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Case Study: Can You Fix a Toxic Culture Without Firing People?

Harvard Business

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. She’d gone to Arkansas to review operational plans and financial projections for the rest of the year with the team on the ground. Do we join hands and sing Kumbaya?

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3 Tactics for Accelerating Company Performance Despite an Economic Downturn

Organizational Talent Consulting

Only operating in the short term or taking too much risk and gambling on one specific future are frequent traps leaders fall into when facing economic uncertainty. In the following video, Dr. Chermack provides an overview of the process using a small business case study. Performance Accelerator 1: Scenario Planning.

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Why Your Employees Aren't Committed to Your Company Strategy

Organizational Talent Consulting

Great leaders dream of a better future – from business sustainability to growing future leaders, increasing speed to market, or operating with greater purpose. Collaborative open strategic planning: A method and case study. To turn those dreams into workplace realities, leaders set strategies. References: Amrollahi, A., &

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Digital Growth Depends More on Business Models than Technology

Harvard Business

I explained this in an article that was published in Harvard Business Review in 2008, before any of those companies began, and, now, 10 years later, that still holds true, as more and more of the business discourse is focused on digital transformation.

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Advisory Board Company Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

The Advisory Board Company is perhaps best known for its membership platform which provides information, research and tools specifically targeted to companies pursuing operational and strategic organization improvement in the U.S. Cost and operations. and around the world, with a premier niche in the healthcare space. Industries.

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Research: Self-Disruption Can Hurt the Companies That Need It the Most

Harvard Business

In the traditional model of electricity generation, large power plants produce power at a centralized location, which operates at a considerable distance from the points of consumption. For our study, we collected data on 512 strategic initiatives, both centralized and decentralized, launched by 48 leading U.S.

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How to Apply for a Job You’re Overqualified For

Harvard Business

Case Study #1: Be thoughtful about how you position yourself to the hiring manager. In 2008, after the global economy took a nosedive, the company that Lauren McAdams was working for went belly up. Case Study #2: Express enthusiasm for the job, and demonstrate how you will add value. ” Mehmood got the job.