Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Chrystal Kornegay at Urban Edge Housing in Boston said that the flexibility and size of the award allowed the organization to respond "nimbly and swiftly" to the housing market crisis through the creation of foreclosure counseling services.

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Case Study Banking Participative Training 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

The past few days had been a whirlwind, and she was still trying to make sense of how her work life had transitioned so abruptly from celebration to crisis. Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers.

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Supply Chain Case Study Merchandising Hotels 8

Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Last month, my daughters’ high school experienced a major technical glitch in their student absentee reporting software that caused hundreds of parents to be sent emails informing them that their child hadn’t shown up for school that day.

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Crisis Management Crisis Absenteeism Succession 203

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 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. Look, the crisis has affected everyone, not just us," he said. She pointed to the stack of financial reports she'd dropped on Luisa's desk. Maria did not mince words.

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Case Study Price Policies Retail 10

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.

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Report Merchandising GDP Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

At some point, we all confront a stressful life event or personal crisis that threatens to distract us from work. Here’s some advice on how to navigate work when you’re having a personal crisis. Would you be able to complete the report we’ve been working on? ” Case Study #2: Ask for what you need.

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Crisis Case Study Brainstorming Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Umair Haque Blogs Umair Haque On: Global business , Competition , Economy The Irish Banking Crisis: A Parable 4:33 PM Monday November 29, 2010 | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print Once upon a time, there was a country where bankers disappeared.

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Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

Consider the reports of my HBS colleague Hiro Takeuchi, a Japanese national who was working in Tokyo last week when tremors hit the city. There was no pushing and shoving, Takeuchi reported, no honking of car horns, even in long waits for a tank of gas. We are seeing this in the horrible aftermath of the current earthquake and tsunami.

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Takeuchi Fashion Case Study Crisis 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2013

In 2007, I wrote a case study for Harvard Business Review , “ Boss, I Think Someone Stole our Customer Data.” The New York Times reported that as many as 40 million customers may be affected by the data breach at Target. They each have a legitimate case. This makes it the third largest in history. Remember Katrina.)

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Crisis How To Crisis Management Media 8

Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The 16 case studies discussed in my book reveal a remarkable variation in the personal qualities of the leaders, all of whom were effective in changing history. In a crisis, people want their leaders to be rational, cool, measured, and consistent. Here is an example, reported by the Wall Street Journal.

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Servant Leader Leadership Styles Short-term Tactics 113

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2016

These are still two of the most popular case studies taught in business schools, and because of them, we believe we know why organizations self-inflict crises. Countless executives and MBAs have studied the key lessons, learning about individual and institutional biases that warp our world views. In most companies, we have not.

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Ethics CFO Technology Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2017

Our major industrial accidents data comprise workplace accidents that result in at least 10 reported fatalities and/or at least 100 people reported injured or requiring immediate assistance. Congressman Barney Frank once noted , “No one will ever get reelected for avoiding a crisis.” As former U.S.

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Globalization Industry Cost Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

How you do that — via big meetings, one-on-ones, email, or shared progress reports — will vary from team to team and manager to manager, but whatever the communication method, “do as much as you can,” says Shapiro. Case study #1: When in doubt, over-communicate. Case study #2: Build connections outside the office.

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Team Case Study Goal Project 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

This is a robust collection of real-world case studies and courageous experiments in rethinking the work of leadership, redistributing power, and unleashing 21st century leadership skills. The Power of Employees to Overcome the Bank Crisis. Who Do People Report to Here? Story by Charlie Kim and David Marquet.

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Leadership McKinsey Case Study Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

But when you’re the boss, treating direct reports differently — and especially playing favorites — is unwise and unfair. ’” Encourage all of your reports to speak up and have their say. Case Study #1: Think inclusively and connect with team members on a personal level. What the Experts Say.

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Management Video Team Case Study 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

The last official report on the April 2010 explosion at the Deepwater Horizon rig was issued on September 16th. The report fails to address this fundamental question, just like all the other reports which have gone before. We may never know. See my earlier critique of the National Commission in this regard.).

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Report Policies Risk Management Analysis 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. And when Derek had lost his job during the financial crisis, Rogier had invited him to join Contect. ” Henning Weighs In. “I’m leaving tomorrow.

