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How Smaller Manufacturers Can Upgrade Their Tech
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How Software Companies Can Enter the U.S. Defense Market
Government Digital ArticleCumbersome old Pentagon procurement processes are falling away, and VCs are paying attention. -
Reinventing the Leader Selection Process
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Look to Military History for Lessons in Crisis Leadership
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What Family Businesses Can Learn from the Military
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Managing High-Stakes Situations: 5 Lessons from the Pentagon
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4 Ways to Pressure-Test Strategic Decisions, Inspired by the U.S. Military
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How Military Veterans Can Turn Their Skills into a Corporate Career
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Research: Companies Are Less Likely to Hire Current Military Reservists
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Managing Climate Change: Lessons from the U.S. Navy
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What the U.S. Military Can Teach Companies About Supporting Employees' Families
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Cybersecurity's Human Factor: Lessons from the Pentagon
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What Companies Can Learn from Military Teams
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A Military Leader's Approach to Dealing with Complexity
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To Lead, You Must Focus
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThe 75th secretary of the U.S. Navy writes about how to lead a large, complex organization that is interdependent with other large and complex entities.... -
What Military Service Could Teach MBAs
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Leading with a Light Footprint
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The Booming Business of Drones
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What Ever Happened to Accountability?
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Life's Work: Admiral Mike Mullen
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleAlthough the first ship he ever commanded crashed into a buoy, Mullen rose through the ranks to serve two presidents as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of...
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Space to Grow: Unlocking the Final Economic Frontier
Management Book32.00View Details Your guide--using the compelling stories of changemakers and the tools of economics--to the transformation and future possibilities of the business and... -
Greg Linton and Tightline Anchor Inc. - Managing Growth
Management Case Study11.95View Details In April 2023, Greg Linton, the founder and chief executive officer of Tightline Anchor Inc., a start-up that sells innovative anchors to the personal... -
How a Good Strategy Can Fail: Leadership Lessons from Napoleon's Rise and Fall
Management Case Study11.95View Details Napoleon was a blue ocean strategist ahead of his time. With his innovative approach to military warfare, he reshaped conventional war strategies. But... -
Sparking Innovation in the U.S. Air Force
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Pink, White, and Blue: A Transgender Sailor, the U.S. Navy, and a Right vs. Right Ethical Dilemma
Management Case Study11.95View Details Pink, White and Blue is appropriate for undergraduate or graduate courses in management, business ethics, organizational behavior, leadership, or human... -
Greening Marines? Reducing Energy Use in the U.S. Marine Corps
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Depart, Depart, Depart!
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Lessons in Crisis Leadership: From Peacetime to Post-911
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details The 911 terrorist attacks in the United States in 2001 shook the world and changed the modus operandi of security forces around the world. The Singapore... -
The Grit Factor: Courage, Resilience, and Leadership in the Most Male-Dominated Organization in the World
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Operation Bramble Bush (B)
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Operation Bramble Bush (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details In the pre-dawn hours of August 2, 1990, Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein ordered his army to invade the neighboring, oil-rich state of Kuwait; within two... -
Managing a Security Response to the Ebola Epidemic in Liberia (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details On August 19, 2014, Liberia President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was faced with an agonizing decision: should she quarantine a densely populated township of... -
Managing a Security Response to the Ebola Epidemic in Liberia (Epilogue)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details On August 19, 2014, Liberia President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was faced with an agonizing decision: should she quarantine a densely populated township of... -
Managing a Security Response to the Ebola Epidemic in Liberia (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details On August 19, 2014, Liberia President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was faced with an agonizing decision: should she quarantine a densely populated township of... -
Creating Accountability in Afghanistan
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details By early 2019, the United States had contributed $132 billion to the Afghan reconstruction. John Sopko, in his role as the Special Inspector General for... -
Lockheed Martin and Leidos Holdings: A Reverse Morris What?
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details This case is from the point of view of Peter Clarke, Vice President of Mergers and Acquisitions for Lockheed Martin's Information Systems and Global solutions... -
Note on Warfare in Eastern Philosophy
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This note on warfare summarizes treatises by Chinese (e.g., Sun Tzu, The Art of War, ca. 500 BC) and Japanese (e.g., Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five... -
Shield AI
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Google and Project Maven (B): An Eventful Week in June
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details In April 2018, after it became known that Google was collaborating with the US Department of Defense on Project Maven, over 3,000 employees signed an...
