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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. -
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, […] -
Teslas Catch Fire Less Often than Gas-Powered Cars
Sales & Marketing Digital ArticleThe electric car company should use this information to defend its brand. -
Tesla's Strong Brand Gives It Unusual Expansion Potential
Sales & Marketing Digital ArticleIts move into car insurance could be just the beginning. -
What Counts Most in Motivating Your Sales Force?
Motivating people Magazine ArticleFor decades the difficulty of motivating salespeople has been frustrating sales and marketing managers. To the most effective ones, two things are clear: one, the job is difficult; two, there is no one simple solution. Believing that “good salespeople are born, not made,” many managers recognize that recruiting is important. Others holding that “if you […] -
Quality of Work Life—Learning from Tarrytown
Labor Magazine ArticleAt this large GM plant the union and management jointly seek to change the meaning of work itself -
Innovation Lessons from Electric Cars
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleWhat will customers expect from electric vehicles? It is a critical question that automobile companies are debating right now. And the way in which companies... -
Authenticity: Is It Real or Is It Marketing?
Leadership Magazine ArticleCompanies that boast of their authenticity confront challenges that more faceless firms don’t even have to consider. -
Innovating a Classic at Airstream
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleAirstream's ability to innovate and grow depends on balancing longtime owners' expectations with new buyers' desires. In this conversation, president... -
The Limits of 3D Printing
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleIt won't replace standard manufacturing anytime soon. -
Who Has the D?: How Clear Decision Roles Enhance Organizational Performance
Decision making and problem solving Magazine ArticleYour organization can become more decisive—and can implement strategy more quickly—if you know where the bottlenecks are and who’s empowered to break through them. -
Elon Musk's Patent Decision Reflects Three Strategic Truths
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleThe first is that industries are increasingly irrelevant. -
Nummi: What Toyota Learned and GM Didn’t
International business Digital ArticleLast week, Toyota announced it will close the plant of New United Motor Manufacturing Incorporated (Nummi), its one-time joint venture with GM to make cars in California. (GM had pulled out of the JV in July.) It was third-page news in the financial section, but the passing of an era nonetheless. Nummi represented the first […] -
Under Armour’s Founder on Learning to Leverage Celebrity Endorsements
Marketing Magazine ArticlePhotography: Getty Images The Idea: Celebrity endorsements used to be fairly straightforward: a face in an ad, a logo on the TV screen. But that world is rapidly changing, and Under Armour’s CEO is nimbly navigating it. I started Under Armour in 1996, when I was 23 years old and just out of college. The […] -
The CEO of Canada Goose on Creating a Homegrown Luxury Brand
Marketing Magazine ArticleWorldwide, the company is a champion for “Made in Canada.” -
Gearing Up at REI
Personnel policies Magazine ArticleA chief executive reflects on what makes employees passionate and the business lessons he learned in a close call on a glacier. -
The “Wages Are Skyrocketing” Narrative Is False
Labor Digital ArticleAnecdotal evidence is at odds with the data. -
Marketing Malpractice: The Cause and the Cure
Finance and investing Magazine ArticleMarketing executives focus too much on ever-narrower demographic segments and ever-more-trivial product extensions. They should find out, instead, what jobs consumers need to get done. Those jobs will point the way to purposeful products—and genuine innovation. -
How a Remote Australian Mine Became a Gender-Balanced Workplace
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThe transformation sheds light on how sexist and homophobic cultures in male-dominated industries can change. -
Corporate Architecture from the Outside In
Competitive strategy Magazine ArticleArchitecture and the Corporation: The Creative Intersection, Thomas Walton (New York: Macmillan, 1988) 218 pages, $29.95. City: Rediscovering the Center, William H. Whyte (New York: Doubleday, 1988) 386 pages $24.95. Winston Churchill understood why architecture is our most social art. “We shape our buildings,” he observed, “and afterwards our buildings shape us.” But not all […]
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Campus Sutra: The Making of an Indian Online Fashion Brand
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details In 2016, just four years after launching their business, the four founders of Campus Sutra (a youth-oriented online fashion brand) had to decide whether... -
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... -
Singapore Airlines: Surviving the COVID-19 Pandemic
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details In August 2021, Singapore Airlines Group (SIA) was at a critical juncture in its history. Since early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic had forced commercial... -
CH2M Hill: A Private Firm in a Public World
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details CH2M Hill was an employee-owned and controlled professional engineering services firm providing engineering, construction, consulting, design and design-build,... -
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited: Global Leadership in Chipmaking
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details The general purpose of this case is to explore the evolving nature of business relations across the Taiwan strait, focusing on the prominence of Taiwan's... -
United Airlines 173
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details The cases are used to introduce the concept of collective responsibility and leadership in team situations by applying the concept of Crew Resource Management... -
Does Robotics Firm GreyOrange Sill Need LOGI?
