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How Should We Allocate Scarce Medical Resources?
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThree guidelines for policymakers and physicians making life-or-death decisions. -
When to Make Private News Public (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleBetsy Sugarman, a rising star in a biotech company, finds out that she is pregnant. This is good news for her, but bad timing for her career. She has... -
How Much Truth Should You Share?
Business ethics Digital ArticleComments for this Make Your Case installment are now closed. Thanks to all who participated. This week’s guest commentator, Marshall Goldsmith, has posted his response to your comments and shared some thoughts of his own below. The opening to your cube is darkened by the familiar figure of a longtime colleague. Though you’re his immediate […] -
If You’re Tracking Employee Behavior, Be Transparent About It
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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, […] -
Rupert Murdoch’s Last Stand
Crisis management Digital ArticleIt’s big news when a 168-year-old dies; it’s even bigger news when the demise is self-inflicted. On Thursday, responding to the astonishing (even for British tabloids) phone-hacking and police-paying charges, News International said that it would shutter its News of the World after one more issue this coming Sunday. The company’s predicament and how it […] -
Trust at the Top
Communication Digital ArticleA Rolls-Royce engine blows up, and ... silence - for four days. The great British engineering company took its time to find out what had happened to the... -
Get Aggressive About Passivity
Motivating people Magazine ArticleIn Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story, Kurt Eichenwald relates how Enron’s leaders engaged in massive book-cooking with little interference from the dozens of managers, lawyers, and advisers who had a pretty good idea of what was going on. Similarly, at Parmalat, employees not involved in the Italian dairy giant’s fraud apparently were aware of […] -
Design a Workspace that Gives Extroverts Privacy, Too
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Ethics in Practice
Business ethics Magazine ArticleAs the 1990s overtake us, public interest in ethics is at a historic high. While the press calls attention to blatant derelictions on Wall Street, in the defense industry, and in the Pentagon, and to questionable activities in the White House, in the attorney general’s office, and in Congress, observers wonder whether our society is […] -
When You Feel Pressured to Do the Wrong Thing at Work
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Convincing CEOs to Make Harassment Prevention a Priority
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The HBR List: Breakthrough Ideas for 2007
Decision making and problem solving Magazine ArticleOur annual survey of emerging ideas considers how nanotechnology will affect commerce, what role hope plays in leadership, and why, in an age that practically enshrines accountability, we need to beware of “accountabalism.” -
Why Authentic Workplaces Are More Ethical
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Make Ethics a B-School Admissions Requirement
Business ethics Digital ArticleIf business schools are to consistently produce outstanding ethical leaders, they should not only focus on teaching ethics in the right way and living up to the right honor code, as Aine Donovan writes. They also need to do a much better job of filtering the people they invite into their exclusive cadres. I say […] -
Predicting the Present
Strategic planning Magazine ArticleThe Idea in Brief Science fiction writer Cory Doctorow shares his insights on how technology and the internet are changing society and the economy in the twenty-first century. Far from dumbing down people or giving government and business too much power, technology and the internet are great enablers of individual freedom. The internet provides universal […] -
A Lesson from Warren Buffett about Ethical Blind Spots
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThe data seem clear on David Sokol's conflict of interest in the Berkshire/Lubrizol deal. He bought shares in Lubrizol, and then encouraged Berkshire... -
Social Cost of Fraud and Bankruptcy
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How Europe Can Create Its Own Silicon Valley
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What CEOs Should Know About Speaking Up on Political Issues
Organizational Development Digital ArticleBe ready to respond.
