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- November 2012 (Revised September 2013)
- Case
Learning Resources: A Hands-On Toy Company Deals with New Challenges and Opportunities
By: Boris Groysberg and Anahita Hashemi
Learning Resources is a family-owned educational toy company that, by late 2011, was facing a myriad of challenges, including increased competition, entry into new markets, new distribution methods, rising costs of production in China, and changing customer behavior.... View Details
Keywords: Leading Teams; Strategy Formulation; Strategy And Execution; Innovation; Corporate Culture; Industry Analysis; Organizational Alignment; Entrepreneurs; Sales Channels; Leadership; Strategy; Change Management; Innovation Leadership; Family Business; Entrepreneurship; Product Design; Sales; Retail Industry; United States
- November 14, 2012
- Article
Two Candidates, Two Distinct Ways of Communicating
By: Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind
- September 21, 2012
- Article
A Presidential Campaign Should Be a Conversation
By: Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind
- August 21, 2012
- Article
How Microsoft and Netflix Lost Their Way
By: Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind
- June 20, 2012
- Article
Four Ways to Become a More Interactive Leader
By: Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind
- June 2012 (Revised May 2013)
- Case
A.P. Møller - Maersk Group: Evaluating Strategic Talent Management Initiatives
By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
In 2012, Bill Allen and Maria Pejter, of Maersk Group's Human Resources Department, sat down to consider some key aspects of Maersk's talent management strategy. Headquartered in Copenhagen, Maersk was a global conglomerate with large shipping and oil & gas businesses.... View Details
- June 11, 2012
- Article
Conversation Starter: How Intimate Are You?
By: Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind
- June 2012
- Article
Leadership Is a Conversation
By: Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind
Globalization and new technologies have sharply reduced the efficacy of command-and-control management and its accompanying forms of corporate communication. In the course of a recent research project, the authors concluded that by talking with employees, rather than... View Details
- 2012
- Book
Talk, Inc. : How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations
By: Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind
How can leaders make their big or growing companies feel small again? How can they recapture the "magic"--the tight strategic alignment, the high level of employee engagement--that drove and animated their organization when it was a start-up? As more and more... View Details
- Article
The Stock Selection and Performance of Buy-Side Analysts
We examine the selection and performance of stocks recommended by analysts at a large investment firm relative to those of sell-side analysts during the period mid-1997 and 2004. The buy-side firm's analysts issued less optimistic recommendations for stocks with larger... View Details
- October 2011
- Article
How to Hang on to Your High Potentials
By: Claudio Fernández-Aráoz, Boris Groysberg and Nitin Nohria