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Increase Your Team's Motivation Five-Fold
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleIn a famous experiment, researchers ran a lottery with a twist. Half the participants were randomly assigned a lottery number. The remaining half were... -
Why Do Employees Resist Change?
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleDespite the best efforts of senior executives, major change initiatives often fail. Those failures have at least one common root: Executives and employees... -
Managing for the Long Term
Organizational Development SpotlightIn this issue's Spotlight we examine how a focus on maximizing shareholder value--which leads to short-termism for management and boards--can threaten... -
How to Choose the Right Forecasting Technique
Financial analysis Magazine ArticleWhat every manager ought to know about the different kinds of forecasting and the times when they should be used. -
3 Steps for Engaging Health Care Providers in Organizational Change
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleInnovation doesn't have to conflict with longstanding patient care values. -
The Error at the Heart of Corporate Leadership
Organizational Development SpotlightIn "The Error at the Heart of Corporate Leadership," Joseph Bower and Lynn Paine examine the foundations and flaws of agency theory, which views shareholders... -
Outsider CEOs Are on the Rise at the World's Biggest Companies
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Overcoming the Disruption of Process Change
Organizational Development Digital ArticleIt's against human nature to react favorably to the disruption of process change. Continuous improvement means continuous change, and change takes people... -
The Case for Investing in Underdogs
Finance and investing Digital ArticleDon’t undervalue the overlooked. -
The Other Diversity Dividend
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleResearchers have struggled to establish a causal relationship between diversity and financial performance--especially at large companies, where decision... -
Hospitals Are Finally Starting to Put Real-Time Data to Use
Global Business Digital ArticleRetrospective data is too slow. -
3 Things Are Holding Back Your Analytics, and Technology Isn't One of Them
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleThe challenges are organizational. -
How Big Data Brings Marketing and Finance Together
Sales & Marketing Digital ArticleAnalytics serves as a new common language. -
Market Share—a Key to Profitability
Marketing Magazine ArticleThe March–April 1974 issue of HBR carried an article that reported on Phases I and II of a project sponsored by the Marketing Science Institute and the Harvard Business School. The basic purpose of the project is to determine the profit impact of market strategies (PIMS). The earlier article established a link between strategic planning […] -
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 […] -
How Fintech Can Deliver on Its Social Impact Promises
Financial markets Digital ArticleDigital financial companies are making big claims about financial inclusion — but are failing to disclose data that backs up their efforts. -
KPIs Aren't Just About Assessing Past Performance
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleA dynamic scorecard can help you predict future performance too. -
The Balanced Scorecard: Measures That Drive Performance
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleExecutives know that a company's measurement systems strongly affect employee behaviors. But the traditional financial performance measures that worked... -
6 Factors That Determine Your Company's Valuation
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleInvestors have a quantitative understanding of how the market values a company. Management teams should too. -
When Unequal Pay Is Actually Fair
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticlePaying top performers more improves performance.
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Food Empire: Valuation and Investment
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Food Empire Holdings Limited (Food Empire) was a food and beverage brand owner and manufacturer of instant beverage products, frozen convenience food,... -
Dimensional Fund Advisors, 2002
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA) is an investment management firm that prides itself on basing its investment strategies on sound academic research. Many... -
The Financial Detective, 2005
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details The case presents the student with financial ratios for eight pairs of unidentified companies and asks them to mate the description of the company with... -
Premier Furniture Co.
