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Hiring Without Firing
Leadership Magazine ArticleHitting the hiring bull’s-eye is one of an executive’s most important—and most difficult—responsibilities. Ten common mistakes can get in the way, but a pointed and systematic approach can virtually guarantee success. -
Can You Predict Leadership Failures?
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleEvery once in a while, executives who should know better do stupid things. They seem to have it all, but they act like they want to lose it all. Which... -
Executive Incentives vs. Corporate Growth
Boards Magazine ArticleBonuses and other forms of incentive compensation are an effective motivator of executives to achieve ever higher earnings per share. The drive to produce short-term results, however, often influences management to forgo investment in capital equipment and R&D that would benefit the corporation several years hence even more than improved earnings next year would. The […] -
How Much Board Turnover Is Best?
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleA decade's worth of data from the S&P 500 companies shows how the rate of director turnover correlates with shareholder returns, suggesting an optimal... -
How Boards Can Rein in CEO Pay
Organizational Development Digital ArticleIt's a little wonky - but it's really not that hard. -
Stepping into a Leadership Role? Be Ready to Tell Your Story.
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleHit the ground running with a thoughtful personal pitch. -
It Is Time to Fix Our Boardrooms
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleAs board members we are living in interesting times. For years, we have conducted our business in a black box well away from public scrutiny. Now a hot... -
Research: When Women Are on Boards, Male CEOs Are Less Overconfident
Boards ResearchA diversity of perspectives in the boardroom leads to better decisions. -
Retiring Boomers Should Consider Selling Their Companies to Millennials
Organizational Development Digital ArticleThe "search fund" model is particularly well suited to our demographic moment. -
Ten Essential Tips for Hiring Your Next CEO
Leadership Digital ArticleHave a plan in place before you actually need to use it. -
Get the Most Out of Your Board
Boards Digital ArticleSometimes the best way to re-imagine the use of an asset is to think about it as your only asset. Imagine slashed budgets, a hiring freeze, a tough competitive landscape, and unreasonable time constraints (or perhaps you don’t have to imagine this state). If you had zilch, you’d have to be more innovative, more passionate, […] -
Boardroom Lessons from a Social Media Misstep
Social media Digital ArticleBoard members need to understand the factors that impact their businesses. Economics, politics, and sector shifts are all vital issues on the agenda in the boardroom. But the agenda needs to keep pace with what is influencing business, and amongst the things that board members need to fully appreciate is the growing influence and power […] -
What's Lost When Experts Retire
Organizational Development Digital ArticleCertain kinds of knowledge are hard to transfer. -
The Trouble with CFOs
Leadership Magazine ArticleIf the CEO sits in the hot seat, the CFO’s chair is positively smoking. According to analysis conducted by the CFO Executive Board, annual CFO turnover at the largest 162 global companies between 1995 and 2003 was 17%—even higher than for CEOs—and three out of four current Fortune 500 finance officers have been in their […] -
The High Cost of Poor Succession Planning
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Growing Talent as if Your Business Depended on It
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleTraditionally, corporate boards have left leadership planning and development very much up to their CEOs and human resources departments--primarily because... -
Time for an End Run? (HBR Case Study)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleWhen a UK insurance company is plagued with a securities fraud scandal that results in the ouster of the CEO, the head of human resources seizes the opportunity... -
Which Types of Companies Are Adding Women to Their Boards, and Which Aren't
Organizational Development Digital ArticleYounger companies are lagging behind older ones. -
Growing Pains (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleCyrus Maher, CEO of Waterway Industries, thinks he may be facing a human resources problem. Lee Carter is a relatively new employee whose high-powered... -
Shareholder Capitalism Is Dead
Boards Digital ArticleThe verdict is in, and it serves as a convenient end point for the era of shareholder capitalism: Say-on-pay has been a dud. Fewer than 100 corporations, about 1.5%, lost these mandatory but nonbinding votes on executive pay practices. Most got well over 90% in favor. Say-on-pay may have led some to modify their practices […]
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Richard Spellman (B)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Presents the final version of the agreements introduced in the (A) case. -
Black Iris Systems
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details The Black Iris Systems vignette describes a brief scenario where the CEO of Black Iris Systems, Malcolm Briggs, receives opposing emails from two of his... -
Year Up: A Social Entrepreneur Builds High Performance
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Year Up, a nonprofit job-skills training program for low-income, urban youth has run four successful programs in four cities for the past seven years.... -
The Crisis at Tyco-A Director's Perspective
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details In 2002, Wendy Lane had been a member of the board of directors at Tyco International a little more than a year when the company's CEO, Dennis Kozlowski,... -
Odebrecht's "Transformation Journey" (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details The case describes how Odebrecht's board of directors handled the issues raised in the (A) case and continues the story of the Group's efforts to restore... -
