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ESG Is Under Attack. How Should Your Company Respond?
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In Afghanistan, Is the Problem Capacity Or Complexity?
Global Business Digital ArticleA senior manager at Cisco once suggested to me that there are two types of challenges in organizations - capacity problems and complexity problems. Capacity... -
Virtue Matrix: Calculating the Return on Corporate Responsibility
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Companies Can't Avoid Politics - and Shouldn't Try To
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Civics and Civility (HBR Case Study)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleThe Denver office of Clarion Co., a $30 million, full-service marketing firm, has always been a politics-free zone. Nonwork conversations revolve around... -
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 Right Way to Rebuild America's Infrastructure
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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... -
Fixing U.S. Politics
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How a Macron Presidency Could Fuel More Nationalism in France
Global Business Digital ArticleIf the political newcomer falters, Le Pen will have a stronger hand in 2022. -
Leadership in a Politically Charged Age
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleWhy are discussions of politically charged issues often so fraught in the workplace today? How can managers ensure that they aren't caught flat-footed... -
What SCOTUS’s Affirmative Action Decision Means for Corporate DEI
Diversity and inclusion Digital ArticleEven if the law continues to evolve in a conservative direction, at least three common approaches to diversity, equity, and inclusion will endure. -
Barack Obama's Rebranding Plan: Attack, Orate, Repeat
Global Business Digital ArticleHow the President can beat a flagging economy, and Mitt Romney. -
Negotiation Lessons from the British Hostage Release
Communication Digital ArticleThis Conversation Starter comes from Joshua N. Weiss, Associate Director of the Global Negotiation Project at Harvard Law School. The views expressed... -
When Business and Politics Collide
Management Digital ArticleToday's employees, particularly young ones, expect their employers to speak out about the social, political, and environmental issues they care about.... -
Civics and Civility (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleThe Denver office of Clarion Co., a $30 million, full-service marketing firm, has always been a politics-free zone. Nonwork conversations revolve around... -
Great Leaders Don't Need Experience
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleNew research on effective leaders shows that the most brilliant ones tend to be people without a great deal of experience. The only trouble is, the same... -
Case Study: Is It Time to Exit Russia?
Social and global issues Magazine ArticleA European pharma company weighs the decision to pull out of the country after the invasion of Ukraine. -
Yes, It’s Possible to (Gracefully) Talk Politics at Work
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The Missing Political Debate Over the Digital Economy
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleFive ideas the U.S. presidential candidates should be talking about.
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Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details In August 2019, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, was surrounded by controversy. The first major storm of protest followed the surprise election... -
Electronic Cigarettes in the EU: The Political Economy of Product Regulation
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details You are the CEO of an e-cigarette company that has just been acquired by a major tobacco company. Your company operates in the European market. The July... -
Inciting a Computer Revolution in Health Care: Implementing the Health Information Technology Act
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details This case, ideal for strategic leadership classes, poses the question: given the ambitious goals of the 2009 Health Information Technology for Economic... -
European Financial Integration
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Provides background on the history and status of financial integration in the European Union. Describes the pertinent treaty-based "fundamental freedoms,"... -
Nonmarket Action and the International Counter-Money Laundering Act (H.R. 3886
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details The case describes the international problem of money laundering and summarizes U.S. bank regulations aimed at reducing money laundering activities. The... -
The Affordable Care Act (I): The Supreme Court
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details In the spring of 2012, the Supreme Court hears arguments and releases its decision on the constitutionality of the ACA. -
Tariffed!
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details This case describes President Donald Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs of 2018. The case covers the recent history of U.S. trade protectionism in these... -
Goldfinger: Charles W. Engelhard Jr. and Apartheid-era South Africa
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details This case considers the strategies of Charles W. Engelhard, an American mining magnate who made large investments in apartheid-era South Africa. Engelhard... -
China: "To Get Rich Is Glorious"
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details In 1978, Deng Xiaoping assumed the leadership of an impoverished China, after Mao Zedong's disastrous Cultural Revolution. During the next 17 years, Deng... -
Saudi Arabia: Vision 2030
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Saudi Arabia's King Salman faces several challenges, both domestic and foreign. Domestically, he need to build the country's economy to accommodate a... -
Worker Rights and Global Trade: The U.S.-Cambodia Bilateral Textile Trade Agreement
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Examines the political and economic dimensions of the campaign to improve workers' rights around the world through the inclusion of labor standards in... -
Financing the Mozal Project
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details It is June 1997, and a team from the International Finance Corp. (IFC) is recommending that the board approve a $120 million investment in a $1.4 billion... -
Danfoss RC in China (B): Big Challenges
Global Business Case Study5.00View Details Danfoss is one of Denmark's largest family firms, producing components for a wide range of industrial control activity. Spanning the period 1996-2004,... -
Wal-Mart: The Store Wars
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details In early 2004, residents of Inglewood, California, a working-class community just outside Los Angeles composed primarily of African- and Hispanic-Americans,... -
Sticks and Stones? How Companies Respond to "Tax Shaming"
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details An increasing number of global corporations have experienced negative publicity over complicated tax structures established to minimize their tax burdens.... -
Tampa General Hospital: The Politics of Privatization (Sequel)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details This case tells the story of Dr. Bruce Siegel, a New York-born physician who, in 1996, takes a position as president of a financially troubled public... -
Viva Macau (A)
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details A fast-growing Macau-based airline backed by private US investors faces a dramatic expropriation in the wake of the first change of head of government... -
From Start-Up to Grown-Up Nation: The Future of the Israeli Innovation Ecosystem (Abridged)
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details In June 2016, Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, wrestled with how to sustain Israel's strong innovation track record and the country's... -
The Red Hen Controversy
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details On June 22, 2018, Stephanie Wilkinson, co-founder of the Red Hen, a small farm-to-table restaurant in rural Virginia, was caught off guard when a frantic... -
Morocco
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ESG Is Under Attack. How Should Your Company Respond?
Global Business Digital ArticleA framework to help you understand the backlash and stay true to your values. -
In Afghanistan, Is the Problem Capacity Or Complexity?
Global Business Digital ArticleA senior manager at Cisco once suggested to me that there are two types of challenges in organizations - capacity problems and complexity problems. Capacity... -
Virtue Matrix: Calculating the Return on Corporate Responsibility
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleExecutives who want to make their organizations better corporate citizens face many obstacles: If they undertake costly initiatives that their rivals... -
Companies Can't Avoid Politics - and Shouldn't Try To
Global Business Digital ArticleNeutrality is no longer a viable option. -
Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details In August 2019, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, was surrounded by controversy. The first major storm of protest followed the surprise election... -
Electronic Cigarettes in the EU: The Political Economy of Product Regulation
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details You are the CEO of an e-cigarette company that has just been acquired by a major tobacco company. Your company operates in the European market. The July... -
Civics and Civility (HBR Case Study)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleThe Denver office of Clarion Co., a $30 million, full-service marketing firm, has always been a politics-free zone. Nonwork conversations revolve around... -
Inciting a Computer Revolution in Health Care: Implementing the Health Information Technology Act
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details This case, ideal for strategic leadership classes, poses the question: given the ambitious goals of the 2009 Health Information Technology for Economic... -
European Financial Integration
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Provides background on the history and status of financial integration in the European Union. Describes the pertinent treaty-based "fundamental freedoms,"... -
Nonmarket Action and the International Counter-Money Laundering Act (H.R. 3886
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details The case describes the international problem of money laundering and summarizes U.S. bank regulations aimed at reducing money laundering activities. The...