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The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Needs a Real Website
Sales & Marketing Digital ArticleReally? This is the online face of the of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission? The commission that's tasked with restoring the public's trust in our... -
How "Payment Banks" Could Prevent the Next Bank Collapse
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleSilicon Valley Bank illustrates why payroll shouldn't be stored in an institution vulnerable to bank runs. -
Is It Fair to Blame Fair Value Accounting for the Financial Crisis?
Accounting Magazine ArticleInvestors and corporate executives don’t agree on how to value distressed assets. But maybe they don’t have to. -
A Financial Crisis Is Looming for Smaller Suppliers
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleTheir collapse could further destabilize the global supply chain. -
Why Peter Drucker's Writing Still Feels So Relevant
Global Business Digital ArticleHe approached management as a historian, not as a guru. -
How to Assess True Macroeconomic Risk
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleIn this article, adapted from the forthcoming book Shocks, Crises, and False Alarms, the authors explain how economic analysis works in the real world.... -
Adapting Your Sales Approach in a Downturn
Sales Digital ArticleThe right process can help you boost revenue, expand margins, and successfully launch new products — even in challenging economic times. -
Crisis of Faith in the Financial System
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleWhat happens when there is a mass loss of confidence in the financial system? This very contemporary question was put in unexpected historical context... -
How Marketing The American Dream Caused Our Economic Crisis
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleThe current economic crisis has been blamed on the greed of Wall Street, on bankers' excessive leveraging of assets, on irresponsible banks and mortgage... -
Research: How the Financial Crisis Drastically Increased Wealth Inequality in the U.S.
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleWealth inequality depends on a race between stocks and housing. -
It's Time to Rethink Your Global Logistics
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Europe’s Financial Crisis: No Time for Dithering
Crisis management Digital Article“This is no time for a novice,” declared Prime Minister Gordon Brown at his party conference two weeks ago. What the British people wanted, he said, was decisive leadership and action that would help them with their mortgages, their jobs, their businesses. His rallying call, a swipe at his inexperienced opposition leader David Cameron, brought […] -
Is This an Analytics-Driven Financial Crisis?
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleThere is clearly some evidence that the current financial crisis was created-at least in part-by poor use of analytical approaches and techniques. If... -
What Entrepreneurs Should Ask Themselves When an Economic Crisis Hits
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleThree questions can help you decide whether to keep your business going. -
IT Doesn't Matter (to CEOs)
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleHowever, new technological threats mean it should. -
Preparing for the Next Macroeconomic Cycle - and Its Risks
Global Business Digital ArticleLeaders need to start thinking beyond 2021. -
A Crisis of Long-Term Unemployment Is Looming in the U.S.
Career transitions Digital ArticleHow biases trap qualified job seekers in a cycle of rejection — and how to help them break free. -
What Coronavirus Could Mean for the Global Economy
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Why We Didn’t Learn Enough From the Financial Crisis
Economics Digital ArticlePolicymakers are victims of their own success. -
The JP Morgan "Whale" Report and the Ghosts of the Financial Crisis
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleBeyond the losses, the incident poses an enigma which business and government must ponder.
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing in a Downturn, Expanded Edition (Paperback + Ebook)
Leadership & Managing People Special Offer34.95View Details How do the most resilient companies survive--and even thrive--during a slowdown? If you read nothing else on surviving a tough economy and coming back... -
The Beiteddine Festival: Bridging the Gap
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details The Beiteddine Art Festival (BAF) is a non-profit organization that manages an art and musical festival in Lebanon with the aim of using cultural activity... -
JP Morgan Private Bank: Risk Management during the Financial Crisis 2008-2009
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Mary Erdoes, the CEO of JP Morgan's Asset Management business, and three colleagues provide insights into risk management issues faced by the firm's Private... -
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing in a Downturn (with bonus article "Reigniting Growth" By Chris Zook and James Allen)
24.95View Details How do the most resilient companies survive--and even thrive--during a slowdown? If you read nothing else on preparing for a tough economy and coming... -
Fighting Financial Crises: Making Policy
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This note shapes a framework of competing policy priorities for governments in responding to a financial crisis: rescue, relief, recovery, and reform.... -
Masdar City: Aiming for Sustainable and Profitable Real Estate
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Masdar City broke ground in 2008 and was conceived by the Abu Dhabi government to be an international beacon of innovation in sustainable energy and real... -
Financial Crisis and the Revolutions of 1848 (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details On March 15, 1848, the governor of the Bank of France, Antoine d'Argout, faced the potential collapse of his institution. A cascade of agricultural and... -
Drilling South: Petrobras Evaluates Pecom
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details The Brazilian oil company, Petrobras, is evaluating the acquisition of an Argentine oil company, the Perez Companc Group (Pecom). The acquisition would... -
Tengion: Bringing Regenerative Medicine to Life
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Tengion is a young biotech company that is at the frontier of regenerative medicine; a nascent field that seeks to promote the creation of new cells and... -
Altius Golf and the Fighter Brand
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Altius Golf is the clear leader in the golf ball market despite a long-term decline in the number of golfers and a drop in sales following the financial... -
Can the Eurozone Survive?
