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Managing the Liquidity Crisis
Global Business Digital ArticleCompanies are scrambling for cash in the face of the pandemic. -
Companies that Practice “Conscious Capitalism” Perform 10x Better
Corporate social responsibility Digital ArticleWhy should that be a surprise? -
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. -
Making Smart Investments: A Beginner's Guide
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleReduce the risk factor, increase the reward factor, and generate meaningful returns. -
When Losing Your Job Feels Like Losing Your Self
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleYou are more than what you do for a living. -
The Type of Innovation That Builds Nations
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleEfficiency won't get you there. -
Cocreating Business’s New Social Compact
Economics Magazine ArticleThe liberalization of markets is forcing executives and social activists to work together. They are developing new business models that will transform organizations and the lives of poor people everywhere. -
The Price of Wall Street’s Power
Finance and investing Magazine ArticleHow the financial sector’s outsize influence is undermining business -
Reimagining Capitalism
Corporate social responsibility Digital ArticleWhile the global financial meltdown and its aftershocks have unleashed a flood of indignation, condemnation, and protest upon Wall Street, the crisis has exposed a deeper distrust and implacable resentment of capitalism itself. Capitalism might be the greatest engine of prosperity and progress ever devised, but in recent years, individuals and communities have grown increasingly […] -
Research: Recession Grads May Wind Up Happier in the Long Run
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleDecades later, they're still grateful to have jobs. -
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? […] -
Managing Investors
Financial markets Magazine ArticlePhotography: Peter Murphy During his decade as CEO of IBM, Sam Palmisano didn’t say a lot in public about the financial markets and their impact on his decision making. He didn’t say a lot in public, period. He’d made a conscious choice to keep a low profile, and he began breaking with that choice only […] -
In 2009, Match the Urge to Purge with a Zest to Invest
Recessions Digital ArticleIt’s become the mantra of the moment: “A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.” Leaders everywhere are struggling to make sense of the worldwide economic crisis, to learn lessons that will guide them and their companies going forward. My worry is that too many leaders are learning the wrong lessons — they are becoming […] -
High Speed Rail Versus Austerity
Economics Digital ArticleEvidence from China suggests the many positive effects of high speed rail. -
Competitiveness: Self-Help for a Worsening Problem
Government policy and regulation Magazine ArticleA country’s competitiveness, like a company’s, is not primarily a matter of sales: it is a matter of incomes, and incomes earned, not borrowed. To be competitive means to raise incomes as rapidly as competitors do and to make the investments necessary to keep up competitively in the future. From this perspective, U.S. competitiveness is […] -
The Social Media Bubble
Communication Digital ArticleI'd like to advance a hypothesis: Despite all the excitement surrounding social media, the Internet isn't connecting us as much as we think it is. It's... -
What You Should Know About Dodd-Frank and What Happens If It’s Rolled Back
Government policy and regulation InterviewAn interview with Adam Posen of the Peterson Institute for International Economics. -
Do Most Companies Even Try to Innovate Anymore?
Innovation & Leadership ResearchR&D is becoming more and more concentrated in a handful of superstar firms. -
Wall Street Is No Friend to Radical Innovation
Innovation Magazine ArticleTo the list of reasons to resent Wall Street, now add another: It’s a wet blanket on innovation. A new study by Mary Benner of the Wharton School (published this year in Organization Science) examines the way securities analysts research and report on incumbent firms in industries undergoing disruptive change. She finds that analysts tend […] -
Worth Your Time This Week: Joblessness, Trash Cans, and Chess
Economics Digital ArticleUseful and/or intriguing ideas we’ve come across this week, plus the occasional worthwhile distraction. The enormous costs of joblessness The Atlantic‘s Don Peck lays out the likely consequences of sustained unemployment on the prospects of the generation currently entering (or failing to enter) the workforce, inner city neighborhoods, politics, marriages and child-rearing arrangements — in […]
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GE Healthcare India (B): The Product Innovation Journey
Sales & Marketing Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case IMD739. This three-part case series examines the marketing challenge encountered by a leading medical technology manufacturer, General... -
Russia: The End of a Time of Troubles?
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Describes Russia's troubled economic transition since 1991, highlights the problem of institutional development, and surveys the challenges President... -
Intuit, Inc.: Transforming an Entrepreneurial Company into a Collaborative Organization (A)
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Describes how Intuit, Inc.'s CEO, Steve Bennett, changes the company from an entrepreneurial "siloed" organization into a collaborative one. -
Kova: Becoming a Vietnamese Household Name in Paint
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Set in 2016, this case follows Phua Koon Kee, the CEO of Kova Group, one of the largest paint manufacturers in Vietnam, as he pondered upon the business... -
Maersk Shipping: Is the Price Right?
