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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... -
Why Business Leaders Must Resist the Anti-ESG Movement
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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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
The New CEO Activists
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThough corporations have been lobbying the government and making campaign donations for a long time now, in recent years a dramatic new trend has emerged... -
Life's Work: An Interview with Julia Gillard
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleAustralia's former prime minister talks about discipline, resilience, and misogyny. -
Leader as Lobbyist
Global Business Magazine ArticleGuidant's Ginger Graham argues that senior executives are actually better prepared than most lobbyists to inform and educate members of Congress about... -
Is It Time to Exit Russia? (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Global Business Magazine ArticleIn this fictional case, the CEO of a global pharmaceutical company based in Belgium with operations in Moscow is contemplating what to do in the wake... -
Companies Can’t Avoid Politics — and Shouldn’t Try To
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Corporate Political Spending Is Bad Business
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Mitt Romney's "Gift" Gaffe Is Not the Comment of a Savvy Businessman
Global Business Digital ArticleYou don't increase market share, or win elections, by playing the blame game. -
Research: When Geopolitical Risk Rises, Innovation Stalls
Innovation Digital ArticleAn analysis of more than 4,600 U.S. companies suggests that the negative impact can persist for three to five years. -
Should You Buy Companies in Red States or Blue?
Global Business Digital ArticleAn intriguing article in the November Harvard Business Review finds that private equity buyout performance in the U.S. is strongly influenced by the political... -
4 Ways Businesses Can Help Uphold Democracy
Global Business Digital ArticleSome ways your company can improve the system without being partisan. -
Women Entrepreneurs for Peace in Afghanistan
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleAs Afghan-U.S. relations continue to deteriorate, it's hard to imagine that the two nations can find political common ground. But the language of business... -
The Upside of Understanding Unit Costs
Finance & Accounting VideoWhen you're able to break down costs, you gain more than a clearer understanding of your business. You also gain better bargaining power. -
Barack Obama's Rebranding Plan: Attack, Orate, Repeat
Global Business Digital ArticleHow the President can beat a flagging economy, and Mitt Romney. -
A Tough Lesson in Local Politics
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleIn 2008 Merritt Paulson announced plans to bid for the right to convert the minor-league Portland Timbers into an expansion franchise in Major League...
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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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Starbucks: Opposing a Local Tax to Address Homelessness while Promoting Social Justice
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In 2018, the Seattle City Council unanimously voted 9-0 for a tax that would require companies whose annual revenue surpassed $20 million to pay the city... -
Spain: Straddling the Atlantic
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Provides a broad overview of economic and political developments in Spain from the 1940s to the present day. Examines the emergence of Spain from the... -
Dan Gilbert: Crazy or Crazy Like a Fox?
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Barack Obama: Organizing for America 2.0
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Less than a week before Barack Obama was due to be sworn in as the 44th president of the United States, Obama for America (OFA), the president-elect's... -
Democracy in Zimbabwe: The Presidential Bid of Morgan Tsvangirai
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In early 2002, world attention turned to the upcoming election in the southern Africa nation of Zimbabwe. Once viewed as a model of relative prosperity... -
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... -
Say on Pay at The Walt Disney Company
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case focuses on the lead-up to Disney's 2012 annual meeting, where Disney would face a vote on the compensation package of its CEO, Robert Iger.... -
Al Gore: Surviving Career Setbacks
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This case follows the life of Al Gore, one of the most powerful vice-presidents in US history who, in 2000, failed to secure what is probably the most... -
Denmark: Globalization and the Welfare State
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details This case describes how Denmark has balanced the impacts of globalization, including outsourcing and movement of labor with its social welfare offerings.... -
Olymel: Strategic Expansion in the Pork Industry
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The case highlights how global dynamics impact both regional economic development and the organizational growth of a market-leading pork producer with... -
New Peril, Old Adversary: George W. Bush, 9/11, & Iraq (A): The United States & Iraq, 1980 to 2002
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details The U.S. choice to go to war with Iraq, beginning in March 2003, was enormously consequential. This two-part case, developed for an HKS course called... -
The Woman in the Corridor
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This powerful first-person memoir-style case tells the story of a Western journalism teacher in post-war Cambodia where, amidst near-ubiquitous hardship... -
Sino-Ocean Land: Responding to Change
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In 2010, Sino-Ocean Land Holdings Limited was a highly successful, large real estate developer based in Beijing, China. Sino-Ocean Land had three main... -
Peter F. Drucker on Business and Society
30.00View Details The Wider World in Which Business Operates. The political issues impacting our global economy have changed dramatically in the decades since Peter F....
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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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Olymel: Strategic Expansion in the Pork Industry, Teaching Note
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