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details The sovereign debt crisis that took Greece by storm in 2010 began to spread to other European markets. Within a few months Ireland and Portugal had also... -
Hungary: Economic Crisis and a Shift to the Right
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Deglobalization and Alternative Futures
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This note reviews the evidence that the world is undergoing an era of de-globalization. It shows that available metrics show some support for this theory.... -
Goldman Sachs: Anchoring Standards After the Financial Crisis
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Goldman Sachs, a longtime venerable financial institution headquartered in New York City, had a partnership culture that was known to value its clients.... -
Jan Eriksson at Novartis Indonesia: Turmoil in the Indonesian Pharmaceutical Industry
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Jan Eriksson is the country manager of the Indonesian joint venture of Basel-based Novartis (Novartis Indonesia), the world's largest pharmaceutical company,... -
The Panic of 1873 and the "Long Depression" (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details In 1878, President Rutherford B. Hayes must decide whether to sign the Bland-Allison Act and commit the United States to minting silver coins and thus... -
Ping An's Overseas Expansion: Financial Uncertainties and Risk Management
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details By 2007, China's Ping An Insurance Co. ("Ping An") had grown into the second-largest life insurer in China. Its goal was to become a universal financial... -
Battling Over a New York Workout: the W Hotel Strategy Loan Agreement
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details On October 11, 2006, Istithmar, a subsidiary of Dubai World, the flagship investment company of the government of Dubai, purchased the 270-room W Hotel... -
The IMF: the Washington Consensus, the critics, and the New Challenges as China Rises
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details How the International Monetary Fund (IMF) defined and carried out its mandate has evolved considerably since 1944, when it was founded to serve a vital...
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The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Needs a Real Website
Sales & Marketing Digital ArticleReally? This is the online face of the of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission? The commission that's tasked with restoring the public's trust in our... -
How "Payment Banks" Could Prevent the Next Bank Collapse
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleSilicon Valley Bank illustrates why payroll shouldn't be stored in an institution vulnerable to bank runs. -
Is It Fair to Blame Fair Value Accounting for the Financial Crisis?
Accounting Magazine ArticleInvestors and corporate executives don’t agree on how to value distressed assets. But maybe they don’t have to. -
A Financial Crisis Is Looming for Smaller Suppliers
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleTheir collapse could further destabilize the global supply chain. -
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing in a Downturn, Expanded Edition (Paperback + Ebook)
Leadership & Managing People Special Offer34.95View Details How do the most resilient companies survive--and even thrive--during a slowdown? If you read nothing else on surviving a tough economy and coming back... -
The Beiteddine Festival: Bridging the Gap
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details The Beiteddine Art Festival (BAF) is a non-profit organization that manages an art and musical festival in Lebanon with the aim of using cultural activity... -
JP Morgan Private Bank: Risk Management during the Financial Crisis 2008-2009
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Mary Erdoes, the CEO of JP Morgan's Asset Management business, and three colleagues provide insights into risk management issues faced by the firm's Private... -
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing in a Downturn (with bonus article "Reigniting Growth" By Chris Zook and James Allen)
24.95View Details How do the most resilient companies survive--and even thrive--during a slowdown? If you read nothing else on preparing for a tough economy and coming... -
Fighting Financial Crises: Making Policy
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This note shapes a framework of competing policy priorities for governments in responding to a financial crisis: rescue, relief, recovery, and reform.... -
Masdar City: Aiming for Sustainable and Profitable Real Estate
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Masdar City broke ground in 2008 and was conceived by the Abu Dhabi government to be an international beacon of innovation in sustainable energy and real...