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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... -
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... -
Why Business Leaders Must Resist the Anti-ESG Movement
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleRetreat isn't just inadvisable; it's dangerous. -
Why the News Is Not the Truth
Global Business Magazine ArticleThe news media and the government are entwined in a vicious circle of mutual manipulation, mythmaking, and self-interest. Journalists need crises to dramatize... -
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... -
Power and Politics in Organizational Life
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleOrganizations are political structures which provide platforms for the expression of individual interests, and which revolve around the accumulation of... -
Competitive Advantage of Nations
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleA four-year, ten-nation study of the patterns of competitive success in leading countries concludes that companies achieve competitive advantage through... -
10 ESG Questions Companies Need to Answer
Government policy and regulation Digital ArticleOr risk being left behind. -
Overselling Sustainability Reporting
Sustainable business practices Magazine ArticleWe’re confusing output with impact. -
The Strategic Challenges of Decoupling
Global Business SpotlightMost business executives who have put time, effort, and investment into developing a presence in China resist the notion of decoupling. With the Biden... -
GDP Is Not a Measure of Human Well-Being
Economics Digital ArticleWe need better measures of development. -
The Case for Investing in Digital Public Infrastructure
Global Business Digital ArticleHow businesses and governments can work together to build digital foundations that benefit everyone. -
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. -
Is America in Decline?
Economics Magazine ArticleStrange as it may seem, a nation once celebrated for its irrepressible optimism now appears to be obsessed by decline. America’s list of complaints seems endless: Real wages are falling. Productivity growth is down. Companies aren’t competitive in global markets. White-collar jobs are no longer secure. The nation’s infrastructure is collapsing. The federal deficit is […] -
25 Years Ago I Coined the Phrase "Triple Bottom Line." Here's Why It's Time to Rethink It.
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleIt was supposed to be a radical rethinking of capitalism, but it's become a mere accounting tool. -
The Ecosystem of Shared Value
Business and society Magazine ArticleCompanies must sometimes team up with governments, NGOs, and even rivals to capture the economic benefits of social progress. -
Clusters and the New Economics of Competition
Government policy and regulation Magazine ArticleParadoxically, the enduring competitive advantages in a global economy lie increasingly in local things—knowledge, relationships, and motivation that distant rivals cannot match. -
Off-Sites that Work
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleOf all the meetings top executives attend in a year, none is more important than the strategy off-site, where the most essential conversations for the... -
Obama and the High Cost of High Expectations
Government Digital ArticleThere’s an old saying that putting someone on a pedestal makes it a lot easier to get kicked in the head. I mention this because two years ago many voters put Barack Obama on a very high pedestal. Expectations went through the roof as crowds of people (even outside the U.S.) shouted that oft-repeated campaign […]
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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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Airbus vs. Boeing (B): The Storm Intensifies
Global Business Case Study5.00View Details Discusses the growing competition faced by U.S. producers of civil aircraft due to the success and expanding product line of Airbus Industries. Designed... -
Automation Consulting Services
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Illustrates the management control challenges that are associated with rapid growth and geographic expansion. Situated at an offsite Executive Committee... -
Managing a Security Response to the Ebola Epidemic in Liberia (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details On August 19, 2014, Liberia President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was faced with an agonizing decision: should she quarantine a densely populated township of... -
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... -
Mario Laborin and the Turnaround of Mexico's Nacional Financiera (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Mexico went through a major political transition in 2000, when Vicente Fox was elected President. Change was in the air throughout the country, and especially... -
The Maggi Noodle Safety Crisis in India (C)
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View 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... -
Margaret Thatcher
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Portrays Margaret Thatcher's rise to the leadership of Great Britain's Conservative Party. Thatcher's political career began with her election to Parliament's... -
Akshaya Patra: Impact at Scale
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study15.05View Details Akshaya Patra, an Indian NGO, had set an ambitious goal of serving 5 million free meals daily to India's schoolchildren. Founded in 2000, Akshaya Patra... -
A Tricky Mandate: Craig Coy and the Problem of Patronage Hiring at Massport, Sequel
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details This case sequel is a shorter, more focused, "decision-forcing" version of The Turnaround Artist: Craig Coy Tackles Political Influence at Massport (Case... -
The UK Government Digital Service
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The case describes how Mike Bracken, the newly appointed head of the UK Government Digital Service (GDS), took on the massive challenge of setting up,... -
Merck CEO Ken Frazier Quits President Trump's Advisory Council
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details In the first six months of Donald Trump's presidency, Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier appeared alongside Trump at least three times at press events, one of... -
Rewa Solar India: PPP Innovation Unleashed
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Set in July 2020, this case talks about a solar park public-private partnership (PPP) project in Madhya Pradesh, India. Manu Srivastava, Chairperson of...
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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... -
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... -
Why Business Leaders Must Resist the Anti-ESG Movement
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleRetreat isn't just inadvisable; it's dangerous. -
Why the News Is Not the Truth
Global Business Magazine ArticleThe news media and the government are entwined in a vicious circle of mutual manipulation, mythmaking, and self-interest. Journalists need crises to dramatize... -
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... -
Power and Politics in Organizational Life
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleOrganizations are political structures which provide platforms for the expression of individual interests, and which revolve around the accumulation of... -
Competitive Advantage of Nations
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleA four-year, ten-nation study of the patterns of competitive success in leading countries concludes that companies achieve competitive advantage through... -
10 ESG Questions Companies Need to Answer
Government policy and regulation Digital ArticleOr risk being left behind. -
Overselling Sustainability Reporting
Sustainable business practices Magazine ArticleWe’re confusing output with impact.