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How Europe Is Betraying Its Children
Global Business Digital ArticleThe Old World lacks the courage to deal with its failing educational systems. -
Be a Data Custodian, Not a Data Owner
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Guided Free Enterprise in Japan
International business Magazine ArticleThe widely held notion of “Japan, Inc.” is exaggerated; there is no monolithic business-government link. Even so, the cooperation (without incorporation) between the large corporate combines and the government bureaucracy is impressive in its strength and focus on the common economic good—especially in view of its achievements worldwide. As the economic power of the United […] -
How Much Truth Should You Share?
Business ethics Digital ArticleComments for this Make Your Case installment are now closed. Thanks to all who participated. This week’s guest commentator, Marshall Goldsmith, has posted his response to your comments and shared some thoughts of his own below. The opening to your cube is darkened by the familiar figure of a longtime colleague. Though you’re his immediate […] -
Collaborating with Congregations: Opportunities for Financial Services in the Inner City
Economics Magazine ArticleBy pooling the resources of the poor and by sharing information, religious and financial institutions can work together to change inner-city economies. -
How Would Copernicus See Capitalism?
Economics Digital ArticleWe’ve been sharing thoughts in this blog about how the rapid growth of the emerging economies, along with other modern realities, will reshape the practice — and thus rewrite the rules — of capitalism. Many readers are aware that these are ideas in development for our forthcoming book on the topic. This week we decided […] -
Margaret Thatcher, Fighter
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We Googled You
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The Case of the Religious Network Group
Diversity and inclusion Magazine ArticleNetwork groups for black and Hispanic employees had been an unqualified success. Now a Christian group was forming—and Bill Thompson didn’t know what to think about it. -
The Sure Thing That Flopped (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleTibal Fisher made a fortune selling trendy, inexpensive home furnishings to baby boomers. With that generation beginning to enter its sixties, he sees... -
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, […] -
Workers Don’t Have the Skills They Need – and They Know It
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Is Your Company Using Employee Data Ethically?
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Women of the Workplace, Uniting
Gender Digital ArticleBetween waves of layoffs and evaporating job opportunities, we’re in a climate that naturally breeds an every-woman-for-herself mentality. A recent study by the Workplace Bullying Institute found that female bullies were alive — and, more than 70 percent of the time, kicking other women. But I’ve also seen companies encouraging their smart women to help […] -
Solve America’s Employment Crisis With a Netflix Prize
Innovation Digital ArticleAn entire generation’s prosperity vanishing, food stamp use exploding. Welcome to the jobless future. This month’s jobs numbers drive home the point. The unemployment rate fell at the fastest rate for years — great news, right? Wrong. The lion’s share of the gains came from (wait for it) “temporary help services.” See what just happened? […] -
Why Do Companies Succumb to Price Fixing?
Government policy and regulation Magazine ArticleWhen Ben Franklin wrote Poor Richard’s Almanac and the words, “A little neglect may breed great mischief,” he did not have price fixing in mind. To the 47 executives in companies in the folding-box industry convicted of price fixing, however, the words seem tailored to fit. In those companies convicted under antitrust laws in 1976, […] -
The Rise (and Likely Fall) of the Talent Economy
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Confidence is a Numbers Game
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleWhen Ginny Rommety became IBM's new chief executive last fall, she spoke about a point early in her career when she was offered a promotion that she initially... -
Good Leaders Can Overcome Institutional Inertia in a Crisis
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThey not only get their people through it - they seize the opportunity to reform. -
Living Through a Career Off Ramp
Sylvia Ann Hewlett, founding president of the Center for Work-Life Policy, lost her job and her babies in the same year.
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The Case for College in the Era of Online Learning
Business education Digital ArticleIn-person education provides valuable experiences, opportunities, and skills that can’t be replicated online. -
How Biases About Motherhood Impact All Women at Work
Gender Digital ArticleResearch shows the maternal wall is an obstacle regardless of whether women plan to have children or not. -
The Hidden Costs of Climate Change on the Workforce
Climate change Digital ArticleFive actions organizations can take to prioritize employees’ physical and mental well-being. -
AI Has a Revolutionary Ability to Parse Details. What Does That Mean for Business?
