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4 Areas of Cyber Risk That Boards Need to Address
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleHow companies can build a long-term strategy that will keep them secure. -
How to Fight a Price War
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticlePrice wars are a fact of life, whether we're talking about the fast-paced world of knowledge products, the marketing of Internet appliances, or the staid,... -
The Balanced Scorecard—Measures that Drive Performance
Balanced scorecard Magazine ArticleWhat you measure is what you get. Senior executives understand that their organization’s measurement system strongly affects the behavior of managers and employees. Executives also understand that traditional financial accounting measures like return-on-investment and earnings-per-share can give misleading signals for continuous improvement and innovation—activities today’s competitive environment demands. The traditional financial performance measures worked well […] -
Innovation Doesn’t Have to Be Disruptive
Innovation Magazine ArticleCreate new markets for growth without destroying existing companies or jobs. -
What Is Strategy?
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleToday's dynamic markets and technologies have called into question the sustainability of competitive advantage. Under pressure to improve productivity,... -
AI Can Help You Ask Better Questions — and Solve Bigger Problems
Technology and analytics Digital ArticleLeaders should focus less on automation and more on innovation. -
Know Your Customers' "Jobs to Be Done"
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleFirms have never known more about their customers, but their innovation processes remain hit-or-miss. Why? According to Christensen and his coauthors,... -
The Questions Every Entrepreneur Must Answer
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleDiversify your product line. Stick to your knitting. Hire a professional manager. Watch fixed costs. Those are some of the suggestions that entrepreneurs... -
How Brands Can Sell to Environmentally Conscious Nonconsumers
Organizational Development Digital ArticleThere is an undeniable gap between what consumers say they want and what they are actually putting in their baskets. -
The Five Stages of Small-Business Growth
Entrepreneurial management Magazine ArticleNo researcher has explored the earliest period of a business’s development in detail—until now. -
What Is Web3?
Technology & Operations Big IdeaWeb3 is being touted as the future of the internet. The vision for this new, blockchain-based web includes cryptocurrencies, NFTs, DAOs, decentralized... -
Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleIn the past decade, the author has watched more than 100 companies try to remake themselves into better competitors. Their efforts have gone under many... -
Generative AI Has an Intellectual Property Problem
Intellectual property Digital ArticleStrategies to help companies mitigate the legal risk and ensure they’re in compliance with the law. -
3 Strategies for Making Better, More Informed Decisions
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleHow to overcome the limitations of our self-serving biases. -
What Leaders Really Do
Change management Magazine ArticleThey don’t make plans; they don’t solve problems; they don’t even organize people. What leaders really do is prepare organizations for change and help them cope as they struggle through it. -
How to Write a Winning Business Plan
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleA well-conceived business plan is essential to the success of an enterprise. Whether you are starting up a venture, seeking additional capital for an... -
What Is Disruptive Innovation?
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleFor the past 20 years, the theory of disruptive innovation has been enormously influential in business circles and a powerful tool for predicting which... -
Why Conflicting Ideas Can Make Your Strategy Stronger
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleIn a volatile world, think of your strategy as a portfolio of options, not a roadmap. -
Leader's Framework for Decision Making
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleSnowden and Boone have formed a new perspective on leadership and decision making that's based on complexity science. The result is the Cynefin framework,... -
What VUCA Really Means for You
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleTo meet the challenges of a complex world, strategic planners need to understand the differences between the four elements of VUCA--volatility, uncertainty,...