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Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

” Which helps to explain why Ellis’s book is a such a terrific case study in leadership. According to Ellis, at one point Washington was so exhausted he was unable to file a crucial report to the Continental Congress. — in crisis situations. Here are the lessons I take away from it for leaders today.

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Due Diligence Resistance Storytelling Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

But what if your direct reports are smarter than you? “There’s nothing wrong with asking for reassurance,” and the answers “will give you insight into your strengths and the development needs of your reports.” Case Study #1: Get educated about what your direct reports do.

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Management How To CTO Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

In the run-up to the London 2012 Olympics, for example, the global financial crisis caused private developers for the Olympic Village project to withdraw, requiring a refinancing package backed by government. These risks can emanate from the realm of security, public health, natural ecology, technology, or economics.

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Risk Management Management Committee Insurance 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

But there is a question that hasn’t been asked: Is there a digital upside to this crisis? Some early reports are suggesting that, indeed, it has had an effect. Long before the current crisis, we found that residents of Delhi spent 6 million hours and $1.5 Sounds bad, right? million hours and $0.5 million to do the same.

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Banking Cost Policies Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2017

” If a colleague presses you on the issue, “look forward, not backward” and “imagine that someone is recording your response and will report it back to your colleagues.” Case Study #1: Reestablish yourself as a senior leader in the organization by being generous with your knowledge. And she did.

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Company PR Learning-by-Doing Maturity 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

” Which helps to explain why Ellis’s book is a such a terrific case study in leadership. According to Ellis, at one point Washington was so exhausted he was unable to file a crucial report to the Continental Congress. — in crisis situations. Here are the lessons I take away from it for leaders today.

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Due Diligence Resistance Storytelling Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

Case studies at MIT''s Center for Information Systems Research suggest that if people don''t know the percentage of projects that meet their business objectives, the percentage is probably very low. These high-level process owners report to members of the senior executive team. The CIO In Crisis: What You Told Us.

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CIO Stage-Gate Project Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

To give an example of just how hard it can be to prevent this from happening, let’s consider the case of Nokia. The voluminous case studies and articles about the firm would fill entire file cabinets in the typical business school storage area. Getting tangled up is easy. Getting untangled is hard.

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Company Competitive Advantage Bureaucracy Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

” It’s telling, as the AP reported yesterday , that the director of vehicle safety at GM was four rungs down from the CEO prior to the recall. As Fortune first reported : “Mulally instituted color coding for reports: green for good, yellow for caution, red for problems.

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Root Cause Analysis Edmondson Industry CEO 8

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. We simply can’t fight over every financial report. But he did get your company through the mortgage crisis and the recession in good shape, right?” Betsy countered.

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Case Study Real Estate CFO Letter 9

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2011

" If you, or anyone else is interest in reading about those they can download my report filled with specific client case studies at [link]. link] mikemyatt Hi Skip: Thanks for the comment as well as for sharing your insightful observations. I appreciate you sharing your link which also contains some great advice.

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Tips Blog Learning-by-Doing Open-book 417

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

This Annual Report issue celebrates the year, as basis for helping business people to prepare for the future. Review case studies and their patterns for repeating themselves. Good opportunities to compare successes, case studies, methodologies, learning curves and insights. Applying Pop Culture to Today.

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Planning Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Budgeting 58

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Department of Veterans Affairs was in crisis. A Harvard Business School case study that Robert Huckman, Sam Travers, and I wrote earlier this year documents what came next. ” In this case, McDonald set out to transform the design of VA to help the organization better achieve its mission for veterans.

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Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Crisis Kotter 8

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2010

Ford’s success with social media is well documentd in numerous case studies, and can largely be attributed to Scott’s efforts. Not that Scott needs me to come to his defense, but he is a professional in the truest sense of the word.

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Brand Blog Reputation Media 353

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

More on: Innovation , Strategy Join the Discussion | Email/Share Previous Why You Should Focus on "Worst Practices" Next The Irish Banking Crisis: A Parable Never miss a new post from your favorite blogger again with the Harvard Business Review Daily Alert email. And its those small steps that count.

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Short-term Guidelines Mass Marketing Telecommunications 15

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

The company cried ‘case study’ from the very beginning, when it segued from the former Houston Natural Gas moniker. These observations are intended to contextualize the Enron case studies in broader terms than were reported in the news media: Conditions Which Allowed It to Occur. The News Media.

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Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57