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When Quiet Quitting Is Worse Than the Real Thing
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleIt can hurt employees and employers alike. Here's how leaders can address the root causes. -
What to Do If Your Boss Doesn't Like Someone You Manage
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleUncover the source of the friction. -
Fear and Stress on the Job
Big IdeaWorkers and managers explain why incivility is a company problem, not an individual one — and how to address it. -
Life’s Work: An Interview with Maya Angelou
Cross-cultural management Magazine ArticlePhotography: Lissa Gotwals Maya Angelou worked as a cook, streetcar conductor, waitress, singer, dancer, editor, teacher, civil rights organizer, and actress before becoming one of America’s most beloved writers. Now 85 and a professor at Wake Forest University, she says her success as a storyteller stems from “seeing us as more alike than we are […] -
Good Strategy Execution Requires Balancing 4 Tensions
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleCreativity versus discipline, for one. -
Building a Leadership Brand
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleHow do some firms produce a pipeline of consistently excellent managers? Instead of concentrating merely on strengthening the skills of individuals, these... -
Management Time: Who’s Got the Monkey?
Delegating Magazine ArticleThe burdens of subordinates always seem to end up on the manager’s back. Here’s how to get rid of them. -
The Labor-Savvy Leader
Society and business relations Magazine ArticleThe time has come for management to start working with—rather than against—organized labor. Here’s how. -
Do You Manage Too Many People?
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleWhat to do when you're stretched too thin. -
Managing Change: The Art of Balancing (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleManagers need a new way to think about managing change in today's knowledge organization. Instead of breaking change into small pieces--TQM, process reengineering,... -
Traeger’s CEO on Cleaning Up a Toxic Culture
Organizational culture Magazine ArticleThe company essentially had to start from scratch. -
How Royal DSM Is Improving Its Geographic and Gender Diversity
Cross-cultural management Digital ArticleThe CEO of the Dutch multinational has made it a priority. -
More Than 50% of Managers Feel Burned Out
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleDoes your organization recognize the problem? -
Midsize Companies Need a Systematic Approach to Cost Analysis
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleLessons from one organization's digital transformation. -
Theory of the Business
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleIn his thirty-first article for HBR, Peter F. Drucker argues that what underlies the current malaise of so many large and successful organizations worldwide... -
How to Mentor in a Remote Workplace
Career coaching Digital ArticleSharpen these five skills. -
Good Management Predicts a Firm's Success Better Than IT, R&D, or Even Employee Skills
Finance & Accounting ResearchAccording to a survey of manufacturers. -
Developing First-Level Leaders
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleOil and energy corporation BP was well aware of the importance of its work group managers on the front lines. Their decisions, in aggregate, make an enormous... -
Lost in Translation
Cross-cultural management Magazine ArticleIgnorance of differing cultural reactions to failure can stunt your company’s growth. -
Hold Your Team Accountable with Compassion, Not Fear
Managing people Digital ArticleSet clear expectations and be a willing coach — but don’t micromanage.
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Sprout Solutions
Management Case Study11.95View Details Husband-and-wife co-founders Patrick and Alexandria Gentry had built Sprout Solutions to be one of the biggest Software-as-a-Service human resources management... -
Haier in the U.S.: Transforming GE Appliances
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Chinese appliance company Haier's 2016 acquisition of iconic GE Appliances ushered in strategic and structural changes to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship... -
Milford Industries (A)
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details The new district sales manager for a tool company must determine how to get his district "back on track." The case presents various qualitative and quantitative... -
Richard Jenkins
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Written from the point of view of Richard Jenkins, the president of CelluComm. Presents his reflections on the series of events leading to the firing... -
STRIKE AT BRITISH AIRWAYS: UNAVOIDABLE OR SET-UP-TO-FAIL?
