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Don't Waste Your Time on Networking Events
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China + India: The Power of Two
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How Companies Can Address Their Historical Transgressions
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Life's Work: An Interview with Deepak Chopra
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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... -
Praise Reappraised
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleBeliefs in the value of praise as a motivational tool, a reward, and a way to establish good relationships are inaccurate. Although praise may be a useful... -
Is the Era of Mass Manufacturing Coming to an End?
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The Art of Commerce
Business history Magazine ArticleThe story of a royal trading company comes to life on an 18th-century stock certificate. -
Enduring Logic of Industrial Success
Global Business Magazine ArticleLarge managerial enterprises have been the engines of growth and innovation in modern economies for more than a century. This essay lays out the logic... -
A Guide to the Big Ideas and Debates in Corporate Governance
Corporate governance Digital ArticleThe questions that boards, managers, and shareholders should be asking. -
Life's Work: An Interview with Julia Gillard
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleAustralia's former prime minister talks about discipline, resilience, and misogyny. -
Robert S. McNamara and the Evolution of Modern Management
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleWhen the name Robert S. McNamara is mentioned, one thought usually springs to mind: the tragedy of Vietnam. But McNamara's career was brilliant long before... -
A Brief History of Decision Making
Analytics and data science Magazine ArticleHumans have perpetually sought new tools and insights to help them make decisions. From entrails to artificial intelligence, what a long, strange trip it’s been. -
2002 HBR List: Breakthrough Ideas for Today's Business Agenda
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleIn the last year, war broke out, the economy took a nosedive, and an alarming number of businesses went belly up. Thus, it is with some urgency that we... -
The Words We Use
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleLanguage is a reflection of culture, so the terms we use most tell us a lot about our shifting management priorities. Ngram graphs highlight how things... -
A Brief History of Britain’s Relationship with Europe, Starting in 6000 BCE
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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 […] -
The Price of Wall Street’s Power
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A Short History of Radio Explains the iPhone’s Success
Business history Digital ArticleThe battle to control the airwaves, from Herbert Hoover to Steve Jobs. -
Turkey and the Economics of Coups
Business and society Digital ArticleResearch on the long-term impact.
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Frito-Lay, Inc.: A Strategic Transition (Consolidated)
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details The setting is a food manufacturing company that has stumbled in terms of its historic growth and profit achievements. In trying to recapture its momentum,... -
Ingvar Kamprad and IKEA
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Traces the development of a Swedish furniture retailer under the leadership of an innovative and unconventional entrepreneur whose approaches redefine... -
Ford vs. GM: The Evolution of Mass Production (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View 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... -
Allied Chemical Corp. (B)
Global Business Case Study5.00View Details Describes Allied's cooperative approach to government relations and the approach of some of the regulatory agencies Allied deals with. Based mainly on... -
Doing Business in Sao Paulo, Brazil
Management Case Study8.95View Details The case uses the example of a large investment made by French retail group Carrefour in Brazil to discuss the opportunities and challenges of doing business... -
Luckin Coffee (A): Caffeine-fueled Growth?
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details This case describes the founding of Chinese coffee chain Luckin Coffee in 2017 and its path to surpassing Starbucks as the largest coffee chain in China... -
Road Well Traveled (Condensed)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Presents the conclusions of a 1992 mail survey of Harvard MBAs who started their own businesses. Questions focused on 4 areas: 1) development of the business... -
Allied Chemical Corp. (C)
Global Business Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (B) case. -
Ford vs. GM: The Evolution of Mass Production (B)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View 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... -
House of Tata
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The case traces the evolution of the Tata group, one of the largest and highly respected Indian business houses, from its 19th century founding and early... -
Thomas J. Watson, IBM and Nazi Germany
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Considers the strategy of U.S.-owned IBM, then a manufacturer of punch cards, in Nazi Germany before 1937. Opens with IBM CEO Thomas J. Watson meeting... -
Pacesetter, Riverdale, and the Illinois Campaign for Affordable Housing
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Zenovia Evans, mayor of the small Chicago suburb of Riverdale, was determined to save the subdivision of Pacesetter which had once been her home. As part... -
China: Building "Capitalism with Socialist Characteristics"
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Describes China's phenomenal development from a poor, communist country to a global powerhouse. Provides background on China's history and culture, details... -
The Pritzker Architecture Prize: Building Value B
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Supplement for case 813124 -
Josiah Wedgwood and the First Industrial Revolution
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Explores the relation between company strategy and widespread economic change during the First Industrial Revolution. By focusing on Josiah Wedgwood,... -
Vehbi Koc and the Making of Turkey's Largest Business Group
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In Their Time: The Greatest Business Leaders of the Twentieth Century
Great business leaders possess more than celebrated traits like charisma and an appetite for risk. They have "contextual intelligence"--a profound ability... -
The U.S. Banking Panic of 1933 and Federal Deposit Insurance
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details After highlighting some key developments in the banking history of the United States, the case illustrates the Banking Panic of 1933 and the way in which... -
Doing Business in Santiago, Chile
Management Case Study8.95View Details The case uses the example of the opening of the first IKEA furniture store in Chile - which is operated by Chilean group Falabella - to discuss the opportunities... -
Mass Production and the Beginnings of Scientific Management
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Examines the coming of mass production (continuous and large-batch processes and those involving fabricating and assembling of interchangeable parts),...
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Don't Waste Your Time on Networking Events
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThere are more-productive ways to build relationships. -
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... -
How Companies Can Address Their Historical Transgressions
Corporate social responsibility Magazine ArticleLessons from the slave trade and the Holocaust -
Frito-Lay, Inc.: A Strategic Transition (Consolidated)
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details The setting is a food manufacturing company that has stumbled in terms of its historic growth and profit achievements. In trying to recapture its momentum,... -
Ingvar Kamprad and IKEA
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Traces the development of a Swedish furniture retailer under the leadership of an innovative and unconventional entrepreneur whose approaches redefine... -
Ford vs. GM: The Evolution of Mass Production (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View 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... -
Allied Chemical Corp. (B)
Global Business Case Study5.00View Details Describes Allied's cooperative approach to government relations and the approach of some of the regulatory agencies Allied deals with. Based mainly on... -
Life's Work: An Interview with Deepak Chopra
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleLessons on leadership. -
Doing Business in Sao Paulo, Brazil
Management Case Study8.95View Details The case uses the example of a large investment made by French retail group Carrefour in Brazil to discuss the opportunities and challenges of doing business... -
Luckin Coffee (A): Caffeine-fueled Growth?
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details This case describes the founding of Chinese coffee chain Luckin Coffee in 2017 and its path to surpassing Starbucks as the largest coffee chain in China...