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Stop Feeling Guilty About Your To-Do List
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleTry making peace with the notion that you'll never be caught up. -
Best Practices for Instant Messaging at Work
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When the CEO Dies, What Comes First: His Company or His Family? (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleShortly after the sudden death of her beloved husband, Priya Gowda learns that the company he built from a small dairy farm into a major Indian conglomerate... -
Are You Thinking of Quitting Your Job?
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleFirst, ask yourself these questions. -
Making Mentorship a Team Effort
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleBuild a network of support that adapts to your changing needs. -
Words for the Wise
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleSome CEOs inspire their people to outstanding performance; others prompt yawns from their employees. A new study suggests that part of the difference... -
If You Were a Stock, Would You Bet On Yourself?
Managing yourself Digital ArticleThis simple question can reframe how you sell yourself — and selling yourself is the only way to be successful in today’s economy. -
What Your Leader Expects of You
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThe success of an executive team depends heavily on the relationships the boss has with his or her direct reports. Yet the leadership literature has had... -
The Hidden Business Cost of Mental Illness
Leadership Digital ArticleIt’s hard to focus on your work when your child is hallucinating. One of the least discussed yet quite salient issues for American business in this year of health care reform is an important yet hidden cost associated with mental illness: the drain on productive work endured by family members struggling to support loved ones […] -
Craft a Career That Reflects Your Character
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleYour job is more than what you do. -
Turn Your Hobby into a Startup
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleEntrepreneurship is rarely linear. -
What Job Crafting Looks Like
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleStories of three people who changed their jobs to find more meaning. -
8 Ways to Build an Employee Resource Group for Parents
Organizational Development Big IdeaCovid-19 is a crisis for working parents. Creating an employee resource group is one powerful way for your organization to help employees who have children... -
The Decision to Trust
Decision making and problem solving Magazine ArticleA new model explains the mental calculations people make before choosing to trust someone. -
Challenge the Boss or Stand Down? (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleTom Green, an aggressive young sales executive at self-service kiosk company D7 Displays, has been promoted to senior marketing specialist by Shannon... -
The Right Way to Make a Big Career Transition
Leadership & Managing People First PersonFirst think about the why, the what, and the when. -
Does Going Back Into the Office Freak You Out?
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleLet's be honest - a lot of us feel this way. -
Make Your Side Hustle Work
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleA research-driven guide to moonlighting. -
Be Strategic About Your Time
Time management Digital ArticleIn the frantic buzz of most managerial lives, I see people running from meeting to meeting, consulting their BlackBerrys as though in prayer, desperately working into the night to cope with a deluge of emails and otherwise being busy, busy, busy. The dilemma of all this activity, however, is that it is for the most […]
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Managing Workplace Diversity: Stella (A)
Communication Case Study8.95View Details This series of eight short two-part cases ("caselets") is written to highlight some of the most challenging and potentially destabilising moments in everyday... -
MobiChair
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details The MobiChair case describes the story of Lucy Ahn and Josh McKinnon, graduates of Stanford's Graduate School of Business who are also in a relationship,... -
Managing Workplace Diversity: Stella (B)
Communication Case Study8.95View Details This series of eight short two-part cases ("caselets") is written to highlight some of the most challenging and potentially destabilising moments in everyday... -
A Conversation with Ellen J. Kullman, Chairman & CEO of DuPont, 2009-2015
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Ellen J. Kullman, the retired Chairman and CEO of DuPont, describes how she guided the storied science and technology company through a contentious proxy... -
Hospital 57357: Aligning Performance Towards a Vision of a Cancer-Free Childhood
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details The case follows the Children Cancer Hospital in Egypt, also known as Hospital 57357, as it goes through the roll-out of a new performance management... -
Network Analysis: What Is It?
Communication Case Study8.95View Details This technical note examines the organizational structure of the network and provides a brief introduction to network analysis: What is it? Why do it?... -
Icedelights
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Three second-year students at the Harvard Business School decide to buy a company. The case focuses on their thoughts about an entrepreneurial career,... -
Humanocracy: Creating Organizations as Amazing as the People Inside Them
Strategy & Execution Book32.00View Details In a world of unrelenting change and unprecedented challenges, we need organizations that are resilient and daring. Unfortunately, most organizations,... -
The Microstress Effect: How Little Things Pile Up and Create Big Problems--and What to Do about It
30.00View Details How a million little things are dragging you down, and what to do about it. There's a force we encounter every day that we aren't aware of--and it threatens... -
Enpara.com: Digital Bank at a Crossroad
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details In March 2017, Elsa Pekmez Atan (MBA 2004), was wondering about the future of Enpara.com, a digital-only banking platform of QNB Finansbank. Since its... -
HBR Guide to Dealing with Conflict
Communication Book21.95View Details While some of us enjoy a lively debate with colleagues and others prefer to suppress our feelings over disagreements, we all struggle with conflict at... -
InterSoft of Argentina (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Focuses on InterSoft of Argentina, a growing software company in Argentina. In 1993, InterSoft acquires a Russian software company and Emilo Lopez, the... -
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing People (with featured article "Leadership That Gets Results," by Daniel Goleman)
24.95View Details Managing people is fraught with challenges: What really motivates people? How do you deal with problem employees? How can you build a team that is greater... -
HOW COVID-19 TESTS ENTREPRENEURS' AGILITY (A): SUCCESS HANGING IN THE BALANCE
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Case A focuses on how entrepreneurs and leaders deal with sudden unexpected events and crises. It describes the tensions that Russian female entrepreneur... -
The World Wrestling Federation (C): Vince McMahon vs. Bret "the Hitman" Hart
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case IN1075. Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation faces a serious threat to survival from the deep pockets of media mogul Ted Turner... -
Skype in the Voice-over-IP Industry: A Commercially Viable Blue Ocean?
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details This case focuses on Skype in the voice-over-IP (VoIP) industry. Its offering created such exceptional utility for users around the world that Skype has... -
Preferred Networks: A Deep Learning Startup Powers the Internet of Things
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Preferred Networks, Inc. (PFN), a start-up specialized in deep learning technologies, a branch of artificial intelligence (AI) research, differentiated... -
The Jenner Situation
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Maggi: A Tangled Mess
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A Bomb in Your Pocket? Crisis Leadership at Nokia India (A)
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details This case addresses the theme of crisis leadership in a multinational enterprise in a powerful way, to help students internalize the critical challenges...
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Stop Feeling Guilty About Your To-Do List
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleTry making peace with the notion that you'll never be caught up. -
Best Practices for Instant Messaging at Work
Communication Digital ArticleCompanies need ground rules around communication tools like Slack. -
When the CEO Dies, What Comes First: His Company or His Family? (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleShortly after the sudden death of her beloved husband, Priya Gowda learns that the company he built from a small dairy farm into a major Indian conglomerate... -
Managing Workplace Diversity: Stella (A)
Communication Case Study8.95View Details This series of eight short two-part cases ("caselets") is written to highlight some of the most challenging and potentially destabilising moments in everyday... -
Are You Thinking of Quitting Your Job?
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleFirst, ask yourself these questions. -
Making Mentorship a Team Effort
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleBuild a network of support that adapts to your changing needs. -
Words for the Wise
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleSome CEOs inspire their people to outstanding performance; others prompt yawns from their employees. A new study suggests that part of the difference... -
If You Were a Stock, Would You Bet On Yourself?
Managing yourself Digital ArticleThis simple question can reframe how you sell yourself — and selling yourself is the only way to be successful in today’s economy. -
What Your Leader Expects of You
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThe success of an executive team depends heavily on the relationships the boss has with his or her direct reports. Yet the leadership literature has had...