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The Ordinary Heroes of the Taj
Organizational culture Magazine ArticleHow an Indian hotel chain’s organizational culture nurtured employees who were willing to risk their lives to save their guests -
What the West Gets Wrong About China
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China + India: The Power of Two
Business history Magazine ArticleChina and India, ancient allies and modern competitors, are rebuilding economic ties after almost five decades. Consequently, multinational companies face the most challenging—and potentially rewarding—business landscape ever. -
Strategies That Fit Emerging Markets
Emerging markets Magazine ArticleFast-growing economies often provide poor soil for profits. The cause? A lack of specialized intermediary firms and regulatory systems on which multinational companies depend. Successful businesses look for those institutional voids and work around them. -
China’s New Innovation Advantage
Globalization SpotlightChina is achieving a new level of global competitiveness, thanks to its hyper-adaptive population. -
Strategy and Society: The Link Between Competitive Advantage and Corporate Social Responsibility
Social enterprise HBR BestsellerGovernments, activists, and the media have become adept at holding companies to account for the social consequences of their activities. Myriad organizations rank companies on the performance of their corporate social responsibility (CSR), and, despite sometimes questionable methodologies, these rankings attract considerable publicity. As a result, CSR has emerged as an inescapable priority for business […] -
The Strategic Challenges of Decoupling
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India's Secret to Low-Cost Health Care
Organizational Development Digital ArticleThe U.S. could learn a thing or two from health care delivery in India. -
India’s Drive to Center Stage… In a New Jaguar
Management Digital ArticleThe uncertainty and speculation are over. India’s Tata will get the Jaguar and the Land Rover Brands from Ford at a price estimated to be $2 billion. Though unrelated, only yesterday did another Tata group company, Tata Chemicals, announce the acquisition of another US-owned company, soda-ash producer General Chemical Industrial Products, for $1 billion. Coming […] -
Innovate at Your Own Risk: Deborah Wince-Smith on Competitiveness
Emerging markets Magazine ArticleThe U.S. may be the world’s leading innovator, but it won’t be for long if investors, regulators, and the legal establishment continue to penalize companies for risk taking, says Deborah Wince-Smith, president of the Council on Competitiveness. Recently, the council’s National Innovation Initiative, a leadership network of CEOs and university presidents, released a report in […] -
Chinese Activists Are Using Blockchain to Document #MeToo Stories
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThe technology is helping them bypass online censorship. -
India's New Leaders
Global Business Digital ArticleYoung, smart, and focused, Raj is typical of the thousands of Indian students who have enrolled at British and American business schools over the last... -
The Feudal World of Japanese Manufacturing
Competitive strategy Magazine ArticleYears ago, while visiting friends in the United States, I happened to see the classic children’s film The Wizard of Oz. Near the end, Dorothy at last appears before the all-powerful wizard—a terrifying image of smoke and light. Only when her dog, Toto, tugs at a curtain over to one side does she see a […] -
Telemedicine Can Cut Health Care Costs by 90%
Health and behavioral science Digital ArticleIf you’ve not yet heard of telemedicine or think that it’s not a great way to deliver quality health care, you may want to read this. Telemedicine, made possible by the availability of mobile networks, is revolutionizing health care. But not in the U.S. You have to look to India, where telemedicine is already widely […] -
The New Tools of Trade
Labor Magazine ArticleToday, most multinationals have a conspicuous social conscience. They publicize their internal codes of conduct, monitor labor conditions in their global supply chains, and require suppliers to meet basic labor practice standards. But despite efforts to be better global citizens, companies by themselves are unable to eliminate abuses in their supply chains. In fact, so […] -
Upgrade Your Pricing Strategy to Match Consumer Behavior
Sales & Marketing Digital ArticleThree hacks based on behavioral science. -
Pioneering entrepreneur Yoshiko Shinohara on turning temporary work into big business in Japan
Gender Magazine ArticleAt age 74, Yoshiko Shinohara is a towering figure in Japanese business. She has created a wealth of job opportunities, including many for women, by founding the temporary-staffing agency Tempstaff and lobbying to strike down laws that stifled the temp industry. Tempstaff now has approximately 3,300 employees and is a public company. For the past […] -
Growth as a Process
Globalization Magazine ArticleGeneral Electric is bending every waking effort to an audacious aim—to grow organically two to three times faster than world GDP. Pursuing that goal, the company has invented a whole new set of management methods. -
Case Study: Culture Clash in the Boardroom
Business ethics Digital ArticleEditors’ Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. If you’d like your comment to be considered for publication, please be sure to include your full name, company or university affiliation and email address. The room was already packed when Liu […] -
Alibaba: The First Real Test for Amazon’s Business Model
Disruptive innovation Digital ArticleThe two online retailers are different in important ways.