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details The Ciber Case Series: In early 2012 in the wake of economic uncertainty and industry-wide losses, shipping industry giant Maersk Lines deliberated about... -
Long-Term Capital Management, L.P. (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Long-Term Capital Management, L.P. (LTCM) was in the business of engaging in trading strategies to exploit market pricing discrepancies. Because the firm... -
Brazil's WTO Cotton Case: Negotiation Through Litigation
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Brazil has just won a cotton case action against the U.S. cotton agriculture program at the World Trade Organization. What does this mean for future agricultural... -
The Big Easy, Not So Easy: The Letter
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details A short, supplemental case to "The Big Easy, Not So Easy" (208068). Doris Koo must respond to new challenges at Lafitte in New Orleans. -
MediaRus Corporate Governance Challenge: Activating the Board through State Ownership
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Corporate governance is pivotal for Russian companies to ensure sustainable development, to expand beyond national borders, and to attract foreign investments.... -
Dalian Wanda Group: The AMC Entertainment Acquisition (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details When Dalian Wanda Group of China announced its plan to acquire the AMC Entertainment theatrical exhibition chain in the United States, many people in... -
Poletown Dilemma
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Senior management of General Motors must select a site for a new assembly plant to replace two plants located in Detroit. The economics strongly favor... -
The Productivity Decline: Demographics, Robots, or Globalization?
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details In the early 21st century, there was a noticeable trend of declining productivity growth. Despite the persistent decline in productivity growth, a consensus... -
Matrix Capital Management (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Ben Balbale, a partner at hedge fund Matrix Capital, must decide whether to exit their investment in Rovi Corporation, a company with a diverse portfolio... -
Arbitrage in the Government Bond Market?
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Documents a pricing anomaly in the large and liquid treasury bond market. The prices of callable treasury bonds seem to be inconsistent with the prices... -
1436: The First Pure Chinese Luxury Fashion Brand?
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details The case traces the birth of 1436, a new luxury brand specialized in cashmere garments. It describes how this venture emerged organically out of a combination... -
Real Madrid Club de Futbol
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details In June 2004, Florentino Perez, a well-known Spanish businessman, was elected president of Real Madrid, one of the world's top soccer clubs. In his campaign,... -
Numeric Investors L.P.
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Numeric Investors manages equity portfolios with the use of a momentum model and a value model. The momentum model is based on earnings surprise and analysts'... -
Satelite Distribuidora de Petroleo
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Marcelo Alecrim, the owner of SAT, a gas distribution company in Brazil, envisioned many growth opportunities but lacked financial resources to pursue... -
Long-Term Capital Management, L.P. (B)
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Women@Work: Fang (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This series of six short two-part cases ("caselets") is written to highlight workplace dynamics faced by women professionals. Women represent about half...
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Managing the Liquidity Crisis
Global Business Digital ArticleCompanies are scrambling for cash in the face of the pandemic. -
Companies that Practice “Conscious Capitalism” Perform 10x Better
Corporate social responsibility Digital ArticleWhy should that be a surprise? -
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. -
GE Healthcare India (B): The Product Innovation Journey
Sales & Marketing Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case IMD739. This three-part case series examines the marketing challenge encountered by a leading medical technology manufacturer, General... -
Making Smart Investments: A Beginner's Guide
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleReduce the risk factor, increase the reward factor, and generate meaningful returns. -
When Losing Your Job Feels Like Losing Your Self
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleYou are more than what you do for a living. -
The Type of Innovation That Builds Nations
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleEfficiency won't get you there. -
Russia: The End of a Time of Troubles?
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Describes Russia's troubled economic transition since 1991, highlights the problem of institutional development, and surveys the challenges President... -
Intuit, Inc.: Transforming an Entrepreneurial Company into a Collaborative Organization (A)
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Describes how Intuit, Inc.'s CEO, Steve Bennett, changes the company from an entrepreneurial "siloed" organization into a collaborative one. -
Cocreating Business’s New Social Compact
Economics Magazine ArticleThe liberalization of markets is forcing executives and social activists to work together. They are developing new business models that will transform organizations and the lives of poor people everywhere.