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details The case considers the steadily deteriorating relationship between BA's top management and its cabin crew union - and highlights the self-fulfilling and... -
Faith and Work: Hobby Lobby and AutoZone
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Religion in the workplace is of growing interest as more individuals desire to express their spirituality and incorporate their whole selves there. Expression... -
McDonald's and the Environment (B)
Sales & Marketing Case Study5.00View Details McDonald's announces its decision to change from polystyrene "clamshells" for its sandwich packaging to a new paper wrap. -
The basis of coaching: Reflections of a coach
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This note is based on the considerable experience of a coaching professional and introduces a powerful personal advisory tool for improving performance... -
Enterprise IT at Cisco (2004)
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Illustrates the challenges associated with centralizing IT decisions at Cisco after a decade of decentralized planning and project funding. When Brad... -
Alive at Work: The Neuroscience of Helping Your People Love What They Do
30.00View Details Poll after poll has confirmed that an astonishing number of workers are disengaged from their work. Why is this happening? And how can we fix the problem?... -
New Earth Mining, Inc.
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details New Earth Mining is one of the largest producers of precious metals in the U.S. While the firm operates mines primarily in the U.S. and Canada, it has... -
Black & Decker-Eastern Hemisphere and the ADP Initiative (A)
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Bill Lancaster, the new president of Black & Decker-Eastern Hemisphere, attempts to introduce a new performance appraisal and management development system.... -
Taran Swan at Nickelodeon Latin America (C)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
MULTIMODE, INC. - Confidential Instructions for T. Boyd
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Two-party intra-organization negotiation between a company's financial and human resources officers regarding the amount of a budget increase. T. Boyd,... -
Editora Abril S.A.
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Brazil's media conglomerate Editora Abril S.A. is Latin America's largest publishing and printing company; it publishes books, and comic books, videos,... -
Blogs at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein: (B)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details An abstract is not available for this product. -
Analyzing Standard Costs, Technical Note
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Explains variance analysis. Concepts of price variance and quantity variance are introduced to analyze prime cost variances. Spending variance and capacity... -
Conversation About Information Technology
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Two managers discuss the benefits, costs, opportunities, and headaches of corporate computing. Topics include security, training, the Internet and Web,... -
Great Western Hospital: High-risk Pregnancy Care
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Great Western Hospital (GWH) is a community hospital in Wiltshire, South West England and one of England's largest maternity providers, responsible for... -
Principles of Effective Persuasion
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Summarizes six principles of effective persuasion. A rewritten version of an earlier note.
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Sprout Solutions
Management Case Study11.95View Details Husband-and-wife co-founders Patrick and Alexandria Gentry had built Sprout Solutions to be one of the biggest Software-as-a-Service human resources management... -
Haier in the U.S.: Transforming GE Appliances
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Chinese appliance company Haier's 2016 acquisition of iconic GE Appliances ushered in strategic and structural changes to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship... -
Milford Industries (A)
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details The new district sales manager for a tool company must determine how to get his district "back on track." The case presents various qualitative and quantitative... -
Richard Jenkins
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Written from the point of view of Richard Jenkins, the president of CelluComm. Presents his reflections on the series of events leading to the firing... -
STRIKE AT BRITISH AIRWAYS: UNAVOIDABLE OR SET-UP-TO-FAIL?
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details The case considers the steadily deteriorating relationship between BA's top management and its cabin crew union - and highlights the self-fulfilling and... -
When Quiet Quitting Is Worse Than the Real Thing
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleIt can hurt employees and employers alike. Here's how leaders can address the root causes. -
Faith and Work: Hobby Lobby and AutoZone
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Religion in the workplace is of growing interest as more individuals desire to express their spirituality and incorporate their whole selves there. Expression... -
What to Do If Your Boss Doesn't Like Someone You Manage
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleUncover the source of the friction. -
Fear and Stress on the Job
Big IdeaWorkers and managers explain why incivility is a company problem, not an individual one — and how to address it. -
Life’s Work: An Interview with Maya Angelou
Cross-cultural management Magazine ArticlePhotography: Lissa Gotwals Maya Angelou worked as a cook, streetcar conductor, waitress, singer, dancer, editor, teacher, civil rights organizer, and actress before becoming one of America’s most beloved writers. Now 85 and a professor at Wake Forest University, she says her success as a storyteller stems from “seeing us as more alike than we are […]