Shlomo Ben-Hur

In a world where buzzwords come and go, artificial intelligence has been remarkably durable. Since it first emerged as a concept in the 1950s, there has been a relatively constant flow of technolog...

In some companies, traditional annual review processes are being replaced by ongoing efforts to help employees improve their performance. The challenge? Many managers aren’t confident they can chan...

The approach we have presented is a practical way of addressing the key strategic question for corporate learning: “Are we doing enough of the right things to develop the capabilities our people ne...

Big data is all the rage in HR recently. But more immediately promising is the talk of small data — of more effectively managing the data we already have before we start thinking about analyzing mo...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the country-level drivers of managers’ and executives’ mobility. Both sub-groups play a fundamental role in entrepreneurship, innovation and ultimat...

The case examines a number of critical episodes in the growth of SodaStream International Ltd., an Israeli maker of home beverage carbonation products. In particular, the case centers on the role ...

This case overviews the significant redesign of the flagship leadership programs at GE’s world-renowned corporate university (Crotonville). The trigger for the redesign was the shift in GE’s strate...

This case illustrates how a leader’s lack of self-awareness can derail his or her career and sabotage the performance of a company. It features Shai Agassi, founder and CEO of Better Place, a chari...

Hong Kong Broadband Network (HKBN) charted a success story starting out as the smallest new entrant in Hong Kong’s highly competitive telecom industry in 1999 and went on to become the second large...

The approach we have presented is a practical way of addressing the key strategic question for corporate learning: “Are we doing enough of the right things to develop the capabilities our people ne...

The case examines Hilti’s implementation of a companywide learning management system (LMS) and its efforts to increase use of e-learning for corporate training. In 2007, the company sought to conso...

Talent management has received much attention in recent years, yet despite enormous effort and investment, it is built on broken foundations. Beneath all the succession plans and talent pools, tale...

The case updates and supplements Case IMD-3-2313: Re-Imagining Crotonville: Epicenter of GE’s Leadership Culture. The first case examined the history and evolution of GE’s corporate university in ...

This case tells the story of Capgemini’s transformation from a federation of national firms into one of the top five global players in its industry and how it uses its corporate learning function, ...

The case tells the story of the transformation of the corporate learning function at Nike Inc. and the creation and branding of the Nike U. It provides an account of the transformation plan that w...

The case examines the evolution of GE’s corporate university in Crotonville, NY from its founding in 1956 through 2010 and the start of an effort of “Re-Imagining Crotonville.” One of the world’s f...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a systemic approach to understanding the challenges facing executive teams in making good decisions and propose a simple framework for addressing t...

The purpose of this paper is to outline a model of leadership based on the characteristics of the most highly acclaimed leader in Jewish history, Moses. The lessons from his leadership that are app...

This is a classic transformation case, made more complex by the fact that it involves a huge organization and that it is led by a youthful company insider, René Obermann. The two-part case study co...

The more senior your role, the less you drive results by directly doing things yourself and the more you get things done through engaging, directing and influencing others. If you can’t build effec...

Understanding the innate code that influences how you think, feel, and act can improve your leadership.

Are you more of an optimist or a pessimist? It’s important to realize because as a leader, it can affect not just you and how you think, but also the culture you create and what the people you lead...

Motivation can be done right through a right mix of positive and negative reinforcement.

Perhaps the most obvious impact of the pandemic on our expectations of change was that for many observers—both academics and leaders—the speed with which change happened was shocking. We’re not tal...

COVID-19 has undoubtedly been a stressor to the system, but in terms of corporate education, the writing was on the wall way before the pandemic struck. Learning & Development (L&D) is in desperate...

Even before the coronavirus crisis, some of the most out-of-the-box thinking about how to solve the tech hiring crisis was around ways to draft underrepresented populations into the tech economy.

In a world where buzzwords come and go, artificial intelligence has been remarkably durable. Since it first emerged as a concept in the 1950s, there has been a relatively constant flow of technolog...

Elon Musk’s behavior has become increasingly narcissistic, controlling and concerning of late; when combined with increasing financial losses, a weak board of directors and execution concerns, Tesl...

PepsiCo announced it would acquire SodaStream for US$3.2 billion, a 10% premium on SodaStream’s stock price and a 100% increase since the beginning of 2018.

In some companies, traditional annual review processes are being replaced by ongoing efforts to help employees improve their performance. The challenge? Many managers aren’t confident they can chan...