Case Study Management Operations P&L 
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 25, 2012
Editor's Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Tommy was a director and Jane was the Midlands regional sales manager for Egan & Sons, a supplier of doors and staircases to Westmid for 63 years. Look how friendly he is.".
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 29, 2011
Editors' Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. She led him down a long corridor to a door marked "Hotel Manager." Welcome, welcome." He smiled, extended a hand, and kissed both her cheeks. How is it going?".
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Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 10, 2013
Many of the successful managers and professionals who come back to business school at mid-career are looking for more than honing their leadership skills. Most of the “Harrises” I meet have great and large operational networks consisting of mostly internal contacts. Career planning Managing yourself' Get visibility externally.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 7, 2012
To help shine some light on this topic, I've decided to do a series of blog posts of case studies of companies founded in the last 10-15 years that have made the transition from finding initial product-market fit to building a large, scalable, platform company. After all, scaling is hard. Really hard. How did Akamai do it?
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 12, 2012
Yet they don't work, and their repeated application makes many managers incredibly gender fatigued and frustrated. Every manager I have worked with hates the fact that companies talk about "Diversity and Inclusion," but then they are given targets on women (most don't even target balance). Problem 1: Calling it Diversity.
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