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Debt Financing, Firm Value, and the Cost of Capital
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This note explores how managers determine the proper amount of debt financing to use to fund a firm's operations. It examines the fundamental differences... -
Business Process Transformation at the CIA (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details When Dick Calder is named head of the CIA's Directorate of Administration (DA) in 1995, he faces the task of leading a beleaguered organization through... -
Business Process Transformation at the CIA (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details When Dick Calder is named head of the CIA's Directorate of Administration (DA) in 1995, he faces the task of leading a beleaguered organization through... -
Fody Foods: Eating Life to the Fullest
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details FODY Foods Inc. (Fody) was a Canadian-based entrepreneurial manufacturer and marketer of a line of food products designed for people suffering from irritable... -
Drowling Mountain
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details It was August 2011 and Martin Cartier, senior board member, was beginning to feel the pressure of Drowling Mountain's 2010 general meeting that was coming... -
zipRealty: Leading a Start-up to the Next Level (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Start-up company zipRealty is a real estate brokerage that leveraged the Internet on the belief that selling or buying a home could be faster, easier,... -
Applegate Farms
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Digital Equipment Corp.: The Endpoint Model (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Describes a comprehensive manufacturing strategy designed to reduce substantially the cycle time of orders (i.e. the time between the placement of an... -
23andMe: Genetic Testing for Consumers (B)
Sales & Marketing Case Study5.00View Details Following the FDA's letter in November 2013, which ordered 23andMe to cease sales of its DNA test kits, observers wondered how co-founder and CEO, Anne... -
Which Way to Go? Jamaica's Economic Stabilization Policy
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Jamaica's relationship with the International Monetary Fund had often been tense. Currently, the country had no agreements with the IMF, and Prime Minister... -
Hurricane Katrina (A): Preparing for 'The Big One' in New Orleans
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details When Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast on Monday morning, August 29, it cut a wide swath of destruction in the area; but despite inflicting... -
Mission Produce in 2022
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Founded by CEO Steve Barnard in 1983, California-based Mission Produce was a leading supplier of Hass avocados with a global sourcing, marketing, and... -
Digital Equipment Corp.: The Endpoint Model (B1)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details Should follow Digital Equipment Corp.: The Endpoint Model (A). The plant manager has been promoted and students must decide what kind of individual--background,... -
Mercedes and the Moose Test (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The case describes a crisis management situation faced by Mercedes-Benz, a division of Daimler-Benz AG. In 1997 Mercedes introduced a revolutionary new... -
Alvogen
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Alvogen is a young Icelandic generic pharmaceutical company, whose CEO believes that his global strategy will give them an edge in this competitive industry.... -
Hurricane Katrina (B): Responding to an 'Ultra-Catastrophe' in New Orleans
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details When Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast on Monday morning, August 29, it cut a wide swath of destruction in the area; but despite inflicting... -
Saint George Triangle: A Multi-Party Simulation - The Stakeholders - Our Beautiful Island
Leadership & Managing People Case Study3.75View Details Exercise for INS461. -
Leadership Online (B): Barnes & Noble vs. Amazon.com in 2005
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. A rewritten version of an earlier supplement. -
DigitalThink: Building a Sales Force
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study6.95View Details A broad set of issues faces a young company in the Internet-based training business as it begins to sell its product to corporate customers. Issues include:... -
Change at Whirlpool Corp. (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case.
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4 Areas of Cyber Risk That Boards Need to Address
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleHow companies can build a long-term strategy that will keep them secure. -
How to Fight a Price War
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticlePrice wars are a fact of life, whether we're talking about the fast-paced world of knowledge products, the marketing of Internet appliances, or the staid,... -
The Balanced Scorecard—Measures that Drive Performance
Balanced scorecard Magazine ArticleWhat you measure is what you get. Senior executives understand that their organization’s measurement system strongly affects the behavior of managers and employees. Executives also understand that traditional financial accounting measures like return-on-investment and earnings-per-share can give misleading signals for continuous improvement and innovation—activities today’s competitive environment demands. The traditional financial performance measures worked well […] -
Innovation Doesn’t Have to Be Disruptive
Innovation Magazine ArticleCreate new markets for growth without destroying existing companies or jobs. -
What Is Strategy?
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleToday's dynamic markets and technologies have called into question the sustainability of competitive advantage. Under pressure to improve productivity,... -
AI Can Help You Ask Better Questions — and Solve Bigger Problems
Technology and analytics Digital ArticleLeaders should focus less on automation and more on innovation. -
Know Your Customers' "Jobs to Be Done"
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleFirms have never known more about their customers, but their innovation processes remain hit-or-miss. Why? According to Christensen and his coauthors,... -
The Questions Every Entrepreneur Must Answer
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleDiversify your product line. Stick to your knitting. Hire a professional manager. Watch fixed costs. Those are some of the suggestions that entrepreneurs... -
How Brands Can Sell to Environmentally Conscious Nonconsumers
Organizational Development Digital ArticleThere is an undeniable gap between what consumers say they want and what they are actually putting in their baskets. -
The Five Stages of Small-Business Growth
Entrepreneurial management Magazine ArticleNo researcher has explored the earliest period of a business’s development in detail—until now.