Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Editor’s Note. If you’d like your comment to be considered for publication, please be sure to include your full name, company or university affiliation, and e-mail address.

Case Study 8

Case Study Incubator Marketing Real Estate 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2012

First-ever article on Dick Clark, as a business case study. Thanks to great mentors, I learned to be my own best self, a visionary thinker and a repository of great case studies. I appeared on radio and TV with him, as well as on conference stages. Learn from case studies elsewhere in the marketplace.

Mentor 92

Mentor Case Study Strategic Planning Learning-by-Doing 92

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

This book contains original case studies in which the author was directly involved, not a rehash of others that have appeared elsewhere. Business visionary Peter Drucker termed Hank’s Business Tree TM as the most original business model of the past 40 years. and oh, if you want a pic to show with your comment, go get a gravatar

Drucker 62

Drucker Senge Strategic Planning Newsletter 62

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2012

To understand sustainable success, I compared perpetual winners with long-term losers in professional and amateur sports and then matched the findings to business case studies for my book Confidence. Positive moods produce physical energy and the resilience to persist after setbacks. Emotions affect performance.

Skills 16

Skills Absenteeism Sports Long-term 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

The short conference brought together public and private sector managers working on environmental and social issues. In addition to using less energy to run machines, slashing paper use also saves large amounts of energy and water upstream in the paper production process. That's a big shift in business as usual.

Productivity 15

Productivity Products Christensen Document 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2016

Next, you need to step back and reflect on how you want to spend your time and energy. Numerous studies show that people who prioritize their health — eating well, taking breaks and time off, and getting plenty of exercise — have more energy and better focus. “You shouldn’t have superhuman expectations.”

How To 15

How To Case Study Learning-by-Doing Energy 15

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Think about it this way: if you were in charge of your company’s booth at a trade show or conference, you wouldn’t just slap your company’s logo onto a piece of poster board, place your business cards on the table, and hope for the best, would you? Far from it, actually. Of course not.

Media 50

Media Follow-up Software Newsletter 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Mornings consisted of lectures and case studies in a traditional classroom in the Stanford Business School; this was the “clean models” part of the program. Exposing people to a conference, a few speeches, or a bit of training isn’t enough to fuel scaling. Connect people and cascade excellence.

Case Study 10

Case Study Pharmaceuticals Airlines Hotels 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2011

Intranet: Like many companies, we have an intranet, and this is where groups of domain experts across disciplines and locations can share knowledge in the form of presentations, whitepapers, and case studies. Conferences: frog staffers participate in over 200 conferences and workshops each year.

Knowledge Management 15

Knowledge Management Management Directory Learning-by-Doing 15

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

Your employees and your customers want to be engaged on a very personal level, and not just through a survey or an annual conference. As a leader and manager, you’ll learn how to use these tools to harness social interactions to improve your business and to create your own social nation. Examples of Social Nations are everywhere.

Media 67

Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 67

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The goal is to “use that adrenaline pop” to focus your nervous energy, “heighten your attention, and really apply yourself.”. Deep breathing also helps preempt stress symptoms if you need to, say, get on a tense conference call or deliver bad news in a performance review. Case study #1: Think positive thoughts.

Stress 13

Stress How To Real Estate Case Study 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The goal is to “use that adrenaline pop” to focus your nervous energy, “heighten your attention, and really apply yourself.”. Deep breathing also helps preempt stress symptoms if you need to, say, get on a tense conference call or deliver bad news in a performance review. Case study #1: Think positive thoughts.

Stress 13

Stress How To Real Estate Case Study 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

It’s one thing to note a person working solo in an otherwise empty seminar room, or a group of people huddling around someone’s desk because a conference room wasn’t available. To illustrate how this all plays out on a larger scale in real companies, here are two mini case studies from businesses we’ve worked with.

Maturity 11

Maturity Real Estate Survey Project 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

She gets all the choice assignments, goes to any conference she chooses, and is given other special perks. When you’re in a work situation that seems “profoundly unfair,” it tends to eat away at “your psychic and emotional energy,” says Dillon. ” Case Study #2: Find a sounding board.

Mentor 8

Mentor Case Study Learning-by-Doing Career 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Lees suggests that you practice “asking great questions and conveying memorable energy” with “people who are easy to talk to, such as your family, your friends, and friends of friends.” Forward him a link to a relevant magazine article, for instance, or invite her to an upcoming conference or networking event.

Information 8

Information How To Career Advice 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

If you build confidence by rehearsing, then you’ll have more energy to engage in the conversation. Case Study #1: Test the waters before speaking up. Sharon and the vice president, Kim*, had had a conference call with the customer’s lawyer about the terms of a contract. Ask questions, don’t accuse.

Ethics 8

Ethics How To Morale Information 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 29, 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.

Bottom-up 50

Bottom-up Survey Case Study Positioning 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Brands are spending a great deal of time and energy investing in platforms to get likes or pluses, and not really being social at all. So many brilliant people have been writing, speaking, and sharing case studies over that length of time, that if I only listed a few, I'd miss some really important thinkers.

Marketing 17

Marketing Brand Mass Marketing Metrics 17

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Drag each of your direct reports into a conference room for a one-on-one, hand them an official-looking document, and then start in with the same, tired conversation. The performance review doesn't start with a sit-down in the spare conference room. Case Study #1: Understand and set goals together. Set expectations early.

Performance Review 14

Performance Review Review Case Study Construction 14