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4 Areas of Cyber Risk That Boards Need to Address
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleHow companies can build a long-term strategy that will keep them secure. -
How to Fight a Price War
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticlePrice wars are a fact of life, whether we're talking about the fast-paced world of knowledge products, the marketing of Internet appliances, or the staid,... -
The Balanced Scorecard—Measures that Drive Performance
Balanced scorecard 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 […] -
Innovation Doesn’t Have to Be Disruptive
Innovation Magazine ArticleCreate new markets for growth without destroying existing companies or jobs. -
What Is Strategy?
Strategy & Execution HBR BestsellerToday's dynamic markets and technologies have called into question the sustainability of competitive advantage. Under pressure to improve productivity,... -
AI Can Help You Ask Better Questions — and Solve Bigger Problems
Technology and analytics Digital ArticleLeaders should focus less on automation and more on innovation. -
Know Your Customers’ “Jobs to Be Done”
Customer strategy Magazine ArticleIs innovation inherently a hit-or-miss endeavor? Not if you understand why customers make the choices they do. -
The Questions Every Entrepreneur Must Answer
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleDiversify your product line. Stick to your knitting. Hire a professional manager. Watch fixed costs. Those are some of the suggestions that entrepreneurs... -
How Brands Can Sell to Environmentally Conscious Nonconsumers
Organizational Development Digital ArticleThere is an undeniable gap between what consumers say they want and what they are actually putting in their baskets. -
The Five Stages of Small-Business Growth
Entrepreneurial management Magazine ArticleNo researcher has explored the earliest period of a business’s development in detail—until now. -
What Is Web3?
Technology & Operations Big IdeaWeb3 is being touted as the future of the internet. The vision for this new, blockchain-based web includes cryptocurrencies, NFTs, DAOs, decentralized... -
Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleIn the past decade, the author has watched more than 100 companies try to remake themselves into better competitors. Their efforts have gone under many... -
Generative AI Has an Intellectual Property Problem
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleStrategies to help companies mitigate the legal risk and ensure they're in compliance with the law. -
3 Strategies for Making Better, More Informed Decisions
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleHow to overcome the limitations of our self-serving biases. -
What Leaders Really Do
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleLeadership is different from management, but not for the reasons most people think. Leadership isn't mystical and mysterious. It has nothing to do with... -
How to Write a Winning Business Plan
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleA well-conceived business plan is essential to the success of an enterprise. Whether you are starting up a venture, seeking additional capital for an... -
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... -
Why Conflicting Ideas Can Make Your Strategy Stronger
Strategy Digital ArticleIn a volatile world, think of your strategy as a portfolio of options, not a roadmap. -
Leader's Framework for Decision Making
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleSnowden and Boone have formed a new perspective on leadership and decision making that's based on complexity science. The result is the Cynefin framework,... -
What VUCA Really Means for You
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleTo meet the challenges of a complex world, strategic planners need to understand the differences between the four elements of VUCA--volatility, uncertainty,...
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Ethereum: Navigating the Blockchain's Sustainability Versus Profit Dilemma
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The popularity of Blockchain - and its application to cryptocurrencies in particular - has soared in recent years. Blockchain platforms are completely... -
Innovation Clusters in the Global Economy: The Welfare Technology Region in Denmark
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details In February 2012, Lars Kolind, chairman of Welfare Tech Region, a cluster organization in Southern Denmark that promotes the use of technology to assist... -
Social Media and the Planned Parenthood/ Susan G. Komen for the Cure Controversy
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details On January 31, 2012, The Associated Press released what would soon become a major news story, writing: "The nation's leading breast-cancer charity, Susan... -
Theranos: Small Volume Blood Testing (A)
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Passover in Costa Rica
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details This simple case enables students to examine a supply chain coordination problem in the context of a two-level supply chain with a retailer and a supplier.... -
Zuji: Finding a Winning Strategy
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details It was October 2015, Charlie Wong, CEO of Zuji Hong Kong told the media at the launch of Zuji's new brand campaign "Search, Discover and Share" that he... -
Chestnut Village: Confidential Instructions for the Retired Executive
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Four weeks ago, the Bunyon Brothers Construction Company began work on a 77-unit condominium complex at the end of a quiet, wooded, dead-end street named... -
Tiffany & Company
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Tiffany & Company was the leading U.S. luxury jewelry brand, generating more than $2.6 billion in revenue through 167 retail outlets globally and from... -
Charter Communications: Another Bid for Time Warner Cable?
