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Guided Free Enterprise in Japan
International business Magazine ArticleThe widely held notion of “Japan, Inc.” is exaggerated; there is no monolithic business-government link. Even so, the cooperation (without incorporation) between the large corporate combines and the government bureaucracy is impressive in its strength and focus on the common economic good—especially in view of its achievements worldwide. As the economic power of the United […] -
Collaborating with Congregations: Opportunities for Financial Services in the Inner City
Economics Magazine ArticleBy pooling the resources of the poor and by sharing information, religious and financial institutions can work together to change inner-city economies. -
How Would Copernicus See Capitalism?
Economics Digital ArticleWe’ve been sharing thoughts in this blog about how the rapid growth of the emerging economies, along with other modern realities, will reshape the practice — and thus rewrite the rules — of capitalism. Many readers are aware that these are ideas in development for our forthcoming book on the topic. This week we decided […] -
Margaret Thatcher, Fighter
Leadership Digital ArticleThe best change agents almost never realize when it’s time to stop. That’s what makes them so good. -
Why Network Neutrality Is Good for Business
Web-based technologies Digital ArticleEditor’s note: For an opposing viewpoint on this topic, see Robert E. Litan’s and Hal J. Singer’s entry “Why Business Should Oppose Net Neutrality.” In business school, where I teach, students are often predisposed to see legal concepts as impenetrable and foreign. I watch the lightbulbs go on as they see that Microsoft’s antitrust woes, […] -
This Program Uses Lean Startup Techniques to Turn Scientists into Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleAnd it’s changing the way they do science. -
Research: Opposition to Federal Spending Is Driven by Racial Resentment
Government policy and regulation ResearchIt’s a better predictor than economic self-interest. -
Solve America’s Employment Crisis With a Netflix Prize
Innovation Digital ArticleAn entire generation’s prosperity vanishing, food stamp use exploding. Welcome to the jobless future. This month’s jobs numbers drive home the point. The unemployment rate fell at the fastest rate for years — great news, right? Wrong. The lion’s share of the gains came from (wait for it) “temporary help services.” See what just happened? […] -
Why Do Companies Succumb to Price Fixing?
Government policy and regulation Magazine ArticleWhen Ben Franklin wrote Poor Richard’s Almanac and the words, “A little neglect may breed great mischief,” he did not have price fixing in mind. To the 47 executives in companies in the folding-box industry convicted of price fixing, however, the words seem tailored to fit. In those companies convicted under antitrust laws in 1976, […] -
The Ways Americans Pay for Things Are Woefully Out of Date
National competitiveness Digital ArticleAnd PayPal, Square, and other services don’t go far enough. -
Reporting Cyberattacks Will Soon Be Mandatory. Is Your Company Ready?
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleNew requirements stand to benefit everyone - if optimally designed. -
The Right Way to Restructure Conglomerates in Emerging Markets
Government Magazine ArticleIn many countries, diversified business groups substitute for the institutions that support effective markets in capital, labor, and goods and services. Their capacity for doing this must be strengthened through restructuring, not destroyed through dismantling. -
Reaching the Rich World’s Poorest Consumers
Business and society Magazine ArticleFive leading companies have adapted nonprofit business models to serve the bottom of the pyramid in France. -
How Obama and Clinton Stack Up as Managers
Government Digital ArticleThe conventional wisdom on leadership and management is clear: the first matters more than the second. Warren Bennis‘s classic On Becoming a Leader is typical. In a lengthy comparison between leaders and managers, he describes leaders as luminaries and managers as mere mortals. For example: • “The manager administers; the leader innovates.” • “The manager […] -
Data Privacy Rules Are Changing. How Can Marketers Keep Up?
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleAnalytics and automation technologies make it easier than you might expect. -
In Beijing and Washington, Business as Usual
Government Digital ArticleLast week the United States held a hotly contested election that demonstrated the challenges and strengths of the American political system. Both major parties talked of all that was wrong in American politics: a future of deficits, the monetization of political life, and the prospect of endless political gridlock. Yet at the end of the […] -
The Role of Private Equity in Driving Up Health Care Prices
Competitive strategy Digital ArticleIt prioritizes short-term profits over patients’ health. -
Launching Effective Start-ups in Governments
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleGovernment "start-ups" - new agencies, offices, or initiatives - have the potential to be a powerful tool for solving critical policy problems at the... -
A Guide to Building a More Resilient Business
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleDone right, it's a major competitive advantage. -
All The Candidates’ Kin
Government Digital ArticleBack in the Stone Age, when Harry Truman was president, to involve family in politics was considered unseemly. While there were exceptions to the general rule, Truman’s sentiments were typical. As his daughter Margaret recalled, “If there was one thing Dad dreaded, it was the thought of someone in his family getting involved in politics.” […]
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Walking on a Tightrope: Maintaining London as a Financial Center
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Focuses on the development of London as a leading international financial center and the difficulties it faces maintaining its status. Examines London's... -
Goldwind USA: Chinese Wind in the Americas
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Many Chinese firms have struggled in the United States. Renewable energy is a fledgling, high-risk market. Can Goldwind USA, a leading producer of wind... -
Man on a Wire: Bart Stupak Walks a Tight Line between Obamacare & Abortion
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Set in 2009-2010, during the fractious U.S. Congressional debate over enacting the Obamacare health reform bill, this ethics case focuses on the choices... -
Reconstruction of Zambia, Supplement--1997
Global Business Case Study5.00View Details Updates the case. Designed as an in-class handout. -
CSFB's China Unicom Incident
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details In August 2001, Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB), a major international investment bank, was removed from the foreign underwriting team that would handle... -
World Oil Markets
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Summarizes world markets for oil and natural gas from 1980-2001. Examines the rise of OPEC, two oil shocks, Gulf War efforts, and recent pricing issues... -
Ukraine: On the Border of Europe and Eurasia
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details In the fall of 2013, the people of Ukraine disagreed passionately whether their country should intensify ties with the European Union or Russia. After... -
Henry Kissinger: Negotiating Black Majority Rule in Rhodesia (B)
Sales & Marketing Case Study5.00View Details In 1976, United States Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger conducted a series of intricate, multiparty negotiations in Southern Africa to persuade white... -
OhmConnect: Energizing the Future
Management Case Study11.95View Details Founded in 2013, OhmConnect was a free consumer web app that alerted customers about peak hours of electricity demand, and paid them to lower their energy... -
UPower Technologies Inc.
