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How to Choose the Right Forecasting Technique
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleTwo Corning Glass Works products illustrate the use of various forecasting techniques. Managers and forecasters should consider three issues when approaching... -
What Is Web3?
Technology & Operations Big IdeaWeb3 is being touted as the future of the internet. The vision for this new, blockchain-based web includes cryptocurrencies, NFTs, DAOs, decentralized... -
CEOs Are Predicting a Mild Recession in the U.S.
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleThey expect a "short and shallow" downturn. -
How a “Pay-to-Quit” Strategy Can Reveal Your Most Motivated Employees
Employee incentives Digital ArticleEverybody wins with this program. -
Understanding China
Global Business SpotlightThis package begins with "What the West Gets Wrong About China," by Rana Mitter and Elsbeth Johnson, which discusses three fundamental misconceptions:... -
What the West Gets Wrong About China
Global Business SpotlightMany people have wrongly assumed that political freedom would follow new economic freedoms in China and that its economic growth would have to be built... -
How to Survive a Recession and Thrive Afterward
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleAccording to an analysis led by Ranjay Gulati, during the recessions of 1980, 1990, and 2000, 17% of the 4,700 public companies studied fared very badly:... -
What Causes Inflation?
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleWhy your money is worth less than it used to be. -
Welcome to the Experience Economy
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleIn this article, co-authors B. Joseph Pine II and James Gilmore, founders of the management consulting firm Strategic Horizons, preview the likely characteristics... -
Globalization of Markets
Global Business Magazine ArticleThe new commercial reality is the emergence of global markets for standardized consumer products on a previously unimagined scale of magnitude. Technology,... -
What Professional Service Firms Must Do to Thrive
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleDuring economic slowdowns, consulting, law, and accounting firms often start offering services and taking on clients they really shouldn't, just to keep... -
ChatGPT and How AI Disrupts Industries
AI and machine learning Digital ArticleA look back at the taxi business illustrates what OpenAI’s newest model might mean for creative work. -
What Companies Still Get Wrong About Layoffs
Organizational Development Digital ArticleMany cling to the idea that reducing staff is the fastest, easiest way to cut costs. But there are smarter, more humane approaches. -
Protecting DEI Progress When Budgets Are Tight
Organizational Development Digital ArticleThree strategies to embed DEI into your core business practices - and make your efforts recession-proof. -
Does the Capital Asset Pricing Model Work?
Financial crisis Magazine ArticleAn important task of the corporate financial manager is measurement of the company’s cost of equity capital. But estimating the cost of equity causes a lot of head scratching; often the result is subjective and therefore open to question as a reliable benchmark. This article describes a method for arriving at that figure, a method […] -
Everything You (Don’t) Want to Know About Raising Capital
Financial markets Magazine ArticleMost entrepreneurs understand that if the fundamentals of a business idea—the management team, the market opportunities, the operating systems and controls—are sound, chances are there’s money out there. The challenge of landing that capital to grow a company can be exhilarating. But as exciting as the money search may be, it is equally threatening. Built […] -
The Case for Hiring Older Workers
Age and generational issues Digital ArticleMany companies consider age a competitive disadvantage. Here’s why they’re wrong. -
Six Rules for Effective Forecasting
Economic cycles and trends Magazine ArticleThe goal of forecasting is not to predict the future but to tell you what you need to know to take meaningful action in the present. -
Make Time for the Work That Matters
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleMore hours in the day. It's one thing everyone wants, and yet it's impossible to attain. But what if you could free up significant time--maybe as much... -
Global Business Speaks English
Global Business Magazine ArticleLike it or not, English is the global language of business. Today 1.75 billion people speak English at a useful level--that's one in four of us. Multinational...
