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Guided Free Enterprise in Japan
International business Magazine ArticleThe widely held notion of “Japan, Inc.” is exaggerated; there is no monolithic business-government link. Even so, the cooperation (without incorporation) between the large corporate combines and the government bureaucracy is impressive in its strength and focus on the common economic good—especially in view of its achievements worldwide. As the economic power of the United […] -
How Much Truth Should You Share?
Business ethics Digital ArticleComments for this Make Your Case installment are now closed. Thanks to all who participated. This week’s guest commentator, Marshall Goldsmith, has posted his response to your comments and shared some thoughts of his own below. The opening to your cube is darkened by the familiar figure of a longtime colleague. Though you’re his immediate […] -
Yes, Short-Termism Really Is a Problem
Business and society Digital ArticleWe don’t need to prove it because we can all see it. -
Test Your Board's Readiness for the Post-Covid Era
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleQuestions that every board should be asking itself right now. -
Collaborating with Congregations: Opportunities for Financial Services in the Inner City
Economics Magazine ArticleBy pooling the resources of the poor and by sharing information, religious and financial institutions can work together to change inner-city economies. -
How Would Copernicus See Capitalism?
Economics Digital ArticleWe’ve been sharing thoughts in this blog about how the rapid growth of the emerging economies, along with other modern realities, will reshape the practice — and thus rewrite the rules — of capitalism. Many readers are aware that these are ideas in development for our forthcoming book on the topic. This week we decided […] -
Margaret Thatcher, Fighter
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The Case of the Religious Network Group
Diversity and inclusion Magazine ArticleNetwork groups for black and Hispanic employees had been an unqualified success. Now a Christian group was forming—and Bill Thompson didn’t know what to think about it. -
Why Network Neutrality Is Good for Business
Web-based technologies Digital ArticleEditor’s note: For an opposing viewpoint on this topic, see Robert E. Litan’s and Hal J. Singer’s entry “Why Business Should Oppose Net Neutrality.” In business school, where I teach, students are often predisposed to see legal concepts as impenetrable and foreign. I watch the lightbulbs go on as they see that Microsoft’s antitrust woes, […] -
Workers Don’t Have the Skills They Need – and They Know It
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What Happens When AI is Used to Set Grades?
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleThe International Baccalaureate tried it. Here are the results. -
This Program Uses Lean Startup Techniques to Turn Scientists into Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleAnd it’s changing the way they do science. -
Research: Opposition to Federal Spending Is Driven by Racial Resentment
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Women of the Workplace, Uniting
Gender Digital ArticleBetween waves of layoffs and evaporating job opportunities, we’re in a climate that naturally breeds an every-woman-for-herself mentality. A recent study by the Workplace Bullying Institute found that female bullies were alive — and, more than 70 percent of the time, kicking other women. But I’ve also seen companies encouraging their smart women to help […] -
The Age of Customer Capitalism
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleModern capitalism can be broken down into two major eras. The first, managerial capitalism, began in 1932 and was defined by the then radical notion that... -
Solve America’s Employment Crisis With a Netflix Prize
Innovation Digital ArticleAn entire generation’s prosperity vanishing, food stamp use exploding. Welcome to the jobless future. This month’s jobs numbers drive home the point. The unemployment rate fell at the fastest rate for years — great news, right? Wrong. The lion’s share of the gains came from (wait for it) “temporary help services.” See what just happened? […] -
Why Do Companies Succumb to Price Fixing?
Government policy and regulation Magazine ArticleWhen Ben Franklin wrote Poor Richard’s Almanac and the words, “A little neglect may breed great mischief,” he did not have price fixing in mind. To the 47 executives in companies in the folding-box industry convicted of price fixing, however, the words seem tailored to fit. In those companies convicted under antitrust laws in 1976, […] -
The "Wages Are Skyrocketing" Narrative Is False
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“Actually,” She Said, “He Works for Me.”
