Management styles

Three ways to stop cynicism from holding you and your organization back.

An analysis of the activities of key managers in 31 case studies suggests that managers who consistently accomplish a lot are notably inconsistent in...

What to say when you don't have all the information.

When it comes time to hire or promote, top executives routinely overvalue certain skills and traits while overlooking others. Intuitively, for example,...

The would-be analyst of leadership usually studies popularity, power, showmanship, or wisdom in long-range planning. But none of these qualities is the...

Change or perish is a corporate truism, but so is its unhappy corollary: many companies change and perish. The process of change can tear an organization...

Decades of short-term management have inflated the importance of CEOs and reduced employees to fungible commodities. Middle managers, who see the connections...

Have you ever worked for a company that's acquired another, or that's been acquired? Given the worldwide volume of M&A activity, most managers would answer...

Three key concepts are fundamental to professional services, and serve as a guide to the buying or selling of these services. First, a professional service...

After Disney's Michael Eisner, Miramax's Harvey Weinstein, and Hewlett-Packard's Carly Fiorina fell from their heights of power, the business media quickly...

As Paul Kennedy sits in Cleveland's endless morning traffic, his thoughts are going in all sorts of directions, even if he's not. He's worried about his...

Businesspeople tend to be extroverts, taking a lively interest in others and preferring action to introspection. But to be fully effective as leaders,...

Forget "getting back to basics." They need to get out of the woods.

What has long been recognized by teachers, physicians, and behavioral scientists holds true for management: One person's expectations shape another person's...

Purpose, process, or performance?

An Indian hospital creates a new customer liaison role--the patient care executive--but as its rate of attrition for physicians rises in an extremely...

Researchers have established that trust is critical to organizational effectiveness. Being trustworthy yourself, however, does not guarantee that you...

Not long ago, the ability to create smart data visualizations (or dataviz) was a nice-to-have skill for design- and data-minded managers. But now it's...

Siebel Systems is one of the fastest growing companies in America. Tom Siebel, the company's founder, has organized the business to accommodate growth...

Details changes in the senior management roster at Nike, focusing on the appointment of Robert Woodell as the company's new president.

The law firm, Sloan & Harrison, was dealing with some discontent among its junior non-equity partners. These partners were concerned with the transparency...

This case traces the rise of Ronald Reagan from small town Illinois to two-term president of the United States. An unlikely candidate for the world's...

GE is faced with Jack Welch's impending retirement and whether anyone can sustain the blistering pace of change and growth characteristic of the Welch...

Supplement to case W16873.

Raises questions about basing a reward system on profit and changing MBO indicators through time.

The one primer you need to develop your managerial and leadership skills. Whether you're a new manager or looking to have more influence in your current...

Supplements the (A) case.

Profiles the career of a Emmet Stephenson, the founder of over a dozen successful companies, as a model of entrepreneurship and management.

Provides an overview of the history and development of the e-consulting industry, as well as the issues facing it.

Witnessing numerous lawsuits alleging that online platform companies misclassified workers as contractors when they were actually employees, Handy's founders...

Supplements the (A) case.

Mat MacGregor took charge of a failing project but failed to turn it around because of a variety of personal, technical, cultural, and political reasons....

The case describes the story of three generations of a business family, who owned and managed a beautiful resort. The family story includes traumatic...

The one primer you need to develop your managerial and leadership skills. Whether you're a new manager or looking to have more influence in your current...

Supplements the (A) case.

Become a Better Leader by Improving Your Emotional Intelligence. Bestselling author DANIEL GOLEMAN first brought the concept of emotional intelligence...

Siebel Systems is one of the fastest growing companies in America. Tom Siebel, the company's founder, has organized the business to accommodate growth...

Three ways to stop cynicism from holding you and your organization back.

Details changes in the senior management roster at Nike, focusing on the appointment of Robert Woodell as the company's new president.

The law firm, Sloan & Harrison, was dealing with some discontent among its junior non-equity partners. These partners were concerned with the transparency...

An analysis of the activities of key managers in 31 case studies suggests that managers who consistently accomplish a lot are notably inconsistent in...

What to say when you don't have all the information.

When it comes time to hire or promote, top executives routinely overvalue certain skills and traits while overlooking others. Intuitively, for example,...

This case traces the rise of Ronald Reagan from small town Illinois to two-term president of the United States. An unlikely candidate for the world's...