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How to Be a Good Leader in a Bad Economy
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleIt's about navigating three tensions to ensure you're getting the work done while supporting your team. -
Change-Dazed Manager
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleGeorge Stanton helped build Sannas Pharmaceuticals in his six years there, and when he is promoted to vice president and director of risk management,... -
What to Do If Your Job Compromises Your Morals
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleSix strategies to help you move forward when your employer has injured your conscience. -
Five Minds of a Manager
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleManagers are told: Be global and be local. Collaborate and compete. Change perpetually, and maintain order. Make the numbers while nurturing your people.... -
How to Help (Without Micromanaging)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleExtensive research shows that when employees get hands-on managerial support, they perform better than when they're left to their own devices, but unnecessary... -
What to Do When Your Boss Is Socially Awkward
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleTry to help them become more self-aware. -
How to Bounce Back from Adversity
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleWhen bad things happen, most of us have a gut reaction. Psychological resilience-the capacity to respond quickly and constructively in a crisis-can be... -
Employees Need Decisive Leaders
How to ensure that your employees believe in your decisions? Be ready to make decisions even if you lack enough information. And avoid second-guessing... -
3 Ways to Reenergize Your Team When Morale Is Low
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleToday's uncertain environment requires leaders to rehumanize work. -
Moments of Truth: Global Executives Talk About the Challenges That Shaped Them as Leaders
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleWhen did you realize you had the right stuff to lead? HBR's editors put that question to a group of business leaders representing different industries,... -
The Learning Curve
Taking on a new role takes time, patience, and a lot of hard work. -
When Everything Isn't Half Enough (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleNorman Spencer, who grew up poor, worked for two decades to make his investment firm successful and his family wealthy. The company he founded, Arrowhead,... -
What Great Managers Do
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleMuch has been written about the qualities that make a great manager, but most of the literature overlooks a fundamental question: What does a great manager... -
Don't Let the Short-Termism Bogeyman Scare You
Organizational Development SpotlightThe author, a professor at Harvard Law School, argues that concerns about the perils of short-termism--and support for measures that would insulate corporate... -
How Should Your Leaders Behave?
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThe personal traits your top people possess matter much less than what they actually do every day. Kevin Sharer, former chief executive at Amgen, argues... -
Are Some Customers More Equal than Others? (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleJill Hoover was looking skyward, marveling at the heart-stopping beauty of Paradise Park-Seattle's newest attraction, its tallest and scariest roller... -
Don’t Let Lazy Managers Drive Away Your Top Performers
Employee retention Digital ArticleDisengaged employees are usually a sign of poor management. -
Memo Every Woman Keeps in Her Desk
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleIn this fictional case study, Vision Software was an interesting and exciting company--on the cutting edge of computer technology and a leader in its... -
7 Ways to Make Employees Feel Respected, According to Research
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleBased on data collected from more than 4,500 employees. -
The Role of a Manager Has to Change in 5 Key Ways
Management philosophy Digital ArticleThe challenges organizations face today call for a new kind of leadership.
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NerveWire, Inc.
