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How a "Pay-to-Quit" Strategy Can Reveal Your Most Motivated Employees
Organizational Development Digital ArticleEverybody wins with this program. -
How to Choose the Right Forecasting Technique
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleTwo Corning Glass Works products illustrate the use of various forecasting techniques. Managers and forecasters should consider three issues when approaching... -
What Is Web3?
Technology & Operations Big IdeaWeb3 is being touted as the future of the internet. The vision for this new, blockchain-based web includes cryptocurrencies, NFTs, DAOs, decentralized... -
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... -
What Causes Inflation?
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleWhy your money is worth less than it used to be. -
Welcome to the Experience Economy
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleIn this article, co-authors B. Joseph Pine II and James Gilmore, founders of the management consulting firm Strategic Horizons, preview the likely characteristics... -
How to Survive a Recession and Thrive Afterward
Business and society Magazine ArticleA research roundup -
Globalization of Markets
Global Business Magazine ArticleThe new commercial reality is the emergence of global markets for standardized consumer products on a previously unimagined scale of magnitude. Technology,... -
Does the Capital Asset Pricing Model Work?
Financial crisis Magazine ArticleAn important task of the corporate financial manager is measurement of the company’s cost of equity capital. But estimating the cost of equity causes a lot of head scratching; often the result is subjective and therefore open to question as a reliable benchmark. This article describes a method for arriving at that figure, a method […] -
Global Business Speaks English
Global Business Magazine ArticleLike it or not, English is the global language of business. Today 1.75 billion people speak English at a useful level--that's one in four of us. Multinational... -
Everything You (Don’t) Want to Know About Raising Capital
Financial markets Magazine ArticleMost entrepreneurs understand that if the fundamentals of a business idea—the management team, the market opportunities, the operating systems and controls—are sound, chances are there’s money out there. The challenge of landing that capital to grow a company can be exhilarating. But as exciting as the money search may be, it is equally threatening. Built […] -
What Companies Still Get Wrong About Layoffs
Organizational Development Digital ArticleMany cling to the idea that reducing staff is the fastest, easiest way to cut costs. But there are smarter, more humane approaches. -
The State of Globalization in 2022
Globalization Digital ArticleIts collapse has been vastly overstated, according to an analysis of international flows of trade, capital, information, and people. -
ChatGPT and How AI Disrupts Industries
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleA look back at the taxi business illustrates what OpenAI's newest model might mean for creative work. -
What Professional Service Firms Must Do to Thrive
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleDuring economic slowdowns, consulting, law, and accounting firms often start offering services and taking on clients they really shouldn't, just to keep... -
Four Steps to Forecast Total Market Demand
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleForecasting total market demand can be crucial to creating a smart marketing strategy. Some companies--and even whole industries--have learned the hard... -
Strategies That Fit Emerging Markets
Global Business Magazine ArticleIt's no easy task to identify strategies for entering new international markets or to decide which countries to do business with. Many firms simply go... -
Extreme Jobs: The Dangerous Allure of the 70-Hour Workweek
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleToday's overachieving professionals labor longer, take on more responsibility, and earn more than the workaholics of yore. They hold what Hewlett and... -
Is America in Decline?
