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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 […] -
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. -
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, […] -
This Program Uses Lean Startup Techniques to Turn Scientists into Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleAnd it’s changing the way they do science. -
The World Is Completely Unprepared for a Global Pandemic
Global Business Digital ArticleAnd no one is talking about it. -
Research: Opposition to Federal Spending Is Driven by Racial Resentment
Government policy and regulation ResearchIt’s a better predictor than economic self-interest. -
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 Ways Americans Pay for Things Are Woefully Out of Date
National competitiveness Digital ArticleAnd PayPal, Square, and other services don’t go far enough. -
The Right Way to Restructure Conglomerates in Emerging Markets
Government Magazine ArticleIn many countries, diversified business groups substitute for the institutions that support effective markets in capital, labor, and goods and services. Their capacity for doing this must be strengthened through restructuring, not destroyed through dismantling. -
Pregnant Workers Have Rights, No Matter What the Supreme Court Says About UPS
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleAccommodations are always cheaper than lawsuits. -
How Obama and Clinton Stack Up as Managers
Government Digital ArticleThe conventional wisdom on leadership and management is clear: the first matters more than the second. Warren Bennis‘s classic On Becoming a Leader is typical. In a lengthy comparison between leaders and managers, he describes leaders as luminaries and managers as mere mortals. For example: • “The manager administers; the leader innovates.” • “The manager […] -
You Don't Have to Be in Silicon Valley to Build the Next Great Internet Company
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleWhy AOL founder Steve Case is placing his bets across the rest of America. -
In Beijing and Washington, Business as Usual
Government Digital ArticleLast week the United States held a hotly contested election that demonstrated the challenges and strengths of the American political system. Both major parties talked of all that was wrong in American politics: a future of deficits, the monetization of political life, and the prospect of endless political gridlock. Yet at the end of the […] -
Inside Mount Sinai's Hospital-at-Home Program
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleIt led to fewer readmissions and complications. -
The Role of Private Equity in Driving Up Health Care Prices
Competitive strategy Digital ArticleIt prioritizes short-term profits over patients’ health. -
Tonight's Presidential Debate Will Be Decided by Body Language
Global Business Digital ArticleIt's usually the non-verbal communication that leaves the lasting impression -
All The Candidates’ Kin
Government Digital ArticleBack in the Stone Age, when Harry Truman was president, to involve family in politics was considered unseemly. While there were exceptions to the general rule, Truman’s sentiments were typical. As his daughter Margaret recalled, “If there was one thing Dad dreaded, it was the thought of someone in his family getting involved in politics.” […]
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French Pension System: On the Verge of Retirement? (Abridged)
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Surveys the French pension system, its particular institutional characteristics, and some of the critical challenges and opportunities facing French reformers.... -
This Case Sucks: Beavis, Butt-head, and TV Content (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Maple Leaf Foods: Changing the System
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details The Maple Leaf Foods (MLF): Changing the System case explores how a major food processor pivoted its vision and operations in an attempt to become the... -
Tax Cut of 1964, Data Supplement
Global Business Case Study5.00View Details Supplements Tax Cut of 1964. -
Capital Controls
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Only in the waning years of the 20th century did international financial markets begin to enjoy the freedom from government regulation that they had experienced... -
AM FRESH in 2020
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Determining Taxes Payable (2009)
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This note explains how federal taxes payable are computed for an individual taxpayer. The mechanics underlying Canada's progressive tax structure are... -
Ad Classification at Right Media
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Right Media considers systems and policies to make sure that ads are only shown on web sites where they are appropriate, and vice versa. Setting standards... -
The Risks of Global Economic Stagnation
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In early 2016, stock markets around the world plummeted, raising the threat of another major depression enveloping the world. In their struggle to recover... -
Sunk Costs: The Plan to Dump the Brent Spar
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Faced with the need to dispose of an offshore oil storage installation, the Royal Dutch Shell Corporation develops what it believes is a straightforward... -
Should the Ethanol Blender's Credit Be Eliminated?
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details In December 2010, one U.S. legislative action was largely overlooked in the popular press: the one-year extension of the 45-cent-per-gallon Volumetric... -
Denmark: Globalization and the Welfare State
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details This case describes how Denmark has balanced the impacts of globalization, including outsourcing and movement of labor with its social welfare offerings.... -
Block 16: Indigenous Peoples' Perspective
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplements Block 16: Conoco's Green Oil Strategy (A). Provides the indigenous people's perspective on Conoco's Ecuadorian strategy. Designed to be distributed... -
Ant Group's Suspended Initial Public Offering: The Disrupter, Disrupted
Management Case Study11.95View Details When regulators suspended the high profile initial public offering (IPO) of the Chinese fintech company Ant Group, investors and businesspeople were surprised... -
The Affordable Care Act (F): Regaining Momentum
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details In the fall of 2009, President Obama makes a speech to a joint session of Congress in an attempt to regain lost momentum on health reform and get a bill... -
Hayman Capital Management
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details In late December 2011, Hayman Capital founder and portfolio manager Kyle Bass was reviewing Japanese government budget projections for 2012. The projections... -
Coats (B): Cash Flows and Small Lot Dyeing
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Following case study UST 1215-050 Coats (A): Responsive Production and Order Fulfillment, Coats (B) examines make-to-stock (MTS) and make-to-order (MTO)... -
Pakistan: Is Foreign Aid Helping or Hindering Development?
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details No abstract available. -
Malden Mills (B)
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Pulmocit (A): Negotiating Pharmaceutical Products with the Government
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This is a two-party negotiation between a pharmaceutical company and a government agency to decide if a new medication will be put on the reimbursement...
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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 […] -
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. -
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, […] -
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
Government policy and regulation ResearchIt’s a better predictor than economic self-interest. -
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, […]