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How — and When — Should Companies Engage in the Political Process?
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To Regulate Big Corporations, Understand How They Got That Way
Government policy and regulation Digital ArticleBig isn’t categorically bad, but it should invite public suspicion and scrutiny. -
When Great Minds Don’t Think Alike
Neurodiversity Digital ArticleTemple Grandin on how to harness different kinds of thinking for creativity, problem-solving, and innovation. -
The Case for Investing in Digital Public Infrastructure
Business and society Digital ArticleHow businesses and governments can work together to build digital foundations that benefit everyone. -
3 Steps for Creating and Implementing a Stakeholder Strategy
Business and society Digital ArticleHow leaders can overcome their reluctance and embrace a practical, data-driven approach that creates value for shareholders and stakeholders alike. -
Creating Psychological Safety for Black Women at Your Company
Diversity and inclusion Digital ArticleWhat organizations tend to get wrong — and how to get it right. -
Who Is Going to Regulate AI?
Government policy and regulation Digital ArticleAs the world reckons with the impact of powerful new AI systems, governments are jostling to lead the regulatory charge — and shape how this technology will grow. -
How Food Companies Can Better Measure Their Sustainability
Environmental sustainability Digital ArticleThe ability to track a product along the supply chain can help companies meet ambitious environmental goals. -
Getting Along: As a Woman of Color, How Can I Navigate a “Frat-Like” Subculture?
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An Antidote to Microaggressions? Microvalidations.
Diversity and inclusion Digital ArticleFive subtle acts of inclusion leaders can start practicing right now. -
AI Can Be Both Accurate and Transparent
AI and machine learning Digital ArticleHistorically, tech leaders have assumed that the better a human can understand an algorithm, the less accurate it will be. But is there always a tradeoff? -
What It Takes to Sell Cloud-Based Software to the U.S. Government
Cybersecurity and digital privacy Digital ArticleComplying with FedRAMP is worth the investment. -
How Hair Discrimination Affects Black Women at Work
Workplace discrimination Digital ArticleBusiness leaders can mitigate hair bias and texturism. -
8 Questions About Using AI Responsibly, Answered
AI and machine learning Big IdeaHow to avoid pitfalls around data privacy, bias, misinformation, generative AI, and more. -
Make Inclusive Behaviors Habitual on Your Team
Diversity and inclusion Digital ArticleFive patterns that get in the way of inclusion — and an antidote for each. -
Ethics in the Age of AI
Management Digital ArticleThe next generations of generative AI, quantum computing, and other emerging technologies don't just pose a challenge for organizational operations and... -
How Investing in DEI Helps Companies Become More Adaptable
Diversity and inclusion Digital ArticleA survey of 79 firms found that inclusion and adaptability are closely linked. -
7 Metrics to Measure Your Organization’s DEI Progress
Diversity and inclusion Digital ArticleBuilding a merit-based culture requires tracking the right data. -
The Founders of Bitty & Beau’s Coffee on Building a Business Around Employees with Disabilities
Diversity and inclusion Magazine ArticleA thriving business demonstrates how dedicated and enthusiastic employees with disabilities can be. -
How to Create a Stakeholder Strategy
Business and society Magazine ArticleA data-driven approach to design, measurement, and implementation
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When Great Minds Don't Think Alike
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleTemple Grandin on how to harness different kinds of thinking for creativity, problem-solving, and innovation. -
Who Is Going to Regulate AI?
Government policy and regulation Digital ArticleAs the world reckons with the impact of powerful new AI systems, governments are jostling to lead the regulatory charge — and shape how this technology will grow. -
How to Spot an Incompetent Leader
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleWe have the tools, we just don't use them. -
Creating Psychological Safety for Black Women at Your Company
Organizational Development Digital ArticleWhat organizations tend to get wrong - and how to get it right. -
Generative AI Has an Intellectual Property Problem
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleStrategies to help companies mitigate the legal risk and ensure they're in compliance with the law. -
Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?
Workplace discrimination Digital ArticleThe real gender issue isn’t a lack of qualified women, but a surplus of unqualified men. -
AI Should Augment Human Intelligence, Not Replace It
Business and society Digital ArticleArtificial intelligence isn’t coming for your job, but it will be your new coworker. Here’s how to get along. -
9 Trends That Will Shape Work in 2023 and Beyond
Business management Digital ArticleAmid a looming economic downturn, employers can expect another tumultuous year. -
Research: The Average Age of a Successful Startup Founder Is 45
Innovation & Leadership ResearchThe most successful entrepreneurs aren't 20-somethings. -
Power of Talk: Who Gets Heard and Why
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleMost managerial work happens through talk--discussions, meetings, presentations, negotiations. And it is through talk that managers evaluate others and... -
Why Your Late Twenties Is the Worst Time of Your Life
Leadership & Managing People ResearchYounger people's brains just aren't as good at dealing with stress. -
Why Business Leaders Must Resist the Anti-ESG Movement
Corporate social responsibility Digital ArticleRetreat isn’t just inadvisable; it’s dangerous. -
8 Questions About Using AI Responsibly, Answered
AI and machine learning Big IdeaHow to avoid pitfalls around data privacy, bias, misinformation, generative AI, and more. -
The Myth of Sustainable Fashion
Global Business Digital ArticleDespite high-profile attempts at innovation, the industry has failed to reduce its environmental impact so far. -
Why Diversity Programs Fail
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Understanding China
Global Business SpotlightThis package begins with "What the West Gets Wrong About China," by Rana Mitter and Elsbeth Johnson, which discusses three fundamental misconceptions:... -
What the West Gets Wrong About China
Global Business SpotlightMany people have wrongly assumed that political freedom would follow new economic freedoms in China and that its economic growth would have to be built... -
An Antidote to Microaggressions? Microvalidations.
