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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. -
Seasoned Executive's Decision-Making Style
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleLeaders make decisions every day of their lives, but how they do it changes dramatically over the course of their careers. At lower levels, the job is... -
When the Boss Won't Budge (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleAllerGen, a young biotechnology firm, is heading for trouble, possibly even bankruptcy. The company's one product--a vaccine for people allergic to cats--may... -
The Neuroscience of Trust
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleManagers have tried various strategies and perks to boost employee engagement--all with little impact on long-term retention and performance. But now,... -
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... -
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... -
Proof That Good Managers Really Do Make a Difference
Finance & Accounting ResearchTo firms, industries, and even economies. -
Manager's Job: Folklore and Fact (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleWhat do managers do? A study of five CEOs and studies of managers conclude that managerial work involves interpersonal roles, informational roles, and... -
Are Some Customers More Equal than Others? (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... -
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... -
5 Traps to Avoid as You Gain Power as a Leader
Power and influence Digital ArticlePower will change you — and your relationships. How you wield it can make or break your success. -
Don’t Let Lazy Managers Drive Away Your Top Performers
Employee retention Digital ArticleDisengaged employees are usually a sign of poor management. -
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 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. -
When Everything Isn't Half Enough (HBR Case Study)
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,... -
Just Trying to Help (HBR Case Study)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleEvery year, at the annual summit of Ralston Crane's marketing group, Chief Marketing Officer Ruth McViney homes in on an important organizational objective.... -
What to Do If Your Boss Doesn't Like You
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleA targeted plan to make things better. -
Toxic Handler: Organizational Hero--and Casualty
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleYou've watched them comfort colleagues, defuse tense situations, and take the heat from tough bosses. You've seen them step in to ease the pain during... -
What to Do If You Think Your Boss Is Shutting You Out
Managing up Digital ArticleFour approaches to keeping your career moving forward. -
Beware the Busy Manager (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleManagers will tell you that the resource they lack most is time. If you watch them, you'll see them rushing from meeting to meeting, checking their e-mail...
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Becoming a Resonant Leader: Develop Your Emotional Intelligence, Renew Your Relationships, Sustain Your Effectiveness
32.00View Details What distinguishes great leaders? Exceptional leaders capture passion. They lead for real: from the heart, smart and focused on the future, and with a... -
Teradyne Corp.: The Jaguar Project
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Teradyne, a leading manufacturer of semiconductor test equipment, embarked on a multiyear effort to improve its product development capabilities and to... -
Shut It Down?
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Meredith, the head of a major division of a financial firm, must confront an unexpected response and challenge from a senior colleague when she proposes... -
Boeing 737 Max 8 - A Stalled Communication Take-Off?
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details This case focuses on a key business decision taken by The Boeing Company to counter competition from its rival Airbus - in a duopoly market. The pressure... -
Cultural Change at Nissan Motors
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Depicts the reformation of Nissan Motor Co.'s corporate culture and the company's subsequent turnaround in market share and profits. In 1985, Yutaka Kume... -
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... -
Managing Your Boss (Harvard Business Review Classics)
9.99View Details Managing your boss: Isn't that merely manipulation? Corporate cozying up? Not according to John Gabarro and John Kotter. In this handy guidebook, the... -
Andreas Keller in China
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Good morning Mr. Teichner, After having arrived well in China on May 9 and some intense experiences, observations, and conversations, I see the urgent... -
Start-Up Process
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Describes the various stages in the start-up process and describes in detail the questions that can be asked and the analysis that can be performed to... -
Note on Why Leaders Lose Their Way
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details In the seemingly never-ending revelations of corporate scandals that have been exposed since the fall of Enron, the media, politicians, and the general... -
Luna Pen (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case 396156. Presents a series of multiple choice options to be distributed and discussed in class. -
Digital and agile transformation at telecom call centers
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details The case tells the evolution of the call center transformation at Frontelco (a major telecom company in disguise). "Digital" and "agile" approaches to... -
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.... -
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... -
Time Life, Inc. (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Time Life has historically been a continuity book publisher, selling 20-volume book series via direct mail. Now, however, music and video/TV divisions... -
Gender Differences in Managerial Behavior: The Ongoing Debate
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Do men and women have distinct leadership styles? Do they approach management differently? This note summarizes the two perspectives that have dominated... -
Coach Knight: The Will to Win
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Successful college basketball coach Bob Knight was fired from his long-time role as basketball coach at Indiana University and hired in the same role... -
Harvard Business Essentials: Power, Influence, and Persuasion
25.00View Details To be effective, managers have to be skilled at acquiring power and using that power to persuade others to get things done. This guide offers must-know... -
Luna Pen (C)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) and (B) cases. -
Google's Project Oxygen: Do Managers Matter?
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Google's Project Oxygen started with a fundamental question raised by executives in the early 2000s: do managers matter? The topic generated a multi-year...
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The Blinkered Boss: How Has Managerial Behavior Changed with the Shift to Virtual Working?
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleVirtual working became the norm for most organizations since March 2020, and it brings well-recognized challenges. But we know little about the impact... -
How to Determine Your Work Style as a New Manager
Early career AdviceAre you a director, an analyzer, a collaborator, or a promoter? -
How to Be a CEO for the Information Age
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThis is an MIT Sloan Management Review article. Today's vast array of Web applications for supply chain integration, sales force automation, work group... -
Becoming a Resonant Leader: Develop Your Emotional Intelligence, Renew Your Relationships, Sustain Your Effectiveness
32.00View Details What distinguishes great leaders? Exceptional leaders capture passion. They lead for real: from the heart, smart and focused on the future, and with a... -
Teradyne Corp.: The Jaguar Project
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Teradyne, a leading manufacturer of semiconductor test equipment, embarked on a multiyear effort to improve its product development capabilities and to... -
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. -
Shut It Down?
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Meredith, the head of a major division of a financial firm, must confront an unexpected response and challenge from a senior colleague when she proposes... -
Boeing 737 Max 8 - A Stalled Communication Take-Off?
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details This case focuses on a key business decision taken by The Boeing Company to counter competition from its rival Airbus - in a duopoly market. The pressure... -
When You Can’t Be Transparent with Your Team
Early career AdviceHow do you balance your values with your words and actions as a leader? -
Cultural Change at Nissan Motors
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Depicts the reformation of Nissan Motor Co.'s corporate culture and the company's subsequent turnaround in market share and profits. In 1985, Yutaka Kume...
