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How to Penetrate the US Market
Marketing Digital ArticleAccounting for almost 30% of world GDP, the United States is the world’s largest and most demanding market for almost everything from oil to microprocessors to premium coffee. Companies around the world aspire to do business in the US, or at least with US companies in their home markets. By doing so, they learn much […] -
Hiring Without Firing
Leadership Magazine ArticleHitting the hiring bull’s-eye is one of an executive’s most important—and most difficult—responsibilities. Ten common mistakes can get in the way, but a pointed and systematic approach can virtually guarantee success. -
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 […] -
Walgreens CEO Roz Brewer to Leaders: Put Your Phones Away and Listen to Employees
Global Business Digital ArticleBrewer says inclusion and equity are about making employees feel seen and heard. -
Why Employees Are Afraid to Speak
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleIn a word--self-preservation. And they're just as afraid to share innovative ideas as to blow the whistle. -
Fixing the World’s Infrastructure Problems
International business Digital ArticleAn analysis of 400 case studies uncovers several ways to solve the world’s infrastructure challenges more efficiently. -
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 […] -
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 […] -
Executive Incentives vs. Corporate Growth
Boards Magazine ArticleBonuses and other forms of incentive compensation are an effective motivator of executives to achieve ever higher earnings per share. The drive to produce short-term results, however, often influences management to forgo investment in capital equipment and R&D that would benefit the corporation several years hence even more than improved earnings next year would. The […] -
Engineering Your Way Out of the Global Chip Shortage
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleIf you design for resilience, you'll be better able to navigate disruptions. -
Why You Need a Supplier-Diversity Program
Global Business ResearchIt can lift up disadvantaged communities - and make your business more competitive. -
Why Your Team Should Practice Collective Mindfulness
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThree research-based tips for managers. -
Is Your Team Solving Problems, or Just Identifying Them?
Leadership & Managing People Best PracticeEight ways to encourage your team to think more critically. -
Bed Bath & Beyond’s Persistent Coupons and the Return of Thrifty Consumers
Pricing strategy Digital ArticleBig-box stores need to offer discounts — and make customers earn them. -
The Experience Trap
Leadership development Magazine ArticleAs projects get more complicated, managers stop learning from their experience. It is important to understand how that happens and how to change it. -
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. -
Chief Executives Define Their Own Data Needs
IT management Magazine ArticleHe could have been the president of any one of a number of successful and growing medium-sized companies in the electronics industry. He had spent the previous day working to salt away the acquisition of a small company that fitted an important position in the product line strategy he had evolved for his organization. Most […] -
Workers Don’t Have the Skills They Need – and They Know It
Economics Digital ArticleBut more schooling isn’t the answer. -
Why Amazon Should Unbundle Prime
Sales & Marketing Digital ArticleNo one likes "take it or leave it" ultimatums.
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Fairfield Inn (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details The Fairfield Inn, an economy hotel venture by the Marriott Corp., has developed a novel method for selecting and measuring the performance of its hotel... -
Hisense-Hitachi Joint Venture (A): Expanding Internationally
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In June 2014, Hisense of China and Hitachi of Japan were considering whether their 11-year-old joint venture (JV) should once again assume responsibility... -
Wilderness Safaris: Impact Investing and Ecotourism Conservation in Africa
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In 2018 the majority ownership of publicly owned Wilderness Safaris, the leading high-end ecotourism company in Africa with safari operations in eight... -
Thomson Financial: Building the Customer-Centric Firm
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details In December 1999 Thomson Financial (TF) began a radical transformation from forty-one divisions toward a more integrated firm organized around customer... -
Me to We: A Social Enterprise and Its Future Growth
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Me to We was a Canadian social enterprise created in 2008 to provide a stable source of funds to finance Free the Children, a non-profit organization... -
Testing Marketing Hypotheses at WSES
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details We Sell Everything in Software (WSES) Inc., sold innovative off-the-shelf products and had customers across the world. WSES specialized in providing software... -
GACL: Balancing Employee Satisfaction and Productivity
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Gujarat Automotive Corporation Limited (GACL) was an Indian manufacturing company that made bus bodies. The firm was a subsidiary of Tata Motors Limited,... -
Serious Materials
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Serious Materials is a start up who is moving into clean tech markets. The company's first product, QuietRock, originated the sound proofing drywall category... -
Coordination: An Overview
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Designed to accompany Module II of the first-year required course on Technology and Operations Management. Particularly useful in conjunction with Corning... -
Roche Pakistan (A): Turning Around an Organization Through Cultural Transformation
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details The Roche Pakistan case study focuses on a country in Roche Global's portfolio which was facing challenges. Farrukh Rehan was hired to turnaround the... -
IndiaMART
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details The case on IndiaMART enumerates important decisions that are made in platform business models with regards to the pricing of the different sides of the... -
We've Got Rhythm! Medtronic Corp.'s Cardiac Pacemaker Business
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Illustrates how a new management team at Medtronic's Cardiac Pacemaker business reversed a steep decline in market share by adopting certain management... -
Brush with AIDS (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details A product manager at a health products company is responsible for marketing sharps containers, which hospitals use to store used needles in order to protect... -
HP-Cisco Alliance (B)
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Taco Bell--1994
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Taco Bell CEO, John Martin, boldly proclaims a growth goal of 200,000 points of access by the year 2000 (the company had approximately 3,600 in 1991).... -
China's Haier Group: Growth through Acquisitions
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details This case deals with the integration of a recently acquired state-owned enterprise by Haier, a rapidly expanding, collectively owned company in China.... -
Sitting Pretty: Managing Customer-Driven Innovation at Faurecia Car Seating
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Faurecia is a world-class player in the automotive components sector, active in four main areas: automotive seating, vehicle interiors, exhaust systems... -
Farm to School of Park County: A Journey from Program to Nonprofit (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details This case series describes the startup of Farm to School of Park County, an emerging nonprofit organization in the US state of Montana. Case (A) describes... -
Avatar: Product Development in Creative Industries
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details In 2007, Twentieth Century Fox faced a number of issues in the production of Avatar-a movie that was widely anticipated but had raised concerns in the... -
Transforming Tommy Hilfiger (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplement for Transforming Tommy Hilfiger (A), 714451.
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How to Penetrate the US Market
Marketing Digital ArticleAccounting for almost 30% of world GDP, the United States is the world’s largest and most demanding market for almost everything from oil to microprocessors to premium coffee. Companies around the world aspire to do business in the US, or at least with US companies in their home markets. By doing so, they learn much […] -
Is the Company You're Interviewing with Actually Inclusive?
Leadership & Managing People AdviceSeven questions you can ask to find out. -
Hiring Without Firing
Leadership Magazine ArticleHitting the hiring bull’s-eye is one of an executive’s most important—and most difficult—responsibilities. Ten common mistakes can get in the way, but a pointed and systematic approach can virtually guarantee success. -
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 […] -
Walgreens CEO Roz Brewer to Leaders: Put Your Phones Away and Listen to Employees
Global Business Digital ArticleBrewer says inclusion and equity are about making employees feel seen and heard. -
Why Employees Are Afraid to Speak
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleIn a word--self-preservation. And they're just as afraid to share innovative ideas as to blow the whistle. -
Fixing the World’s Infrastructure Problems
International business Digital ArticleAn analysis of 400 case studies uncovers several ways to solve the world’s infrastructure challenges more efficiently. -
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 […] -
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 […]