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Power Without Purpose: The Crisis of Japan’s Global Financial Dominance
International business Magazine ArticleJapan today sits on the largest cache of wealth ever assembled. It has the power to move markets anywhere in the world. Consider that. The Tokyo Stock Exchange has now surpassed New York to become the world’s largest on the basis of market capitalization. Osaka has bumped London to fourth place. Of the world’s ten […] -
When Your Brand Is Racist (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Communication Magazine ArticleA national brewing and distilling company grapples with its most profitable brand's racist history. This fictional case study by Joseph C. Miller, Michael... -
The Promise and Peril of Russia's Resurgent State
Global Business Magazine ArticleRussia is no longer a failing superpower. After Vladimir Putin became president in 2000, Goldman Sachs predicted that Russia, along with Brazil, China,... -
Signs of the Times
IT management Magazine ArticleA history of the user icons on our phones and computers -
Is Management Still a Science?
Decision making and problem solving Magazine ArticleAs every manager knows, new technologies are transforming products, markets, business processes, and entire industries, revolutionizing the business environment. Yet the more technology looms as a factor of competition, the more the emphasis in managerial books, executive education classes, and corporate training seminars is on the “soft” arts of leadership, change management, and employee motivation. […] -
Ideals for Export
Business history Magazine ArticleMany nations in Asia and Africa have now become fully responsible for their destiny. What kind of nations will they become? Will they be swept along by the vision of progress through authoritarian discipline exemplified by the Communist nations? Or will they recognize and seek the ideal of individual freedom, of truth, of respect for […] -
When Your Brand Is Racist (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Communication Magazine ArticleA national brewing and distilling company grapples with its most profitable brand's racist history. This fictional case study by Joseph C. Miller, Michael... -
Improving the Practice of Management - Then and Now
Leadership & Managing People Big IdeaIt's been a full century since the first issue of Harvard Business Review was released. What can we learn from the most pressing issues facing leaders... -
The Problem with "Greedy Work"
Leadership & Managing People Big IdeaCovid-19 has forced millions of people to work from home while juggling caregiving and other commitments. Is this making work more flexible or less? In... -
If Democrats Want to Challenge Trump, They Need a New Strategy
Global Business Digital ArticleAnd they have to start by prioritizing. -
Limit Cyberattacks with a System-Wide Safe Mode
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleProtect critical equipment during a breach. -
The Eureka Myth
Business history Magazine ArticleInnovation, cast as the triumph of human imagination, may be the most romantic discipline in business. And the eureka moment, that epiphany of total clarity in which a breakthrough invention or discovery occurs, is the most romantic aspect of innovation. In fact, the eureka moment still looms so large in the folklore of business that […] -
What Is a Good Job?
Leadership & Managing People Big IdeaResearch shows that people consider a job to be a good one when it not only pays fairly and allows a worker to do what they're good at but also makes... -
Stop Saying Big Companies Can’t Innovate
Business history Digital ArticleHasbro and GE defy conventional wisdom. -
To Understand the Future of Tesla, Look to the History of GM
Business history Digital ArticleElon Musk, Alfred Sloan, and entrepreneurship in the automobile industry. -
Life's Work: An Interview with Dean Koontz
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleDean Koontz is one of the world's most prolific and best-selling writers, with more than 120 novels to his name. During a difficult childhood, books were... -
Historian Geoffrey Jones on why knowledge stays put
Global Business Magazine ArticleA business historian reminds us that since the nineteenth century, predictions about globalization have been reliably wrong. Despite technology for the... -
Bob's Meltdown (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleAnnette Innella is just coming into the lunchroom at Concord Machines when Bob Dunn starts screaming at her. After throwing his lunch tray against the... -
Stuff: When Less Is More
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleToday we use far fewer materials to get the same things done--manufacture a PC, for instance, or produce a ton of steel. But with that efficiency has... -
Human Side of Management
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleSomething about management looks so easy that we all think we could succeed where others fail. But management is really not easy. Managers are expected...
