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Leaders Who Make a Difference: Joel Klein's Transformation of NYC's DOE, Day 1 (Multimedia Case)

Joel Klein takes over NYC's public schools and begins to reform the nation's largest system by depoliticizing, rationalizing management, and confronting the union so that the focus is on the kids...

Marquee: The Business of Nightlife (Multimedia Case)

In December 2008, nightlife impresario Noah Tepperberg celebrated the fifth anniversary of his New York City nightclub Marquee. While most clubs are over within their first one-and-a-half years,...

Leaders Who Make a Difference: Sam Palmisano's Smarter IBM: Day 1 (Multimedia Case)

Sam Palmisano explains the moves he made to transform IBM into a faster growing, more profitable company focused on IT solutions to the problems of companies, cities, and nations. One year...

HBR's Go to Market Tools: Pricing for Profit

WHAT PRICE IS RIGHT? Figuring out the best price for your product or service can be nerve-wracking. Your new product launch or marketing campaign's success--perhaps even your career advancement--may...

HBR's Go to Market Tools: Market Sizing

MARKET SIZE MATTERS. On the hook to launch your division's next great product or service? Need to convince higher ups that your product will fill that gaping revenue hole--and is worth the team's...

Spreadsheet Modeling Self-Paced Learning Program: Excel 2013: Introductory Section

This course material is the Introductory Section from the complete Spreadsheet Modeling Online Course. he Introductory Section of the updated Spreadsheet Modeling Online Course: Excel 2013 provides...

Spreadsheet Modeling: Excel 2013: A Self-Paced Learning Program

The updated Spreadsheet Modeling teaches you how to use Microsoft Excel 2013 as both a reporting tool and a modeling tool for solving business problems. It is appropriate for both beginning and...

Spreadsheet Modeling Self-Paced Learning Program: Excel 2013: Advanced Section

This course material is the Advanced Section from the complete Spreadsheet Modeling Online Course. The Advanced Section of the updated Spreadsheet Modeling Online Course: Excel 2013 teaches you how...

Pricing Simulation: Universal Rental Car V2

This simulation will help you understand the principles of pricing in a dynamic and realistic management environment. The setting is a Florida rental car agency, where you'll assume the role of a...

Mathematics for Management: A Self-Paced Learning Program: Statistics Section

One year single user license.The Statistics Section of Mathematics for Management covers statistical concepts commonly applied within an MBA curriculum. The section includes: Summation Notation /...

Mathematics for Management: A Self-Paced Learning Program: Calculus Section

One year single user license.The Calculus Section of the Mathematics for Management Self-Paced Learning Program reviews the calculus topics that students encounter in an MBA curriculum. The section...

Mathematics for Management: A Self-Paced Learning Program: Algebra Section

One year single user license.The Algebra Section of Mathematics for Management covers the essential algebra concepts that students need to know when pursuing a business education. The section...

Mathematics for Management: A Self-Paced Learning Program

One year single user license.Master the key math concepts and skills needed to handle quantitative business problems. Developed by Harvard Business School faculty for use in MBA and executive...

Mathematics for Management: A Self-Paced Learning Program: Finance Section

One year single user license.The Finance Section of Mathematics for Management covers the essential concepts in finance that students need to know as part of the MBA curriculum. The section includes:...

Mathematics for Management: A Self-Paced Learning Program: Probability Section

One year single user license.The Probability Section of the Mathematics for Management Self-Paced Learning Program reviews the fundamentals of predicting outcomes in a business setting. The section...

Tools from "The Innovator's Guide to Growth"

There's a pervasive belief that innovation is random and unpredictable. The Innovator's Guide to Growth, however, argues that there are patterns that separate successful innovations from failed...

Assessing Your Innovation Environment: A Tool from "The Innovator's Guide to Growth"

When implementing innovation structures, it's important to determine the resources, intensity and executive leadership required to launch the effort. This tool can help.This tool is adapted from "The...

Invest a Little, Learn a Lot: A Tool from "The Innovator's Guide to Growth"

It is important when designing and executing knowledge--building exercises to keep them simple and low-cost. This checklist will help you.This tool is excerpted from "The Innovator's Guide to Growth:...

Assumptions and Risks: A Tool from "The Innovator's Guide to Growth"

Before you take an uncertain idea forward, it's important to take inventory of the good, the bad and the unknown. This tool will help you map out and weigh the assumptions that would have to be true...

Conditions for Success: A Tool from "The Innovator's Guide to Growth"

This table describes the 12 items critical to the success of new growth strategies. While this basic disruptive pattern holds true across most industries, companies need to develop their own...

Identifying Opportunities Ladders: A Tool from "The Innovator's Guide to Growth"

Jobs-based thinking illuminates opportunities to innovate in the marketplace. These opportunities stem primarily from identifying jobs for which existing solutions are ineffective or nonexistent...

The Importance of Understanding Your Customers: A Tool from "The Innovator's Guide to Growth"

Focus groups are one of the most reliable ways to obtain feedback from customers and learn more about a marketplace. In essence, focus groups are an inexpensive way to begin innovation-based...

Spotting Constraints on Consumption: A Tool from "The Innovator's Guide to Growth"

A legitimate constraint on consumption almost always presents opportunities for innovation. What specifically should you do once you spot such a constraint? The prescription is simple: develop a...

Identifying Goals and Boundaries: A Tool from "The Innovator's Guide to Growth"

Many companies subscribe to a notion that the way to unleash innovation is to let chaos reign. According to this theory, companies should seek to avoid constraining innovation, instead seeking ways...

Management Communication Self-Paced Learning Program: Writing Section

The Management Communications self-paced learning program provides you with the skills and guided practice necessary to master fundamental concepts in business communication. This course section...

