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. The take-back for business is to grow in consistent fashion, sustaining the down times with realistic activities.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Music and musicians are mass produced in standardized fashion. We so often hear about the challenges of coping with all these fast-moving factors, it's nice to hear a case study of success. But too many managers don't tell their teams which game they're playing, what the rules are, or equip them with the skills to win.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

This is one reason why Japanese companies tend to look out for the welfare of their employees in such an effective fashion. All this makes for a case study of the moral courage of ordinary Japanese citizens in times of crisis. Thus, taking care of other people becomes much more central to its value system.

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Takeuchi Fashion Case Study Crisis 14

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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Music and musicians are mass produced in standardized fashion. We so often hear about the challenges of coping with all these fast-moving factors, it's nice to hear a case study of success. But too many managers don't tell their teams which game they're playing, what the rules are, or equip them with the skills to win.

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Video Fashion Case Study Price 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Dig into the genesis of a paradigm-busting new product or service, and you'll usually find that its success owes more to the indomitable spirit of a lone innovator than to the obliging climate of an inherently pro-innovation management model. Ultimately, every management process must be a catalyst for innovation.

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Innovation Process Competitive Advantage McKinsey 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Harry Potter star Emma Watson is a vocal advocate on gender equality while also appearing regularly in fashion magazines. Given their prominence in the fashion and luxury worlds, their beliefs, statements, and demands on companies matter. These names and others are lending their clout to the social and environmental agenda.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

How should you establish a positive, productive working relationship with your new manager? Your new manager likely has a lot on her plate, so take responsibility for establishing a great working relationship from the start. But it was so sensitive to me, so emotionally intelligent to me as the new manager.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Buyers increasingly expect to check with their peers before they'll purchase from a company — using social media, peer communities, old fashioned live events and conferences, personal and professional networks, and other connective tools. This means they want to talk to your customers. Social media understands this and facilitates it.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

“It takes a lot of effort on the part of a manager to show someone what that is.” Getting work done in a timely fashion can be impossible, for instance, if an employee has a steady parade of people coming by his office asking for help or advice. Case Study #1: Support your perfectionists and look for time-saving tools.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

Could Liberate 50% of Managers' Time. See More Videos > See More Videos > In order to understand how firms have systematically enhanced trust in applied AI, my colleagues Monika Hengstler and Selina Duelli and I conducted nine case studies in the transportation and medical device industries. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Here’s how to give hiring managers what they’re looking for. Chances are the hiring manager or recruiter is reading a stack of these, so you want to catch their attention. With social media, there’s no excuse to not be able to find the name of a hiring manager,” says Glickman. Case study #2: Catch their attention.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Buyers increasingly expect to check with their peers before they'll purchase from a company — using social media, peer communities, old fashioned live events and conferences, personal and professional networks, and other connective tools. This means they want to talk to your customers. Social media understands this and facilitates it.

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Reference Tips Media Case Study 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2016

“It’s important to have a rough game plan” that you’ve discussed with your manager before you begin to let the world know you’re leaving, says Dillon. You may see former managers and colleagues again at other companies, especially if you remain in the same industry. ” Principles to Remember.

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Reputation Planning Case Study Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

I am a firm believer that companies need society’s permission to grow, and it would appear that Mr. Kalanick and the management team at Uber are coming to this realization as well. This was a good old-fashioned exchange of typewritten, snail-mailed letters — Dr. Chandler’s preferred medium. Live better.”).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2018

News of this kind is “hard to hear, and it’s hard to deliver,” says Joseph Weintraub, a professor at Babson College and the coauthor of The Coaching Manager: Developing Top Talent in Business. Because the topic is so unpleasant, it’s a “conversation that many managers have a tendency to want to avoid.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2011

Cut corners, "manage" your earnings, sub-sub-subcontract. Consider a mini-case study: America. That economy, and those companies, will pursue not just fast food, fast fashion, venti skinny soy extra caramel mochaccinos, and McMansions, slightly faster, cheaper, bigger — but stuff that's a quantum leap better.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

