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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. -
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 […] -
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. -
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 […] -
Larry Summers on His Decision-Making Process for the Auto Bailout
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Why Elon Musk’s New Strategy Makes Sense
Disruptive innovation Digital ArticleThe history of architectural innovation is on his side. -
Why Aren't Automakers Embracing Digital Business Models?
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleThere are lots of ways they could. -
If Ford Wants to Beat Tesla, It Needs to Go All In
Disruptive innovation Digital ArticleAvoiding this kind of disruption takes more than a skunkworks team. -
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. -
Assessing the Sins of Volkswagen, Toyota, and General Motors
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Is the Tata Nano Really "The People's Car"?
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleLast week I was riding through the bustling streets of Bangalore when my colleague made a provocative statement: "I think the Tata Nano is going to be... -
Cool Alone Won't Save Your Company
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleI like Bob Lutz. I worked with him for three years (2006-2008) during my work with Rick Wagoner and his senior team on the attempt to turnaround the fortunes... -
Why Emerging Markets Don't Need Elon Musk
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleTechnology transfer isn't second-class innovation. -
Tesla, Autopilot, and the Challenge of Trusting Machines
Design thinking Digital ArticleDrivers can’t have too much or too little faith in self-driving cars. -
What Happens If Apple Starts Making Cars
Sales & Marketing Digital ArticleIt could fundamentally change the driving experience - and the industry. -
The Power of Intent
Management Digital ArticleGood leaders make their motives clear and communicate them well.
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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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Busbud: Building a Data Company
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details This case was written for the EC course "Managing with Data Science." The course provides MBA students with no programming experience an introduction... -
Challenging an Industry: The Rise and Fall of Teo Taxi
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In 2014, with Uber disrupting the taxi industry worldwide and Montreal's industry, hampered by obsolete rules and regulations, in dire need of a revolution,... -
The Quest for Legitimacy in Digital Disruption: The Case of Uber (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details As the poster child of the sharing economy, Uber has disrupted the heavily protected taxi industry with an app that connects a distributed network of... -
Indore City Bus Transport Service (B)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case A00024. Towards the end of 90s, mounting losses forced Madhya Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (MPSRTC), the sole provider... -
The Cycling Industry
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This note explores brand evolution in a growing industry. Four high-end U.S. bicycle frame manufacturers (Trek, Seven, Moots, and Cérvolo) compete for... -
Bombardier Aerospace: The CSeries Dilemma
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details In July 2004, Bombardier Aerospace announced its intention to develop a new family of aircraft called CSeries. In May 2007, three years after the initial... -
USCO Logistics Incorporated: The Mexican Proposition
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details The vice-president of an American logistics services provider considers establishing this service in Mexico where the logistics market is controlled by... -
Vibrant Group Limited: Sale and Leaseback and its Financial Statements Effects
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details This case examines the accounting of sale and leaseback transaction for an undergraduate or graduate accounting class. This case also examines the effects... -
Mahindra Electric Mobility Limited: The Electric Vehicles Dilemma
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details In order to shift 30 per cent of the country's transport fleet to electric by 2030, the Indian government had launched multiple programs to promote usage...
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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. -
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 […] -
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... -
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. -
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...