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Alvogen
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Alvogen is a young Icelandic generic pharmaceutical company, whose CEO believes that his global strategy will give them an edge in this competitive industry.... -
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... -
Strategic Capital Management, LLC (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Strategic Capital Management, LLC, is a hedge fund that is planning to make financial investments in Creative Computers and Ubid. Creative Computers recently... -
Singapore TradeNet: A Tale of One City
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Describes the development of a new information technology-based trade document administration environment for the city-state of Singapore. A considerable... -
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... -
The Maple Lane Driveway Paving Project
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This brief case narrative tells the story of how a few people managed to wring consensus from over 40 of their neighbors on repaving a shared driveway.... -
Apollo Hospitals--First-World Health Care at Emerging-Market Prices
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The Apollo Hospitals Group, one of Asia's premier health care organizations, had come to rival the best health care organizations on the globe. Apollo... -
Economic Analysis: Foundations
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Bay State Milling Co.
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Flour milling in recent years has had a great deal of consolidation. The fourth generation of a privately held firm is debating how to protect themselves... -
Decathlon China: Using Social Media to Penetrate the Internet Market
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details After successfully establishing more than 33 retail stores in large cities across China, Decathlon, a large sporting goods manufacturer and retailer,... -
Gold: A Distinct Asset Class
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Gold is a very popular alternative asset class globally. This note looks at the properties of gold that make it so attractive. The note also compares... -
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Risk (with bonus article "Managing 21st-Century Political Risk" by Condoleezza Rice and Amy Zegart)
Strategy & Execution BookIs your business playing it safe--or taking the right risks? If you read nothing else on managing risk, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds... -
Nehemiah Strategy: Bringing It to Boston (Multimedia Case)
Strategy & Execution Tool25.00View Details In 2003, Lee Stuart was working with the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization to implement an affordable housing initiative in Boston. She and her colleagues... -
Fixed Income Arbitrage in a Financial Crisis (A): US Treasuries in November 2008
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Investment manager James Franey confronts an apparent arbitrage opportunity during the global financial crisis of 2008 when he notices a wide yield spread... -
The Innovator's Solution, with a New Foreword: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
Management Book35.00View Details The "New York Times" bestseller and seminal work on disruption--for every company seeking new growth. Clayton Christensen's bestselling book, "The Innovator's... -
Chiquita Brands International (A)
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details When a new banana import policy is implemented in 1993 by the European Union, Chiquita Brands International, the world's largest banana distributor, watches... -
BMWFilms
Sales & Marketing Case Study6.95View Details Jim McDowell, VP of marketing at BMW North America, is debating how to follow up the success of his latest marketing campaign, "BMWFilms." This campaign... -
The Maggi Noodle Safety Crisis in India (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study15.05View Details The local government in Delhi has ordered a ban on Nestlé's flagship product in India-Maggi Noodles-citing excessive lead content per government lab tests.... -
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... -
State
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Surveys approaches to understanding the state; highlights the relationships between the state, order, and property; and offers an analytical framework...
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How to Choose the Right Forecasting Technique
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleTwo Corning Glass Works products illustrate the use of various forecasting techniques. Managers and forecasters should consider three issues when approaching... -
What Is Web3?
Technology & Operations Big IdeaWeb3 is being touted as the future of the internet. The vision for this new, blockchain-based web includes cryptocurrencies, NFTs, DAOs, decentralized... -
CEOs Are Predicting a Mild Recession in the U.S.
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleThey expect a "short and shallow" downturn. -
How a “Pay-to-Quit” Strategy Can Reveal Your Most Motivated Employees
Employee incentives Digital ArticleEverybody wins with this program. -
Understanding China
Global Business SpotlightThis package begins with "What the West Gets Wrong About China," by Rana Mitter and Elsbeth Johnson, which discusses three fundamental misconceptions:... -
What the West Gets Wrong About China
Global Business SpotlightMany people have wrongly assumed that political freedom would follow new economic freedoms in China and that its economic growth would have to be built... -
Making Smart Investments: A Beginner’s Guide
Costing AdviceReduce the risk factor, increase the reward factor, and generate meaningful returns. -
How to Survive a Recession and Thrive Afterward
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleAccording to an analysis led by Ranjay Gulati, during the recessions of 1980, 1990, and 2000, 17% of the 4,700 public companies studied fared very badly:... -
What Causes Inflation?
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleWhy your money is worth less than it used to be. -
Welcome to the Experience Economy
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleIn this article, co-authors B. Joseph Pine II and James Gilmore, founders of the management consulting firm Strategic Horizons, preview the likely characteristics...