Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Editor’s note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Even Bill, who had recruited her as a director, praising her stick-to-itiveness and gumption, had commented that others considered her “pushy.” sprang to her defense.

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Case Study Real Estate CFO Letter 9

QAspire

OCTOBER 24, 2010

Organize events like group discussions and brainstorming sessions to promote ideas, share success stories, best practices and project case studies. Train your middle managers on quality to build a right leadership ecosystem. Spread awareness of your quality beliefs and systems by designing e-bulletins or newsletters.

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Quality TQM Directory Belief Systems 122

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

He conducts independent performance reviews and Executive Think Tanks nationally… with the result being the companies’ destinies being charted. He has conducted 300+ performance reviews of organizations. Hank Moore is an internationally known business advisor, speaker and author. He is a mentor to senior management.

Senge 62

Senge Drucker Strategic Planning Newsletter 62

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

Editor's Note: Like HBR's traditional case studies, this online-only "flash" case study dramatizes a dilemma frequently faced by leaders in real companies. This fictional story is inspired by "The Art of Piloting New Initiatives" by Rhoda Davidson and Bettina Büchel in the Fall 2011 MIT Sloan Management Review.

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Case Study Innovation Committee Supply Chain 9

CO2

DECEMBER 24, 2010

They have been studying over the past decade innovation within established organizations. In the process they have compiled perhaps the most extensive library of innovation case studies in the world. This is such a straight forward book well thought out and well executed. Pulse Meme Feed What Is Your Brand Against?

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Innovation Execution Executive Coaching Govindarajan 74

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Genuine case studies of small businesses a retail shop, small manufacturing business, and medical office – are used throughout, so you can compare the way your business works to the case studies, and to industry norms. The next step is to share the financial results of your business with your employees.

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Finance Uncertainty Case Study Competitive Advantage 50

QAspire

JUNE 29, 2010

Thanks Sir for sharing this Master Piece… Regards, Jay Chhaya By Tanmay , June 30, 2010 @ 10:11 am @Jay - Thanks for sharing the example of Sachin Tendulkar - whose conduct is a case study for lot of management and leadership folks. Focusing on now helps you to concentrate on immediate priority, and do it well.

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Quality Blog Management Process 137

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

In The Happiness Advantage , Shawn Achor, who spent over a decade living, researching, and lecturing at Harvard University, draws on his own research – including one of the largest studies of happiness and potential at Harvard and others at companies like UBS and KPMG – to fix this broken formula. Consider leaving a comment!

Trends 82

Trends Bottom-up Learning-by-Doing Case Study 82

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2011

In The Happiness Advantage , Shawn Achor, who spent over a decade living, researching, and lecturing at Harvard University, draws on his own research – including one of the largest studies of happiness and potential at Harvard and others at companies like UBS and KPMG – to fix this broken formula. Consider leaving a comment!

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Bottom-up Case Study Letter Motivation 62

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 15, 2011

In The Happiness Advantage , Shawn Achor, who spent over a decade living, researching, and lecturing at Harvard University, draws on his own research – including one of the largest studies of happiness and potential at Harvard and others at companies like UBS and KPMG – to fix this broken formula. Consider leaving a comment!

Bottom-up 56

Bottom-up Stress Case Study Banking 56

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 22, 2011

In The Happiness Advantage , Shawn Achor, who spent over a decade living, researching, and lecturing at Harvard University, draws on his own research – including one of the largest studies of happiness and potential at Harvard and others at companies like UBS and KPMG – to fix this broken formula. Consider leaving a comment!

Stress 50

Stress Bottom-up Bond Case Study 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2014

“The regulators face a conundrum,” according to John Quelch, a professor at Harvard Business School and at the Harvard School of Public Health, and author of a recent HBS case study on e-cigarettes. What worries public health experts is the third bar: by 2011, just under 2 million U.S. That’s the plus side.