Organizational Development Digital ArticleFive subtle acts of inclusion leaders can start practicing right now. -
A More Sustainable Supply Chain
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleIncreasingly, multinational corporations (MNCs) are pledging to procure the materials and services they need from companies committed to fair labor practices... -
How - and When - Should Companies Engage in the Political Process?
Global Business Digital ArticleA new set of principles to encourage responsibility, legitimacy, accountability, and transparency.
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The Signals of Big Oil: ExxonMobil Stumbles
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In the summer of 2021, an Exxon Mobil Corporation (ExxonMobil) executive was secretly recorded dismissing climate science that his company had publicly... -
Airbnb in Amsterdam (A), Portuguese Version
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details In February 2014, Amsterdam became the first city to issue new regulations specifically to allow home-sharing. Airbnb's Molly Turner, Global Head of Civic... -
Personnel Problems
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details The CEO of an investment management firm must decide what to do about inappropriate actions by two different employees. While both employees are strong... -
The Specific Factors Model for Trade and Migration
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details When proposing new or modified economic policies, it is important to understand the distributional implications of such policies. Do they potentially... -
How To Use Virtue in Business: Part A
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details How important are virtue and character when the future of a company is on the line? How does the leader decide between two pressing options? Set in 1981,... -
Airbnb in Amsterdam (B), Portuguese Version
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details In December 2014, the City of Amsterdam and Airbnb announced an MOU to promote responsible home-sharing and to simplify the payment of tourist tax for... -
Daka International, Inc. (B)
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details Describes the resolution to the dilemma raised in the (A) case. -
Carrefour China and the Olympic Torch Relay: Managing Corporate Crisis amid Evolving Expectations of Multinational Firms
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Prior to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Chinese people were outraged by repeated interruptions of the Olympic torch relay in Paris on 7 April 2008.... -
Amable--Marketing Innovation in Education
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Amable, a Bangalore-based children's education organization, was co-founded by Ratnesh and Aditi Mathur, a husband-wife duo who wanted to provide innovative... -
Nike: Ethics Versus Reputation in the #MeToo Era
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details In March 2018, a report on workplace harassment issues was brought to the chief executive officer of Nike, Inc. (Nike), Mark Parker. The report was a... -
Allbirds: Decarbonizing Fashion
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Allbirds is a footwear startup focused on simple design, comfort, and sustainable natural materials. The case describes the company's product development... -
Arist: Learning Bit by Bit
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Arist was a Boston, Massachusetts-based startup with a text message learning platform. It was founded by three undergraduate students and raised more... -
Savage Beast (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details For several months, things had been spiraling downwards at Savage Beast, the music-recommendation company started three years before by Tim Westergren.... -
The Affordable Care Act (H): Implementation Begins
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details In the spring of 2010, after the ACA is signed into law, the government begins implementation. -
Microsoft Office 2007 (Abridged)
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details A discussion of the history and processes behind the development of Microsoft's Office 12 software. -
Diversity in The Workplace: A Legal and Statistical Analysis
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Although most major corporations in the United States claim they are attempting to create a workplace environment reflective of society's diversity (race,... -
Meeting the Diversity Challenge at PepsiCo: The Steve Reinemund Era
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details This case profiles PepsiCo's diversity journey under the leadership of former chairman and CEO Steve Reinemund who instituted diversity as one of the... -
Beleza Natural: Marketing Strategies for Empowering Social Change
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details This case features an entrepreneur striving to rapidly grow a successful chain of hair salons that serve women with afro hair. After doubling from 13... -
The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy
30.00View Details Our political system in America is broken, right? Wrong. The truth is, the American political system is working exactly how it is designed to work, and... -
Managing Stakeholders with Corporate Social Responsibility, Course Overview
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The note articulates the ways in which strong stakeholder-company relationships developed through corporate social responsibility initiatives and other...
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When Great Minds Don't Think Alike
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleTemple Grandin on how to harness different kinds of thinking for creativity, problem-solving, and innovation. -
When You’re Disillusioned at Work, Quitting Isn’t the Only Option
Managing yourself AdviceFigure out why you’re frustrated — and then, come up with a plan to make change. -
Who Is Going to Regulate AI?
Government policy and regulation Digital ArticleAs the world reckons with the impact of powerful new AI systems, governments are jostling to lead the regulatory charge — and shape how this technology will grow. -
How to Spot an Incompetent Leader
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleWe have the tools, we just don't use them. -
Creating Psychological Safety for Black Women at Your Company
Organizational Development Digital ArticleWhat organizations tend to get wrong - and how to get it right. -
Generative AI Has an Intellectual Property Problem
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleStrategies to help companies mitigate the legal risk and ensure they're in compliance with the law. -
Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?
Workplace discrimination Digital ArticleThe real gender issue isn’t a lack of qualified women, but a surplus of unqualified men. -
AI Should Augment Human Intelligence, Not Replace It
Business and society Digital ArticleArtificial intelligence isn’t coming for your job, but it will be your new coworker. Here’s how to get along. -
9 Trends That Will Shape Work in 2023 and Beyond
Business management Digital ArticleAmid a looming economic downturn, employers can expect another tumultuous year. -
Research: The Average Age of a Successful Startup Founder Is 45
Innovation & Leadership ResearchThe most successful entrepreneurs aren't 20-somethings.