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Reinventing the Leader Selection Process
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleThe U.S. Army has long struggled with toxic and inept leaders, and no wonder: It has historically chosen battalion commanders, a linchpin position, on... -
Look to Military History for Lessons in Crisis Leadership
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleEight lessons from some of history's greats. -
What Family Businesses Can Learn from the Military
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleHow to lead through turbulent times. -
4 Ways to Pressure-Test Strategic Decisions, Inspired by the U.S. Military
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleAssign a team to poke holes in your strategy. -
How Military Veterans Can Turn Their Skills into a Corporate Career
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleControl your narrative. -
Research: Companies Are Less Likely to Hire Current Military Reservists
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleEven though discrimination against them is illegal. -
Managing Climate Change: Lessons from the U.S. Navy
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThe U.S. Navy operates on the front lines of climate change. It manages tens of billions of dollars of assets on every continent and on every ocean, which... -
What the U.S. Military Can Teach Companies About Supporting Employees' Families
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticlePredictability and routines are important. -
Cybersecurity's Human Factor: Lessons from the Pentagon
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleWith cyberattacks soaring, corporations must step up efforts to protect their IT networks. Most firms could learn from the U.S. military, which has been... -
What Companies Can Learn from Military Teams
Leadership & Managing People InterviewA Q&A with former general Stanley McChrystal. -
A Military Leader's Approach to Dealing with Complexity
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleCraft your vision in pencil, not ink. -
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
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleIs a decline in CEOs with military experience creating an ethics gap? -
Leading with a Light Footprint
Strategy & Execution VideoCharles-Edouard Bouee, COO at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, applies "light footprint" military doctrine to management. -
What Ever Happened to Accountability?
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleWhen leaders don't fire incompetent executives, they send a bad message to the whole organization. A case in point is the U.S. Army. "To study the change... -
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... -
Life's Work: Michelle Bachelet
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleAs a young woman, Bachelet was tortured and exiled by the Chilean government. She went on to become the country's first female president. Here's a look... -
Which of These People Is Your Future CEO? The Different Ways Military Experience Prepares Managers for Leadership
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleAmericans have long believed that U.S. military officers-trained for high-stakes positions, resilience, and mental agility-make excellent CEOs. That belief... -
How the UK's Royal Marines Plan in the Face of Uncertainty
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleDespite shocks such as the Gulf oil spill and the global banking crisis, corporations still treat the world as a predictable place. Instead, they should... -
Extreme Negotiations
Communication Magazine ArticleCEOs and other senior executives these days must manage countless complex, high-stakes conversations across functional areas and divisions, with alliance...
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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
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details The Greening Marines case is appropriate for undergraduate or graduate courses in management, change management, technology implementation, and sustainability... -
Depart, Depart, Depart!
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Army First Lieutenant (1LT) Gavin Bell joined his unit in Afghanistan only weeks after graduating helicopter flight school in the United States. A new... -
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
28.00View Details What does it take for women to succeed in a male-dominated world? The Grit Factor. At age nineteen, Shannon Huffman Polson became the youngest woman ever... -
Operation Bramble Bush (B)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details Case Supplement for Case OM39A -
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... -
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... -
The Rise of China
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details There is little doubt that China will be a significant power in the 21st century. The question is what kind of global actor will it be? This two-part... -
A Cascade of Emergencies (A): Responding to Superstorm Sandy in New York City
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details On October 29, 2012, Superstorm Sandy made landfall near Atlantic City, New Jersey. Sandy's massive size, coupled with an unusual combination of meteorological... -
Leadership Under High Pressure
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details When managers are confronted with a corporate crisis, they have to operate under conditions that differ fundamentally from those experienced during normal... -
Into Local Streets: Maryland National Guard and the Baltimore Riots, Epilogue
Global Business Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case KS1253. On April 19, 2015, Freddie Gray, a young African American male, died while in the custody of the Baltimore Police. In response... -
Conflict Management in Teams: For Military and Government
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Despite the hierarchical power structures in the military and government, as they reach more senior levels, leaders routinely operate in peer-to-peer... -
Mission in Flux: Michigan National Guard in Liberia
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In summer and fall of 2014, thousands of individuals in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea contracted the Ebola virus. This outbreak of the deadly disease,...