AI and machine learning Digital ArticleA look at how the technology is transforming strategy, talent management, leadership roles, and supply chain management. -
Companies Need a New Approach to Investing This Election Year
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Using Persuasion to Spur Lasting Organizational Change
Persuasion Digital ArticleIt’s important to emphasize the agency and involvement of the people it will most affect. -
Gen AI Is Coming for Remote Workers First
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How to Improve Women’s Advancement Programs
Gender Digital ArticleToo often, traditional initiatives reinforce a narrow definition of power that doesn’t fit with women’s experiences and goals. -
How India Can Fix Its Employment Crisis
Business and society Digital ArticleWhat Indian policymakers and business leaders can do to address the contradiction at the heart of the country’s booming economy. -
Bringing Down the Temperature During Polarizing Times
Leadership Digital ArticleLessons on political bridge-building from Nigeria and Brazil. -
Research: 4 Ways Employees Respond to DEI Initiatives
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Should an Aging Leader Step Aside?
Age and generational issues Digital ArticleNavigating ageism, leadership ability, and succession planning. -
The Uneven Distribution of AI’s Environmental Impacts
Climate change Digital ArticleHow companies can responsibly manage the growing water and energy demands of their data centers across the world. -
How to Equitably Assign High-Profile Work
Diversity and inclusion Digital ArticleWorking with researchers, four companies used a data-driven approach to balance who was doing the office housework and who was getting promotion-making assignments. -
It’s Time to Change How ESG Is Measured
Finance and investing Digital ArticleCreating separate ratings for E, S, and G would benefit firms, investors, and policymakers. -
How Companies Can Mitigate AI’s Growing Environmental Footprint
Environmental sustainability Digital ArticlePractical steps for reducing AI’s surging demand for water and energy. -
3 Lessons from The Washington Post’s Leadership Turmoil
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Research: Speed Matters When Companies Respond to Social Issues
Business and society Digital ArticleAn analysis of Instagram posts by Fortune 500 companies after George Floyd’s murder found that customers were skeptical of those who waited too long to make a statement. -
Life’s Work: An Interview with Darius Rucker
Career transitions Magazine ArticleThe popular singer looks back on breaking into country music and how the industry has changed. -
Disclosing Downstream Emissions
Environmental sustainability Magazine ArticleWhen are companies accountable for customers’ use of their products?
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Steinhoff International and the Stock Exchange
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Steinhoff International Holdings N.V. was a holding company, whose subsidiaries manufactured, distributed and sold furniture and household products. Steinhoff... -
The Online Economy--Strategy and Entrepreneurship Course Architecture Note
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details This note provides an overview of the Harvard Business School course "The Online Economy: Strategy and Entrepreneurship." It covers the framework for... -
Bold and Responsible Leadership in Uncharted Waters: The Future of BW Tankers
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Set in January 2019, the case follows Andreas Sohmen-Pao, Executive Chairman of the BW Group, as he reflects on a fruitful year that passed and looks... -
Charles Veillon, S.A. (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details The top management team at Charles Veillon, a Swiss mail-order company, is considering whether to work with a human rights organization to monitor the... -
The Federal Reserve and Goldman Sachs: Carmen Segarra
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Carmen Segarra, a recently hired bank examiner in the NY Fed's supervisory office for Goldman Sachs, strongly disagrees with her supervisor, Mike Silva,... -
Akooda: Charging Toward Operational Intelligence
Management Case Study11.95View Details The Akooda case describes the challenges confronting founder and CEO Yuval Gonczarowski (MBA '17) in 2022 as he attempts to boost sales. Launched in November... -
Balance-Statement Reporting at Premium Capital Funds (A)
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values.... -
Capitalism, Slavery, and Reparations
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details The birth of "Modern Economic Growth" constituted a watershed in human history, allowing societies to escape the Malthusian impasse and permanently raise... -
Trench Town Rock: The Creation of Jamaica's Music Industry
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Reggae music has swept the world. From its origins in Jamaica, it can now be heard in clubs and bars from Senegal to Samoa. It has also influenced music... -
Sri Lanka Transport (B): The Railroad and the Port