Management Case Study11.95View Details In mid-2023 Akash Gupta, CEO of GreyOrange Ltd (GO), an Atlanta-based robotics firm, had to decide whether GO still needed its exclusive technology partnership... -
Cockpit Dynamics in Air France 447 and United 232
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details This case compares leadership and team dynamics between the cockpit crews in two renown passenger airline crashes, twenty years apart: Air France 447... -
Singapore Airlines Limited: Dividends
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details A new analyst has been asked to forecast the upcoming dividends for Singapore Airlines Limited. However, unlike most dividend-paying firms, which typically... -
Chery Automobile: Vying for a Piece of the American Pie (B)
Global Business Case Study5.00View Details This case finds Chery after the collapse of its alliance with Chrysler. For Chrysler it meant losing one of its most promising routes to building a competitive... -
micro Home Solutions: A Social Housing Initiative in India
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details mHS is a social enterprise for the provision of affordable housing in India. After India's microfinance industry collapses, mHS needs to reposition itself... -
Bengaluru Airport: Crisis Leadership through a Pandemic
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Bengaluru Airport began an expansion project worth US$2 billion in 2018, but by mid-2020 COVID-19 had severely impacted the aviation industry and reduced... -
Green Freight Asia (C): The Road Ahead
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Green Freight Asia (GFA) is a three-part case. Part A chronicles the formation of GFA, a private sector initiative that grew out of a network of companies... -
Mobileye 2021: Robotaxi and/or Consumer AV?
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details In March 2021, Amnon Shashua, co-founder and CEO of Israel-based Mobileye, was preparing to meet with Intel's new CEO, Pat Gelsinger, to review plans... -
Building Community at Terra Nova Consulting
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This case describes the challenges faced by the president of an engineering and environmental services consulting firm (Terra Nova Consulting) as it seeks... -
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... -
Sierra Log Homes, Inc. (B2)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Revere Street
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Although inexperienced in real estate, Edward Alexander hopes in June 1999 that youthful enthusiasm and an $80,000 inheritance will help him enter the... -
Unicommerce eSolutions: The Exit Decision
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details On a late evening in December 2014, three co-founders of Unicommerce eSolutions Pvt. Ltd. (Unicommerce) assembled for a meeting. A couple of months earlier,... -
Grocery Gateway: Customer Delivery Operations
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details As Canada's largest direct online grocer, Grocery Gateway provided home delivery to approximately 125,000 customers in the Greater Toronto area, which...
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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. -
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, […] -
Campus Sutra: The Making of an Indian Online Fashion Brand
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details In 2016, just four years after launching their business, the four founders of Campus Sutra (a youth-oriented online fashion brand) had to decide whether... -
Teslas Catch Fire Less Often than Gas-Powered Cars
Sales & Marketing Digital ArticleThe electric car company should use this information to defend its brand. -
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... -
Tesla's Strong Brand Gives It Unusual Expansion Potential
Sales & Marketing Digital ArticleIts move into car insurance could be just the beginning. -
What Counts Most in Motivating Your Sales Force?
Motivating people Magazine ArticleFor decades the difficulty of motivating salespeople has been frustrating sales and marketing managers. To the most effective ones, two things are clear: one, the job is difficult; two, there is no one simple solution. Believing that “good salespeople are born, not made,” many managers recognize that recruiting is important. Others holding that “if you […] -
Quality of Work Life—Learning from Tarrytown
Labor Magazine ArticleAt this large GM plant the union and management jointly seek to change the meaning of work itself -
Singapore Airlines: Surviving the COVID-19 Pandemic
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details In August 2021, Singapore Airlines Group (SIA) was at a critical juncture in its history. Since early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic had forced commercial... -
CH2M Hill: A Private Firm in a Public World
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details CH2M Hill was an employee-owned and controlled professional engineering services firm providing engineering, construction, consulting, design and design-build,...