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The CEO's Playbook for a Successful Digital Transformation
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Life's Work: An Interview with Ron Howard
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleRon Howard achieved early fame as a child actor on The Andy Griffith Show. Then came a long stint as Richie Cunningham on Happy Days. But from an early... -
Can't Find a Steve Jobs? Hire an Innovation Organizer Instead
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleHe or she can create an innovative environment using these five principles. -
Four Tools For Defeating Denial
Leadership Digital ArticleDenial dogged my travels around the world these past weeks. At a World Economic Forum gathering in Dubai just before Dubai World’s debt problems made headlines, the head Sheikh touted Dubai’s superiority over the West for problems that Dubai had seemingly avoided. But the idle cranes and empty buildings I saw were monuments to denial […] -
Forgive and Remember: How a Good Boss Responds to Mistakes
Managing people Digital ArticleRecently, I posted a list of 12 Things Good Bosses Believe. Now I’m following up by delving into each one of them. This post is about the eighth belief: “One of the best tests of my leadership — and my organization — is “what happens after people make a mistake?” I have authored or co-authored […] -
Three Ways to Keep Your Ego in Check
Leadership Digital Article“It’s okay if other people think you’re God, but you’re in trouble if you start believing it.” David Cornwell, a sports attorney, recalled that quote as one uttered by his father, a surgeon. While Cornwell was speaking on Larry King Live about Tiger Woods’ foibles, the quote has relevance to anyone in a leadership position, […] -
Should Ann Livermore Move beyond HP?
Gender Digital ArticleOn this blog, I’ve speculated on the factors that lead to highly talented women dropping out of their once-chosen careers and thus not being available to take the next step, leading to one consequence that these folks are not available in the pool of candidates for top jobs. With this as backdrop, it was fascinating […] -
Boost Power Through Body Language
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What You Can Gain When You Lose Good People
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleWhen high-tech businesses lose a valued inventor, they often gain access to her new employer's intellectual capital. To take full advantage of the networking... -
The Successor’s Dilemma
Collaboration and teams Magazine ArticleLeadership transitions go awry with alarming frequency, often the result of an emotionally charged power struggle between the CEO and his would-be heir. Four practices, however, can help successors defuse the crisis—and make it to the top. -
Keep Your Team on Track Amid Cost-Cutting, Layoffs, and Uncertainty
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Boards Can’t Wait for CEOs to Prioritize Digital Change
Boards Digital ArticleAnd in some cases the boards themselves will have to change. -
What It Takes to Lead Now
Leadership development Digital ArticleA majority of managers just don’t understand what it means to be a leader. That’s a conclusion that I draw from a recent global survey by McKinsey and Company about what it takes to manage corporate performance. Only 48% of managers surveyed believed that they need to inspire and only 46% believed it was their […] -
Company Culture Is Part of Your Business Model
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With Ron Johnson Out, What Should J.C. Penney Do Now?
Leadership transitions Digital ArticleJ.C. Penney and its CEO Ron Johnson have parted ways. The news wasn’t terribly surprising as 2012 had been a challenging year: sales were down by $4.3B, the company lost close to $1B, and its stock price dropped by more than 50%. Despite Johnson’s and his supporters’ pleas of “give us more time,” Penney’s board […] -
Expose Your Company’s Blind Spots
Customer experience Digital ArticleIs your company unintentionally keeping your most senior people from getting the feedback they most need? It can easily happen as an unintended consequence of success. Consider these situations: Senior executives at car companies drive only the newest models: For decades, the top executives at America’s leading automobile manufacturers always drove models fresh from the […] -
The Airline Industry’s Whistleblowers
Managing conflicts Digital ArticleWere you among the hundreds of thousands of passengers recently stranded when American Airlines grounded more than 3,000 flights in less than a week? If yes, I can tell you who to credit, yes, credit — Bobby Boutris and Douglas Peters. Never heard of them? Well, you should have, for they have done no less […] -
How Introverts Can Make the Most of Conferences
Professional networks Digital ArticleAdvice from Susan Cain, author of Quiet. -
Leadership Lessons from the Chilean Mine Rescue
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThree years ago, when a cave-in at the San Jose mine in Chile trapped 33 men under 700,000 metric tons of rock, experts estimated the probability of getting... -
How to Be a Visionary Leader and Still Have a Personal Life
Leadership Digital ArticleNo matter how big the job, work shouldn’t come at the expense of everything else.
