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How to Live with Risks
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleFor years "risk management" has been characterized chiefly by caution--preventing the business from doing things that would create exposure. Although... -
The Emerging Capital Market for Nonprofits
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleWhy is it that effective business start-ups frequently grow into corporate giants, but effective new nonprofits rarely reach national scale? Because,... -
What Is Strategy?
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleToday's dynamic markets and technologies have called into question the sustainability of competitive advantage. Under pressure to improve productivity,... -
Create and Deliver a Strong Business Case
Communication VideoHow the three Fs-facts, faith, and fortitude-can create a persuasive business case as well as a roadmap for new initiatives. -
Is America in Decline?
Global Business Magazine ArticleAmerica, a nation once celebrated for its irrepressible optimism, now appears to be obsessed by "declinism"--the idea that something is fundamentally... -
Measuring the Strategic Readiness of Intangible Assets (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleMeasuring the value of intangible assets such as company culture, knowledge management systems, and employees' skills is the holy grail of accounting.... -
Craft a Story to Sell Your Business Case
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Juggling Growth and Brand Identity
Communication VideoSometimes growth involves hard choices and compromise. -
Building a Game-Changing Talent Strategy
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleWhen most of the world's financial services giants were stumbling and retrenching in the aftermath of the 2008 recession, the asset management firm BlackRock... -
When the Better Market is Risky
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Look Beyond Obvious Risks
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Is the Business of America Still Business?
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleGraduates of Harvard Business School overwhelmingly favor foreign over U.S. locations for new investment. Data from the International Finance Corporation... -
Measuring the Strategic Readiness of Intangible Assets
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleMeasuring the value of intangible assets such as company culture, knowledge management systems, and employees' skills is the holy grail of accounting.... -
Putting the Balanced Scorecard to Work
Balanced scorecard Magazine ArticleWhat do companies like Rockwater, Apple Computer, and Advanced Micro Devices have in common? They’re using the scorecard to measure performance and set strategy. -
Equity or Cash? The Signal Sent by the Way You Pay
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleIt's well known that stock markets react more favorably if a company is bought with cash rather than with stock. But the opposite holds true for just... -
The Balanced Scorecard: Measures That Drive Performance
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleExecutives know that a company's measurement systems strongly affect employee behaviors. But the traditional financial performance measures that worked... -
Introduction to Business Case Development
Finance & Accounting VideoBuilding a compelling business case involves identifying strategic opportunities and the benefits that can be delivered to customers, partners, and your... -
Seek Strategy the Right Way at the Right Time
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleDeliberate, emergent, and analogical approaches to finding the best strategy all have their advan-tages, depending on where an industry is in its life... -
Are You Solving the Right Problem?
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleThe rigor with which a problem is defined is the most important factor in finding a good solution. Many organizations, however, are not proficient at... -
Coming Up Short on Nonfinancial Performance Measurement
Decision making and problem solving Magazine ArticleTracking things like customer satisfaction and employee turnover can powerfully supplement traditional bookkeeping. Unfortunately, most companies botch the job.
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Can GenAI Do Strategy?
Strategy Digital ArticleResults from an experiment that pitted a team of MBAs against MBAs plus AI. - SPONSORED CONTENT FROM Workday
Optimizing the Supply Chain by Aligning the Planning and Sourcing Functions
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Do You Really Understand Your Best (and Worst) Customers?
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Navigating the Data Deluge
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Using Value Stream Management to Speed Digital Transformation and Eliminate Silos
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Partnering in Complex Times: Turning to the Experts for Best-In-Class Customer Experience
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Two Questions to Ask Before Setting Your Strategy
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How People Analytics Can Help You Change Process, Culture, and Strategy
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5 Ways the Best Companies Close the Strategy-Execution Gap
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleTest and learn, then test some more. -
Your Strategy Has to Be Flexible - But So Does Your Execution
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Whiteboard Session: 5 Principles for Innovation in Emerging Markets
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A Good Digital Strategy Creates a Gravitational Pull
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleThanks to social media, the most important influences on your business often happen when you aren't in the room. When people connect peer-to-peer, there... -
The Explainer: Core Competence
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Strategic Plans Are Less Important than Strategic Planning
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Balancing Opportunity and Uncertainty
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Lean Strategy
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleStrategy and entrepreneurship are often seen as polar opposites. Strategy means rigorously defining and pursuing one clear path, while entrepreneurship... -
How to Live with Risks
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleFor years "risk management" has been characterized chiefly by caution--preventing the business from doing things that would create exposure. Although... -
Create and Deliver a Strong Business Case
Communication VideoHow the three Fs-facts, faith, and fortitude-can create a persuasive business case as well as a roadmap for new initiatives. -
Craft a Story to Sell Your Business Case
Finance & Accounting VideoWant your business case to be supported? Get attention by telling a good story.
