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Case Study: Should You Adjust Your Business Model for a Major Customer?

Harvard Business Review

Editor’s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. The innovative system promised to reduce local governments’ energy consumption and maintenance costs and improve their constituent relationships.

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Case Study: How Much Should a New CEO Shake Things Up?

Harvard Business Review

She also used them to scout for talent, keeping an eye out for young managers ready to move into more-senior positions and perhaps transfer to headquarters. Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. “So what?

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Case Study: How to Integrate an Acquired Brand

Harvard Business Review

Editor''s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Later that afternoon Annabel Howard, Beacon''s CFO and Henry''s boss, leaned back in her chair. "I''m Think about it from a risk management perspective, Annabel.

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Avoiding Catastrophic Failures in Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

Two years later the company was the poster child for reengineering success — the subject of speeches, a Harvard Business School case study, articles, and book references. In this case, the answers were not there, the effort was stopped, and a new management team took over. What happened?

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How to Negotiate Nicely Without Being a Pushover

Harvard Business Review

” Jeff Weiss, a partner at Vantage Partners, a Boston-based consultancy specializing in corporate negotiations and relationship management, and author of the HBR Guide to Negotiating , agrees. That positive, innovative approach is not only far more likely to lead you to a beneficial solution, but also to a place of trust.

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Case Study: An Angel Investor with an Agenda

Harvard Business Review

Editors' Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. This scene was what she'd envisioned when she quit her job as an occupational therapist five years before, to enroll in a health care management course and, later, business school.

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How Royal DSM Is Improving Its Geographic and Gender Diversity

Harvard Business Review

These leaders are recognizing that this balance drives the innovation and market understanding they need for other key business transformations. Dutch-based Royal DSM is a case study of multiple parallel transformations – in their business and in their leadership balance. The CEO is convinced that the one feeds the other.