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Use Data to Answer Your Key Business Questions
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How the Economy Differs for Workers, Consumers, and Savers
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How Much Money Does the World Owe China?
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Collaborating with Congregations: Opportunities for Financial Services in the Inner City
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Companies that Practice “Conscious Capitalism” Perform 10x Better
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Leveraging AI to Battle This Pandemic - And the Next One
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Forgotten Strategy
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Capital Versus Talent: The Battle That's Reshaping Business
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleFor much of the 20th century, labor and capital fought bitterly for control of the industrialized economy. The titans of industry ultimately won a resounding... -
A Leadership Lesson from My Mother-in-Law
Recessions Digital Article“They gave us a whole can of soda” was how my octogenarian mother-in-law explained a recent experience when her plane was kept on the ground an extra hour for de-icing. Monica was not complaining; she was framing the delay as a positive. This veteran traveler knows that delays are inevitable. My mother-in-law’s attitude might serve […] -
Competitiveness: Self-Help for a Worsening Problem
Government policy and regulation Magazine ArticleA country’s competitiveness, like a company’s, is not primarily a matter of sales: it is a matter of incomes, and incomes earned, not borrowed. To be competitive means to raise incomes as rapidly as competitors do and to make the investments necessary to keep up competitively in the future. From this perspective, U.S. competitiveness is […] -
How Social Entrepreneurs Make Change Happen
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Has Trade with China Really Cost the U.S. Jobs?
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Why Preventing Disruption in 2017 Is Harder Than It Was When Christensen Coined the Term
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleToday's asset-light disruptors pose an even greater threat. -
The Ultimately Accountable Job: Leading Today’s Sales Organization
Organizational transformation Magazine ArticleNew demands from customers, rivals, the CEO, and the sales organization itself are changing what it takes to succeed as head of sales. -
Wall Street Is No Friend to Radical Innovation
Innovation Magazine ArticleTo the list of reasons to resent Wall Street, now add another: It’s a wet blanket on innovation. A new study by Mary Benner of the Wharton School (published this year in Organization Science) examines the way securities analysts research and report on incumbent firms in industries undergoing disruptive change. She finds that analysts tend […] -
The Right Way to Restructure Conglomerates in Emerging Markets
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How U.S. Businesses Can Succeed in India in 2015
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Why Jerks Are Bad Decision-Makers
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How Susceptible Are You to the Sunk Cost Fallacy?
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You Have the Power to Choose Prosperity
Economics Digital ArticleOur forebears struggled, toiled, fought, and sweated for generations to create a future better, wealthier, stronger than their own. The gifts they handed down — democracy, markets, justice, opportunity, reason, equality, liberty — are the fundamental institutions — the building blocks — of enduring, authentic prosperity. So here’s a tiny hypothesis I’d like you to […]
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Women@Work: Han-na (B)
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The Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic and the Global Economy (A)
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Behavioral Drivers of Brand Equity - Head & Shoulders in India
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Airbnb: What´s Next?
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Korea: On the Back of a Tiger
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Christian Dior: A New Look for Haute Couture
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Akbank: Options in Digital Banking
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Hungerit
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General Electric's Expansion in the Middle East
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Women@Work: Jane (A)
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The Gold Story
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Redefining Global Strategy, with a New Preface: Crossing Borders in a World Where Differences Still Matter
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The Global-Local Tension: Vodafone CEO Vittorio Colao Leading with "International Values and Local Roots" (A)
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Vignettes on Professional Service Firm Governance
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Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy
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Larry Puglia and the T. Rowe Price Blue Chip Growth Fund
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Richard Fahey and Robert Saudek (B): Overcoming Crises and Growing the Liberian Energy Network
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1436: The First Pure Chinese Luxury Fashion Brand?
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Managing Oneself (Harvard Business Review Classics)
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Use Data to Answer Your Key Business Questions
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleActivating your analytics should be a cross-team effort. -
How the Economy Differs for Workers, Consumers, and Savers
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleEach lens tells a different story. -
How Much Money Does the World Owe China?
Global Business Digital ArticleAn analysis finds 50% of China's loans to developing countries go unreported. -
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. -
Women@Work: Han-na (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details This series of six short two-part cases ("caselets") is written to highlight workplace dynamics faced by women professionals. Women represent about half... -
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic and the Global Economy (A)
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details In April 2020, the world struggled to contain the exponential escalation of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Dozens of countries had imposed restrictions... -
Companies that Practice “Conscious Capitalism” Perform 10x Better
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Behavioral Drivers of Brand Equity - Head & Shoulders in India
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details "What are the nuances that link brand positioning, brand associations and brand equity related aspects of a brand performing successfully in the market?"... -
Leveraging AI to Battle This Pandemic - And the Next One
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleWe may need to rethink the rules around data sharing. -
Airbnb: What´s Next?
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details The general manager for Airbnb in Spain and Portugal, Jeroen Merchiers is pondering about several issue as he prepares to delegate responsibilities in...