Harvard Business Review Family Business Handbook Toolkit
150.00View Details Navigate the complex decisions and critical relationships necessary to create and sustain a healthy family business--and business family. Though "family... -
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Boards (Paperback + Ebook)
Leadership & Managing People Special Offer34.95View Details Keep shareholders happy and manage for the long term. Earning a board seat is a rite of passage. But directors must juggle many responsibilities, from... -
The Weir Group: Reforming Executive Pay (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In February 2018, the Remuneration Committee together with the full Board of Directors of the Scotland-based engineering company The Weir Group had to... -
Leadership Bestsellers Collection (Ebooks)
Leadership & Managing People Special Offer40.00View Details As a leader today, it's essential that you master two critical challenges before anything else: getting up to speed quickly in a new role, and building... -
Succession in the Family Business: From the 1st to the 2nd Generation
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Succession is a key process for the continuity, development and smooth operation of a company. Succession is like the central piece in a puzzle: it makes... -
Advising the Family Firm: Opening Pandora's Box (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case W18173. This supplementary case set follows a family business advisory team over the course of roughly three months, as they develop... -
Simpson Seeds: Growing the Next Generation
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Greg Simpson was the chief executive officer of Simpson Seeds Inc. (SSI). He and his two brothers, second-generation owners of a family farm, had started... -
Keddeg Company (C): Succession to the Next Generation of Small Business
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details A married couple who have a successful industrial B2B business evaluate whether or not to sell the business to two of their offspring, who are both entrepreneurial... -
Codex Alimentarius and Food Labeling
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Codex Alimentarius is a set of international food standards devised by the Codex Commission, a body within the United Nations jointly sponsored by the... -
Playgrounds and Performance: Results Management at KaBOOM! (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details KaBOOM!, a successful playground-building social enterprise funded through corporate partnerships, wants to develop a performance measurement system that... -
The Windsor Spitfires Hockey Team's Journey to the Memorial Cup: A New Era of Leadership
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The Family Council: Organization and Function
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The way a family council is organized and how it works depends on a series of factors: the council's degree of development, whether a family constitution... -
Harvard Business School Executive Education: Balancing Online and Offline Marketing
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details How does a small business set its online media budget? The HBS Executive Education Division can be viewed as a small-to-medium sized business unit with... -
Pawns or Potentates: The Reality of America's Corporate Boards
Strategy & Execution Book32.50View Details Provides a masterly overview of the current limited roles of outside directors, along with specific recommendations for increasing their power for the... -
THE SIKA TAKEOVER BATTLE
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details The longest corporate takeover battle in the history of Switzerland - and possibly the world - pitted Sika, a Swiss chemicals manufacturer, against Saint-Gobain,...
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Hiring Without Firing
Leadership Magazine ArticleHitting the hiring bull’s-eye is one of an executive’s most important—and most difficult—responsibilities. Ten common mistakes can get in the way, but a pointed and systematic approach can virtually guarantee success. -
Can You Predict Leadership Failures?
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleEvery once in a while, executives who should know better do stupid things. They seem to have it all, but they act like they want to lose it all. Which... -
Executive Incentives vs. Corporate Growth
Boards Magazine ArticleBonuses and other forms of incentive compensation are an effective motivator of executives to achieve ever higher earnings per share. The drive to produce short-term results, however, often influences management to forgo investment in capital equipment and R&D that would benefit the corporation several years hence even more than improved earnings next year would. The […] -
How Much Board Turnover Is Best?
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleA decade's worth of data from the S&P 500 companies shows how the rate of director turnover correlates with shareholder returns, suggesting an optimal... -
How Boards Can Rein in CEO Pay
Organizational Development Digital ArticleIt's a little wonky - but it's really not that hard. -
Stepping into a Leadership Role? Be Ready to Tell Your Story.
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleHit the ground running with a thoughtful personal pitch. -
It Is Time to Fix Our Boardrooms
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleAs board members we are living in interesting times. For years, we have conducted our business in a black box well away from public scrutiny. Now a hot... -
Research: When Women Are on Boards, Male CEOs Are Less Overconfident
Boards ResearchA diversity of perspectives in the boardroom leads to better decisions. -
Retiring Boomers Should Consider Selling Their Companies to Millennials
Organizational Development Digital ArticleThe "search fund" model is particularly well suited to our demographic moment. -
Ten Essential Tips for Hiring Your Next CEO
Leadership Digital ArticleHave a plan in place before you actually need to use it.