Corporate strategy

Strategies for leaders to align all three.

Too many companies communicate strategy as a set of aspirations, leaving employees in the dark about the intended direction.

Focus less on what your company can do and reimagine what it could do.

Competitive advantages don’t last as long as they used to.

For the past 20 years, the theory of disruptive innovation has been enormously influential in business circles and a powerful tool for predicting which...

Categorizing the problems and growth patterns of small businesses in a systematic way that is useful to entrepreneurs seems at first glance a hopeless task. Small businesses vary widely in size and capacity for growth. They are characterized by independence of action, differing organizational structures, and varied management styles. Yet on closer scrutiny, it becomes […]

Providers must lead the way in making value the overarching goal

The huge sums that private equity firms make on their investments evoke admiration and envy. Typically, these returns are attributed to the firms' aggressive...

This package begins with "What the West Gets Wrong About China," by Rana Mitter and Elsbeth Johnson, which discusses three fundamental misconceptions:...

Short-term pivots are unavoidable. But if they don’t align with your big-picture plan, they’ll likely fail.

By aligning executives' financial incentives with company strategy, a firm can inspire its management to deliver superior results. But it can be hard...

Many companies today rely on employees around the world, leveraging their diversity and local expertise to gain a competitive edge. However, geographically...

Today's dynamic markets and technologies have called into question the sustainability of competitive advantage. Under pressure to improve productivity,...

Understanding this new - and often confusing - asset class.

To employ logistics as an effective competitive lever, management should adapt logistics programs to support ongoing corporate strategies in the short-term...

Most executives believe that competing through business models is critical for success, but few have come to grips with how best to do so. One common...

A study of the diversification records of 33 large U.S. companies from 1950 to 1986 shows that diversification--whether through acquisition, joint venture,...

There is a disconnect in most companies between strategy formulation and strategy execution. On average, 95% of a company's employees are unaware of,...

More and more manufacturing companies are talking about what's often called the circular economy--in which businesses can create supply chains that recover...

Strategy, culture, and customer experience are just as important.

Supplements the (A) case.

The Best of Peter F. Drucker on Non-Profits and the Public Sector. Peter F. Drucker's classic and timeless insights on improving effectiveness in the...

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The case is set in early 2010, a few weeks after Agrium, a large fertilizer manufacturer and distributor, put an end to its attempt to acquire CF Industries...

Sahaj e-Village Limited, an initiative of SREI Infrastructure Finance Ltd, hoped to answer the need of the Indian government's National e-Governance Plan...

Synthetic biology start-up C16 Biosciences wants to solve a big problem: replace palm oil, a major contributor to deforestation and climate change, with...

It was January 2018. Nora Abd Manaf, Group Chief Human Capital Officer, Maybank, the largest bank by market capitalisation in Malaysia, is contemplating...

The case describes how a 120-year-old, domestic bank in Peru, focusing on A, B and C socio-economic segments and corporate banking, as well as boasting...

Dana Hall is a private all-girls school in New England facing a crisis in its mission. As social norms shift away from single-sex education, the school's...

Wallit is a service platform that provides location-based virtual "walls" on which people can write via their smart phones, but only when they are near...

Scholtes Waterservices was a second-generation family firm in the Netherlands that specialized in installing and selling water pipes, primarily for the...

Launched in 2000, ASOS was one of the world's largest online fashion specialists in 2016. Focusing on young consumers aged 16-25 years, the company offered...

The protagonist,David Dunwood, is a second-time search fund entrepreneur who in mid-2004 purchased Mountain Auto, a leading auto parts retailer in the...

Robert (Bob) A. McDonald just completed his service as the 8th United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA), successfully leading the beginnings of...

Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are important events in the life of any manager and company. However, the overwhelming evidence from years of research...

In December of 1993, two of Boston's largest and best known hospitals, Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women's, announced that they were setting...

CEO Emma Mcilroy and her team weighed the merits of two distinct business models, as they prepared for a funding pitch to scale Wildfang, a menswear-inspired...

AMóS Health and Hope was a Nicaraguan non-governmental organization (NGO) founded in 2007 to empower rural communities to establish their health needs...

Calveta Dining Services contracts with senior living facilities (SLFs) for the management of food service to residents. Created by Antonio Calveta and...

Read any news report on the housing market, and inevitably it will include facts or figures from the real estate data giant Zillow.com. The company initially...

Strategies for leaders to align all three.

Too many companies communicate strategy as a set of aspirations, leaving employees in the dark about the intended direction.

Focus less on what your company can do and reimagine what it could do.

Competitive advantages don’t last as long as they used to.

For the past 20 years, the theory of disruptive innovation has been enormously influential in business circles and a powerful tool for predicting which...

Categorizing the problems and growth patterns of small businesses in a systematic way that is useful to entrepreneurs seems at first glance a hopeless task. Small businesses vary widely in size and capacity for growth. They are characterized by independence of action, differing organizational structures, and varied management styles. Yet on closer scrutiny, it becomes […]

Providers must lead the way in making value the overarching goal

The huge sums that private equity firms make on their investments evoke admiration and envy. Typically, these returns are attributed to the firms' aggressive...

This package begins with "What the West Gets Wrong About China," by Rana Mitter and Elsbeth Johnson, which discusses three fundamental misconceptions:...

Short-term pivots are unavoidable. But if they don’t align with your big-picture plan, they’ll likely fail.