If, for instance, colleagues say you are a great people manager, seek out metrics to support that idea. Case Study #1: Do your homework on who you’re meeting and engage the person as a human. ” A few years ago, for instance, he was in a meeting with “Mary,” a senior manager at a Fortune 10 company.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2012

This is an area of explosive growth for several reasons: Buyers demand customer content, but it takes too long and is becoming too expensive to create customer case studies and success stories the old fashioned way. Managing customer advocacy programs. And once you do, corporate approvals can take forever.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2015

“It’s probably a frustration you haven’t had for a while — and if you’re a relatively new manager, you might not have ever experienced this before,” says Priscilla Claman, the president of Career Strategies, a Boston-based consulting firm and a contributor to the HBR Guide to Getting the Right Job.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

“It’s important to enjoy spending time with your colleagues and your manager,” says Dillon. “You might try to convince your manager to let you work remotely for a month,” he says. “I’ve never known many managers to say no to people offering to help out.” Do they hug? Christensen.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

Among the recommendations is to make case studies, a dominant teaching method at some schools, more representative of today’s modern workplace: [S]howing diversity in leaders solving a wide range of problems is important to illustrate the wide range of diversity in the business community. Companies should weigh in too.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Validating proof of concept around social media ROI is a discussion that may have had a bit of relevance 24 months ago, but unless you’ve been stranded on a desert island for the last couple of years you know that numerous case studies abound which validate social media beyond any reasonable doubt. Long road ahead.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 5, 2013

Whether it is a public company or not, every business should fashion an Annual Report. Some of the old ways really work better… and should not be dismissed just because they are old or some fashionable trend of the moment looks better. Review case studies and their patterns for repeating themselves. Benchmarking.

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Planning Learning Curve Budgeting Learning-by-Doing 87

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Some of the old ways really work better… and should not be dismissed just because they are old or some fashionable trend of the moment looks better. Review case studies and their patterns for repeating themselves. Good opportunities to compare successes, case studies, methodologies, learning curves and insights.

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Planning Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Budgeting 86

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2016

The Great Place to Work Institute partners with Fortune to produce the “100 Best Companies to Work For” in which trust comprises two-thirds of the criteria , since their research shows that “trust between managers and employees is the primary defining characteristic of the very best workplaces.”

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Supply Chain Commitment Report Skills 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

They’re extending their brand into areas like technology, gaming, fashion, and lifestyle content — essentially becoming entertainment platforms. Over the course of a year, we built strong case studies in fashion, design, and technology. We also looked beyond music for insights. and Harajuku Lovers.

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Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Retailers provide many case studies in capabilities-driven success, one of the most compelling of which is the big discounter triad of Walmart, Target and Kmart. Walmart's success doesn't just stem from impressive logistics, aggressive vendor management and its position as a low-cost retailer. Let's take a closer look.

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Succession Retail Merchandising Supply Chain 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Wei Song noticed the fashion models first. Editor's Note This fictionalized case study, based on the HKUST Thompson Center for Business Cases case study “Baume et Mercier: Battling Giants for China’s Luxury Consumer,” will appear in a forthcoming issue of HBR, along with commentary from experts and readers.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 8, 2016

And everyone is trying to climb to the top of that to get ahead,” explains Heather Fadali, senior brand manager for coffee at Kraft Heinz, Nabob’s parent company. The change in management, which included Bell and Powell, meant a big change in how the company would operate in the following decades. competitors are entering the market.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

When I ran the Talent Management division of a large global consulting firm after I left GE, I realized that these consultants were working from concepts that were academic vs. real life. This approach is often executed in a pre-canned fashion. One such example was a young man who was on my team with a Ph. D from Columbia.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

To manage risk, they kept their initial investments modest. Teams ranging from Fashion Store to Logistics now can extract the data-informed insights they need to make smart decisions in line with the firm’s top business priorities. Make generous use of relevant case studies. Keep it commercial. The result?

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