Marketing 8

Marketing Case Study Price Proposal 8

Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

In 1M/1M, we offer a case-study-based online educational program, video lectures, and methodology, online strategy consulting at public and private online roundtables, as well as introductions to customers, channel partners and investors (pre-seed, seed, angel, VC, bank, alternative financing). on a global scale.

Entrepreneur 54

Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Finance Incubator 54

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Inside you’ll find scenarios, case studies, tips, templates, and checklists that will help you capture and retain your company’s intellectual capital as Baby Boomers leave the workplace. From this point on, it is critical that you follow the needs of your audience.

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How To Tacit Knowledge Mentor Newsletter 62

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

For more than three years, I've been sharing strategies, lessons, and case studies as a blogger for HBR. As many of you know by now, my new book, Practically Radical , will be published on Tuesday, January 4, 2011. Here's to a productive and prosperous 2011! That's why I'd like to share something with you. Happy Holidays.

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Taylorism Taylor Case Study Innovation 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

GoDaddy (a web hosting company) announced its support of the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in late October 2011. The news of GoDaddy's pro-SOPA stance appeared on Reddit on December 22, 2011, and then went viral. How can you avoid a customer revolt?

Case Study 15

Case Study Media Cost Blog 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

That's why I found the ideas in Martin Seligman's April 2011 HBR article "Building Resilience," so valuable in informing our thinking at PwC about how we could jump-start our approach to innovation and find new development paths for our people. Seligman's article makes a powerful case that building resilience in people can be taught.

Taylorism 15

Taylorism Taylor Case Study Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

We’ve come to these conclusions after completing case study analyses of a range of companies, including Nokia, Kodak, Borders, Amazon, Apple, and Xerox. ” By 2011, two-thirds of Xerox’s revenues came from products or services it had introduced within the last two years.

Budgeting 12

Budgeting Innovation Business Model Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Businesses can provide public sector leaders with a much broader range of case studies of both well-managed and poorly-executed succession events. In the annual "Session C" reviews , the CEO meets with leaders from across GE's business units to understand the future leadership pipeline. In the U.S.,

Planning 13

Planning Leadership Leadership Pipeline Globalization 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Based on data covering the period from 2005 to 2011, it charts how globalization has evolved since the onset of the financial crisis at the global, regional, and national levels. We compare the depth and breadth of 20 industries' global connectedness before delving into three case studies: pharmaceuticals, passenger cars and mobile phones.

Report 15

Report Merchandising GDP Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

” In 2011, Rita McGrath echoed another one of Iver and Davenport’s points: the importance of failure. In 2011, Joshua Gans used Google+ to argue that the company was now playing catchup in key areas. Earlier this year, Michael Schrage used Glass as a case study of how not to roll out an innovative new product.

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IPO Management Engineering Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Case Study #1: Stay current and build relationships with your colleagues so that you understand what motivates them. ” Case Study #2: Create a message that resonates, and forge a path for others to become proponents. ” In 2011, when Gallegos first started at Jitterbit, the company had about 50 customers. .

Influence 20

Influence How To Case Study Learning-by-Doing 20

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

How Dell went from dorm room startup in 1984, to the world''s largest PC maker in 2005, and then saw its stock plummet precipitously the next year, is the subject of a lengthy Harvard Business School case study by HBS professor Jan Rivkin. Both strategies are evident in the case of Gerstner and IBM.

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Rivkin Succession Short-term Case Study 15

Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 29, 2010

A video of that speech has surfaced again recently , and it is nothing more than an absolutely essential case study in how a leader must present a company’s values, vision, and purpose, BEFORE a company can march forward with its products. Which brings us back to passion.

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Technology Price Video Cost of Capital 282

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

The big difference is that the eReader market of 2007 was an open field; the tablet market of 2011 had a dominant giant. Amazon and Apple will go down as case studies in alternative strategies for succeeding in ecosystems. It pursued this very same course with great success when it launched the original Kindle in 2007.