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Dakota Industrial Co. Ltd: Sustainable Garment Manufacturing in a Fast-Fashion World
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details This case explains how Dakota, a medium-sized garment maker headquartered in Hong Kong, built its sustainability program while serving a US$3 trillion... -
Bob Reiss and Valdawn (C)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
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... -
DHAN Foundation's Climate Change Initiative (Part A): Choosing Among Multiple Good Options
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details DHAN is a non-government organisation with a difference. It is neither a philanthropic organisation nor a service organisation but a development organisation... -
Syndexa and Technology Transfer at Harvard University
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Gokhan Hotamisligil is a star researcher at Harvard School of Public Health who has made groundbreaking discoveries linking fat cells, inflammation, and... -
The Genesis Labs at Novartis
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Novartis' Genesis Labs program, launched in 2016 as part of Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research (NIBR), hosted pitch competitions where teams... -
Jack Stack (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This case describes Jack Stack's efforts to revive a diesel engine remanufacturing plant owned by International Harvester. Stack engineers a leveraged... -
The International Committee of The Red Cross: Development of an Ethical Procurement Policy
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details The Asia sourcing manager at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), a humanitarian organization working in conflict areas, had contributed... -
Rein Chemical Co.: Specialty Division
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This case describes corporate management's recent discovery of widespread unethical pricing transactions in one division and key managers' different views... -
AIT Group Plc
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details A U.S. venture capital firm has just learned that the deal structure for purchasing an illiquid U.K. software firm is unacceptable to institutional investors.... -
PAREXEL International Corp.: Scaling Up
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Through the lens of biopharmaceutical contract research organization (CRO) PAREXEL, this case traces the evolution of the firm as it reinvents itself... -
Negotiation brief for Euroland Motors
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplement for ES1221 -
BlackRock: Linking Purpose to Profit
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details The case revolves around the actions that Barbara Novick, co-founder and Vice-Chair of Blackrock, and Michelle Edkins, Global Head of Investment Stewardship,... -
Camino Therapeutics (D)
Communication Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case SM299A. In the #MeToo era, allegations of sexual assault and sexual misconduct pose difficult issues for employers, particularly when... -
Microsoft in Korea
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Microsoft Korea sees a potential opportunity to dramatically improve its subsidiary's performance by actively recruiting and promoting female senior managers... -
Dow Corning and the Breast Implant Controversy (A)
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details In early 1994, Dow Corning Corp. debates whether to participate in a proposed $4.2 billion product liability settlement. Specifically, the firm must decide... -
Barry Callebaut (B): To Follow the Chair?
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case IN1598 This case puts participants in the shoes of the directors of Barry Callebaut (BC), a cocoa-sourcing and chocolate manufacturing... -
The Case of Synthroid (A)
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details The case tells the story of Synthroid from its development in 1958 as the first synthetic thyroxine molecule to its competition against generic equivalents... -
CASE 3.2 A SAMRIDH Blended Finance Facility: Accelerating Pandemic Response and Building Equitable Health Systems in India (A)
Management Case Study11.95View Details Part A of this case introduces students to a US AID/India initiative accelerating the pandemic response while building equitable health systems in India....
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Dakota Industrial Co. Ltd: Sustainable Garment Manufacturing in a Fast-Fashion World
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details This case explains how Dakota, a medium-sized garment maker headquartered in Hong Kong, built its sustainability program while serving a US$3 trillion... -
Bob Reiss and Valdawn (C)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
How Should We Allocate Scarce Medical Resources?
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThree guidelines for policymakers and physicians making life-or-death decisions. -
When to Make Private News Public (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleBetsy Sugarman, a rising star in a biotech company, finds out that she is pregnant. This is good news for her, but bad timing for her career. She has... -
How Much Truth Should You Share?
Business ethics Digital ArticleComments for this Make Your Case installment are now closed. Thanks to all who participated. This week’s guest commentator, Marshall Goldsmith, has posted his response to your comments and shared some thoughts of his own below. The opening to your cube is darkened by the familiar figure of a longtime colleague. Though you’re his immediate […] -
If You’re Tracking Employee Behavior, Be Transparent About It
Personnel policies Digital ArticleYou need to explain how — and why — you’re monitoring. -
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, […] -
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... -
Rupert Murdoch’s Last Stand
Crisis management Digital ArticleIt’s big news when a 168-year-old dies; it’s even bigger news when the demise is self-inflicted. On Thursday, responding to the astonishing (even for British tabloids) phone-hacking and police-paying charges, News International said that it would shutter its News of the World after one more issue this coming Sunday. The company’s predicament and how it […] -
Trust at the Top
Communication Digital ArticleA Rolls-Royce engine blows up, and ... silence - for four days. The great British engineering company took its time to find out what had happened to the...