You may have followed the debate about HBR’s policy prohibiting professors from linking suggested HBR readings
to their own library’s paid subscriptions (see Joshua Gans’ blog posts on this and his Financial Times article on HBR and their journal list). I have increasingly used McKinsey Quarterly which makes their articles available for free (you need to register but that’s free). Here are some HBR alternatives that seem to work well (often by authors you know well):
Strategy process & org change
- DecisionBias-McKinseyQ0311
- StrategyDiamond-HambrickFredricksonAME01
- HiddenFlawsInStrategy-RoxburghMcKinseyQ03
- RadicalChange-IsernPung-McKinseyQ07
Internal Analysis and Competitive Advantage
- InternalAnalysis-AME
- Culture-FlyingPeopleNotPlanes-Simpson-McKinseyQ11a
- Barney-CultureCompetitiveAdvantage-AMR86
These are typically closed groups but you may be able to join if you ask the moderator nicely. If you have a page like this, please send me the URL and I am happy to add it to this post. Here are a couple of pages you might check out:
We often try to convey to students how value can be created in social networks as actors gain access to more resources and knowledge. This exercise is a simple game of bingo where players have a list of resources they need to find to win the game (4 boxes in a row). To play, they simply find people in the room with specific attributes or knowledge and have them sign their card. I have added a simple twist that they can complete one box using an indirect tie (e.g., a friend of a friend). This teaches the very basics of social networks and serves as a nice ice breaker as well. Here are two Bingo card created for: 1)
He suggests applying his
A recent
Team-Maker is a tool for assigning students to teams based on instructor-specified criteria. Instructors can choose from a library of questions, such as students’ schedules or majors, or write their own questions. Team-Maker collects the information from students and allows the instructor to assign use that information to assign students to teams based on the criteria and weighting that they choose. CATME Peer Evaluation is a tool for self- and peer evaluations of students’ contributions to their teams that is based on research. The system automates the data collection and analysis and allows instructors to release feedback to students. There are many optional follow-up questions about team processes that are taken from published research. CATME Rater Calibration allows instructors to assign students to practice using the CATME behaviorally anchored rating scale by rating fictitious team members. CATME Meeting Support provides templates for team charters, meeting agendas and minutes. Teamwork training modules are in development. The website shows research and other information about these tools.
Here the board didn’t want to take the company private “for the sake of the employees.” While the CEO was fired, the news has apparently fired up investors who may be interested in buying the company — now it may be in play regardless of what the board wanted.This seems like it might be helpful to drive home the different goals and objectives for different stakeholders, While the board accused Zimmer of being opportunistic,
Education Portal Academy offers these videos for free. The content is fairly basic but some of it might be very useful to augment other course materials. This could help you cover these topics outside of class if you want to do an experiential exercise in class (see, for example, 
How can you have a structure that flat? The company, a spawn from Microsoft, seems to be doing just fine thank you. The information at the following seven web links (including a podcast and the employee handbook) contain all of the raw material required for a live case: