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What Makes a Leader?
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleWhen asked to define the ideal leader, many would emphasize traits such as intelligence, toughness, determination, and vision--the qualities traditionally... -
The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs
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5 Principles of Purposeful Leadership
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How to Do Strategic Planning Like a Futurist
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CEOs, Step into the Front Lines or Risk Losing Touch
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Six Rules for Effective Forecasting
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThe primary goal of forecasting is to identify the full range of possibilities facing a company, society, or the world at large. In this article, Saffo... -
Driving Organizational Change — Without Abandoning Tradition
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The Ideas That Inspire Us
Business management Magazine ArticleTo celebrate HBR’s centennial, we asked eight current and former CEOs from some of the world’s top companies to describe the ideas that have propelled their own careers and organizations. -
What I Learned About Being a Leader
By challenging her own myths about leadership, a newly promoted manager discovered the unexpected joys of the role-especially in helping her team solve... -
Lessons from Toyota's Long Drive: A Conversation with Katsuaki Watanabe
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleLast December the Toyota Motor Corporation officially forecast that it would sell 9.34 million cars in 2007--which could make it the world's largest automaker.... -
Tactics for Creating an Inclusive Workplace
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Finding the Right Balance - and Flexibility - in Your Leadership Style
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When Managing Through Ambiguity, Develop a Clear Vision
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Lean Strategy
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It’s Time to Define Your Company’s Principles
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Create Your Rules of the Road
The pressure to innovate as quickly as possible has never been stronger. Get clear on your intentions before you begin investing resources. In partnership... -
The Former and Current Chairs of Mastercard on Executing a Strategic CEO Succession
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleAs the chairman of a publicly traded multinational corporation, it's difficult to contemplate replacing a charismatic, visionary CEO who tripled your... -
What It Takes to Innovate Within Large Corporations
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Coaching for Change
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Quantify Your Company's Impact on People
Organizational Development Digital ArticleWe need well-informed systems to reverse today's inequalities.
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RE-IMAGINING CROTONVILLE: EPICENTER OF GE'S LEADERSHIP CULTURE (B)
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Avi Kremer
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Navigating Boardroom Politics at Molson (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This case covers the discussions and events that took place in 2004 at the family, board, and executive levels at Molson Inc. (Molson). At that time,... -
GE's Growth Strategy: The Immelt Initiative
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Follows the actions of GE CEO, Jeff Immelt, as he implements a growth strategy for the $150 billion company in a tough business environment. In four years,... -
Apple (in 2013): How to Sustain a Competitive Advantage?
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Tim Cook took over as CEO of Apple, Inc. in August of 2011 after the resignation of the legendary Steve Jobs. Though Jobs left big shoes to fill, Cook... -
Dubailand (A): Would the Pharaohs Have Dared?
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details This is the first of a two-case series (IMD328 and IMD330). The idea for Dubailand first came up in early 2002 as part of the country's efforts to diversify... -
Tesla Motors: Facing the Model 3
Strategy & Execution Case Study14.00View Details In mid-2013, Tesla Motors was riding a wave of success: It had launched its first really mass-produced car-the model S-to rave reviews; had recently raised... -
Mirvac (A): Building Balance
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This award-winning case explores the challenges facing Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz, the CEO of Mirvac, an Australian property group, as she leads a major initiative... -
Strategic Thinking
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Unilever's New Global Strategy: Competing through Sustainability
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details In January 2009, when Paul Polman was appointed CEO of Unilever, he inherited a company in long-term decline at the beginning of a major global financial... -
Vivendi: Revitalizing a French Conglomerate (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Examines corporate strategy for a diversified firm in the French business context. Issues include corporate governance, vision, and the management of... -
Aventis SA (B): A Company Is Born
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Better World Books (in 2013): Social Entrepreneurship and the Triple Bottom Line
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Strategy and the Strategist
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This short case presents a series of brief accounts, observations, and quotations that challenge students to think about the role of the CEO - and of... -
Harvard Business Review Leader's Handbook: Make an Impact, Inspire Your Organization, and Get to the Next Level
29.99View Details The one primer you need to develop your leadership skills. Put aside all the overhyped new frameworks, the listicles, the "10 best things you need to... -
Integrated Reporting at Aegon
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Sheikh Mohammed and the Making of 'Dubai, Inc.'
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has converted Dubai from a sleepy little coastal village into a world-class city, famous for its ambition, drive,...
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What Makes a Leader?
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleWhen asked to define the ideal leader, many would emphasize traits such as intelligence, toughness, determination, and vision--the qualities traditionally... -
The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs
Innovation Magazine ArticleSix months after Jobs’s death, the author of his best-selling biography identifies the practices that every CEO can try to emulate. -
5 Principles of Purposeful Leadership
Leadership development Digital ArticleUnderstanding why you’re in the room is more important than being the smartest one in it. -
How to Do Strategic Planning Like a Futurist
Strategic planning Digital ArticleYou don’t need a time line; you need a time cone. -
CEOs, Step into the Front Lines or Risk Losing Touch
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleDriving organizational change requires getting closer to both your employees and customers. -
A Guide to Building Psychological Safety on Your Team
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Six Rules for Effective Forecasting
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThe primary goal of forecasting is to identify the full range of possibilities facing a company, society, or the world at large. In this article, Saffo... -
Driving Organizational Change — Without Abandoning Tradition
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Katie Conboy: Leading Change at Simmons College, Instructor's Manual
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The Ideas That Inspire Us
Business management Magazine ArticleTo celebrate HBR’s centennial, we asked eight current and former CEOs from some of the world’s top companies to describe the ideas that have propelled their own careers and organizations.