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In the summer and fall of 2013, Charter Communications, the fourth-largest cable television company by market share, made multiple bids to acquire Time... -
Siemens AG: A Private Equity Approach Within an Industrial Corporation?
Management Case Study8.95View Details In July 2022, Horst Kayser, Chairman of Siemens AG Portfolio Companies (POC), was reflecting on the advice he could offer Roland Busch, Chief Executive... -
Oasis of the Seas: The Largest Cruise Liner in the World
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details The Oasis of the Seas is the largest cruise ship ever built and was launched in 2009 in the midst of the financial crisis. Two analysts from ELP Equities,... -
Adolph Coors in the Brewing Industry (Abridged)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Describes a company that had traditionally followed a strategy quite distinct from its major competitors', its eventual decision to imitate them, and... -
Autonomous Vehicles: The Rubber Hits the Road...but When?
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Autonomous vehicles have enormous implications for business and society. But, despite the headline-laden attention paid to the technology, there remain... -
Transformation of IBM, Spanish Version
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details John Akers, IBM's chairman, must confront how to transform a $60 billion, full line, global computer company that is the leader in every market it serves,... -
Cricket in India in 2007: Losing Its Way?
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This case deals with a dilemma faced by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in 2007. Following the elimination of India from the knock-out... -
Newlight Technologies: Plastics for a Carbon Negative Future
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The Newlight Technologies case is set at the end of 2013. Newlight has been awarded the Innovation Prize for Biomaterial of the Year by nova-Institut... -
Wanxiang Group: A Chinese Company's Global Strategy (B), Chinese Version
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the A Case 308-058. With an almost forty-year history as a business in China, the Wanxiang Group has navigated through the significantly different... -
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy 2-Volume Collection
Strategy & Execution BookIf you read nothing else on strategy, read these definitive articles from Harvard Business Review. Defining--and executing--the best strategy for your... -
Reshaping Competition: Introduction to the Course
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Xerox and Fuji Xerox, Video
Global Business Case Study150.00View Details Comments on the relationship between Xerox and Fuji Xerox.
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4 Areas of Cyber Risk That Boards Need to Address
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleHow companies can build a long-term strategy that will keep them secure. -
How to Fight a Price War
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticlePrice wars are a fact of life, whether we're talking about the fast-paced world of knowledge products, the marketing of Internet appliances, or the staid,... -
The Balanced Scorecard—Measures that Drive Performance
Balanced scorecard 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 […] -
Innovation Doesn’t Have to Be Disruptive
Innovation Magazine ArticleCreate new markets for growth without destroying existing companies or jobs. -
What Is Strategy?
Strategy & Execution HBR BestsellerToday's dynamic markets and technologies have called into question the sustainability of competitive advantage. Under pressure to improve productivity,... -
AI Can Help You Ask Better Questions — and Solve Bigger Problems
Technology and analytics Digital ArticleLeaders should focus less on automation and more on innovation. -
Know Your Customers’ “Jobs to Be Done”
Customer strategy Magazine ArticleIs innovation inherently a hit-or-miss endeavor? Not if you understand why customers make the choices they do. -
The Questions Every Entrepreneur Must Answer
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleDiversify your product line. Stick to your knitting. Hire a professional manager. Watch fixed costs. Those are some of the suggestions that entrepreneurs... -
How Brands Can Sell to Environmentally Conscious Nonconsumers
Organizational Development Digital ArticleThere is an undeniable gap between what consumers say they want and what they are actually putting in their baskets. -
The Five Stages of Small-Business Growth
Entrepreneurial management Magazine ArticleNo researcher has explored the earliest period of a business’s development in detail—until now.