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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... -
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.... -
Performance Management at Afreximbank
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Todovino: Can Your Rival Be Your Friend?
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Todovino sells Spanish wines through wine clubs and web sites. Founder-CEO Gonzalo Verdera has partnered with many companies to create cobranded wine... -
Mobil USM&R (A1)
Finance & Accounting Case Study1.00View Details First of a two-part case on the development and use of a Balanced Scorecard (BSC) at Mobil's US Marketing and Refining Division. Split from the original... -
Vivendi: Revitalizing a French Conglomerate (B)
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The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action
Finance & Accounting Book29.95View Details The Balanced Scorecard translates a company's vision and strategy into a coherent set of performance measures. The four perspectives of the scorecard--financial... -
Cumberland Metal Industries (A): Model Year 1978 Negotiations with Beta Motors
Sales & Marketing Case Study9.95View Details Provides the background on Cumberland Metal Industries' entry into the automotive components market as a supplier of emission control equipment parts.... -
Arkansas Egg Company: Cracks in the Specialty Egg Market
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Michael Cox, a third generation producer of eggs based in the small town of Summers, Arkansas, converted production in 2007 from conventional caged white... -
Cumberland Metal Industries (B): Model Year 1978 Results with Beta Motors
Sales & Marketing Case Study5.00View Details Designed as a class hand-out after discussion of the (A) case. -
Allentown Materials Corp.: The Electronic Products Division (A)
Organizational Development Case Study9.95View Details A division of Allentown Materials Corp. has financial and organizational problems. Conflict and lack of coordination exist between functional groups.... -
First Commonwealth Financial Corp.
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details First Commonwealth Financial Corp., a financial institution in central and southwestern Pennsylvania, implemented the Balanced Scorecard for describing... -
New Profit, Inc.: Governing the Nonprofit Enterprise
Finance & Accounting Case Study6.95View Details New Profit, Inc. (NPI) is an innovative venture philanthropy fund. Founded by social entrepreneur Venessa Kirsch, NPI intends to raise large donations... -
Strategy That Works: How Winning Companies Close the Strategy-to-Execution Gap
Strategy & Execution Book35.00View Details How to close the gap between strategy and execution. Two-thirds of executives say their organizations don't have the capabilities to support their strategy.... -
Halifax Port Authority and the Seaport Farmers' Market
Strategy & Execution Case Study9.95View Details In April 2012, Karen Oldfield, President and Chief Executive Officer of Halifax Port Authority (HPA), was considering urgently needed action on the disposition... -
Wii Encore?
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Nintendo faced huge difficulties in July 2011. Sony's PlayStation and Microsoft's Xbox had caught up with the innovative motion-sensing controllers of... -
Advanced Medical Technology Corp.
Finance & Accounting Case Study9.95View Details A loan officer must decide whether to lend $8 million to a rapidly growing high technology company. The company has had a series of relationships with... -
Infosys' Relationship Scorecard: Measuring Transformational Partnerships
Leadership & Managing People Case Study6.95View Details This case analyzes Infosys' innovative approach to measuring performance in client relations. Infosys' strategy is evolving to build transformational... -
Compagnie Lyonnaise de Transport (A)
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Describes the issues surrounding the funding of a centralized research service that supports two related divisions. The company has a very decentralized... -
Vivendi: Revitalizing a French Conglomerate (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Examines corporate strategy for a diversified firm in the French business context. Issues include corporate governance, vision, and the management of...
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How to Live with Risks
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleFor years "risk management" has been characterized chiefly by caution--preventing the business from doing things that would create exposure. Although... -
Balanced Scorecard Report, September/October 1999, Volume 1, Number 1
Leadership & Managing People Other Article49.95View Details Includes these articles "Building a Strategy Focused Organization," "Organizational Fitness: The Context for Successful Balanced Scorecard Programs,"... -
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... -
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.... -
Performance Management at Afreximbank
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Building a Strategy-Focused Organization
Finance & Accounting Other Article9.50View Details Strategy has never been more important than it is today, write Balanced Scorecard creators Robert Kaplan and David Norton. But the real driver of success... -
STEM Toys by ENGINO (Cyprus): Introducing a Direct-to-Consumer Subscription Model?, Student Spreadsheet
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The Emerging Capital Market for Nonprofits
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleWhy is it that effective business start-ups frequently grow into corporate giants, but effective new nonprofits rarely reach national scale? Because,... -
Todovino: Can Your Rival Be Your Friend?
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Todovino sells Spanish wines through wine clubs and web sites. Founder-CEO Gonzalo Verdera has partnered with many companies to create cobranded wine... -
Mobil USM&R (A1)
Finance & Accounting Case Study1.00View Details First of a two-part case on the development and use of a Balanced Scorecard (BSC) at Mobil's US Marketing and Refining Division. Split from the original...