Clarabec vs. Big Mall: Confidential instructions for Jean Bernard (B)
This is the second part of the team-to-team interaction negotiation between Jean Bernard, a national account manager in the Hygiene division of Clarabec France and Maurice Charles, the national buy…
Five lessons business could learn from the Olympics
Discover how Paris overcame uncertainty to successfully host the 2024 Olympics, demonstrating crisis management, leadership and excellent commercial expertise.
Hitting ‘factory reset:’ How a willingness to recognize error and initiate systemic change can save your business
Too few businesses are learning from their mistakes, warn Carlos Cordon and Sameh Abadir of IMD, leaving their organizations underperforming and vulnerable.
Managing Partnership Misfits
The dominant approach to managing project partners—first proposed by Aubrey Mendelow at an information systems conference in 1991—recommends mobilizing allies and transforming fence-sitters and blo…
J.M. Huber Corporation: Testing the limits of resilience capabilities
As circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic continued to shift and evolve, J.M. Huber Corporation (Huber) remained focused on protecting its employees, maintaining business continuity, and on advanci…
Applied strategic management by managers in the hotel and tourism industry in Cyprus and Greece during the COVID-19 pandemic
This qualitative study was conducted to help combat the adverse effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of the study was to offer practical and tactical strategies for navigating the uncertai…
As M&A failure soars, here’s how to walk away from a deal unscathed
The global dealmaking boom is going into hard reverse as big transactions are shelved, underscoring the need for executives to strengthen negotiation tactics and exit strategies in order to preserv…
Firmenich: Juggling the short and the long term (Cartoon case)
Formatted like a comic-strip, this case showcases how Firmenich achieved resilience and strong sustainability commitments thanks to its family ownership. The case investigates how family ownership …
Taking control in a crisis starts with looking within
You can regain a sense of control in crisis and even innovate, if you practice acceptance and self-awareness.
J.M. Huber Corporation: Leadership succession in the face of two economic crises
J.M. Huber, one of the largest and oldest family-held companies in the US, had strategically repositioned itself several times since it was founded in 1883 as a dry-color business. Visionary family…