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3 Ways Humility Can Undermine Your Leadership
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How to Succeed in an Era of Volatility
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Why Consistent Growth Is So Challenging
Management Digital ArticleThis issue's Spotlight features three articles examining the crucial question of how to achieve and maintain growth. The first article, "How Fast Should... -
What Employees Need from Leaders in Uncertain Times
Motivating people Digital ArticleFour strategies to engage your people — even under the most unforgiving circumstances. -
How Former U.S. Presidents Found Their Second Acts
Leadership transitions Digital ArticleWhere do you go after you’ve made it to the top? -
How Co-Leaders Succeed
Leadership Digital ArticleSeven strategies for performing this role with integrity, intelligence, and positivity. -
Preparing Your Team for a Year of Intense Political Polarization
Leadership Digital ArticleHow to encourage people to productively disagree while maintaining mutual respect. -
Why Collaboration Is Critical in Uncertain Times
Collaboration and teams Digital ArticleWorking together can catalyze innovation — even in risk-averse companies. -
A Leader’s Guide to Navigating Employee Activism
Business and society Big IdeaHow companies can choose when — and whether — to act on employees’ concerns. -
Becoming More Collaborative When Your Impulse Is to Be Territorial
Collaboration and teams Digital ArticleFour ways to redefine winning as a shared goal. -
The Best Leaders Can’t Be Replaced by AI
Leadership and managing people Digital ArticleAs AI-enabled leadership evolves, human qualities like compassion and wisdom will only become more important. -
How to Lead Across a Siloed Organization
Cross-functional management Digital ArticleMany leaders learned how to navigate vertical hierarchies — but not how to collaborate with peers who have different agendas, motivations, and priorities. -
A Guide for Getting Stakeholder Buy-In for Your Agenda
Power and influence Digital ArticleWhat to do when you see an opportunity, but don’t know which levers to pull. -
Want to Be a Better Leader? Stop Thinking About Work After Hours.
Leadership and managing people Digital ArticleResearch found surprising benefits of turning your attention away from your job at the end of the workday. -
Conservative CEOs Pursue Riskier International Deals Than Liberals Do
Politics Magazine ArticleThey’re drawn by the prospect of greater control. -
The Leadership Mindset
Leadership Magazine ArticleExemplary leadership involves more than mastering a repertoire of skills and executing high-level tasks. The secret to it is achieving an enlightened inner state in which you tap into your greatest potential—and inspire your employees to do the same. -
Leading in the Flow of Work
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Leaders Must React
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Leading in a World Where AI Wields Power of Its Own
AI and machine learning Magazine ArticleNew systems can learn autonomously and make complex judgments. Leaders need to understand these “autosapient” agents and how to work with them.
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Heisonglin: Pioneer of the Management by Heart Model
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In the past 20 years, Liu Pengkai greatly stimulated employees' initiative and creativity through practical application of a set of unique and flexible... -
Wahl (Ningbo): Humanistic Management and Strategic Transformation of a US-funded Chinese Company
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Wahl Clipper Ningbo Ltd. is a wholly owned company of Wahl Group, a century-old American enterprise, in China. Owing to a crisis in 2008, Wahl (Ningbo)... -
Saying What Needs to be Said: Role-Plays
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Managing conflict and differences has always been an essential, but challenging, skill for effective managers to master. This case was designed to build... -
Note on Building and Leading Your Senior Team
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details As performance demands intensify in fast-moving global markets, more executives are coming to rely on senior teams for strategic and operational assistance.... -
Differences at Work: Emily (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In Differences at Work: Emily (A) HBS Case No. 9-408-014 Emily, a private equity analyst, reads disturbing, sexually focused emails written about her... -
Procter & Gamble: Children's Safe Drinking Water (B)
Global Business Case Study5.00View Details In 1999, P&G purchased-through the acquisition of Recovery Engineering in a $265 million deal-PUR Water Filtration System, a point-of-use water filtration... -
Negotiation Analysis: An Introduction
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Provides an overview of the seven elements of negotiation analysis. These elements include BATNAs (nonagreement walk-aways), parties, interests, value-creation,... -
Responsibilities to Employees
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details The note provides a framework to conceptualize managers' responsibilities to employees in relation to economic, legal and ethical considerations. The... -