Economics Magazine ArticleStrange as it may seem, a nation once celebrated for its irrepressible optimism now appears to be obsessed by decline. America’s list of complaints seems endless: Real wages are falling. Productivity growth is down. Companies aren’t competitive in global markets. White-collar jobs are no longer secure. The nation’s infrastructure is collapsing. The federal deficit is […]
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Spotify: Face the Music (Update 2018)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Spotify reached $3 billion in revenues in 2016, amid a booming music-streaming market that now made up 51% of the U.S. music industry's total revenues.... -
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... -
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... -
Francisco de Narvaez at Tia: Selling the Family Business
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In January 1999, Francisco de Narvaez sold Tia, his family's retail business in Argentina. De Narvaez reflects on the decision to sell and the selling... -
IBM: Building with Blockchain
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details IBM needed a win. Facing flattening sales and increasing analyst concerns, the century-old giant that had reinvented itself so often before was in search... -
PAIRING THE FASHION INDUSTRY WITH THE SHARING ECONOMY - A CASE STUDY OF HOW STYLE THEORY ENTERED SINGAPORE'S FASHION RENTAL INDUSTRY
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Singapore, Style Theory has successfully paired the sharing economy with the fashion industry by improvising its... -
Tradition and Transformation at the Spanish Riding School of Vienna
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The Spanish Riding School (SRS) was an icon of Austrian national identity, the oldest riding school in the world and the primary exponent of the art of... -
Note on Behavioural Finance
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Behavioural economics, a relatively new branch of study, formally began in the 1980s and has garnered increasing attention from economists and neuroscientists... -
FDI in China, Spanish Version
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details China is one of the most popular investment destinations in the world. Throughout much of the 1990s, China accounted for 50% of foreign direct investment... -
Ant Financial (C), Chinese Version
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details Headquartered in Hangzhou (China), Ant Financial has grown into a fintech "Unicorn." The fintech empire that the company established spanned verticals... -
Evaluating Microsavings Programs: Green Bank of the Philippines (A)
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Green Bank of the Philippines was known for its product innovation and its ability to bring new products to market. In 2002, Green Bank designed an untested... -
Village Ventures
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Matt Harris, general partner and founder of Village Ventures, a nationwide umbrella organization for VC firms in secondary cities, is about to negotiate... -
Accounting for Bitcoin at Tesla, Spanish Version
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details On February 8, 2021, Tesla revealed, through its 10-K filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), that it had purchased $1.5 billion of Bitcoin,... -
Shock Therapy in Eastern Europe: The Polish and Czechoslovak Economic Reforms
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Provides information on economic reform programs in Poland and Czechoslovakia in 1990. Students are asked to compare and contrast the economic situations... -
Nature Conservancy
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Almost immediately upon being appointed CEO of The Nature Conservancy (TNC), Steve McCormick undertakes a radical reorganization of this global institution.... -
Wanxiang Group: A Chinese Company's Global Strategy
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details With an almost forty-year history as a business in China, the Wanxiang Group has navigated through the significantly different political and economic... -
China or the World? A Financial Reporting Strategy for Hong Kong's Capital Markets
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Set in 2010, the case discusses the strategic directions Hong Kong could pursue, particularly vis-a-vis China, as it seeks to preserve its preeminence... -
EILEEN FISHER: Repositioning the Brand, Spanish Version
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Well-established fashion brand Eileen Fisher has traditionally appealed to older women. However, to drive growth, Eileen Fisher's management team wants... -
Blockchain: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review
22.95View Details Can blockchain solve your biggest business problem? While the world is transfixed by bitcoin mania, your competitors are tuning out the noise and making... -
Chrysalis Capital: Venture Capital in an Emerging Market
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Examines the founding and early development of an Indian venture capital firm. Focuses on the opportunity in the Indian high-technology sector, how the...
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How a "Pay-to-Quit" Strategy Can Reveal Your Most Motivated Employees
Organizational Development Digital ArticleEverybody wins with this program. -
How to Choose the Right Forecasting Technique
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleTwo Corning Glass Works products illustrate the use of various forecasting techniques. Managers and forecasters should consider three issues when approaching... -
What Is Web3?
Technology & Operations Big IdeaWeb3 is being touted as the future of the internet. The vision for this new, blockchain-based web includes cryptocurrencies, NFTs, DAOs, decentralized... -
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... -
What Causes Inflation?
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleWhy your money is worth less than it used to be. -
Welcome to the Experience Economy
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleIn this article, co-authors B. Joseph Pine II and James Gilmore, founders of the management consulting firm Strategic Horizons, preview the likely characteristics... -
Making Smart Investments: A Beginner’s Guide
Costing AdviceReduce the risk factor, increase the reward factor, and generate meaningful returns. -
How to Survive a Recession and Thrive Afterward
Business and society Magazine ArticleA research roundup -
Globalization of Markets
Global Business Magazine ArticleThe new commercial reality is the emergence of global markets for standardized consumer products on a previously unimagined scale of magnitude. Technology,...