Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

Lone rangers and sole-source providers simply cannot succeed in competitive environments and global economies. Widget manufacturing companies team with retail management experts to open a string of widget stores. Managing mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. with case studies of actually collaborations.

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Cooper Open-book Tourism Telecommunications 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Editor's Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. She appreciated how hard Zach was trying, but she couldn't muster the energy to play along. Anything for you?" the waiter asked Betsy Sugarman. A Higher Standard.

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Case Study Travel Quinn Career 12

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

This discovery has been repeatedly borne out by rigorous research in psychology and neuroscience, management studies, and the bottom lines of organizations around the globe. This particular diagram could be plotting anything: weight in relation to height, sleep in relation to energy, happiness in relation to success, and so on.

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Trends Bottom-up Learning-by-Doing Case Study 84

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2011

I recently spoke to a group of Silicon Valley HR leaders and this question came up, along with the related matter of how to do knowledge management better. They asked how we do knowledge management at frog design, since we have studios spread all over the world and work in a diverse range of industries. Formal/Historical Methods.

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Knowledge Management Management Directory Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2012

Editor's note: This fictional Management Puzzle dramatizes a dilemma faced by leaders in real companies. Like HBR's traditional case studies, HBR.org's Management Puzzles are based on academic research into business problems. True, she has global customers with plants all around the world, but still.

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P&L Management Chemicals Case Study 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Managing Climate Change: Lessons from the U.S. The urgent challenge now is to drive the majority of businesses to take measures that will save energy and reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. Global Managing Partner, McKinsey & Co. Managing Climate Change: Lessons from the U.S. Climate Change on HBR.org.

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Project Henderson Supply Chain Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

As a manager, you may not be working on a fishing boat or in armed combat. Or have you been taught to manage by objectives and metrics to monitor performance, and that bonding with your team members will be seen as a distraction at best or weakness at worst? As a manager of any enterprise, your own storm will come someday.

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Bond Resistance Management by Objectives Maturity 19

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

From the Pope to global CEOs to almost all the world’s political leaders, the most powerful people got on board. Some big names went even further than this nudging and took direct action to lower their carbon emissions and costs by buying large amounts of renewable energy. And an unlikely group of new voices joined the fight.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

Once you’ve “tuned into the emotions and energy in the room,” you can “try to make sense of what you think you know,” McKee says. Allow yourself to be hijacked by a room’s negative energy. Case Study #1: Pay attention to people’s body language and facial expressions.

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Tips Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2012

If the cloud were itself a country, it would rank fifth in the world on energy demand behind the U.S., There is no doubt that data centers require a tremendous amount of energy to run, and the demand for electricity is only likely only to grow. Google has invested almost $1 billion directly in renewable energy.

Energy 15

Energy Efficiency Industry Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2013

A 130-year-old energy conglomerate, Black Hills doubled its workforce to about 2,000 employees after an acquisition. Like many energy companies, a combination of challenges — an aging workforce, the need for specialized skills, and a lengthy timeline for getting employees to full competence — created a significant talent risk.

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Company Human Resources Metrics Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo have produced movies and started organizations to tackle climate change and promote renewable energy. Third, the report highlights the fact that the investment community is waking up to the value to consumer brands of managing environmental and social issues well. None of this is easy or obvious.

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Brand Supply Chain Apparel Tourism 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Joseph Weintraub, a professor of management and organizational behavior at Babson College and coauthor of the book, The Coaching Manager: Developing Top Talent in Business , agrees: "We need to constantly look for opportunities to stretch ourselves in ways that may not always feel comfortable at first. Self-improvement is hard work.

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Skills How To Learning-by-Doing Case Study 17

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

Work increasingly isn’t, or isn’t only, a matter of producing things, but of supplying your energies, physical and emotional, in the service of others," writes Myerscough. "It Dove vs. Axe: Managing Across Brands at Unilever (Kellogg Case Study Summary). INNOVATION LESSONS FROM SURFING, DUDE. — by Justin Fox.

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Micromanagement Case Study Innovation Review 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

trillion in government support for seven "strategic emerging industries," including alternative energy, biotechnology, next-gen IT, high-end manufacturing equipment, and advanced materials. Case studies around corporate adaptation to technology — or the lack thereof — should feature much more prominently.

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First-mover Advantage GDP Technology Biotechnology 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

"When I first started studying mentoring in the 1970s it was a much more stable world. Kram, the Shipley Professor in Management at the Boston University School of Management and author of Mentoring at Work. Case Study #1: Using multiple mentors. Case Study #2: When you think you don't need it.