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details NerveWire, a management consulting and systems integration provider based in Newton, MA, was closing in on its second anniversary. In the beginning days... -
Unmute! Effective Virtual Communication
Management Case Study11.95View Details Online meetings are now part of our normal daily routines. They are easy to set up, we have hardware to make them happen, multiple software solutions... -
Time Inc.'s Entry into the Entertainment Industry (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Richard Munro, Time Inc.'s chairman and CEO, must respond to a hostile tender offer from Paramount Communications. Paramount conditioned its bid on cancellation... -
A letter to my former professor
Management Case Study11.95View Details The case presents a letter written in 2023 by a former MBA student to his/her professor of business ethics. It is based on a real story. The letter presents... -
IBM Network Technology (A) (Abridged)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details An unconventional manager within IBM leads the creation of a business unit with multibillion-dollar potential, winning over customers and nudging the... -
Global Diversity and Inclusion at Royal Dutch Shell (A)
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Royal Dutch Shell has been among the early players to implement diversity and inclusion policies in the 1990s, first in the U.S. and then globally. In... -
Star Distributors, Inc. (A)
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Depicts the conflict and organizational problems that emerged in a franchise operation owned by Paul Logan, an African American, and John Heyman, a white... -
Robert Mondavi Corp.: Caliterra (B)
Communication Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Legal Aspects of Management Series: Formalizing Business Relationships, A Note on Contract Formation for Managers
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Equips managers with a basic understanding of how to use contracts to define, formalize, and strengthen business relationships. Explains how managers... -
Getting Along: How to Work with Anyone (Even Difficult People)
A research-based, practical guide for how to handle difficult people at work. Work relationships can be hard. The stress of dealing with difficult people... -
Gold Star Properties: Financial Crisis
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details The managing director, the financial director, and the technical director of a large construction and property firm in Hong Kong are in disagreement.... -
Hamilton Financial Investments: A Franchise Built on Trust
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Provides a vehicle for students to evaluate risk management in the fast-paced mutual funds industry. A new risk manager has been hired to install new... -
Manage a Difficult Boss
99.00View Details If you love your job but find your boss's behavior difficult, it's up to you to manage the situation. By tailoring your tactics, you can overcome your... -
Leadership in Crisis: Ernest Shackleton and the Epic Voyage of the Endurance
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Provides an opportunity to examine leadership and entrepreneurship in the context of Ernest Shackleton's 1914 Antarctic expedition, a compelling story... -
Rosabeth Moss Kanter on the Frontiers of Management
16.95View Details A Harvard Business Review Book. This book brings together all of Rosabeth Moss Kanter's Harvard Business Review articles and many of the editorial columns... -
Peter Drucker on the Profession of Management
25.00View Details For nearly half a century, Peter Drucker has inspired and educated managers - and influenced the nature of business with his landmark articles in the... -
Striking at the Queen
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details The focus of this case is a series of ethical dilemmas faced by three undergraduate students, in their pursuit of solutions to perceived mismanagement,... -
Simply Effective: How to Cut Through Complexity in Your Organization and Get Things Done
The level of complexity in most organizations today is staggering-and it's only getting worse. There are so many choices to be made, people to involve,... -
Managerial Networks
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Describes a managerial network as a set of relationships critical to a manager's ability to get things done, get ahead, and develop personally and professionally.... -
Luna Pen (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Discusses the negotiation of a possible trademark infringement involving a German conglomerate and a Taiwanese trading firm.
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NerveWire, Inc.
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details NerveWire, a management consulting and systems integration provider based in Newton, MA, was closing in on its second anniversary. In the beginning days... -
Unmute! Effective Virtual Communication
Management Case Study11.95View Details Online meetings are now part of our normal daily routines. They are easy to set up, we have hardware to make them happen, multiple software solutions... -
How to Be a Good Leader in a Bad Economy
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleIt's about navigating three tensions to ensure you're getting the work done while supporting your team. -
Unmute! Effective Virtual Communication, Teaching Note
Management Digital ArticleTeaching note for case ES1981. -
Connecting Leadership Attributes to Results
Leadership & Managing People Book Chapter8.95View Details People often associate effective leadership with certain leadership attributes, but leadership capability must be put to appropriate, purposeful use.... -
How to Determine Your Work Style as a New Manager
Early career AdviceAre you a director, an analyzer, a collaborator, or a promoter? -
Enterprise Growth: The Challenge to Management
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Book Chapter8.95View Details In exchange for growing revenues, greater market share, and increasing profitability, the entrepreneurial business must contend both with the challenge... -
Unmute! Effective Virtual Communication, PowerPoint
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleSlides for case ES1981. -
The Start of the Start: Entrepreneurial Opportunity Identification and Evaluation, Teaching Note
Management Digital ArticleTeaching note for case SCG597.