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What Titans Can Teach Us
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThe legendary titans of American business could be scheming and ruthless. But a business leader doesn't have to strive for titanhood to benefit from the... -
Lead Your Business Through the Coronavirus Crisis
Global Business Digital ArticleTwelve lessons on analyzing data, communicating information, and protecting your employees. -
100 Years of HBR
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleHBR turns 100 this year, and to mark the anniversary, we're taking both a look back--and a look forward. In the essay, "Improving the Practice of Management--Then... -
Life's Work: An Interview with Julia Gillard
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleAustralia's former prime minister talks about discipline, resilience, and misogyny. -
China + India: The Power of Two
Global Business Magazine ArticleChina and India are burying the hatchet after four-plus decades of hostility. A few companies from both nations have been quick to gain competitive advantages... -
"A Friend of a Friend" Is No Longer the Best Way to Find a Job
Global Business Digital ArticleThe internet has changed the ways we network. -
Power Without Purpose: The Crisis of Japan’s Global Financial Dominance
International business Magazine ArticleJapan today sits on the largest cache of wealth ever assembled. It has the power to move markets anywhere in the world. Consider that. The Tokyo Stock Exchange has now surpassed New York to become the world’s largest on the basis of market capitalization. Osaka has bumped London to fourth place. Of the world’s ten […] -
Coach Who Got Poached (HBR Case Study)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleJared Gordan, the president of the Industrial Products Division for Compunext, is a first-rate manager. In just three years, he's turned around a flagging... -
How America Gave Up on Change
Global Business InterviewEconomist Tyler Cowen argues complacency is on the rise. -
A Brief History of Britain's Relationship with Europe, Starting in 6000 BCE
Global Business Digital ArticlePulling up the drawbridge has never been an option. -
How Madam C.J. Walker Built Racial Equity into Her Business
Business history Digital ArticleShe didn’t just enrich herself — she created opportunities for other Black Americans to do the same. -
Signs of the Times
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Why Being Unpredictable Is a Bad Strategy
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleChaos can be costly. -
When Your Brand Is Racist (HBR Case Study)
Communication Magazine ArticleA national brewing and distilling company grapples with its most profitable brand's racist history. This fictional case study by Joseph C. Miller, Michael... -
Tocqueville Revisited: The Meaning of American Prosperity
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleWhy is business so admired in the United States and so often denigrated in Europe? How has America created 30 million new jobs in the last 20 years while... -
What Defines a Successful Organization?
Business history Big IdeaIn our age of discontinuity, you need the ability to continually shift. -
Is Management Still a Science?
Decision making and problem solving Magazine ArticleAs every manager knows, new technologies are transforming products, markets, business processes, and entire industries, revolutionizing the business environment. Yet the more technology looms as a factor of competition, the more the emphasis in managerial books, executive education classes, and corporate training seminars is on the “soft” arts of leadership, change management, and employee motivation. […] -
Life's Work: An Interview with Vera Wang
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThe famed fashion designer describes why she waited until age 40 to launch her own business, what she learned from working for Ralph Lauren, and how she... -
Ideals for Export
Business history Magazine ArticleMany nations in Asia and Africa have now become fully responsible for their destiny. What kind of nations will they become? Will they be swept along by the vision of progress through authoritarian discipline exemplified by the Communist nations? Or will they recognize and seek the ideal of individual freedom, of truth, of respect for […] -
The Art of Commerce
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleAn elaborately engraved Spanish stock certificate issued in 1758 could almost be a template for modern stock certificates. Here's the story that its iconography...
