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Case Study: When Two Leaders on the Senior Team Hate Each Other

Harvard Business

Lance Best, the CEO of Barker Sports Apparel, was meeting with Nina Kelk, the company’s general counsel, who also oversaw human resources. But one person had given him the lowest ratings possible, and from the written remarks, Lance could tell that it was Ahmed Lund, Barker’s head of sales. “You’re surprised?”

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Case Study: When You Have to Choose Between Core and New Customers

Harvard Business

Alan Kurtz, MMC’s chief operating officer, was standing off to the side, and she moved to join him, but a racer intercepted her. Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. “Do you work for Mendoza?”

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OC&C Strategy Consultants Interview and Culture

Management Consulted

This firm was birthed out of the frustration they both felt with their employer, who they believed devoted too much time to operational issues while neglecting strategic analysis. Depending on the size of the footprint in their region, the amount of managing partners directly correlate to the sales. Operational Strategy.

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Case Study: Is Holacracy for Us?

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. If you’d like your comment to be considered for publication, please be sure to include your full name, company or university affiliation, and email address.

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What to Do When You and Your Boss Aren’t Getting Along

Harvard Business

” Is it a sports team? “You will find out how to operate at your peak despite a sub-optimal relationship with your boss,” Manzoni says. Case Study #1: Empathize with your manager’s perspective and ask for their guidance. Manzoni suggests talking to manager about topics beyond work.

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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

We recently completed a study for the CEO of a very well known, global sports-apparel brand company. Our sports-apparel CEO had the right idea in challenging his team to think about the organization and ask: are we fit for growth, given our strategies going forward? Learning from Big Companies.

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Subscription Businesses Are Booming. Here’s How to Value Them

Harvard Business

Indeed, some analysts have gone a step further, declaring that subscription boxes are in the midst of a venture capital-fueled bubble not unlike the flash-sale business craze that ended five years ago. Case Study: Blue Apron. that aggregate sales in the U.S. grocery market were almost $800 billion, only 1.2%