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We Need a Cheap Way to Diagnose Coronavirus
Global Business Digital ArticleWithout a vaccine, testing to identify who has the virus is crucial to containing it. -
How One Political Start-Up Is Trying to Fight Gridlock
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThe Silicon Valley-inspired approach of No Labels. -
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 […] -
New Atlantic Century
Global Business Magazine ArticleDespite the rapid growth of Asian businesses, the center of the world economy in the next century will continue to be North America and Europe. -
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. -
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. -
Europe Can Find Better Ways to Get Refugees into Workforces
Business and society Digital ArticleSome countries have solutions in place, but too many don’t. -
Does More Work Lead to a Healthier Economy?
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleData about hours worked per employee, productivity per employee, and per capita GDP in several countries around the world. The bad news: Even "hot" emerging... -
Companies that Practice “Conscious Capitalism” Perform 10x Better
Corporate social responsibility Digital ArticleWhy should that be a surprise? -
Washington Must Help the U.S. Regain the Lead in Manufacturing
Competitive strategy Digital ArticleThe federal government can and should play a much bigger role in helping American companies regain the lead in manufacturing. We need to invest a commensurate amount of federal R&D dollars in advanced manufacturing technologies as we do in other areas of science, technology, and engineering. The last administration created an assistant secretary for manufacturing […] -
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, […] -
Research: Quantifying the Cost of Brexit Uncertainty
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleUK CEOs are spending more than a week a year preparing for it. -
Lack of Information Stokes Globalization Anxiety
Global Business VideoThe less we know about the world, the less we want to interact with it. -
Don't Ban "Politics" at Work
Global Business Digital ArticleInstead, find ways to help your team respect, listen to, and learn from one another. -
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 […] -
It’s a Free Agent Nation, Except in Washington
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleI’ve just been rereading Daniel Pink’s famous 1997 Fast Company article on “Free Agent Nation.” It has withstood the test of time pretty danged well. In 1997, Pink had recently left a job as Vice President Al Gore’s speechwriter to strike out on his own, and discovered (or decided, if you prefer) that he was […] -
Why the WTO Should Constrain the Power of China's State-Owned Enterprises
Global Business Digital ArticleIt will make the global economy fairer and more competitive. -
The Right Way to Restructure Conglomerates in Emerging Markets
Government Magazine ArticleIn many countries, diversified business groups substitute for the institutions that support effective markets in capital, labor, and goods and services. Their capacity for doing this must be strengthened through restructuring, not destroyed through dismantling. -
Tokyo's "Just Do It" Leadership on Climate Change
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleNews from the Asia Times this morning provides a good example of real climate-change and sustainability leadership. It seems that governor of Tokyo, Shintaro...
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"Clarín Lies!": Bias, Post-Truth, and Populism in Argentina's Media War
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details In 2012, Argentine media conglomerate Grupo Clarín and President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner were embroiled in what some called "the mother of all... -
Note on Forms of Real Estate Ownership
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This notes describes the institutional landscape of real estate ownership. Because persons other than their formal owners today manage most large-scale... -
Royal Dutch Shell and Beyond: Strategizing the Future of ESG Compliance
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Businesses have traditionally assessed their climate risks primarily by reference to regulatory compliance requirements and related costs. However, recent... -
From Start-Up to Grown-Up Nation: The Future of the Israeli Innovation Ecosystem (Abridged)
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details In June 2016, Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, wrestled with how to sustain Israel's strong innovation track record and the country's... -
Dealing with Corruption in the Police Force of La Paz: Epilogue
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details A reform mayor of Bolivia's capital city is taken aback by a consultant's report showing a shocking level of corruption on the part of municipal police-a... -
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... -
Aspen Skiing Company (D)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details Having begun improving the environmental performance of its own operations, Aspen Skiing Company is considering "greening" its supply chain and lobbying... -
Ethiopia's Industrial Parks Strategy
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Google in China (A)
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details In January 2010, Google threatened in a public statement to stop censoring its search results on its google.cn website, as required by Chinese authorities.... -
FRESH: Evolving Its Business Model
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Concerns over decreasing global food security had been growing worldwide due to factors ranging from growing population and demand for food to declining... -
India, Supplement
Global Business Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the case. -
Distribution of a COVID-19 Vaccine: Whose Interests Take Priority?
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Late in 2020, ImmunVX, a fictional, multinational vaccine company, was among the leaders in developing a vaccine against the COVID-19 virus. It had accepted... -
Burma Pipeline
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details In 1996, Unocal Corp. joined forces with the French Total company to construct an ambitious natural gas pipeline from the Andaman Sea across the southern... -
Saving the Tuolumne: Sequel
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details In April 1983, the City and County of San Francisco and two irrigation districts in Merced and Stanislaus counties commissioned a feasibility study of... -
Making Target the Target: Boycotts and Corporate Political Activity (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case 317113. -
Dubai Ports World in the USA (B)
Global Business Case Study5.00View Details The case recounts the experience of the Dubai government-owned marine terminal operator, Dubai Ports World, when it tried to take over the American operations... -
Google v. Oracle: Software Theft or Fair Use?
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details This case explores a current but also enduring and widely relevant intersection of challenges facing managers who compete in rapidly evolving technology... -
Colorado Growth Policy - Sequel
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Marinella Soldi at Discovery Inc. (B)
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Bohemian Crowns: Ceskoslovenska Obchodni Banka (B)
Global Business Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case.
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We Need a Cheap Way to Diagnose Coronavirus
Global Business Digital ArticleWithout a vaccine, testing to identify who has the virus is crucial to containing it. -
How One Political Start-Up Is Trying to Fight Gridlock
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThe Silicon Valley-inspired approach of No Labels. -
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 […] -
New Atlantic Century
Global Business Magazine ArticleDespite the rapid growth of Asian businesses, the center of the world economy in the next century will continue to be North America and Europe. -
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. -
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. -
Europe Can Find Better Ways to Get Refugees into Workforces
Business and society Digital ArticleSome countries have solutions in place, but too many don’t. -
Does More Work Lead to a Healthier Economy?
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleData about hours worked per employee, productivity per employee, and per capita GDP in several countries around the world. The bad news: Even "hot" emerging... -
Companies that Practice “Conscious Capitalism” Perform 10x Better
Corporate social responsibility Digital ArticleWhy should that be a surprise? -
Washington Must Help the U.S. Regain the Lead in Manufacturing
Competitive strategy Digital ArticleThe federal government can and should play a much bigger role in helping American companies regain the lead in manufacturing. We need to invest a commensurate amount of federal R&D dollars in advanced manufacturing technologies as we do in other areas of science, technology, and engineering. The last administration created an assistant secretary for manufacturing […]