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Generative AI Has an Intellectual Property Problem
Intellectual property Digital ArticleStrategies to help companies mitigate the legal risk and ensure they’re in compliance with the law. -
8 Questions About Using AI Responsibly, Answered
Technology & Operations Big IdeaGenerative AI tools are poised to change the way every business operates. As your own organization begins strategizing which to use, and how, operational... -
Who Is Going to Regulate AI?
Global Business Digital ArticleAs the world reckons with the impact of powerful new AI systems, governments are jostling to lead the regulatory charge - and shape how this technology... -
How to Create a Stakeholder Strategy
Business and society Magazine ArticleA data-driven approach to design, measurement, and implementation -
Why Business Leaders Must Resist the Anti-ESG Movement
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleRetreat isn't just inadvisable; it's dangerous. -
AI Regulation Is Coming
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleFor years public concern about technological risk has focused on the misuse of personal data. But as firms embed more and more artificial intelligence... -
Neuromarketing: What You Need to Know
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleThe field of neuromarketing, sometimes known as consumer neuroscience, studies the brain to predict and potentially even manipulate consumer behavior... -
A New Model for Ethical Leadership
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleRather than try to follow a set of simple rules ("Don't lie." "Don't cheat."), leaders and managers seeking to be more ethical should focus on creating... -
Customer Data: Designing for Transparency and Trust
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleWith the help of technology, companies today sweep up huge amounts of customer data. But they tend to be opaque about the information they collect and... -
Building an Ethical Company
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleJust as people can develop skills and abilities over time, they can learn to be more or less ethical. Yet many organizations limit ethics training to... -
Why Be Honest If Honesty Doesn't Pay
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleConscience explains why most business men and women keep their word and deal fairly with one another. There is no evidence that honesty pays, despite... -
The Secrets to Successful Strategy Execution
Strategy execution Magazine ArticleResearch shows that enterprises fail at execution because they go straight to structural reorganization and neglect the most powerful drivers of effectiveness—decision rights and information flow. -
Research: The Unintended Consequences of Right-to-Repair Laws
Global Business Digital ArticleA model assessing their potential impact suggests manufacturers might flood the market with cheap goods, raise prices, or both. -
Why Sexual Harassment Programs Backfire
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Three Questions Leaders Must Ask About Their Company
Leadership Digital ArticleToo often we see character, certainly in management circles, in reference to lack of it. That is, some CEO or CFO or senior executive has been caught with his hand in the kitty or in the knickers of some subordinate. Character, as our parents tell us, is what you do when you think no one […] -
How Companies Can Address Their Historical Transgressions
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The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
Finance and investing Magazine ArticleFor the first 40-plus years of their existence, the federal securities laws did not require or prohibit specific managerial practices in the operation of business, other than a business in one of a handful of closely regulated industries. But with the passage of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, the SEC is equipped to […] -
How Trade Secrets Hurt Innovation
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Treat Employees like Adults
Intellectual property Magazine ArticlePeople aren’t getting dumber, but they’re often treated that way. Politicians, educators, and the media assume the public is uncomfortable with nuance and grateful for prescribed solutions. Business, too, is being progressively dumbed down, not only by book authors who teach management by parable but also by managers themselves. Ironically, the infantilization of work is […] -
The "Maximize Profits" Trap in Decision Making
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleLook hard at the economics, but don't stop there.