Strategy 15

Strategy eBook Library Open-book 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2013

In 2011, Capillary began looking beyond emerging markets for further growth. Capillary''s case study illustrates that focused high-tech solutions can now be designed, deployed, and fine-tuned cost-effectively in emerging market nations.

Technology 10

Technology Innovation CRM Retail 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

If you analyze this case study, what strikes you is that Sridhar''s first business idea was not fundable. A husband-wife team in Fort Lauderdale, Florida has built an e-commerce business selling cable organizers and closed 2011 at $16 million. Acquisition offers started floating in. No venture capital. Read their story.

Incubator 8

Incubator Finance Entrepreneur Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

Just a few examples illustrate some of the pressing issues: South Africa''s power distribution network has an estimated maintenance backlog of $4 billion — equivalent to half of the country''s total investment in electric power generation and distribution in 2011. an estimated $100 billion per year. We need to streamline delivery.

Transportation 8

Transportation GDP Globalization Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

From 2006 to 2011, presidents'' average length of service dropped from eight and a half years to seven, continuing a long-term trend. Some of the case studies put forth by Trachtenberg, Kauvar, and Bogue yield straightforward lessons. Meanwhile, for his peers in US higher education, those odds are only getting worse.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Case Study Emotional Intelligence Storytelling 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

As Chad Syverson at the University of Chicago wryly noted in his 2011 round-up of the evidence on what drives productivity : “…no potential driver of productivity differences has seen a higher ratio of speculation to actual empirical study” than management.

Skills 11

Skills Management Succession Bottom-up 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

August 2011 HBR. In addition to Talent Camp, we conduct workshops, case studies, and a banking game called "Banking Street" that introduces Garanti's departments to students. This is a commentary on " The Paradox of Samsung's Rise ," an article by Tarun Khanna, Jaeyong Song, and Kyungmook Lee in the July?August

Banking 12

Banking Restructuring Crisis Reputation 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2012

eBay closely documented the building of its Arizona site, called Project Mercury, and created a case study sharing its specs and specifics on how the company achieved them. The Prineville data center uses 38% less energy to do the same work as the facilities Facebook was leasing in 2011, while costing 24% less," said Kirkland.

Energy 14

Energy Efficiency Industry Telecommunications 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2017

Back in 2011, crowdsourcing was fueling an explosion in open innovation. One author of the Harvard Business School Case Study on Threadless observes that, based on numbers of applications, the odds of winning admission to Harvard are higher than the chance of winning a Threadless contest. Each winner receives just $2,500.

Participative 8

Participative Innovation Benchmarking Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

The sharp recession triggered by the 2008 financial crisis and the uncertainty created by the 2011 debt crisis have fundamentally reset the world. Here is a case study of attacking audacious goals in the face of austerity, one that should serve as an inspiration for skeptics reading this blog post. The new reality is austerity.

Company 12

Company Succession Constraint Sharpe 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Spanish-born Roberto Alcazar, who started his branded content agency EOIntegration.com at Grind at the end of 2011, told me one of the things he likes about Grind, "is that you get to interact whether you want to or not. There are lots of people with different backgrounds and disciplines and it keeps you up to speed and up to date.

Entrepreneur 16

Entrepreneur Case Study Innovation Media 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

This article has been adapted from "The Changing Seasons of Risk Attitudes" by David Ingram and Dr. Michael Thompson, which appeared in the December 2011 issue of Risk Management. An HBR Mini Case Study. until the market shifts again and business leaders find themselves surprised by it. MORE ON MANAGING RISKY BEHAVIORS.

Risk Management 15

Risk Management Company Marketing Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

Consider the case study unfolding right now in Brazil at the World Cup. If lying — or even just exaggerating a bit — would help your team win, would you do it? More provocatively: should you do it? For many players, pretending they’ve been fouled is no big deal.

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Morale Ethics Case Study CEO 8