Consumer behavior Digital ArticleSurprised by a gender stereotype? React calmly, directly, and move on. -
On Obama, Race, and the Workplace
Race Digital ArticleIt was Barack Obama who got me thinking a lot about race in the workplace lately and wondering just how much progress we’ve made — at least here in the U.S. I began with a somewhat optimistic point of view and things just went downhill from there. Obama, of course, has been heralded for his […]
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Research: Speed Matters When Companies Respond to Social Issues
Business and society Digital ArticleAn analysis of Instagram posts by Fortune 500 companies after George Floyd’s murder found that customers were skeptical of those who waited too long to make a statement. -
How to Assess True Macroeconomic Risk
Economics Magazine ArticleModels and forecasts can be seductive, but it’s time for executives to reclaim their economic judgment. -
Life’s Work: An Interview with Darius Rucker
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The CEO of Sodexo on Building More-Sustainable Food Systems
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Disclosing Downstream Emissions
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How Smaller Companies Can Join the Circular Economy
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How to Improve the Hiring Process for Disabled Candidates
Disabilities Digital ArticleIt takes more than lip service to convince disabled job applicants to apply to your company. These research-backed practices can demonstrate that you’re a truly equitable employer. -
How Micro-Choices and Games Motivate Gig Workers
Labor Digital ArticleRide-hail platforms claim that drivers are largely motivated by the schedule flexibility gig work offers — but a seven-year study suggests there’s more to the story. -
Research: The Most Common DEI Practices Actually Undermine Diversity
Business and society Digital ArticleOrganizations over-rely on approaches that consistently fail to diversify management ranks — and overlook those that have proven effective. -
Research: How Remote Work Impacts Women at Different Stages of Their Careers
Gender Digital ArticleData on software engineers at a Fortune 500 company revealed that junior and senior women saw contrasting costs and benefits. -
In Defense of Degrowth
Environmental sustainability Digital ArticleDeconstructing the myth that infinite economic growth could ever be truly sustainable. -
How to Make Job Interviews More Accessible
Hiring and recruitment Best PracticeDesigning an inclusive interview process for disabled people and people with different learning styles both widens the talent pool and creates a more equitable workplace. -
Stop Overlooking the Leadership Potential of Asian Employees
High potential employees Digital ArticleWhen companies leverage the diverse talents of their Asian workforce, they can evolve into more global, agile, and powerful hubs of innovation and growth. -
Research: Why Companies Should Disclose Their Lack of Progress on DEI
Diversity and inclusion Digital ArticleStakeholders value transparency and accountability — even when you’re falling short. -
The Strategic Advantage Omnichannel Retailers Have Over Amazon
Sales and marketing ResearchNew research suggests that encouraging in-store pickup over home delivery could lead to more profitable sales, higher market shares, and sustainability-performance gains. -
When Expanding into a Foreign Market, Your Outsider Status Is a Competitive Advantage
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The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act: What U.S. Employers Need to Know
Business and society Digital ArticleA new federal law requires organizations with 15 or more employees to accommodate all health needs at work arising from pregnancy, childbirth, and related conditions. -
How One Chinese EV Company Made Battery Swapping Work
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AI Is Making Economists Rethink the Story of Automation
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Medfield Pharmaceuticals
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Organizational Reinvention
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This note is designed to introduce students to the fundamental concepts of leading innovation in established organizations. Reinvention is a process whereby... -
Uganda and the Washington Consensus
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Under the direction of President Museveni, much of the world has heaped praise on Uganda for transforming its economy from devastation to growth and managing... -
Alltech
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Alltech was a Lexington, Kentucky-based producer of supplements for animal feed, with revenues of over $2 billion (projected to reach $3 billion in 2018),... -
Lytt: Determining a Go-to-Market Strategy
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West Side United: Hospitals Tackle the Racial Health and Wealth Gap
