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Europe Can Find Better Ways to Get Refugees into Workforces
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Collaborating with Congregations: Opportunities for Financial Services in the Inner City
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Why Some Rules Are More Likely to Be Broken
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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, […] -
How to Persuade People to Change Their Behavior
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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 […] -
Will Personalized Medicine Mean Higher Costs for Consumers?
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What a Bipartisan Approach to U.S. Health Care Could Look Like
Global Business Digital ArticleEncourage competition, reduce costs, and cover the poorest. -
How a Federal Ban on Ransomware Payments Could Help CISOs
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Convincing CEOs to Make Harassment Prevention a Priority
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The U.S. Economic Recovery Is Slowing Down. Don’t Be Alarmed.
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Starbucks’ “Race Together” Campaign and the Upside of CEO Activism
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Racial Remarks in the Workplace: Humor or Harassment?
Government policy and regulation Magazine ArticleA black man employed by a Minnesota trucking company had racial slurs directed at him and was the target of graffiti written by fellow workers. A U.S. district court held that the trucking company violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and ordered it to take affirmative action and disciplinary measures against […] -
How Europe Can Create Its Own Silicon Valley
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A "Public Option" That Would Work
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What You Should Know About Dodd-Frank and What Happens If It’s Rolled Back
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Regulators' Challenge: Correct the Error or the Cover-up?
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Digital Business Models Should Have to Follow the Law, Too
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleWhy we can't let the likes of Uber and YouTube build their advantage on illegal practices. -
Why Didn’t We Know?
Corporate governance Magazine ArticleA whistle-blower’s lawsuit alerts Galvatrens to deep flaws in its system for uncovering misconduct. How should management and the board respond?
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Penn West Petroleum Ltd.
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Transforming Arizona's Health Care System: Developing and Implementing the Health-e Connection Roadmap
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Delta Blues: U.S.-Vietnam Catfish Trade Dispute (B)
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King Abdullah Economic City: Population Drivers and Cash Flow
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The Maggi Noodle Safety Crisis in India (C)
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Barclays and the LIBOR Scandal
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Tesco PLC in India?
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Dow Corning and the Breast Implant Controversy (A)
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Justin Trudeau Wins 2015 Canada Election: A Blue Ocean Strategy in Politics
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Privateer Holdings: Navigating a Rocketing, But Complex, Cannabis Marketplace
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China's Banks 2010
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Food for thought: The "Junk Food" Act in Peru
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Dealing with the Devil: The Tobacco Control Negotiations of 1997-98
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nuTonomy: The Global Race to Get a Robotaxi to Your Door
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Airbnb in Amsterdam (B)
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Lessons Learned? Brooksley Born & the OTC Derivatives Market (A)
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To Hell with the Future, Let's Get on with the Past: George Mitchell in Northern Ireland
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Creating a Regulatory Space: Spectrum Trade Deal and the Competition Commission of India
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Lessons Learned? Brooksley Born & the OTC Derivatives Market (B)
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Sterlite Copper's Nemesis: Misreading the Politics of Policy (B)
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Europe Can Find Better Ways to Get Refugees into Workforces
Business and society Digital ArticleSome countries have solutions in place, but too many don’t. -
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. -
Penn West Petroleum Ltd.
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Penn West Petroleum Ltd. (Penn West), a large Canadian oil company, made multiple acquisitions that led to a buildup of goodwill (i.e., the purchase price... -
How Should We Allocate Scarce Medical Resources?
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThree guidelines for policymakers and physicians making life-or-death decisions. -
Why Some Rules Are More Likely to Be Broken
Business management ResearchAnd how to write regulations that people actually follow. -
Transforming Arizona's Health Care System: Developing and Implementing the Health-e Connection Roadmap
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This case addresses the issues of leadership and change management in the process of transforming an industry through an innovative public-private partnership... -
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, […] -
How to Persuade People to Change Their Behavior
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleMake it their decision, not your directive. -
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 […] -
Will Personalized Medicine Mean Higher Costs for Consumers?
Global Business Digital ArticleWe need policies that shift insurers' financial incentives.