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Ford vs. GM: The Evolution of Mass Production (B)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details This case explores the very different paths taken by the Ford Motor Company and the General Motors Corporation in the first three decades of the twentieth... -
Coffee Wars in India: Starbucks 2012
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Starbucks entered India in late 2012. This case explores Starbucks' globalization strategy, its success in China, and its vision for India. The case asks... -
Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details An abstract is not available for this product. -
China: Building "Capitalism with Socialist Characteristics"
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Describes China's phenomenal development from a poor, communist country to a global powerhouse. Provides background on China's history and culture, details... -
Doing Business in Istanbul, Turkey
Management Case Study11.95View Details This case examines the challenges and opportunities of doing business in Turkey. It highlights Turkey's economic transformation in the decades leading... -
Donna Dubinsky and Apple Computer, Inc. (C)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Dubinsky and her boss' boss reflect on what was learned through this difficult chapter in Apple's history. May be used with Donna Dubinsky and Apple Computer,... -
Wanxiang Group: A Chinese Company's Global Strategy
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details With an almost forty-year history as a business in China, the Wanxiang Group has navigated through the significantly different political and economic... -
Institutions for Collaboration, Overview
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Provides an overview of the wide variety of organizations other than firms, government ministries and regulatory agencies, and universities that may have... -
Sierra Log Homes, Inc. (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Describes the history and evolution of the log home manufacturing industry, a rapidly growing embryonic industry capitalizing on the back-to-basics lifestyle... -
Wall Street's First Panic (A)
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details In the early 1790's, a flood of newly issued public and private securities sparked an investment boom in the nascent United States. In New York, the bustling... -
Martin Luther King
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details This case provides an overview of Martin Luther King's life and accomplishments, starting with his early childhood. It notes the ways in which he behaved... -
Kenyan Community Currencies Roleplay
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details This engaging roleplay brings to life the everyday challenges facing entrepreneurs and workers in informal settlements in Kenya. The roleplay serves... -
Monsanto's March into Biotechnology (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Very early in the history of biotechnology (about 1979), Monsanto made a major commitment to move into this field. This case recounts the history from... -
Rough Justice: Stuart Eizenstat and Holocaust-era Asset Restitution (A)
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Beginning in 1994, a series of articles and public disclosures indicated that Swiss banks may have retained assets belonging to victims of the Holocaust,... -
Madam C.J. Walker: Entrepreneur, Leader, and Philanthropist
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Madam C. J. Walker, who has been credited as the first self-made African-American woman millionaire, created a hair-care empire after years spent as a... -
From Imitation to Innovation: Zongshen Industrial Group (Abridged)
Management Case Study11.95View Details Like other small shops based in Chongqing, China, Zongshen Industrial Group started by assembling motorcycles from "standard" parts. The quality of its... -
Free Trade vs. Protectionism: The Great Corn-Laws Debate (Abridged)
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Examines the extended conflict between free traders and protectionists in 19th century Britain. It culminates with Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel's decision... -
Road to Hell (A)
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Deals with the problems of developing indigenous personnel to take over expatriate positions. Human relations cases, they deal specifically with the problems... -
Upgrading the Economy: Industrial Policy and Taiwan's Semiconductor Industry
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details The government-led creation and incubation of the semiconductor industry in Taiwan is a striking success for advocates of strong industrial policy. It... -
Mass Production and the Beginnings of Scientific Management
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Examines the coming of mass production (continuous and large-batch processes and those involving fabricating and assembling of interchangeable parts),...
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Aligning Human Capital with Business Strategy: Perspectives from Thought Leaders
Organizational Development Other Article9.50View Details Human capital is firmly acknowledged as a strategic source of value creation for all types of organizations in today's knowledge-based economy. As is... -
Introducing 4 Business Ideas That Changed the World
Business history AudioA series of conversations on influential management ideas from HBR’s first 100 years. -
Ford vs. GM: The Evolution of Mass Production (B)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details This case explores the very different paths taken by the Ford Motor Company and the General Motors Corporation in the first three decades of the twentieth... -
Coffee Wars in India: Starbucks 2012
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Starbucks entered India in late 2012. This case explores Starbucks' globalization strategy, its success in China, and its vision for India. The case asks... -
Power Without Purpose: The Crisis of Japan’s Global Financial Dominance
International business Magazine ArticleJapan today sits on the largest cache of wealth ever assembled. It has the power to move markets anywhere in the world. Consider that. The Tokyo Stock Exchange has now surpassed New York to become the world’s largest on the basis of market capitalization. Osaka has bumped London to fourth place. Of the world’s ten […] -
When Your Brand Is Racist (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Communication Magazine ArticleA national brewing and distilling company grapples with its most profitable brand's racist history. This fictional case study by Joseph C. Miller, Michael... -
The Promise and Peril of Russia's Resurgent State
Global Business Magazine ArticleRussia is no longer a failing superpower. After Vladimir Putin became president in 2000, Goldman Sachs predicted that Russia, along with Brazil, China,... -
Signs of the Times
IT management Magazine ArticleA history of the user icons on our phones and computers -
Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details An abstract is not available for this product. -
China: Building "Capitalism with Socialist Characteristics"
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Describes China's phenomenal development from a poor, communist country to a global powerhouse. Provides background on China's history and culture, details...