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Dairy Farm International Holdings Limited: Analysing an Annual Report
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The main objective of this case is to introduce students to the calculation and usage of ratios in a real world environment. Secondly, students will be... -
Net Zero to Net Hero - Can We Gross It? Part 2
Management Case Study5.00View Details NET ZERO TO NET HERO - CAN WE GROSS IT? is a two-part case that highlights the pressing need for businesses to move towards sustainable practices. This... -
Singapore's Public Enterprises
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Singapore has experienced exceptional economic success, lifting its self from third world to first world in fewer than four decades. Moreover, public... -
Process Reengineering in Emerging Markets: An Automaker's Experience (B)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case IMB615. Set in early 2009, Part (A) of the case describes the operational challenges faced by a growing subsidiary firm of a global... -
Li & Fung: Internet Issues (B)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
The Rise and Fall of Nokia (Abridged)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In 2013, Nokia sold its Device and Services business to Microsoft for €5.4 billion. For decades Nokia had led the telecommunications (telecom) industry... -
Impact Kommons: New World Development's Accelerator Program to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals
Management Case Study8.95View Details Impact Kommons was initiated by New World Development (NWD) as the first start-up accelerator in Hong Kong targeted at achieving the United Nations Sustainable... -
NGO Microfinance in the Tibet Autonomous Region, Epilogue
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details In 1998, the Tibet Poverty Alleviation Fund (TPAF), a small, US-based non-governmental organization, launched an initiative to bring the benefits of microfinance... -
Flextronics International, Ltd., Chinese Version
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Describes Flextronics' evolution from providing outsourced manufacturing services for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in the electronics industry... -
TikTok and Kuaishou: A Tale of Two Short-Video Sharing Apps from China to the Globe
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Short videos are the new trend in entertainment and social networking. TikTok/Douyin is the undisputed leader of short video-sharing apps. Less than four... -
Automation at Haidilao
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Tencent, Portuguese Version
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Tencent had undergone many transformations since it was founded in 1998 as a simple messaging service. In 2017, it was the largest online games provider... -
Sime Darby Berhad (C): Responding to the Asian Crisis
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Pressure Makes Diamonds: Investing in Copper Mining in Laos (C)
Management Case Study5.00View Details Case Supplement for Case RSM103 -
Tiger Airways: Navigating through Challenges and Competition
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This case chronicles the formation and growth of Tiger Airways, a low-cost carrier headquartered in Singapore. It describes the business, managerial and... -
Pressure Makes Diamonds: Investing in Copper Mining in Laos (A)
Management Case Study8.95View Details The case centres on the difficulties of weighing up the pros and cons of a foreign investment decision in the natural resources sector, characterized... -
Healthcare Destinations in Asia
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details In addition to spas, theme parks, and palm beaches, health care tourism is emerging as a growing source of revenue in tourist destinations in Asia. Thailand,... -
Talking Strategy at Greighton Partners
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Since its inception, London-based private equity firm Greighton Partners had managed over $15 billion in investor capital. The firm employed about 150... -
Farmland Investing: A Technical Note
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This note seeks to provide an overview of farmland investing; the investment thesis behind investing in agriculture, how and why investors would choose... -
Eataly: Reimagining the Grocery Store (Multimedia Case)
Management Tool25.00View Details Within a few years of its operations, the Italian-based supermarket Eataly created a lot of buzz and excitement among consumers and media. Eataly's initial...
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The Ordinary Heroes of the Taj
Organizational culture Magazine ArticleHow an Indian hotel chain’s organizational culture nurtured employees who were willing to risk their lives to save their guests -
What the West Gets Wrong About China
Globalization SpotlightThree fundamental misconceptions -
China + India: The Power of Two
Business history Magazine ArticleChina and India, ancient allies and modern competitors, are rebuilding economic ties after almost five decades. Consequently, multinational companies face the most challenging—and potentially rewarding—business landscape ever. -
Strategies That Fit Emerging Markets
Emerging markets Magazine ArticleFast-growing economies often provide poor soil for profits. The cause? A lack of specialized intermediary firms and regulatory systems on which multinational companies depend. Successful businesses look for those institutional voids and work around them. -
China’s New Innovation Advantage
Globalization SpotlightChina is achieving a new level of global competitiveness, thanks to its hyper-adaptive population. -
Strategy and Society: The Link Between Competitive Advantage and Corporate Social Responsibility
Social enterprise HBR BestsellerGovernments, activists, and the media have become adept at holding companies to account for the social consequences of their activities. Myriad organizations rank companies on the performance of their corporate social responsibility (CSR), and, despite sometimes questionable methodologies, these rankings attract considerable publicity. As a result, CSR has emerged as an inescapable priority for business […] -
The Strategic Challenges of Decoupling
Globalization SpotlightNavigating your company’s future in China -
India's Secret to Low-Cost Health Care
Organizational Development Digital ArticleThe U.S. could learn a thing or two from health care delivery in India. -
India’s Drive to Center Stage… In a New Jaguar
Management Digital ArticleThe uncertainty and speculation are over. India’s Tata will get the Jaguar and the Land Rover Brands from Ford at a price estimated to be $2 billion. Though unrelated, only yesterday did another Tata group company, Tata Chemicals, announce the acquisition of another US-owned company, soda-ash producer General Chemical Industrial Products, for $1 billion. Coming […] -
Innovate at Your Own Risk: Deborah Wince-Smith on Competitiveness
Emerging markets Magazine ArticleThe U.S. may be the world’s leading innovator, but it won’t be for long if investors, regulators, and the legal establishment continue to penalize companies for risk taking, says Deborah Wince-Smith, president of the Council on Competitiveness. Recently, the council’s National Innovation Initiative, a leadership network of CEOs and university presidents, released a report in […]