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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. -
Managing Risks: A New Framework
Risk management Magazine ArticleSmart companies match their approach to the nature of the threats they face. -
Building an Effective Cybersecurity Training Program
Cybersecurity and digital privacy Digital ArticleIt’s critical to schedule time for simulated exercises and “scrimmages.” -
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... -
Global Supply Chains in a Post-Pandemic World
Supply chain management Magazine ArticleCompanies need to make their networks more resilient. Here’s how. -
Company Culture Is Everyone's Responsibility
Organizational Development Digital ArticleA top-down approach doesn't work anymore. -
Reputation and Its Risks
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleRegulators, industry groups, consultants, and individual companies have developed elaborate guidelines over the years for assessing and managing risks... -
What Do We Do About the Biases in AI?
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleThree steps for leaders to take. -
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 […] -
Where to Focus Your Company’s Limited Cybersecurity Budget
Cybersecurity and digital privacy Digital ArticleThree cybersecurity investments to target. -
AI Regulation Is Coming
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleFor years public concern about technological risk has focused on the misuse of personal data. But as firms embed more and more artificial intelligence... -
The Big Lie of Strategic Planning
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleStrategy making forces executives to confront a future they can only guess at. It's not surprising, then, that they try to make the task less daunting... -
Strategy Under Uncertainty
Decision making and problem solving Magazine ArticleWhat makes for a good strategy in highly uncertain business environments? Some executives seek to shape the future with high-stakes bets. Eastman Kodak Company, for example, is spending $500 million per year to develop an array of digital photography products that it hopes will fundamentally change the way people create, store, and view pictures. Meanwhile, […] -
The Devastating Business Impacts of a Cyber Breach
Cybersecurity and digital privacy Digital ArticleNo company can afford to underestimate the long-term financial costs. -
Cybersecurity Insurance Has a Big Problem
Risk management Digital ArticleThere’s literally not enough money to keep the system afloat in the event of a major attack. -
Research: When Geopolitical Risk Rises, Innovation Stalls
Innovation Digital ArticleAn analysis of more than 4,600 U.S. companies suggests that the negative impact can persist for three to five years. -
From Competitive Advantage to Corporate Strategy
Organizational transformation Magazine ArticleCorporate strategy, the overall plan for a diversified company, is both the darling and the stepchild of contemporary management practice—the darling because CEOs have been obsessed with diversification since the early 1960s, the stepchild because almost no consensus exists about what corporate strategy is, much less about how a company should formulate it. A diversified […] -
Leading in a World of Resource Constraints and Extreme Weather
Organizational Development Digital ArticleYour organization will need new management expertise. -
Risk Analysis in Capital Investment
Finance and investing Magazine ArticleHow can business executives make the best investment decisions? Is there a method of risk analysis to help managers make wise acquisitions, launch new products, modernize the plant, or avoid overcapacity? “Risk Analysis in Capital Investment” takes a look at questions such as these and says “yes”—by measuring the multitude of risks involved in each […] -
AI Is the Future of Cybersecurity, for Better and for Worse
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleIt will become the problem and the solution.
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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.... -
Boeing 767: From Concept to Production (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Describes the evolution of the Boeing 767 from the conception of the project to the start of manufacturing. Shows how the company manages an enormously... -
Huawei Consumer Business: Technology Leadership Challenges
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details As the largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer in the world, Huawei has been building telecommunications networks and services since its inception... -
V-Cola: Confidential Instructions for Mark Ketting Chief Marketing Officer, Trek Beverages
Communication Case Study5.00View Details This is information for one of the six roles to be used in the V-Cola negotiation exercise. Please see V-Cola General Instructions (912043) and Teaching... -
Startup Cisco
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This case outlines how a small team of people apply lean startup methods within Cisco, creating successful internal innovation over a period of a year.... -
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,... -
Challenges of the 21st Century: Natural Disasters
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Natural disasters are global phenomena, with huge economic, social and personal impacts, and tangled with other 'big picture' issues. They often cause... -
Australia-Japan Cable: Structuring the Project Company, Japanese Version
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In late September 1999, representatives from Telstri, Japan Telecom, and Teleglobe met to discuss the structure of the Australia-Japan Cable (AJC) project,... -
Business Research Corp. (B)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Contains a description of a set of related decisions confronting the management and directors of Business Research Corp. (BRC) in April of 1984. BRC needs... -
Identify the Industries--1996
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Common-size balance sheets and financial ratios are given for thirteen companies. Students must identify which company is in which of thirteen industries.... -
Tufts Health Plan
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Describes the introduction of capitation by a managed care company and the challenges of managing financial risk in the Medicare population. Focuses on... -
Electric Maze Exercise
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details This team-based exercise uses an educational tool called "The Electric Maze," developed by Interel Corp., to teach insights about the social and psychological... -
Thompson Asset Management, Spanish Version
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Thompson Asset Management (TAM) is a small investment advisory and asset management firm in Jacksonville, Florida, with about $100 million in assets under... -
Leland O'Brien Rubinstein Associates, Inc.: SuperTrust
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Leland O'Brien Rubinstein Associates, Inc. (LOR), which profited by selling portfolio insurance to institutional investors, attempts to rebuild itself... -
Advanced Laser Clinics (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details How do you tell one of your direct reports that she stinks? This case explores the dynamics behind having difficult conversations, and giving and receiving... -
Great Eastern Toys (B)
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case IN1047. As part of its growth strategy, a new product has been designed and a study carried out by a consultant to estimate the market... -
Czech Mate: CME and Vladimir Zelezny (E)--CME Returns
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
General Motors Corp. (B): Financial Policies
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details The second in a four-part series, the case details the financial policies and practices at General Motors from 1990 to 1996. This part describes the stated... -
BLES Biochemicals Inc. (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
A New Financial Policy at Swedish Match
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Swedish Match is a profitable smokeless tobacco company with low debt compared to other firms in its industry. The firms CFO now wants to revise the firms...
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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. -
Managing Risks: A New Framework
Risk management Magazine ArticleSmart companies match their approach to the nature of the threats they face. -
Building an Effective Cybersecurity Training Program
Cybersecurity and digital privacy Digital ArticleIt’s critical to schedule time for simulated exercises and “scrimmages.” -
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... -
Global Supply Chains in a Post-Pandemic World
Supply chain management Magazine ArticleCompanies need to make their networks more resilient. Here’s how. -
Company Culture Is Everyone's Responsibility
Organizational Development Digital ArticleA top-down approach doesn't work anymore. -
Reputation and Its Risks
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleRegulators, industry groups, consultants, and individual companies have developed elaborate guidelines over the years for assessing and managing risks... -
What Do We Do About the Biases in AI?
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleThree steps for leaders to take. -
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 […] -
Where to Focus Your Company’s Limited Cybersecurity Budget
Cybersecurity and digital privacy Digital ArticleThree cybersecurity investments to target.