Management Communication: A Self-Paced Learning Program

Communicating effectively can make all the difference between success and failure as a manager. Developed by business school faculty for use in MBA, undergraduate and executive education courses at...

Financial Accounting: A Self-Paced Learning Program: Introductory Section

One year single user license.The Introductory section of the Financial Accounting Self-Paced Learning Program provides an overview of the business transactions and reports used in financial...

Financial Accounting: A Self-Paced Learning Program

One year single user license.The Financial Accounting Self-Paced Learning Program is an introduction to the fundamental concepts of financial accounting in a management context. Developed by Harvard...

Quantitative Methods: A Self-Paced Learning Program: Regression Section

One year single user license.The Regression section of the Quantitative Methods Self-Paced Learning Program teaches the basics of single and multiple regression analysis. Program topics include:...

Quantitative Methods: A Self-Paced Learning Program

One year single user license.Quantitative Methods Self-Paced Learning Program is an introduction to using statistical methods to solve business problems. Developed by Harvard Business School faculty...

Mountain Dew: Selecting New Creative (Multimedia Case)

The key role of selecting creative in brand communications, the problems with building a brand in a turbulent cultural environment, the challenges of extending an advertising campaign, and the senior...

Real Madrid Club de Futbol (Multimedia Case)

In June 2004, Florentino Perez, a well-known Spanish businessman, was elected president of Real Madrid, one of the world's top soccer clubs. In his campaign, Perez had promised to turn around the...

WIKIPEDIA (Multimedia Case)

Wikipedia has emerged as a robust model for content production by volunteers working asynchronously on the Internet with a unconventional model for distributed decision making. The "Articles for...

Mibanco: Meeting the Mainstreaming of Microfinance (Multimedia Case)

Facing an increasingly competitive microfinance market in Peru, Mibanco must continually optimize its product offerings, marketing operations, and human resource management to stay on top. This...

Bridgewater Associates (Multimedia Case)

Bridgewater Associates was the world's largest hedge fund with approximately $120 billion in assets under management in mid-2012, and its leaders attribute its record-beating performance to the...

Zappos.com 2009: Clothing, Customer Service, and Company Culture (Multimedia Case)

On July 17, 2009, Zappos.com, a privately-held online retailer of shoes, clothing, and other soft-line retail categories, learned that Amazon.com, a $19 billion multinational online retailer, had won...

Paul Levy: Taking Charge of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Multimedia Case)

On January 7, 2002, Paul Levy became CEO of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He took over a troubled organization, in serious financial difficulty. This multimedia case describes the...

Threadless: The Business of Community (Multimedia Case)

Threadless.com, the online, Chicago-based t-shirt company, was not your typical fashion apparel company. The company, run by Jake Nickell, Jacob DeHart, and Jeffrey Kalmikoff, turned the fashion...

Terror at the Taj Bombay: Customer-Centric Leadership (Multimedia Case)

On November 26, 2008, heavily armed terrorists launched a series of attacks throughout the western-Indian city of Mumbai (formerly Bombay). One of the locations attacked was the Taj Mahal Palace and...

The Collaboration Toolkit: Tools adapted from the Book "Collaboration: How Leaders Avoid the Traps, Create Unity, and Reap Big Results"

You've read the book. Now, put what you've learned into practice. Get collaboration right with this collection of handy and practical surveys and self-assessments derived from Morten T. Hansen's...

Leadership, Culture, and Transition at lululemon (Multimedia Case)

The case examines leadership and organizational change within a strong culture context through a multimedia study of lululemon, a specialty retailer of high-end athletic apparel. Video segments trace...

Marks & Spencer: The Phoenix Rises (Multimedia Case)

Enables users to interactively research the steps Marks & Spencer's top executives took to restore prosperity and explore in depth the major issues remaining. The perspective is that of Luc...

Lenovo: Building A Global Brand (Multimedia Case)

Announced in December 2004, the $1.75 billion acquisition of IBM's PC division by Lenovo, China's largest PC maker, made headlines around the world. A relative upstart in the business, Lenovo...

Irene Rodakis (Multimedia Case)

Traces the career decision-making process of Irene Rodakis, an MBA student, from her second year of graduate school through five (plus) years post-graduation. Rodakis faces numerous career-decision...

Jeff Sloane (Multimedia Case)

Traces the career decision-making process of Jeff Sloane, an MBA student, from his second year of graduate school through five (plus) years post-graduation. Sloane encounters many significant...

Launching the New MINI (Multimedia Case)

Focuses on how strategy is transformed into creative branding materials. Reports on the development of a wide variety of brand communication materials produced to support the MINI launch in the...

Enterprise Risk Management at Hydro One (Multimedia Case)

An early adopter of Enterprise Risk Management, energy giant Hydro One anticipated new threats and opportunities in an industry that faced climate change and carbon legislation, the deregulation of...

Burt's Bees: Balancing Growth and Sustainability (Multimedia Case)

The case examines sustainability initiatives at Burt's Bees, with video segments that detail the company's history, leadership, and implementation of ambitious 2020 sustainability goals. The company...

Horizon Wind Energy (Multimedia Case)

The focus of the case is the company's challenge selling highly varied value propositions its many constituents. Stakeholders include farmers and landowners, environmentalists, politicians,...

Nehemiah Strategy: Bringing It to Boston (Multimedia Case)

In 2003, Lee Stuart was working with the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization to implement an affordable housing initiative in Boston. She and her colleagues faced a number of challenges in...

GE's Two-Decade Transformation: Jack Welch's Leadership (Multimedia Case)

General Electric is faced with Welch's impending retirement, and the question on many minds is whether anyone can sustain the blistering pace of change and growth characteristic of the Welch era...