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Leadership Run Amok: The Destructive Potential of Overachievers (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleThe desire to achieve is a major source of strength in business, and it is on the rise. The authors' consulting firm has seen a steady increase in the... -
You Might Not Be Hearing Your Team's Best Ideas
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleEven the loudest voices leave things unsaid. -
Becoming Powerful Makes You Less Empathetic
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleHave you crossed a line? -
Will She Fit In? (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleSusan Carter, a partner at a prestigious strategy consulting firm, is caught in a dilemma she never expected: her firm's most important client has made... -
Experts Are More Persuasive When They're Less Certain
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleA new study by Zakary Tormala of Stanford Business School looks at how the certainty of a person's opinion affects his ability to influence others. A... -
Get People to Listen to You When You're Not Seen as an Expert
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleHow to build your reputation. -
Today's CEOs Don't Just Lead Companies. They Lead Ecosystems.
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleIt's no longer enough to keep your board happy and appease shareholders. -
Power Failure in Management Circuits
Business communication Magazine ArticleThe position, not the person, often determines whether a manager has power. -
Marketing in an Unpredictable World
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Understand the 4 Components of Influence
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThe subtle signals you have to master. -
Becoming an Idea Entrepreneur
John Butman, author of "Breaking Out," believes you need to embody the ideas you believe in. -
How to Play "Friendly Hardball" in a Negotiation
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleA simple - though counterintuitive - strategy. -
Community Relations 2.0
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleBefore the internet, organizations had far more time to monitor and respond to community activity, but that luxury is long gone, leaving them in dire... -
How a CEO Can Create Psychological Safety in the Room
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleTen strategies to promote a free exchange of ideas. -
The Founder’s Dilemma
Entrepreneurs and founders Magazine ArticleMost entrepreneurs want to make a lot of money and to run the show. New research shows that it’s tough to do both. If you don’t figure out which matters more to you, you could end up being neither rich nor king. -
Transferring Power in the Family Business
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleFamily businesses frequently face an agonizing experience when the entrepreneur watches while others take over the business. While bitter power struggles... -
What Would Ashton Do—and Does It Matter?
Power and influence Magazine ArticleNew research reveals the power and limits of “influencers” -
The Successor’s Dilemma
Collaboration and teams Magazine ArticleLeadership transitions go awry with alarming frequency, often the result of an emotionally charged power struggle between the CEO and his would-be heir. Four practices, however, can help successors defuse the crisis—and make it to the top. -
Imbalance of Power
Leadership Magazine ArticleManagement has usurped control from boards—and the directors themselves are to blame. -
The Inside Sales Job
Strategy Digital ArticleHave a new idea that you want to sell into the company? Make sure your proposal does more than address company needs—it must also benefit the key decision makers. by Jennifer McFarland
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Cat Is Out of the Bag: KANA and the Layoff Gone Awry (C)
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Lisa Benton (A)
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Lisa Benton is in her fourth month as an assistant product manager at Houseworld, a leading consumer products company. She has been on the job since graduating... -
Kate Burnett
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplements Peter Isenberg at Jones Mendel (A). -
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... -
Negotiate in a Crisis: Oil Disaster in the Argentine Sea. Seal CEO Letter
Sales & Marketing Case Study5.00View Details The case aims to exercise skills in decision-making, negotiations, and conflict resolution in extreme crisis management. It is a multi-party negotiation:... -
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself, Vol. 2 (with bonus article "Be Your Own Best Advocate" by Deborah M. Kolb)
24.95View Details Position yourself for success. Get more of the management ideas you want, from the authors you trust, with "HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself (Vol.... -
HP-Cisco Alliance (A)
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details In 2002, Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems strove to develop their long-standing partnership into a strategic alliance with increasing impact. Critical... -
Constructing a Base-of-the-Pyramid Business in a Multinational Corporation: CEMEX's Patrimonio Hoy Looks to Grow
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details This case continues the story from the revised 2006 case study "CEMEX's Patrimonio Hoy: At the Tipping Point?" This case describes CEMEX's Patrimonio... -
Neighbours for Active Living: It Takes a Community to Maintain Health and Wellbeing of Seniors
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In 2013, Eastern Health Alliance (EHA) launched the Neighbours for Active Living programme to reduce hospital readmissions among seniors in eastern Singapore.... -
Negotiating Corporate Change: Confidential Information, David Carlson, VP, Management Information Systems
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This case provides the confidential role information necessary for one person in a four-person negotiation simulation about a major corporate change.... -
Radial Bearing Team: A Manufacturing Group's Transformation to Self-Directed Work Teams
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This case focuses on a major manufacturing division ($1.2 billion sales; 5500 employees) of a global oilfield services company as it converts from a departmental... -
New Partnership for Africa's Development
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details In a world context of international institutions such as the World Trade Organization and the International Monetary Fund and their interaction with developing... -
Elsa Blix (B): A Wider Sea
Management Case Study5.00View Details Elsa Blix, (fictitious), a political appointee in the Foreign Affairs Ministry of Sweden, tackles two undersecretary positions. In the first (Case A),... -
Differences at Work: Emily (C)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details In Differences at Work: Emily (C) HBS Case No. 9-408-047 describes how the original email author apologizes to her acknowledging that his behavior was... -
Craig Weatherup
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details A biographical information sheet about Craig Weatherup, president and CEO of Pepsi Cola, North America. -
Energy Rising: The Neuroscience of Leading with Emotional Power
32.00View Details Your success in life--at work and at home--rises when you harness the energy that powers your brain. A neuropsychologist explains how. Your drive to create... -
The Lao Coffee Industry: Implementing Vertical Integration for a Social Cause at Bolaven Farms
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Founded in 2007, Bolaven Farms is a coffee business with a social purpose. Set up in Laos and Hong Kong, Bolaven Farms aims at providing high-quality... -
Confidence (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)
19.99View Details You need confidence to inspire trust, communicate effectively, and succeed in your organization. But self-doubt and nerves can undermine your ability... -
Women and Power: Stories from Around the Globe
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This case uses vignettes and statistics of the broader issue discussed in each vignette to explore some of the ways in which gender is played out in the... -
Cat Is Out of the Bag: KANA and the Layoff Gone Awry (B)
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case.
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Leadership Run Amok: The Destructive Potential of Overachievers (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleThe desire to achieve is a major source of strength in business, and it is on the rise. The authors' consulting firm has seen a steady increase in the... -
Cat Is Out of the Bag: KANA and the Layoff Gone Awry (C)
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
You Might Not Be Hearing Your Team's Best Ideas
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleEven the loudest voices leave things unsaid. -
Lisa Benton (A)
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Lisa Benton is in her fourth month as an assistant product manager at Houseworld, a leading consumer products company. She has been on the job since graduating... -
Becoming Powerful Makes You Less Empathetic
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleHave you crossed a line? -
Will She Fit In? (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleSusan Carter, a partner at a prestigious strategy consulting firm, is caught in a dilemma she never expected: her firm's most important client has made... -
Experts Are More Persuasive When They're Less Certain
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleA new study by Zakary Tormala of Stanford Business School looks at how the certainty of a person's opinion affects his ability to influence others. A... -
Kate Burnett
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplements Peter Isenberg at Jones Mendel (A). -
Get People to Listen to You When You're Not Seen as an Expert
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleHow to build your reputation. -
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...