Strategy

Four strategies for leaders.

When terrorists attacked the Indian city of Mumbai in 2008, employees of the Taj Mumbai hotel displayed uncommon valor. They placed the safety of guests...

What 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 […]

Instead of either/or thinking, try both/and.

Executives are often confounded by culture, because much of it is anchored in unspoken behaviors, mindsets, and social patterns. But when properly managed,...

It’s likely to apply its standard three-part playbook to transforming an industry.

Understanding your style will help you identify which biases that may get in your way.

Your guide to (what could be) the future of the internet.

Your guide to (what could be) the future of the internet.

A look across Tesla, the Boring Company, SpaceX, and his other companies reveals a consistent vision, organization, and ability to mobilize resources.

A research roundup

A hard copy makes a decision feel more real.

What are my goals? Do I have the right strategy? Can I execute the strategy?

For the past 20 years, the theory of disruptive innovation has been enormously influential in business circles and a powerful tool for predicting which...

Three steps to put your plan into action.

Categorizing the problems and growth patterns of small businesses in a systematic way that is useful to entrepreneurs seems at first glance a hopeless task. Small businesses vary widely in size and capacity for growth. They are characterized by independence of action, differing organizational structures, and varied management styles. Yet on closer scrutiny, it becomes […]

Firms have never known more about their customers, but their innovation processes remain hit-or-miss. Why? According to Christensen and his coauthors,...

Snowden and Boone have formed a new perspective on leadership and decision making that's based on complexity science. The result is the Cynefin framework,...

Measuring—and delivering—what consumers really want

To meet the challenges of a complex world, strategic planners need to understand the differences between the four elements of VUCA--volatility, uncertainty,...

To innovate profitably, you need more than just creativity. Do you have what it takes? If you read nothing else on inspiring and executing innovation,...

HBA Job Offer Negotiation is a role play between a job applicant who is graduating from an undergraduate business school and a recruiter from a global...

Focuses on the recommendations and implementation strategy made by the organizational development group to address the division's problems. A rewritten...

Explores the implementation of a cutting-edge knowledge management system in a midsize, specialty chemical company. The initiative, begun in the early...

Describes the initial results of Black & Decker's strategy in the United States.

Describes the structure and evolution of the United States home appliance industry between 1986 and 2002.

Supplements the (A) and (B) cases. Designed as an in-class handout. A rewritten version of an earlier supplement.

Nokia has dominated the mobile handset business for over 20 years. But as mobile technologies evolves and the consumer focus shiftsfrom handset design...

Supplements the (A) case.

Bladelogic, a high flier in the large and growing market of data center automation software, had reached a critical juncture. The company, which had already...

Case analysis is an effective tool for teaching, learning, and most importantly, practising the art and science of management. The case method immerses...

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In late July 2013, Danielle Engle, Managing Director of Clairemont Capital, was contemplating what to do about a large investment her fund had in the...

Through a combination of organic growth and acquisitions, LKQ Corp. became the leading aftermarket auto parts distributor in the U.S. by the early 2000s....

Supplements the (A) case.

In September 2008, Todd Bradley, executive vice president of Hewlett-Packard Company's Personal Systems Group (PSG) gathered his thoughts before a meeting...

Documents the evolution of Best Buy, an electronics retailer, from its founding in 1966 to its very successful "Concept 2" strategy in 1996, boosting...

Luxottica, headquartered in Milan, Italy, was the largest eyewear company in the world with sales surpassing €5 billion in 2008. In June 2009, the CEO...

In March 2015, Amazon unveiled to its selected Prime members a wi-fi connected Dash Button that could be attached to home appliances and allowed consumers...

The company's plans are revealed. A stock offering has produced $20 million to be used for development.

Four strategies for leaders.

When terrorists attacked the Indian city of Mumbai in 2008, employees of the Taj Mumbai hotel displayed uncommon valor. They placed the safety of guests...

What 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 […]

Instead of either/or thinking, try both/and.

Executives are often confounded by culture, because much of it is anchored in unspoken behaviors, mindsets, and social patterns. But when properly managed,...

It’s likely to apply its standard three-part playbook to transforming an industry.

Understanding your style will help you identify which biases that may get in your way.

Your guide to (what could be) the future of the internet.

Your guide to (what could be) the future of the internet.

A look across Tesla, the Boring Company, SpaceX, and his other companies reveals a consistent vision, organization, and ability to mobilize resources.