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How to Help a Colleague Who's Been Laid Off
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleIt's natural to feel uncomfortable. -
Mentors, Stop Saying "I Understand"
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleToo many leaders over-relate and under-listen. -
Navigating Work While Undergoing Fertility Treatments
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleGuidance on several challenges, including managing appointments and whether to tell your boss. -
Play to Win
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleHenry Jenkins, the director of comparative media studies at MIT, talks about the influence of video games in and on the workplace. -
The Reality of What Makes Silicon Valley Tick
Creativity Digital ArticleThe secret sauce is “socialstructing.” -
Manage Your Time Like Jim Collins
Work-life balance Digital ArticleJim Collins is all about discipline. The man who described Level 5 Leadership not only understands the inner fortitude of the best-performing companies and leaders; he’s famously disciplined and enormously productive, as you can tell from his website (jimcollins.com). A runner and mountain-climber, he is the picture of fitness. How does he manage his time? […] -
Scaling Up is a Problem of Both More and Less
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleEven large organizations can only handle so much. -
Fixing the World’s Infrastructure Problems
International business Digital ArticleAn analysis of 400 case studies uncovers several ways to solve the world’s infrastructure challenges more efficiently. -
How Much Truth Should You Share?
Business ethics Digital ArticleComments for this Make Your Case installment are now closed. Thanks to all who participated. This week’s guest commentator, Marshall Goldsmith, has posted his response to your comments and shared some thoughts of his own below. The opening to your cube is darkened by the familiar figure of a longtime colleague. Though you’re his immediate […] -
Tame Your Inbox Like an ER Doctor
Communication Digital ArticleLessons on managing chaos from people who do it every day. -
Giving a High Performer Productive Feedback
Managing people Best PracticeGiving feedback, particularly constructive feedback, is often a stressful task. As counterintuitive as it may seem, giving feedback to a top performer can be even tougher. Top performers may not have obvious development needs and in identifying those needs, you can sometimes feel like you’re being nitpicky or over-demanding. In addition, top performers may not […] -
Cognitive Fitness
Creativity Magazine ArticleNew research in neuroscience shows how to stay sharp by exercising your brain. -
Video: Black Women on the Challenges and Opportunities of the Past 18 Months
Global Business Digital ArticleBlack women are often "the onlys" in their organizations, often leading to tremendous pressure and responsibility. -
Marketers, Calculate Your Talk-Listen Ratio
Communication Digital ArticleThere is an old adage that we have two ears and one mouth and should behave in proportion - listening twice as much as we speak. Some communications experts... -
Strategic Humor: Cartoons from the May 2013 Issue
Work-life balance Digital ArticleThis month’s cartoons and caption contest from Harvard Business Review. -
Delivering Grim News to Covid-19 Patients' Families
Communication Digital ArticleLessons from a frontline health system in New Jersey. -
You've Been Called Out for a Microaggression. What Do You Do?
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleFirst, don't make it about you. -
Expose Your Company’s Blind Spots
Customer experience Digital ArticleIs your company unintentionally keeping your most senior people from getting the feedback they most need? It can easily happen as an unintended consequence of success. Consider these situations: Senior executives at car companies drive only the newest models: For decades, the top executives at America’s leading automobile manufacturers always drove models fresh from the […] -
It’s OK If Going to a Conference Doesn’t Feel Like Real Work
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No, That Meeting Could Not Have Been an Email
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleResearch shows written communication lacks important context.
