-
Providing Financial Services to Employees Is a Win-Win
Global Business Digital ArticleStart with pay flexibility, budget management support, and retirement planning. -
How to Get on the Shortlist for the C-Suite
Leadership development Digital ArticleThere’s no one-size-fits-all approach. -
Where Will You Be in Five Years?
Career planning Best PracticeMost people have been asked that perennial, and somewhat annoying, question: “Where do you see yourself in five years?” Of course it is asked most often in a job interview, but it may also come up in a conversation at a networking event or a cocktail party. Knowing and communicating your career goals is challenging […] -
Don't Set Your Goals in Stone - Mold Them Like Clay
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleEverything is malleable and can change depending on where you are in your life and career. -
A Career Detour Doesn’t Have to Compromise Your Long-Term Goals
Burnout Digital ArticleFour strategies to stay focused on the future when you have to prioritize the present. -
Do You Know How to Get What You’re Worth?
Negotiation strategies Digital ArticleA negotiation expert reveals some rules for success in tricky terrain. -
Your First Job Doesn't (Really) Matter
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleI recently polled a trailblazing group of women leaders - Northwestern University's Council of 100 - about their careers. How many of us were in the same... -
You've Reached an Inflection Point in Your Career. What Now?
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleBig decisions can feel scary. Here's how to avoid a knee-jerk reaction. -
The Five-Step Failure Checklist
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleFor HBR’s April issue on failure, I penned a piece on the experience of going through a failed IPO. In one context or another, you’ve likely failed, too. You may have chosen to frame it some other way (“experience,” “lessons learned,” etc.), but it was failure. First, welcome to the club. We’ve all been there. […] -
Grad School May Not Be the Best Way to Spend $100,000
Career planning Digital ArticleThree reasons why you shouldn’t go back. -
Is Coaching the Right Career for You?
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleWe need more millennial leadership coaches. -
How to Overcome Discrimination and Get the Promotion You Want
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThis week's question for Ask the Coach: As a black woman, I feel that I'm getting overlooked for promotions. How can I get hiring managers to look beyond... -
The Awkward Person’s Guide to Networking
Career planning Digital ArticleOverthinkers, reticent schmoozers, and wallflowers — this is for you. -
What's in a (First) Name
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleBack in the day when I was growing up (think early 80's) there wasn't an adult whom I didn't address as Mr. or Mrs. so and so. Grown ups were addressed... -
3 Transitions Even the Best Leaders Struggle With
Career transitions ResearchYou can’t avoid them. -
The Key to Choosing the Right Career
Career planning Digital ArticleIt’s not passion, but whether you’re more motivated to play offense or defense. -
If You’re About to Take a New Job, Should You Consider Your Boss’s Counteroffer?
Career transitions Digital ArticleIt’s usually — but not always — a bad idea. -
Diversify Your Dreams
Career planning Digital ArticleIf you ever want to lie awake at night, go ahead and think about your “one thing” — the one thing you were born to do, the one career you were built to succeed at, and the one person you were destined to spend the rest of your life with. Attempting to solve these impossible […]
-
Managing Xerox's Multinational Development Center
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Describes a manager's role in developing a staff group responsible for enhancing the efficiency of Xerox's worldwide logistics and inventory management... -
Janet Ames (C)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details The series of Janet Ames cases follow a fictional alumna of Harvard Business School into her consulting career in Boston. Over the series of cases, Ames... -
Managing Talent at Bertelsmann AG (A)
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Bertelsmann's EVP HR Immanuel Hermreck and his team were focused on four key HR issues. Three of these were somewhat discreet: improving Bertelsmann's... -
Developing First Time Managers Ebook Library (2nd Edition)
Leadership & Managing People Special Offer190.00View Details This specially priced nine-volume set provides practical advice, insights, and tools to help develop and mentor first-time managers, ensuring a successful... -
Katherine Schuler at Boxes & Bins, Inc.