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details A credit analyst for a furniture manufacturer is confronted with two customers who have exceeded their credit limits. The financial performance of each... -
Fabricato: The phoenix of Colombian textile industry
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details In March 2013, Alberto Silva, president of the newly appointed Board of Directors of Fabricato, one of Colombia's oldest textile companies, met with representatives... -
Note on Financial Accounting: The Financial Accounting 'Term Sheet'
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This note, which serves as a glossary, was constructed to ease the transition of students into financial accounting courses. The glossary includes both... -
Magnolia Community Initiative: A Network Approach to Population-Level Change
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This 2014 case describes how the Los Angeles-based Magnolia Community Initiative (MCI) - a network of 70 government, nonprofit and for-profit organizations... -
Mercury Athletic: Valuing the Opportunity
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In January 2007, West Coast Fashions, Inc., a large designer and marketer of branded apparel, announced a strategic reorganization that would result in... -
Generating Higher Value at IBM (B)
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details This case updates the events in "Generating Higher Value at IBM (A)," HBS case 215-058. -
A Primer on OKRs
Management Case Study8.95View Details The OKR framework is a popular goal-setting and strategy execution tool that uses goal setting through "Objectives" and measuring performance using "Key... -
Financial Intelligence for Entrepreneurs: What You Really Need to Know About the Numbers
32.00View Details Using the groundbreaking formula they introduced in their book "Financial Intelligence: A Manager's Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean," Karen... -
Maumee Commercial Dining Products, Inc.
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details In this case students must ascertain what financial ratios they recommend the company focus on and they must also decide how best to communicate, explain,... -
Finance: A Self-Paced Learning Program: Introductory Section
Finance & Accounting Tool70.00View Details The Introductory section of the Finance Self-Paced Learning Program presents the fundamental ratios and forecasting methods used to make business decisions.... -
Scranton Furniture Co.
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details A supplier questions the credit extended to two customers during a weak sales period. -
Tuplastibog: Is it Worth Continuing?
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Although Tuplastibog is a fictitious name, it is based on a real company that was created in 2014 by Juan Carlos Ordoñez, using financing from his family's... -
Case of the Unidentified Industries--2006
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Helps students to understand how the characteristics of a business are reflected in its financial statements. -
Home Depot, Inc.
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Home Depot, founded in 1978, pioneered the warehouse retailing concept in the home center industry. The company's niche strategy resulted in rapid growth... -
On the Use of Capital Efficiency Metrics
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This note describes capital efficiency metrics including RONA, ROIC, and EVA. This note is intended to be used with the case "Boeing 737 Industrial Footprint:... -
Circl: Coaching Skills Aiming to Promote Leadership and Social Impact
Management Case Study11.95View Details Circl Learning Limited (Circl), a United Kingdom-based organization that provided coaching training to professionals and diverse young leaders from under-represented... -
Financial Accounting Reading: Analyzing Financial Statements
Finance & Accounting Tool40.00View Details This Reading helps readers understand that financial ratios-one financial statement item divided by another-are used to create useful metrics. In other...
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Food Empire: Valuation and Investment
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Food Empire Holdings Limited (Food Empire) was a food and beverage brand owner and manufacturer of instant beverage products, frozen convenience food,... -
Increase Your Team's Motivation Five-Fold
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleIn a famous experiment, researchers ran a lottery with a twist. Half the participants were randomly assigned a lottery number. The remaining half were... -
Dimensional Fund Advisors, 2002
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA) is an investment management firm that prides itself on basing its investment strategies on sound academic research. Many... -
Why Do Employees Resist Change?
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleDespite the best efforts of senior executives, major change initiatives often fail. Those failures have at least one common root: Executives and employees... -
The Financial Detective, 2005
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details The case presents the student with financial ratios for eight pairs of unidentified companies and asks them to mate the description of the company with... -
Premier Furniture Co.
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details A credit analyst for a furniture manufacturer is confronted with two customers who have exceeded their credit limits. The financial performance of each... -
Fabricato: The phoenix of Colombian textile industry
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details In March 2013, Alberto Silva, president of the newly appointed Board of Directors of Fabricato, one of Colombia's oldest textile companies, met with representatives... -
Note on Financial Accounting: The Financial Accounting 'Term Sheet'
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This note, which serves as a glossary, was constructed to ease the transition of students into financial accounting courses. The glossary includes both... -
Magnolia Community Initiative: A Network Approach to Population-Level Change
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This 2014 case describes how the Los Angeles-based Magnolia Community Initiative (MCI) - a network of 70 government, nonprofit and for-profit organizations... -
Mercury Athletic: Valuing the Opportunity
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In January 2007, West Coast Fashions, Inc., a large designer and marketer of branded apparel, announced a strategic reorganization that would result in...