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Juniper Networks
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Details the history of Juniper Networks, with specific emphasis on idea formulation and on founder Pradeep Sindhu's decision relating to funding the company... -
Ajay Bam
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Deals with a nascent, high-potential business that is conceived by two MBA students who have no experience in the industry where they believe they have... -
MINI USA: Finding a New Advertising Agency (B)
Sales & Marketing Case Study5.00View Details Selling an intangible like advertising services is a difficult task. The first step is to understand how brands buy these services. What are they looking... -
Blackstone's Julia Kahr at the Summit
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details In 2009, Blackstone, the New York-based alternative asset and financial services firm, committed to invest up to $750 million into Summit Materials, a... -
Laura Ashley (D)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details Describes the resignation of the CEO hired three years earlier to transform the company. -
Forensic Services at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details In the summer of 2019, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Canada's largest mental health teaching hospital, found itself at the centre... -
Six Principles of Successful Persuasion
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Describes some of the key principles that managers must follow in order to successfully persuade their organization of their vision for change. -
How Will You Measure Your Life? (Harvard Business Review Classics)
9.99View Details In the spring of 2010, Harvard Business School's graduating class asked HBS professor Clay Christensen to address them--but not on how to apply his principles... -
Learning Teams: Shrinking to Fit (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Teams often collapse over personality issues. This case explores such a collapse, in the context of an MBA student learning team. Students can explore... -
PARKER - GIBSON - Confidential Instructions for the Gibsons
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Two-party, single-issue negotiation between two neighbors regarding the potential sale of a vacant lot. The Parkers and the Gibsons own homes on adjacent... -
A Public Relations Campaign for Rwanda
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details On February 5, 2012, the founder of McDonald Kinley Emerson, a consultancy in Toronto, Canada, was asked to give a talk about country branding. She decided... -
Managing Up (HBR 20-Minute Manager Series)
12.95View Details Manage your most important workplace relationship. Your boss plays an important role in your career. So how do you navigate this delicate, significant... -
Redesigning Nissan (A): Carlos Ghosn Takes Charge
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details This is the first of a two-case series. When Renault sent Carlos Ghosn to turnaround its alliance partner Nissan, observers were skeptical of his chances.... -
Listening
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This note describes the range of skills that can be used to listen skillfully. The skill set is conceptualized as a continuum to help students learn when... -
Negotiating Corporate Change: Confidential Information, Helen Freeman, VP, Small Appliances Division
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.... -
Self-Advocating in Early Career
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Many people early in their careers find self-advocacy awkward or may even perceive it as impossible. They don't know what is reasonable for them to request... -
Differences at Work: Allie (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details In Differences at Work: Allie (B) HBS Case No. 9-408-055 Allie and her colleague initially refuse to go but when her boss makes a scene they reluctantly... -
Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Selling an intangible like advertising services is a difficult task. The first step is to understand how brands buy these services. What are they looking... -
Helping People Change: Coaching with Compassion for Lifelong Learning and Growth
32.00View Details You're trying to help--but is it working? Helping others is a good thing. Often, as a leader, manager, doctor, teacher, or coach, it's central to your... -
Craig Weatherup
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details A biographical information sheet about Craig Weatherup, president and CEO of Pepsi Cola, North America.
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How to Help a Colleague Who's Been Laid Off
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleIt's natural to feel uncomfortable. -
Mentors, Stop Saying "I Understand"
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleToo many leaders over-relate and under-listen. -
Navigating Work While Undergoing Fertility Treatments
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleGuidance on several challenges, including managing appointments and whether to tell your boss. -
Play to Win
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleHenry Jenkins, the director of comparative media studies at MIT, talks about the influence of video games in and on the workplace. -
The Reality of What Makes Silicon Valley Tick
Creativity Digital ArticleThe secret sauce is “socialstructing.” -
Manage Your Time Like Jim Collins
Work-life balance Digital ArticleJim Collins is all about discipline. The man who described Level 5 Leadership not only understands the inner fortitude of the best-performing companies and leaders; he’s famously disciplined and enormously productive, as you can tell from his website (jimcollins.com). A runner and mountain-climber, he is the picture of fitness. How does he manage his time? […] -
Scaling Up is a Problem of Both More and Less
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleEven large organizations can only handle so much. -
Fixing the World’s Infrastructure Problems
International business Digital ArticleAn analysis of 400 case studies uncovers several ways to solve the world’s infrastructure challenges more efficiently. -
How Much Truth Should You Share?
Business ethics Digital ArticleComments for this Make Your Case installment are now closed. Thanks to all who participated. This week’s guest commentator, Marshall Goldsmith, has posted his response to your comments and shared some thoughts of his own below. The opening to your cube is darkened by the familiar figure of a longtime colleague. Though you’re his immediate […] -
Tame Your Inbox Like an ER Doctor
Communication Digital ArticleLessons on managing chaos from people who do it every day.