision-making. -
What U.S. Startups Get Wrong About Expanding into Europe
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleFour common mistakes — and how to avoid them. -
When to Switch Strategy in a Crisis
Strategy Digital ArticleResearchers ran 60 billion simulations to identify when the risk pays off. -
Reimagining the Balanced Scorecard for the ESG Era
Economic development Digital ArticleAn update to one of the most successful management tools of all time. -
Is Your Startup Doing Everything It Can to Capture Value?
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleMany companies don’t make their money through their best-known service. (See: Amazon.) - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM DXC
How to Make Cybersecurity a Top Priority for Boards and CFOs
Security & privacy Sponsor ContentSponsor content from DXC. -
Why Reducing Your Offerings Pays Off
Operations Digital ArticleA limited menu can be a winning strategy, even after the pandemic. -
How Tesla’s Charging Stations Left Other Manufacturers in the Dust
Strategy Digital ArticleTheir early infrastructure investments paid off. -
When Every Employee Is a Risk Manager
Risk management Digital ArticleLessons from Switzerland’s electricity network. -
CMOs: Adapt Your Social Media Strategy for a Post-Pandemic World
Marketing Digital ArticleTen recommendations. - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM GLG INSIGHTS
5 Things to Consider Before Entering a New Market
Innovation Sponsor ContentSponsor content from GLG.
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The Balanced Scorecard—Measures that Drive Performance
Accounting Magazine ArticleWhat you measure is what you get. Senior executives understand that their organization’s measurement system strongly affects the behavior of managers and employees. Executives also understand that traditional financial accounting measures like return-on-investment and earnings-per-share can give misleading signals for continuous improvement and innovation—activities today’s competitive environment demands. The traditional financial performance measures worked well […] -
What Is Disruptive Innovation?
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleFor the past 20 years, the theory of disruptive innovation has been enormously influential in business circles and a powerful tool for predicting which... -
How Apple Is Organized for Innovation
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleWhen Steve Jobs returned to Apple, in 1997, it had a conventional structure for a company of its size and scope. It was divided into business units, each... -
Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleIn the past few years, a new methodology for launching companies, called "the lean start-up," has begun to replace the old regimen. Traditionally, a venture's... -
Know Your Customers' "Jobs to Be Done"
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleFirms have never known more about their customers, but their innovation processes remain hit-or-miss. Why? According to Christensen and his coauthors,... -
Second in Command: The Misunderstood Role of the Chief Operating Officer
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleAsking the question, "What makes a great COO?" is akin to asking "What makes a great candidate for U.S. vice-president?" It all depends on the first name... -
Global Supply Chains in a Post-Pandemic World
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleThe U.S.-China trade war and the supply and demand shocks brought on by the Covid-19 crisis are forcing manufacturers everywhere to reassess their supply... -
What Is a Business Model?
Business models Digital ArticleA history, from Drucker to Christensen. -
How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy
Strategic planning Magazine ArticleAwareness of these forces can help a company stake out a position in its industry that is less vulnerable to attack -
What VUCA Really Means for You
Crisis management Magazine ArticleIt’s become a trendy managerial acronym: VUCA, short for volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity, and a catchall for “Hey, it’s crazy out there!” It’s also misleading: VUCA conflates four distinct types of challenges that demand four distinct types of responses. That makes it difficult to know how to approach a challenging situation and easy to […] -
What’s Your Data Strategy?
Strategy Magazine ArticleThe key is to balance offense and defense. -
The Elements of Value
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleWhat consumers truly value can be difficult to pin down and psychologically complicated. But universal building blocks of value do exist, creating opportunities... -
How Will You Measure Your Life? (HBR Bestseller)
Leadership & Managing People HBR BestsellerHarvard Business School's Christensen teaches aspiring MBAs how to apply management and innovation theories to build stronger companies. But he also believes... -
How 1% Performance Improvements Led to Olympic Gold
Leadership & Managing People InterviewAn interview with the former head of British Cycling. -
Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail
Competitive strategy Magazine ArticleOver the past decade, I have watched more than 100 companies try to remake themselves into significantly better competitors. They have included large organizations (Ford) and small ones (Landmark Communications), companies based in the United States (General Motors) and elsewhere (British Airways), corporations that were on their knees (Eastern Airlines), and companies that were earning […] -
Is China Emerging as the Global Leader in AI?
International business Digital ArticleIt has rapidly caught up with the U.S. — but there is no guarantee it’ll pull ahead. -
The Questions Every Entrepreneur Must Answer
Decision making Magazine ArticleWhat are my goals? Do I have the right strategy? Can I execute the strategy? -
What Professional Service Firms Must Do to Thrive
Managing organizations Magazine ArticleThey have to tightly align their practices and clients. -
Embracing Agile
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleOver the past 25 to 30 years, agile innovation methods have greatly increased success rates in software development, improved quality and speed to market,... -
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....