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Maggie Lena Walker and the Independent Order of St. Luke
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details As America struggled to regain its balance in the aftermath of the American Civil War, Maggie Lena Walker did her best to actively effect change by finding... -
Korea and the Thirties (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details On June 25, 1950, the US Ambassador to the Republic of Korea received an alarming call from his deputy chief, E.F. Drumright, warning him that the communists... -
Apple Computer, 2006
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Apple has reaped the benefits of its innovative music player, the iPod. However, its PC and server business continue to hold small market share relative... -
Ford vs. GM: The Evolution of Mass Production (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details This case explores the very different paths taken by the Ford Motor Company and the General Motors Corporation in the first three decades of the twentieth... -
Russia: A Drama in Three Acts
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details The collapse of central authority in the Soviet Union in 1991 ushered in a period of revolutionary transformations for the states that emerged in its... -
Five Minds for the Future
Communication Book28.00View Details We live in a time of vast changes. And those changes call for entirely new ways of learning and thinking. In "Five Minds for the Future," Howard Gardner... -
Marc Rich and Global Commodity Trading
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Examines the career of Marc Rich, the world's leading commodity trader before his criminal indictment in the United States in 1983. The case surveys the... -
Korea and the Thirties (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details On June 25, 1950, the US Ambassador to the Republic of Korea received an alarming call from his deputy chief, E.F. Drumright, warning him that the communists... -
Multinationals and the First Global Economy Before 1914
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Reviews the literature on the growth of globalization before 1914 and examines the role of multinationals in the process. -
Danfoss and the Danish Variety of Capitalism
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Danfoss is a traditional Danish family firm, deeply committed to its local community in Nordborg, Als. The company is family-owned and has had several... -
The Panic of 1907 and the High Tide of Progressivism (B)
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case UV7329. This follow-up to "The Panic of 1907 and the High Tide of Progressivism (A)" (UVA-F-1781) explores how well the Federal Reserve... -
Wall Street's First Panic (A)
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details In the early 1790's, a flood of newly issued public and private securities sparked an investment boom in the nascent United States. In New York, the bustling... -
City of New York
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details This case examines the economics of a municipality, and then explores its financial position from the perspective of a bond rating firm. -
Creation of the European Union
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Describes the emergence of the European Union (EU). Focuses on a critical stage in European integration--the period in the early 1990s when member states... -
Asian Paints Limited: Painting History
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details The case traces the growth of Asian Paints Limited ("APL") from being a small paint manufacturer in 1942 into the undisputed leader of the Indian paints... -
Digital Divide Data: A Social Enterprise in Action
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details An abstract is not available for this product. -
Ken Durham and Unilever as a 'Multi-Local Multinational'
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Explores the opportunities and threats to Unilever's global business in 1978 based on the commercial and political challenges faced by three of its subsidiaries,... -
Mibanco: Meeting the Mainstreaming of Microfinance
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Mibanco, Peru's leading microfinance bank, faces intense competition as the banking industry rushes into low income segments. Companion video clips bring... -
Outrageous Ambition: Duke University
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Duke University had grown from an one room school house in rural North Carolina in 1859 to one of the leading research universities in the U.S. and the... -
Olivia Lum: Wanting to Save the World
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This case considers the entrepreneurial career of Olivia Lum, who founded the Singaporean water company Hyflux in 1989. An orphan born in Malaysia, Lum...
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Using Empathy and Curiosity to Overcome Differences
Business education AudioCan Bill Riddick help Black and white community leaders overcome their differences and integrate local schools in 1970s North Carolina? -
Maggie Lena Walker and the Independent Order of St. Luke
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details As America struggled to regain its balance in the aftermath of the American Civil War, Maggie Lena Walker did her best to actively effect change by finding... -
What Titans Can Teach Us
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThe legendary titans of American business could be scheming and ruthless. But a business leader doesn't have to strive for titanhood to benefit from the... -
Lead Your Business Through the Coronavirus Crisis
Global Business Digital ArticleTwelve lessons on analyzing data, communicating information, and protecting your employees. -
Korea and the Thirties (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details On June 25, 1950, the US Ambassador to the Republic of Korea received an alarming call from his deputy chief, E.F. Drumright, warning him that the communists... -
100 Years of HBR
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleHBR turns 100 this year, and to mark the anniversary, we're taking both a look back--and a look forward. In the essay, "Improving the Practice of Management--Then... -
In and Out of the Laboratory
Management Digital ArticleOver the past few decades, business schools have embraced game theorists, economists, and others who deal in abstraction, all but stopping the solving... -
Life's Work: An Interview with Julia Gillard
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleAustralia's former prime minister talks about discipline, resilience, and misogyny. -
Apple Computer, 2006
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Apple has reaped the benefits of its innovative music player, the iPod. However, its PC and server business continue to hold small market share relative... -
China + India: The Power of Two
Global Business Magazine ArticleChina and India are burying the hatchet after four-plus decades of hostility. A few companies from both nations have been quick to gain competitive advantages...