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This case is about Katherine Schuler, soon to become senior vice president of marketing at a fast-growing retail organization, Boxes & Bins (B&B). Part... -
United Parcel Service (A)
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details United Parcel Service (UPS) in 1987 faced serious challenges to its long-standing policies of on-the-job training and promotion from within. Increased... -
Pratham Institute: Sustaining Employment Post-Vocational Training
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details The Pratham Institute for Literacy, Education & Vocational Training (Pratham Institute) in India, ran vocational education and training (VET) centres... -
Carrie Wagner: Climbing the Corporate Ladder (A) - Early Career, from Student to Manager
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This three-part case traces Carrie Wagner's career in a single, large international package delivery company over a 30-year period during which she rose... -
Leading the Josie Esquivel Franchise (C): Definition of Success over Time
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Identifying and Exploiting the Right Entrepreneurial Opportunity...For You
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details This note provides an analytical framework for assessing potential opportunities in the context of an entrepreneur's life. The framework has two parts... -
Odyssey: The Life and Career of a Senior Consultant
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Whoosh, is that all there is? On the eve of becoming a partner at a well-known consulting firm ("the stuff MBA dreams are made of"), a senior executive... -
Elite - The Digital Mattress Company
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details François Pugliese acquired Elite Beds in Etoy in a small buy-in in 2006 and then proceeded to re-invent completely its business, first by pivoting its... -
Weighing Career Choices
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details A graduate of a business school must consider two options available to him with similar salary packages. The first is to accept an offer to start as an... -
Matt Leeds (A)
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details A new associate in a consulting firm attempts to navigate his way through the norms and culture of a new setting and to manage his relationships with... -
United Parcel Service (B)
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details With expansion into other countries (Germany), new areas of service (air express), and new ventures (two small acquisitions), UPS had to decide how to... -
Written Interview Assignment
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Sets the stage for self-assessment as an integral component in the process of career development. -
Janet Ames (D)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details The final case in the series of Janet Ames looks at the challenges of managing a nonprofit and what to do in the instance of suspected fraud. -
Krishna's Personal Insurance Plan
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Demand for healthcare and insurance is increasing as India's middle income earners seek to reduce risk. As a new MBA graduate, Krishna Chaitanya wondered... -
Taking Charge of Your Career: Women at Work Discussion Group Toolkit
99.95View Details The "HBR Women at Work" series, based on the popular HBR podcast of the same name, spotlights the real challenges and opportunities women experience throughout... -
The HBR Work Smart Collection (4 Books)
Management Book79.99View Details Rise faster with quick reads, real-life stories, and expert advice. It's not easy to navigate the world of work when you're exploring who you are and...
-
Providing Financial Services to Employees Is a Win-Win
Global Business Digital ArticleStart with pay flexibility, budget management support, and retirement planning. -
How to Get on the Shortlist for the C-Suite
Leadership development Digital ArticleThere’s no one-size-fits-all approach. -
Where Will You Be in Five Years?
Career planning Best PracticeMost people have been asked that perennial, and somewhat annoying, question: “Where do you see yourself in five years?” Of course it is asked most often in a job interview, but it may also come up in a conversation at a networking event or a cocktail party. Knowing and communicating your career goals is challenging […] -
Managing Xerox's Multinational Development Center
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Describes a manager's role in developing a staff group responsible for enhancing the efficiency of Xerox's worldwide logistics and inventory management... -
Don't Set Your Goals in Stone - Mold Them Like Clay
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleEverything is malleable and can change depending on where you are in your life and career. -
Janet Ames (C)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details The series of Janet Ames cases follow a fictional alumna of Harvard Business School into her consulting career in Boston. Over the series of cases, Ames... -
A Career Detour Doesn’t Have to Compromise Your Long-Term Goals
Burnout Digital ArticleFour strategies to stay focused on the future when you have to prioritize the present. -
Do You Know How to Get What You’re Worth?
Negotiation strategies Digital ArticleA negotiation expert reveals some rules for success in tricky terrain. -
Managing Talent at Bertelsmann AG (A)
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Bertelsmann's EVP HR Immanuel Hermreck and his team were focused on four key HR issues. Three of these were somewhat discreet: improving Bertelsmann's...