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Entrepreneurs, Look to Your Network to Help You Through the Pandemic
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleThere's strength in numbers. -
How to Penetrate the US Market
Marketing Digital ArticleAccounting for almost 30% of world GDP, the United States is the world’s largest and most demanding market for almost everything from oil to microprocessors to premium coffee. Companies around the world aspire to do business in the US, or at least with US companies in their home markets. By doing so, they learn much […] -
A Post-Pandemic Strategy for U.S. Higher Ed
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleDigital tools can augment - not replace - on-campus education. -
Low Value of Virtue
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleMost consumers don't care where, how, or by whom products are made, says David Vogel at Berkeley's Haas School of Business. -
Executive Incentives vs. Corporate Growth
Boards Magazine ArticleBonuses and other forms of incentive compensation are an effective motivator of executives to achieve ever higher earnings per share. The drive to produce short-term results, however, often influences management to forgo investment in capital equipment and R&D that would benefit the corporation several years hence even more than improved earnings next year would. The […] -
How Exactly Will We Move Away from Fossil Fuels?
Organizational Development Digital ArticleWe'll need three different efforts, all working in conjunction. -
How to "Re-engineer" Your Business for Safety
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleApply this '90s business principle to your company's reopening strategy. -
When Good Customers Are Bad
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleDelivered-cost analytics can tell you how much those supply chain services you're offering are really costing you. -
What U.S. Startups Get Wrong About Expanding into Europe
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleFour common mistakes - and how to avoid them. -
To Succeed in the Long Term, Focus on the Middle Term
Innovation Magazine ArticleStrategy’s no-man’s-land lies between the budget and the long-term plan. -
Why Network Neutrality Is Good for Business
Web-based technologies Digital ArticleEditor’s note: For an opposing viewpoint on this topic, see Robert E. Litan’s and Hal J. Singer’s entry “Why Business Should Oppose Net Neutrality.” In business school, where I teach, students are often predisposed to see legal concepts as impenetrable and foreign. I watch the lightbulbs go on as they see that Microsoft’s antitrust woes, […] -
Diversification via Acquisition: Creating Value
Mergers and acquisitions Magazine ArticleDuring the past 25 years an increasing proportion of U.S. companies have seen wisdom in pursuing a strategy of diversification. Between 1950 and 1970, for example, single-business companies comprising the Fortune “500” declined from 30% to 8% of the total. Acquisition has become a standard approach to diversification. In recent years the productivity of capital […] -
Does Management Really Work?
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleHBR's 90th anniversary is a sensible time to revisit a basic question: Are organizations more likely to succeed if they adopt good management practices?... -
3 Things You're Getting Wrong About Organizational Change
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleInvert your assumptions about risk-taking. -
Why Now Is the Time for "Open Innovation"
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleCovid-19 has shown how companies can work together to solve problems. -
Leaders, Make Curiosity the Core of Your Organizational Culture
Organizational Development Digital ArticleKeeping a competitive edge requires constant questioning. -
Customer-Driven Distribution Systems
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleThis eight-step process for designing a distribution system calls for in-depth study of what services and conveniences the company's customers value and... -
Building a Leadership Brand
Employee performance management Magazine ArticleYou want your leaders to be the kind of people who embody the promises your company makes to its customers. To build this capability, follow these five principles. -
The Toxic Handler: Organizational Hero—and Casualty
Organizational culture Magazine ArticleWhen companies cause emotional pain through nasty bosses, layoffs, and change, a certain breed of “healing” manager steps in to keep the gears moving. They are toxic handlers—unsung corporate heroes who save the day, but often pay a high price. -
Live Life as an Experiment
Managing yourself Digital ArticleIt was an experiment. I was returning an item to the store from which I had bought it. The item was well within the return period, but there would be a 20% restocking fee. Could I evade that fee? What would I have to do or say to persuade them not to charge it to […]
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Loblaw and Shoppers Drug Mart
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details In mid-2013, the executive chairman of Loblaw Companies Ltd. was considering whether it was in his company's best interest to acquire Shoppers Drug Mart.... -
Cabo San Viejo: Rewarding Loyalty
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details In 2005, Cabo San Viejo, a premier health and fitness spa resort located in Palm Springs, California, is debating whether to introduce a Customer Rewards... -
Amazon Vs Walmart: Clash of Business Models
Management Case Study11.95View Details Set in 2021, this case describes how Amazon and Walmart have been two of the most successful retailers in history and are responsible for changing the... -
EssentialMed Foundation: A Stuck Innovator
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Today, 14% of the world's population (US, Japan and Europe) accounts for over 80% of the medical devices market. Lower income countries (aka the Global... -
Theranos: Who Has Blood on Their Hands? (B)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details This supplemental case tracks the results of the Colman and Taubman-Dye class action suit against Theranos as well as Theranos' other legal challenges,... -
Zespri
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Grower-owned Zespri is the sole exporter of New Zealand-grown kiwifruit outside of Australia and New Zealand. Facing growing international competition,... -
Kameda Seika: Cracking the US Market
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details In spring 2016, Kameda's CEO, Michiyasu Tanaka, is facing difficult questions from board members over the lackluster performance of the company's US subsidiary.... -
Chesapeake and Shorewood Hostile Bids: A Tale of Two Boards (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details The purpose of this case is to present a series of strategic issues faced by a $1 billion company. The situation called for a major restructuring immediately... -
Maestro Pizza: Coming in Hot!
