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Signs of the Times-How Do You Read Them?
Global Business Digital ArticleWe all know we're navigating uncharted economic waters. But here are a few pieces of data that bring this unprecedented environment into sharp relief-both... -
When Your Brand Is Racist (HBR Case Study)
Communication Magazine ArticleA national brewing and distilling company grapples with its most profitable brand's racist history. This fictional case study by Joseph C. Miller, Michael... -
How to Build Upon the Legacy of Your Family Business - and Make It Your Own
Organizational Development Digital ArticleReframe your company's past in a way that creates advantages for the present. -
Why Peter Drucker's Writing Still Feels So Relevant
Global Business Digital ArticleHe approached management as a historian, not as a guru. -
BP: Victim of Its Own Good Marketing
Sales & Marketing Digital ArticleA few years ago I met Jose Gabrielli, the CEO of the Brazilian energy giant Petrobras, to talk about an article we were developing for HBR. Dressed in... -
Power Without Purpose: The Crisis of Japan’s Global Financial Dominance
International business Magazine ArticleJapan today sits on the largest cache of wealth ever assembled. It has the power to move markets anywhere in the world. Consider that. The Tokyo Stock Exchange has now surpassed New York to become the world’s largest on the basis of market capitalization. Osaka has bumped London to fourth place. Of the world’s ten […] -
Industrial Espionage Is More Effective Than R&D
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleA new study shows that during the Cold War, corporate spying generated significant economic returns for East German companies. It was so successful, in... -
What Innovators Who Create New Markets Do Differently
Business history Digital ArticleThree mindsets that lead to “nondisruptive creation.” -
Signs of the Times
IT management Magazine ArticleA history of the user icons on our phones and computers -
When Your Brand Is Racist (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Communication Magazine ArticleA national brewing and distilling company grapples with its most profitable brand's racist history. This fictional case study by Joseph C. Miller, Michael... -
Is Management Still a Science?
Decision making and problem solving Magazine ArticleAs every manager knows, new technologies are transforming products, markets, business processes, and entire industries, revolutionizing the business environment. Yet the more technology looms as a factor of competition, the more the emphasis in managerial books, executive education classes, and corporate training seminars is on the “soft” arts of leadership, change management, and employee motivation. […] -
Ideals for Export
Business history Magazine ArticleMany nations in Asia and Africa have now become fully responsible for their destiny. What kind of nations will they become? Will they be swept along by the vision of progress through authoritarian discipline exemplified by the Communist nations? Or will they recognize and seek the ideal of individual freedom, of truth, of respect for […] -
The Price of Wall Street’s Power
Finance and investing Magazine ArticleHow the financial sector’s outsize influence is undermining business -
When America Was Most Innovative, and Why
Global Business ResearchData from the golden age of invention. -
To See the Way Forward, Look Back
Business history SpotlightRevisiting your founding ideals can help sharpen your purpose and values. -
Why Pollsters Were Completely and Utterly Wrong
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleThey had the wrong data. -
What Businessmen Need to Know About the Student Left
Economics Magazine ArticleHow does it view violence and destruction; what does it owe to communism; can its members be won to the corporate side? -
The World of Business, 16th-Century Style
Global Business Magazine ArticleAn elaborate engraving by the Swiss artist Jost Amman in 1585 depicts scenes from the mercantile economy in Northern Europe, revealing the variety of... -
The Eureka Myth
Business history Magazine ArticleInnovation, cast as the triumph of human imagination, may be the most romantic discipline in business. And the eureka moment, that epiphany of total clarity in which a breakthrough invention or discovery occurs, is the most romantic aspect of innovation. In fact, the eureka moment still looms so large in the folklore of business that […] -
A Brief History of Doing Well by Doing Good
Businesses that are good corporate citizens also tend to succeed financially.