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details The UPower founders, Jake DeWitte and Caroline Cochran, were recent graduates from MIT's Nuclear Science and Engineering Department. They chose to attend... -
Investing in Water at Fish Springs Ranch: Water Flows to Money, and the Money Is in Reno
Management Case Study11.95View Details Steven Erickson, cofounder of the hedge fund Anbec Partners, is trying to determine whether the all-cash offer D.R. Horton has just made for Vidler Water... -
Winning Hearts and Minds: Reforming the Providence School District (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details In August, 2002, Melody Johnson, the deputy superintendent of the Providence, Rhode Island, School District, was hastily appointed acting superintendent,... -
Dubai Ports World in the USA (C)
Global Business Case Study5.00View Details The case recounts the experience of the Dubai government-owned marine terminal operator, Dubai Ports World, when it tried to take over the American operations... -
Gramophone: Reimagining Music
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details The case traces the development of the early gramophone industry through the eyes of the American talent scout and producer Fred Gaisberg. It explores... -
Are Non-profit Organisations Subject to the Fundamental Rights? The Case of the Board of Cricket Control in India
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details The case discusses the issues related to Zee Tele Films Limited's claims that the Board of Cricket Control of India was "state" and could act arbitrarily... -
BHP: Mining Potash
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details BHP, an Australian mining company, threatens to enter the potash mining industry through a hostile takeover of the Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan.... -
Data.gov
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details This case presents the logic and execution underlying the launch of Data.gov, an instantiation of President Obama's initiative for transparency and open... -
Bohemian Crowns: Ceskoslovenska Obchodni Banka (A)
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Tells the story of the Czech transition from a centrally planned to a free market economy, describing the first economic reforms, the fixed-exchange rate... -
Alan Greenspan
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Describes the life and times of Alan Greenspan. -
Brazil: Leading the BRICs?
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Brazil's new president, Dilma Rousseff, had announced plans to sustain GDP growth above 5 percent annually and continue the country's leadership role...
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Guided Free Enterprise in Japan
International business Magazine ArticleThe widely held notion of “Japan, Inc.” is exaggerated; there is no monolithic business-government link. Even so, the cooperation (without incorporation) between the large corporate combines and the government bureaucracy is impressive in its strength and focus on the common economic good—especially in view of its achievements worldwide. As the economic power of the United […] -
Collaborating with Congregations: Opportunities for Financial Services in the Inner City
Economics Magazine ArticleBy pooling the resources of the poor and by sharing information, religious and financial institutions can work together to change inner-city economies. -
How Would Copernicus See Capitalism?
Economics Digital ArticleWe’ve been sharing thoughts in this blog about how the rapid growth of the emerging economies, along with other modern realities, will reshape the practice — and thus rewrite the rules — of capitalism. Many readers are aware that these are ideas in development for our forthcoming book on the topic. This week we decided […] -
Margaret Thatcher, Fighter
Leadership Digital ArticleThe best change agents almost never realize when it’s time to stop. That’s what makes them so good. -
Why Network Neutrality Is Good for Business
Web-based technologies Digital ArticleEditor’s note: For an opposing viewpoint on this topic, see Robert E. Litan’s and Hal J. Singer’s entry “Why Business Should Oppose Net Neutrality.” In business school, where I teach, students are often predisposed to see legal concepts as impenetrable and foreign. I watch the lightbulbs go on as they see that Microsoft’s antitrust woes, […] -
This Program Uses Lean Startup Techniques to Turn Scientists into Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleAnd it’s changing the way they do science. -
Research: Opposition to Federal Spending Is Driven by Racial Resentment
Government policy and regulation ResearchIt’s a better predictor than economic self-interest. -
Solve America’s Employment Crisis With a Netflix Prize
Innovation Digital ArticleAn entire generation’s prosperity vanishing, food stamp use exploding. Welcome to the jobless future. This month’s jobs numbers drive home the point. The unemployment rate fell at the fastest rate for years — great news, right? Wrong. The lion’s share of the gains came from (wait for it) “temporary help services.” See what just happened? […] -
Why Do Companies Succumb to Price Fixing?
Government policy and regulation Magazine ArticleWhen Ben Franklin wrote Poor Richard’s Almanac and the words, “A little neglect may breed great mischief,” he did not have price fixing in mind. To the 47 executives in companies in the folding-box industry convicted of price fixing, however, the words seem tailored to fit. In those companies convicted under antitrust laws in 1976, […] -
Walking on a Tightrope: Maintaining London as a Financial Center
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Focuses on the development of London as a leading international financial center and the difficulties it faces maintaining its status. Examines London's...