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Which Way to Go? Jamaica's Economic Stabilization Policy
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Jamaica's relationship with the International Monetary Fund had often been tense. Currently, the country had no agreements with the IMF, and Prime Minister... -
The Fall of the "Fabulous Fab"
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Fabrice Tourre, a mid-level trader at Goldman Sachs, seeks to understand how he was one of the only executives of any Wall Street firm held accountable... -
Netflix and Dave Chappelle (B)
Management Case Study8.95View Details In late 2021, Netflix leadership had to deal with some fierce employee and public blowback after airing The Closer, a comedy special by comedian Dave... -
Motorola (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplements Motorola (A). -
Portland's Urban Growth Boundary and Housing Prices (A): The Debate
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In December of 2002, the Metro Council of Portland, Oregon had to decide whether or not to expand the Urban Growth Boundary (UGB) for the metropolitan... -
Fresh to Table
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details After the contentious firing of an office manager, the leadership at Fresh to Table, a software-as-a-service provider for luxury hotels and restaurants,... -
Getting Squeezed
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The executive assistant to the Army Chief of Staff prepares the nomination forms for all Army officers eligible for promotion, which are then submitted... -
ChoicePoint (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The CEO of ChoicePoint, a leading company in the rapidly growing U.S. personal data industry, must reexamine the company's business model after a serious... -
WebSaver
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Examines several legal issues faced by Samantha Fine, the CEO of Next Step, a software concern that is focused on the World Wide Web and planning an initial... -
Disney Consumer Products: Marketing Nutrition to Children
Sales & Marketing Case Study6.95View Details In an effort to capture market share in the children's foods category, Disney Consumer Products (DCP) debuted a broad line of "better for you" foods,... -
Note on Antitrust and Competitive Tactics
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Provides an overview of antitrust law as it relates to competitive strategy. Discusses the problem of managing antitrust risk and provides a guide to... -
MBA In Jeopardy (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study6.95View Details The Community Standards Panel of Harvard Business School must determine whether two students have violated the school's community standards, and if so,... -
Note on Application of the Antitrust Laws to the New Economy: An Analysis of United States vs. Microsoft Corp.
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Analyzes the 1991 decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in the seminal New Economy antitrust case United States vs.... -
The Road to Tortuguero
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The case presents a decision facing a tour guide organization in Tortuguero, Costa Rica regarding environmental sustainability and social equity. Tortuguero... -
Empowering Language
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This note describes ways in which managers can learn to empower their employees through the way they communicate with them. The note is intended as a... -
Portland's Urban Growth Boundary and Housing Prices (B): Note on Measuring Housing Prices
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details In December of 2002, the Metro Council of Portland, Oregon had to decide whether or not to expand the Urban Growth Boundary (UGB) for the metropolitan... -
SAGASCO Holdings Limited
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In the summer of 1993, Australia's Trade Practices Commission was considering whether or not to permanently enjoin Santos Limited from acquiring SAGASCO... -
Forever: De Beers and U.S. Antitrust Law
Global Business Case Study6.95View Details For over a century, the international diamond market has been dominated by one of the most successful cartels on earth. Run by the legendary De Beers... -
Global Sourcing at Nike
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This case explores the evolution of Nike's global product sourcing strategy, in particular ongoing efforts to improve working conditions at its suppliers'... -
WeaveTech: High Performance Change
Leadership & Managing People Case Study1.00View Details WeaveTech, formerly Johnson-Ware, is a clothing company that produces jackets, coats, overalls, coveralls, and fire-resistant clothing for the military....
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Generative AI Has an Intellectual Property Problem
Intellectual property Digital ArticleStrategies to help companies mitigate the legal risk and ensure they’re in compliance with the law. -
8 Questions About Using AI Responsibly, Answered
Technology & Operations Big IdeaGenerative AI tools are poised to change the way every business operates. As your own organization begins strategizing which to use, and how, operational... -
Who Is Going to Regulate AI?
Global Business Digital ArticleAs the world reckons with the impact of powerful new AI systems, governments are jostling to lead the regulatory charge - and shape how this technology... -
How to Create a Stakeholder Strategy
Business and society Magazine ArticleA data-driven approach to design, measurement, and implementation -
Why Business Leaders Must Resist the Anti-ESG Movement
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleRetreat isn't just inadvisable; it's dangerous. -
AI Regulation Is Coming
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleFor years public concern about technological risk has focused on the misuse of personal data. But as firms embed more and more artificial intelligence... -
Neuromarketing: What You Need to Know
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleThe field of neuromarketing, sometimes known as consumer neuroscience, studies the brain to predict and potentially even manipulate consumer behavior... -
A New Model for Ethical Leadership
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleRather than try to follow a set of simple rules ("Don't lie." "Don't cheat."), leaders and managers seeking to be more ethical should focus on creating... -
Customer Data: Designing for Transparency and Trust
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleWith the help of technology, companies today sweep up huge amounts of customer data. But they tend to be opaque about the information they collect and... -
Building an Ethical Company
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleJust as people can develop skills and abilities over time, they can learn to be more or less ethical. Yet many organizations limit ethics training to...