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WebOrganic: Creating a Blue Ocean for a Social Cause
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details On a mission to give "hope, chance and choice" to underprivileged students, Erwin Huang started the social enterprise WebOrganic to sell quality computers... -
Ghurka
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Ghurka was a 38-year-old luxury leather goods brand that specialized in leather and twill luggage, handbags, and accessories. Brightwork Brand Holdings... -
Kodak and the Digital Revolution (A), Spanish Version
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View 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... -
Agility: A Global Logistics Company and Local Humanitarian Partner
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Agility is a global logistics provider, based in Kuwait. In 2006, it reorganized and joined the ranks of the top ten global logistics providers worldwide.... -
Coming from Behind: The Chicago Cubs' Resurgence as a 100-Year-Old Startup
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This "mini-case" summarizes the beloved Chicago Cubs' many years of futility and remarkable turnaround in the early teens of the twenty-first century.... -
Wintel (F): From Multi-Geographic Contact to Open Source, Spanish Version
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Nate Chooses a Business Entity
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case follows Nate Jamison as he determines which business entity to form for his growing City Moving Company (City Moving) in Washington, DC. From... -
BRI Bayres Ritz International: Ready to Launch?
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details This case describes the entrepreneurial process of an Argentinean Canadian who created a new international venture based on the demand of Vancouver firms... -
Jones Schilling Employee Coaching Workshop
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Four managers at Jones Schilling, an Asia-based retailer, are preparing to coach their Gen Y employees on how they can better contribute to the firm's... -
DHAN Foundation: Delivering Healthcare to the Village Doorstep - An Innovative Approach (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details DHAN Foundation, based in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, was a non-government organization with a difference. It was neither a philanthropic... -
KangaTech
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study15.05View Details Focused on injury prediction and prevention in elite sport, the Melbourne, Australia-based KangaTech prepared to launch a new model of their core product,... -
Block 16: Indigenous Peoples' Perspective
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplements Block 16: Conoco's Green Oil Strategy (A). Provides the indigenous people's perspective on Conoco's Ecuadorian strategy. Designed to be distributed... -
Obesity and McLawsuits
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details After successful litigation against tobacco companies, a handful of lawyers turned their attention to the fast food industry and its possible connection... -
RelayFoods.com
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In less than two years, the founders' innovative model for addressing last-mile challenges in an online grocery retailing operation was working. Although... -
Cumberland Entertainment (B): The Revised Offer
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Cumberland Entertainment, a niche music producer, was looking for capital to finance its planned expansion. CEO, Tom Smith, entered into negotiations... -
Wintel (D): From the Internet to Multi-Market Coordination, Spanish Version
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Atlassian: Sales
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Atlassian: Sales examines the company's unique, no-touch sales model for enterprise products that help teams track projects, collaborate, and build products.... -
Toyota Tsusho Corporation: Acquiring the French CFAO to Penetrate African Markets
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details In 2016, the Japanese company Toyota Tsusho Corporation (TTC) acquired the remaining shares of the French trading company Compagnie Française de l'Afrique... -
Innovation at 3M Corp. (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Describes how 3M Corp. introduces and learns a new and innovative methodology called Lead User research to understand future customer and market needs.... -
AltSchool: School Reimagined
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Max Ventilla and his team launches in 2013 AltSchool, a new network of tech-savvy independent K-8 "micro-schools." AltSchool is born out of Ventilla's...
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The Balanced Scorecard—Measures that Drive Performance
Accounting Magazine ArticleWhat you measure is what you get. Senior executives understand that their organization’s measurement system strongly affects the behavior of managers and employees. Executives also understand that traditional financial accounting measures like return-on-investment and earnings-per-share can give misleading signals for continuous improvement and innovation—activities today’s competitive environment demands. The traditional financial performance measures worked well […] -
What Is Disruptive Innovation?
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleFor the past 20 years, the theory of disruptive innovation has been enormously influential in business circles and a powerful tool for predicting which... -
How Apple Is Organized for Innovation
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleWhen Steve Jobs returned to Apple, in 1997, it had a conventional structure for a company of its size and scope. It was divided into business units, each... -
Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleIn the past few years, a new methodology for launching companies, called "the lean start-up," has begun to replace the old regimen. Traditionally, a venture's... -
Know Your Customers' "Jobs to Be Done"
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleFirms have never known more about their customers, but their innovation processes remain hit-or-miss. Why? According to Christensen and his coauthors,... -
Second in Command: The Misunderstood Role of the Chief Operating Officer
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleAsking the question, "What makes a great COO?" is akin to asking "What makes a great candidate for U.S. vice-president?" It all depends on the first name... -
Global Supply Chains in a Post-Pandemic World
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleThe U.S.-China trade war and the supply and demand shocks brought on by the Covid-19 crisis are forcing manufacturers everywhere to reassess their supply... -
What Is a Business Model?
Business models Digital ArticleA history, from Drucker to Christensen. -
How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy
Strategic planning Magazine ArticleAwareness of these forces can help a company stake out a position in its industry that is less vulnerable to attack -
What VUCA Really Means for You
Crisis management Magazine ArticleIt’s become a trendy managerial acronym: VUCA, short for volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity, and a catchall for “Hey, it’s crazy out there!” It’s also misleading: VUCA conflates four distinct types of challenges that demand four distinct types of responses. That makes it difficult to know how to approach a challenging situation and easy to […]