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. David Ansell, Darlene Hightower, and Ayesho Jaco, leaders of West Side United (WSU), a coalition of Chicago hospitals,... -
PSI India--Will Balbir Pasha Help Fight AIDS? (B)
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Integrated Project Delivery at Autodesk, Inc (C)
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Elizabeth Parker (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details A new political appointee with years of volunteer experience takes over a highly responsible job in the state government and is met with bureaucratic... -
Marlow Construction (B): Robby Gomez
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HBR's 10 Must Reads 2019: The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review (with bonus article "Now What?" by Joan C. Williams and Suzanne Lebsock) (HBR's 10 Must Reads)
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PraDigi Open Learning: Transforming Rural India
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Philippines: From Sick Man to Strong Man
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Nike Football: World Cup 2010 (B)
Sales & Marketing Case Study5.00View Details Details Nike Football's marketing efforts in the lead up to and during the World Cup in South Africa (2010). Allows students to reflect on the implementation... -
Living PlanIT
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Living PlanIT is a start-up company that has developed a new, innovative business model for sustainable urbanization. This model reflects the software... -
MyVillage: Home-based Childcare For All
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details The case follows Erica Mackey, CEO of early childhood education impact venture MyVillage, as she determines the growth path of the company after a recent... -
Nike Football: World Cup 2010 South Africa
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Nike's Football division needs to devise a strategy to excel at the 2010 World Cup games in South Africa. Nike has gone from a niche player in the market... -
Alibaba's Values Dilemma
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Inundation: The Slow-Moving Crisis of Pakistan's 2010 Floods (B)
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Framedia (A)
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Guided Free Enterprise in Japan
International business Magazine ArticleThe widely held notion of “Japan, Inc.” is exaggerated; there is no monolithic business-government link. Even so, the cooperation (without incorporation) between the large corporate combines and the government bureaucracy is impressive in its strength and focus on the common economic good—especially in view of its achievements worldwide. As the economic power of the United […] -
How Much Truth Should You Share?
Business ethics Digital ArticleComments for this Make Your Case installment are now closed. Thanks to all who participated. This week’s guest commentator, Marshall Goldsmith, has posted his response to your comments and shared some thoughts of his own below. The opening to your cube is darkened by the familiar figure of a longtime colleague. Though you’re his immediate […] -
Yes, Short-Termism Really Is a Problem
Business and society Digital ArticleWe don’t need to prove it because we can all see it. -
Test Your Board's Readiness for the Post-Covid Era
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleQuestions that every board should be asking itself right now. -
Collaborating with Congregations: Opportunities for Financial Services in the Inner City
Economics Magazine ArticleBy pooling the resources of the poor and by sharing information, religious and financial institutions can work together to change inner-city economies. -
How Would Copernicus See Capitalism?
Economics Digital ArticleWe’ve been sharing thoughts in this blog about how the rapid growth of the emerging economies, along with other modern realities, will reshape the practice — and thus rewrite the rules — of capitalism. Many readers are aware that these are ideas in development for our forthcoming book on the topic. This week we decided […] -
Margaret Thatcher, Fighter
Leadership Digital ArticleThe best change agents almost never realize when it’s time to stop. That’s what makes them so good. -
The Case of the Religious Network Group
Diversity and inclusion Magazine ArticleNetwork groups for black and Hispanic employees had been an unqualified success. Now a Christian group was forming—and Bill Thompson didn’t know what to think about it. -
Why Network Neutrality Is Good for Business
Web-based technologies Digital ArticleEditor’s note: For an opposing viewpoint on this topic, see Robert E. Litan’s and Hal J. Singer’s entry “Why Business Should Oppose Net Neutrality.” In business school, where I teach, students are often predisposed to see legal concepts as impenetrable and foreign. I watch the lightbulbs go on as they see that Microsoft’s antitrust woes, […] -
Workers Don’t Have the Skills They Need – and They Know It
Economics Digital ArticleBut more schooling isn’t the answer.