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Polaroid-Kodak
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Describes Kodak's long-awaited challenge to Polaroid in the field of instant photography. Provides technological and company background of both Polaroid... -
Ukraine: On the Border of Europe and Eurasia (B)
Global Business Case Study5.00View Details In the fall of 2013, the people of Ukraine disagreed passionately whether their country should intensify ties with the European Union or Russia. After... -
The Panic of 1907 and the High Tide of Progressivism (B)
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case UV7329. This follow-up to "The Panic of 1907 and the High Tide of Progressivism (A)" (UVA-F-1781) explores how well the Federal Reserve... -
Novartis: Leading a Global Enterprise
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Novartis, the world's leading healthcare company, was formed in 1996 out of a merger of two very different, mid-tier Switzerland-based pharma companies.... -
"Do you really think we are so stupid?" A letter to the CEO of Deutsche Telekom (A)
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details This three-part case-study illustrates key concepts and lessons about leading adaptive change in organizations in the context of turning around Deutsche... -
Envisioning "Free Banking" in Antebellum New York (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Banks throughout New York State suspended specie payments (i.e., payments in gold and silver) in May 1837 following the collapse of several state banks,... -
Jay Gould, "The Most Hated Man in America"
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Railroad magnate Jay Gould, a controversial figure in the history of U.S. capitalism, was a disruptive influence on an industry that had previously relied... -
How Brands Become Icons: The Principles of Cultural Branding
Sales & Marketing Book38.00View Details Coca-Cola. Harley-Davidson. Nike. Budweiser. Valued by customers more for what they symbolize than for what they do, products like these are more than... -
The Panic of 1873 and the "Long Depression" (B)
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case UV7525. In 1878, President Rutherford B. Hayes must decide whether to sign the Bland-Allison Act and commit the United States to minting... -
Gardenburger Advertising Strategy (B)
Sales & Marketing Case Study5.00View Details In 1997, Lyle Hubbard, CEO of Gardenburger, a producer and marketer of veggie burgers and meat alternative products, had called together his executive... -
Kidder, Peabody & Co.: Creating Elusive Profits
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details On April 17, 1994, Kidder, Peabody & Co. announced a $350 million charge against earnings resulting from the discovery of false trading profits. That... -
Brief Note on Staggered Boards
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This background note discusses the evolution, use, and prevalence of staggered boards. By comparison with unitary boards whose members are all elected... -
The Guggenheims and Chilean Nitrates
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details The case describes the growth of Guggenheim Brothers as one of the largest mining companies in the world in the early twentieth century. Global expansion... -
The Newspaper Industry in Crisis
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This note is a primer on the newspaper industry, which has been in decline in the U.S. and Western Europe. The 19th century business model whereby news... -
Gain Sharing at Star Cablevision Group
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Describes Star's experiment with gain sharing over a three-year period. Background on the industry and company's history are provided to establish the... -
Chain Saw Industry in 1974
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Describes the structure of the chain saw industry in 1974, when it is on the threshold of a major period of growth. Data are provided on each significant... -
Primal Leadership, With a New Preface by the Authors: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence
28.00View Details This is the book that established "emotional intelligence" in the business lexicon--and made it a necessary skill for leaders. Managers and professionals... -
Berkshire Hathaway
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Berkshire Hathaway describes the history and strategy of one of the best known investment firms over the last forty years. The case describes the investment... -
Crucial Conversations
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Todd McKenna, a third-year associate at an investment banking firm, confronts his boss. His boss had told him he would be the top paid associate at the... -
PC&D, Inc.
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Covers history of PC&D from 1960 to 1975 as it grows from a single business firm to a diversified firm. Emphasizes the use of subsidiaries for product...
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Polaroid-Kodak
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Describes Kodak's long-awaited challenge to Polaroid in the field of instant photography. Provides technological and company background of both Polaroid... -
Signs of the Times-How Do You Read Them?
Global Business Digital ArticleWe all know we're navigating uncharted economic waters. But here are a few pieces of data that bring this unprecedented environment into sharp relief-both... -
Ukraine: On the Border of Europe and Eurasia (B)
Global Business Case Study5.00View Details In the fall of 2013, the people of Ukraine disagreed passionately whether their country should intensify ties with the European Union or Russia. After... -
When Your Brand Is Racist (HBR Case Study)
Communication Magazine ArticleA national brewing and distilling company grapples with its most profitable brand's racist history. This fictional case study by Joseph C. Miller, Michael... -
Harvard Business Review, October 1922
Management Magazine IssueHarvard Business Review was first published in October 1922, led by the dean of Harvard Business School, Wallace Brett Donham. Donham had championed the... -
The Panic of 1907 and the High Tide of Progressivism (B)
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case UV7329. This follow-up to "The Panic of 1907 and the High Tide of Progressivism (A)" (UVA-F-1781) explores how well the Federal Reserve... -
Novartis: Leading a Global Enterprise
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Novartis, the world's leading healthcare company, was formed in 1996 out of a merger of two very different, mid-tier Switzerland-based pharma companies.... -
"Do you really think we are so stupid?" A letter to the CEO of Deutsche Telekom (A)
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details This three-part case-study illustrates key concepts and lessons about leading adaptive change in organizations in the context of turning around Deutsche... -
How to Build Upon the Legacy of Your Family Business - and Make It Your Own
Organizational Development Digital ArticleReframe your company's past in a way that creates advantages for the present. -
Envisioning "Free Banking" in Antebellum New York (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Banks throughout New York State suspended specie payments (i.e., payments in gold and silver) in May 1837 following the collapse of several state banks,...