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4 Areas of Cyber Risk That Boards Need to Address
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleHow companies can build a long-term strategy that will keep them secure. -
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. -
Managing Risks: A New Framework
Risk management Magazine ArticleSmart companies match their approach to the nature of the threats they face. -
Company Culture Is Everyone's Responsibility
Organizational Development Digital ArticleA top-down approach doesn't work anymore. -
A More Sustainable Supply Chain
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleIncreasingly, multinational corporations (MNCs) are pledging to procure the materials and services they need from companies committed to fair labor practices... -
Global Supply Chains in a Post-Pandemic World
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleThe U.S.-China trade war and the supply and demand shocks brought on by the Covid-19 crisis are forcing manufacturers everywhere to reassess their supply... -
Reputation and Its Risks
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleRegulators, industry groups, consultants, and individual companies have developed elaborate guidelines over the years for assessing and managing risks... -
What Do We Do About the Biases in AI?
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleThree steps for leaders to take. -
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... -
The Big Lie of Strategic Planning
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleStrategy making forces executives to confront a future they can only guess at. It's not surprising, then, that they try to make the task less daunting... -
The Devastating Business Impacts of a Cyber Breach
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleNo company can afford to underestimate the long-term financial costs. -
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 […] -
How to Keep Cyberattacks from Tanking Your Balance Sheet
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleThe average cost of a data breach reached $4.35 million in 2022, according to IBM's Cost of a Data Breach Report in 2022. -
Strategies for High Market-Share Companies
Competitive strategy Magazine ArticleIn recent years, a growing number of business practitioners and theorists have postulated that one way for a company to increase its return is by increasing its market share, and studies appear to have confirmed this relationship. But the authors of this article refuse to accept the blanket inference that “more” is necessarily always going […] -
Bringing the Environment Down to Earth
Finance and investing Magazine ArticleManagers should make environmental investments for the same reason they make other investments: because they expect them to deliver positive returns or to reduce risks. -
Strategic Analysis for More Profitable Acquisitions
Financial analysis Magazine ArticleLess than a decade after the frantic merger activity of the late 1960s, we are again in the midst of a major wave of corporate acquisitions. In contrast to the 1960s, when acquirers were mainly freewheeling conglomerates, the merger movement in the 1970s includes such long-established giants of U.S. industry as General Electric, Gulf Oil, […] -
Growing Business Risks from Global Water Scarcity
Risk management Digital Article“Water Shortage Threatens China.” “California Faces Water Rationing.” “Drought in Australia Food Bowl Continues.” Water scarcity is becoming eerily prominent in recent newspaper headlines — and for good reason. With global temperatures increasing, scientists have told us to expect water scarcity problems like those California and China are now experiencing to increase and become even […] -
How to Identify Your Enemies Before They Destroy You (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThis is an enhanced edition of HBR article R0211J, originally published in November 2002. HBR OnPoint articles include the full-text HBR article, plus... -
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 […] -
When Should Multinationals Move Back into Venezuela?
International business Digital ArticleCompanies should hope for the best and prepare for the worst.
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Drowling Mountain
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details It was August 2011 and Martin Cartier, senior board member, was beginning to feel the pressure of Drowling Mountain's 2010 general meeting that was coming... -
23andMe: Genetic Testing for Consumers (B)
Sales & Marketing Case Study5.00View Details Following the FDA's letter in November 2013, which ordered 23andMe to cease sales of its DNA test kits, observers wondered how co-founder and CEO, Anne... -
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.... -
Enron: Entrepreneurial Energy
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Describes an entrepreneurial energy company that has attempted to capitalize on deregulation and privatization. Enron's experiences in energy markets... -
Gold in 2011: Bubble or Safe Haven Asset?
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Case explores the pricing of gold in 2011. Is the pricing justified or are we in a speculative bubble? What data are useful in determining a view on this... -
Present Your Financial Analysis
99.00View Details To be sustainable, your business needs to make money. Learn how to translate your business opportunity into anticipated financial results. -
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... -
Poland's A2 Motorway
Finance & Accounting Case Study6.95View Details Autostrada Wielkopolska S.A. (AWSA) is a consortium of 18 firms that won a concession to build and operate Poland's first private toll road. In June 2000,... -
Walden Woods
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details In 1984, Mortimer Zuckerman and Ed Linde, through their firm, Boston Properties (BP), acquired land in Concord, MA to build a 147,000-square-foot, first-class... -
Genzyme Corp.: Strategic Challenges with Ceredase
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Genzyme Corp., one of the largest biotechnology companies, has succeeded in developing, manufacturing, and commercializing its first therapeutic, a treatment... -
Charles Axelrod (A): A CEO's Dilemma
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Charles (""Chuck"") Axelrod, the CEO of Spartan Capital Management, a well-known London hedge fund, was considering firing Taylor Dillon, the chief investment... -
Digital Equipment Corp.: The Endpoint Model (C1)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details To follow Digital Equipment Corp.: The Endpoint Model (B2). The division has just received a request for dramatically increased production. If it complies... -
State of South Carolina
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case presents the managerial dilemma faced by the treasurer of South Carolina in 1998. Until last year, the South Carolina state pension fund (with... -
Diversification, the Capital Asset Pricing Model, and the Cost of Equity Capital
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Describes in nonmathematical terms the nature of capital asset pricing model and possible use in estimating a company's cost of equity capital. -
Arrow Electronics
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Arrow Electronics is the fastest growing distributor of electronic components in North America and the second largest. Its capital structure policy of... -
Environmental Risk Management at Chevron Corp.
Global Business Case Study6.95View Details Chevron Corp., headquartered in San Francisco, manages a worldwide, vertically integrated value chain from the oil well to the gasoline station. Mishandling... -
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... -
Risk Management at Wellfleet Bank: All That Glitters Is Not Gold
Finance & Accounting Case Study6.95View Details This case motivates a debate on the role of staff functions, such as risk management: what does it mean for them to be independent, and at the same time,... -
Starbucks Coffee Company: Transformation and Renewal
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Starbucks Coffee Company: Transformation and Renewal analyzes the turnaround and reconstruction of Starbucks Coffee Company from 2008 to 2014 as led by... -
Merck: Managing Vioxx (F)
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details
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4 Areas of Cyber Risk That Boards Need to Address
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleHow companies can build a long-term strategy that will keep them secure. -
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. -
Managing Risks: A New Framework
Risk management Magazine ArticleSmart companies match their approach to the nature of the threats they face. -
Company Culture Is Everyone's Responsibility
Organizational Development Digital ArticleA top-down approach doesn't work anymore. -
A More Sustainable Supply Chain
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleIncreasingly, multinational corporations (MNCs) are pledging to procure the materials and services they need from companies committed to fair labor practices... -
Global Supply Chains in a Post-Pandemic World
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleThe U.S.-China trade war and the supply and demand shocks brought on by the Covid-19 crisis are forcing manufacturers everywhere to reassess their supply... -
Reputation and Its Risks
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleRegulators, industry groups, consultants, and individual companies have developed elaborate guidelines over the years for assessing and managing risks... -
What Do We Do About the Biases in AI?
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleThree steps for leaders to take. -
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... -
The Big Lie of Strategic Planning
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleStrategy making forces executives to confront a future they can only guess at. It's not surprising, then, that they try to make the task less daunting...