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details In 1996, Sri Lanka had a mixed public and private bus system, with about one-third of passengers carried by public companies and two-thirds by private.... -
Wanxiang Group: A Chinese Company's Global Strategy
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details With an almost forty-year history as a business in China, the Wanxiang Group has navigated through the significantly different political and economic... -
Teckentrup: A Door to Managing Difference
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details For Kai Teckentrup, the owner and co-CEO of the German "Mittelstand" door manufacturer Teckentrup, balancing competitive pressures, demographic realities... -
Twenty-First Century Leaders
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details The Twenty-First Century Leaders Program was launched by a group of business leaders from the Presidential Forum of the Chamber of Commerce of Bogota.... -
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Talent (with bonus article "Building a Game-Changing Talent Strategy" by Douglas A. Ready, Linda A. Hill, and Robert J. Thomas)
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Glass-Shattering Leaders: Barbara Hackman Franklin
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Barbara Hackman Franklin was one of the first women to earn an MBA from Harvard Business School. She went on to break barriers in the private and public... -
Kinyuseisaku: Monetary Policy in Japan (C)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Assuming office in December 2012, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was determined to revive Japan's stagnating economy through an ambitious plan known as 'Abenomics.'... -
International Rivers Network and the Bujagali Dam Project (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details In the summer of 2002, the International Rivers Network (IRN), an environmental NGO located in Berkeley, California, was engaged in what appeared to be... -
Practo
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details The caselet on Practo elucidates the business model of a matching platform, one that matches the users on one side (clinics) with those on the other side... -
OpenGov: Bringing the Cloud to Government
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Maybank: Organisational Transformation Through Human Resources
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details It was January 2018. Nora Abd Manaf, Group Chief Human Capital Officer, Maybank, the largest bank by market capitalisation in Malaysia, is contemplating...
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How Europe Is Betraying Its Children
Global Business Digital ArticleThe Old World lacks the courage to deal with its failing educational systems. -
Be a Data Custodian, Not a Data Owner
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleYour customers trust you with their data. Don't let them down. -
Guided Free Enterprise in Japan
International business Magazine ArticleThe widely held notion of “Japan, Inc.” is exaggerated; there is no monolithic business-government link. Even so, the cooperation (without incorporation) between the large corporate combines and the government bureaucracy is impressive in its strength and focus on the common economic good—especially in view of its achievements worldwide. As the economic power of the United […] -
How Much Truth Should You Share?
Business ethics Digital ArticleComments for this Make Your Case installment are now closed. Thanks to all who participated. This week’s guest commentator, Marshall Goldsmith, has posted his response to your comments and shared some thoughts of his own below. The opening to your cube is darkened by the familiar figure of a longtime colleague. Though you’re his immediate […] -
Collaborating with Congregations: Opportunities for Financial Services in the Inner City
Economics Magazine ArticleBy pooling the resources of the poor and by sharing information, religious and financial institutions can work together to change inner-city economies. -
How Would Copernicus See Capitalism?
Economics Digital ArticleWe’ve been sharing thoughts in this blog about how the rapid growth of the emerging economies, along with other modern realities, will reshape the practice — and thus rewrite the rules — of capitalism. Many readers are aware that these are ideas in development for our forthcoming book on the topic. This week we decided […] -
Margaret Thatcher, Fighter
Leadership Digital ArticleThe best change agents almost never realize when it’s time to stop. That’s what makes them so good. -
We Googled You
Labor Magazine ArticleHathaway Jones’s CEO has found a promising candidate to open the company’s flagship store in Shanghai. Should a revelation on the Internet disqualify her now? -
The Case of the Religious Network Group
Diversity and inclusion Magazine ArticleNetwork groups for black and Hispanic employees had been an unqualified success. Now a Christian group was forming—and Bill Thompson didn’t know what to think about it. -
The Sure Thing That Flopped (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleTibal Fisher made a fortune selling trendy, inexpensive home furnishings to baby boomers. With that generation beginning to enter its sixties, he sees...