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Mentor Career Long-term Advice 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

Porter is a member in good standing of the business-community Kagame fan club, and has just finished a new version of his case study (an earlier one is available here ) on Rwanda''s economic transformation. The case study doesn''t hide the fact that Kagame has many critics, but it doesn''t dwell on political issues.

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Porter Tourism Politics Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. ” When we talk with corporate executives around the country, they almost always ask the same question: Can managers and CEOs really accomplish their business goals while also advancing society’s goals?

Company 11

Company Decentralization Long-term Operations 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

How you managed people there will not work here. Having led and managed people in eight countries across three continents, I have found the exact opposite to be true. Around the world, the most effective executives are the ones who draw energy from a clear sense of purpose and a set of deeply held personal values.

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Airlines Mentor Environment Case Study 15

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.

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Marketing Brand Mass Marketing Metrics 17

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

As one of the most serious industrial accidents in history, the Gulf explosion should be a great case study for corporate leaders across the globe who are trying to manage risk in hazardous activities involving complex technology.

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Report Policies Risk Management Analysis 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

This post is part of the HBR Insight Center, The Next Generation of Global Leaders. The case study written about Aravind has been required reading for all Harvard Business School students for over a decade. North Stars align our energy, emotions, and actions in the service of our vision. Aravind now sees 2.7

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Self-aware Franchising Quality Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

An important part of your job as a manager is making sure everyone on your team has the right amount of work. Delegating work to your team may sound like a straightforward task of management, but, in fact, it’s complicated. “As a manager, you’re thinking about: What matters to our customers and shareholders? .”

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Delegation Project Team Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2016

How do you build a relationship with a manager who isn’t good at relationships? Socially awkward managers are more common than you might think, according to Annie McKee, senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and author of the forthcoming How to Be Happy at Work. How do you get past his social awkwardness?

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Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Case Study Emotional Intelligence 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

For managers, the discussion is just as tense. Beinecke Professor of Management at Yale School of Management. Performance management is a process, he says. Oftentimes managers are evaluating performance without necessarily knowing what that person's career aspirations are. Case Study #2: Be a better coach.

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Performance Review Review Case Study Construction 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

How do you get energy and infrastructure into such dwellings? Bhalla used the case study of the chulha stove, co-created by businesses, NGOs, and slum dwellers, to make his point. From the start we asked: What are the complexities of financing these homes? How do you get corporations to invest in a significant way?

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Suri Godin Real Estate Construction 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2017

And you might fret that others will perceive your firing as a stain on your record, says Claudio Fernández-Aráoz, a senior adviser at global executive search firm Egon Zehnder and the author of It’s Not the How or the What but the Who: Succeed by Surrounding Yourself with the Best. ” Keep it short and upbeat.

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How To Letter Learning-by-Doing PR 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

For example, if you're interviewing for an international role but have no global experience, you might explain how your ability to influence others in a cross-functional role, such as between production and sales, proves your ability to collaborate with different types of people from different cultures. But don't oversell yourself.

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Learning-by-Doing Case Study Advice Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

You suspect that your finance colleague might be fudging numbers, your boss isn’t telling his manager the truth about an important project, or your co-worker is skipping out of the office early but leaving her computer on so it looks like she’s just down the hall. Case Study #1: Test the waters before speaking up.

Ethics 8

Ethics How To Morale Information 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2016

Was this a deliberate attempt to imprison employees and stifle their energy? We can use practices from Doug’s approach to the trust-building competency over his 40-year leadership career as a case study for the behaviors leaders should develop as they work to build and sustain trust.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Commitment Report Skills 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 29, 2011

This discovery has been repeatedly borne out by rigorous research in psychology and neuroscience, management studies, and the bottom lines of organizations around the globe. When the global economy collapsed in 2008, Shawn was immediately called in as an expert by the world’s largest banks to help restart forward progress.

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Bottom-up Survey Case Study Positioning 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2018

As its victims know all too well, “death by PowerPoint,” the poor use of the presentation software, sucks the life and energy out of far too many meetings. No surprises here — this is sadly a global reality that we’re all too familiar with. Smarter algorithms require smarter risk management.

Software 8

Software Learning-by-Doing Technology Compliance 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

The company cried ‘case study’ from the very beginning, when it segued from the former Houston Natural Gas moniker. Yet, when the company shifted from being an energy supplier to the hucksterish energy trader, the charitable activities were dispensed with. Corporate Culture. Communications. The News Media.

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Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57