Toyota: Accelerator Pedal Recall (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details "This is a supplement to Toyota: Accelerator Pedal Recall (A). In January 2010, global automotive manufacturer Toyota faced the task of notifying customers... -
Franco Bernabe at ENI (D): Code of Practice
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Fresh to Table
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details After the contentious firing of an office manager, the leadership at Fresh to Table, a software-as-a-service provider for luxury hotels and restaurants,... -
A Sharper Look at Zero Tolerance: Reports of Sexual Assault Rock the United States Air Force Academy
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details This case traces the sexual assault scandal that rocked the United States Air Force Academy in 2003. Over a period of several months, dozens of current... -
Ron Johnson: Retail at Target, Apple, and J.C. Penney
Sales & Marketing Case Study15.05View Details In April 2013, Ron Johnson (HBS '84) stepped down after just 18 months as CEO of J.C. Penney. In his brief tenure, Johnson, an acclaimed retailer respected... -
What's in a Family Legacy? Balancing Family Emotions and Business Growth at Luse Holdings
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details After decades of continuity, Luse Holdings faced a new challenge in 2015. The company needed to pivot in a changing industry context-specifically, Luse... -
Knowledge Management at the World Bank
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This case traces the history and evolution of Knowledge Management at the World Bank. While primarily a financial institution offering customized loans... -
Strategy Reading: Executing Strategy
Strategy & Execution Tool40.00View Details Executing Strategy introduces the principles of effective strategy implementation. The Reading emphasizes the interdependence of strategy formulation... -
Future-proofing HEINEKEN: The EverGreen strategy
Management Case Study8.95View Details Dolf van den Brink, CEO of HEINEKEN, left the company's global headquarters in Amsterdam for a company retreat. Over the next three days, the entire executive... -
HBR Guide to Managing Strategic Initiatives
Strategy & Execution Book21.95View Details Put strategy into action. Managing a successful strategic initiative may be the key to transforming your company--and propelling your career forward.... -
Target: Responding to the Recession
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Within 10 months of Gregg Steinhafel's taking over as CEO at Target, the U.S. was mired in the most significant economic downturn in 50 years. Top competitor... -
Design Thinking and Innovation at Apple
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Describes Apple's approach to innovation, management, and design thinking. For several years, Apple has been ranked as the most innovative company in...
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The CEO's Playbook for a Successful Digital Transformation
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleFocus on these five areas. -
Heisonglin: Pioneer of the Management by Heart Model
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In the past 20 years, Liu Pengkai greatly stimulated employees' initiative and creativity through practical application of a set of unique and flexible... -
Wahl (Ningbo): Humanistic Management and Strategic Transformation of a US-funded Chinese Company
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Wahl Clipper Ningbo Ltd. is a wholly owned company of Wahl Group, a century-old American enterprise, in China. Owing to a crisis in 2008, Wahl (Ningbo)... -
Life's Work: An Interview with Ron Howard
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleRon Howard achieved early fame as a child actor on The Andy Griffith Show. Then came a long stint as Richie Cunningham on Happy Days. But from an early... -
Can't Find a Steve Jobs? Hire an Innovation Organizer Instead
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleHe or she can create an innovative environment using these five principles. -
Saying What Needs to be Said: Role-Plays
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Managing conflict and differences has always been an essential, but challenging, skill for effective managers to master. This case was designed to build... -
Four Tools For Defeating Denial
Leadership Digital ArticleDenial dogged my travels around the world these past weeks. At a World Economic Forum gathering in Dubai just before Dubai World’s debt problems made headlines, the head Sheikh touted Dubai’s superiority over the West for problems that Dubai had seemingly avoided. But the idle cranes and empty buildings I saw were monuments to denial […] -
Forgive and Remember: How a Good Boss Responds to Mistakes
Managing people Digital ArticleRecently, I posted a list of 12 Things Good Bosses Believe. Now I’m following up by delving into each one of them. This post is about the eighth belief: “One of the best tests of my leadership — and my organization — is “what happens after people make a mistake?” I have authored or co-authored […] -
Crafting solutions to leadership demands for well-being and effectiveness
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleLeadership is a prominent function within organizations and social entities, and research suggests leadership that is more active tends to be more effective.... -
Birch Paper Co., Teaching Note
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleTeaching Note for (9-158-001).