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Maestro pizza opened its first store in 2013 after its founder, Khalid Al Omran, recognized an opportunity in Saudi Arabia to offer high quality pizza... -
Saturn: A Different Kind of Car Company
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Saturn was General Motors' (GM) response to Japanese companies' dominance of the small car market during the mid-1980s. In the three-and-a-half years... -
AI21 Labs in 2023: Strategy for Generative AI
Management Case Study11.95View Details Israeli generative artificial intelligence company AI21 Labs was founded in 2017 to realize the vision of true machine intelligence. It sought to reinvent... -
King's Flair International: A Bright Future in the Nanofiber Opportunity? (B)
Management Case Study5.00View Details This case series describes the decision of King's Flair International (KFI) on whether to venture into the nanofiber business. KFI grew from an original... -
Komatsu Ltd.: Project G's Globalization
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details This case describes the major strategic and organizational transformation at Komatsu aimed at changing it from a Japan-based producer of construction... -
Goldman Sachs' Digital Journey
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Coal: Exit, voice or loyalty? The case of three mining multinationals
Management Case Study11.95View Details Coal plays a critical role as an energy pillar in many parts of the world. In three of the world's most populous countries - China, India and Indonesia... -
State Street Bank and Trust Co.: New Product Development
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Portrays the dilemma faced by Marsh Carter, CEO and chairman of the board of State Street Bank, in May 1995. For the past decade, the bank earned continually... -
PureCircle
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details In December 2008, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA determined that high-purity Rebaudioside A (Reb A), a natural and calorie-free product that... -
Allen Lane, Supplement
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Bettr Barista: A Shot at Better Lives
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details This case is set in 2019, and describes the social-entrepreneurial journey of Bettr Barista ('BB'), a Singapore-based coffee company. Launched in 2011...
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Entrepreneurs, Look to Your Network to Help You Through the Pandemic
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleThere's strength in numbers. -
How to Penetrate the US Market
Marketing Digital ArticleAccounting for almost 30% of world GDP, the United States is the world’s largest and most demanding market for almost everything from oil to microprocessors to premium coffee. Companies around the world aspire to do business in the US, or at least with US companies in their home markets. By doing so, they learn much […] -
A Post-Pandemic Strategy for U.S. Higher Ed
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleDigital tools can augment - not replace - on-campus education. -
Low Value of Virtue
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleMost consumers don't care where, how, or by whom products are made, says David Vogel at Berkeley's Haas School of Business. -
Loblaw and Shoppers Drug Mart
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details In mid-2013, the executive chairman of Loblaw Companies Ltd. was considering whether it was in his company's best interest to acquire Shoppers Drug Mart.... -
Cabo San Viejo: Rewarding Loyalty
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details In 2005, Cabo San Viejo, a premier health and fitness spa resort located in Palm Springs, California, is debating whether to introduce a Customer Rewards... -
Amazon Vs Walmart: Clash of Business Models
Management Case Study11.95View Details Set in 2021, this case describes how Amazon and Walmart have been two of the most successful retailers in history and are responsible for changing the... -
Executive Incentives vs. Corporate Growth
Boards Magazine ArticleBonuses and other forms of incentive compensation are an effective motivator of executives to achieve ever higher earnings per share. The drive to produce short-term results, however, often influences management to forgo investment in capital equipment and R&D that would benefit the corporation several years hence even more than improved earnings next year would. The […] -
How Exactly Will We Move Away from Fossil Fuels?
Organizational Development Digital ArticleWe'll need three different efforts, all working in conjunction. -
How to "Re-engineer" Your Business for Safety
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleApply this '90s business principle to your company's reopening strategy.