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How AI Is Changing Contracts
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleThink of a searchable database, not a set of files. -
When Technology Gets Ahead of Society
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleNew technologies can be unsettling for industry incumbents, regulators, and consumers, because norms and institutions for dealing with them don't yet... -
Why Your Partnership Contract Is Too Important to Be Left to the Lawyers
Global Business Digital ArticleManaging in the face of incomplete contracts. -
3 Myths About China’s IP Regime
Business law Digital ArticleFears of forced technology transfer are overblown. -
Avoiding Integrity Land Mines
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleHow does a large multinational keep thousands of employees, operating in hundreds of countries, honest in a high-pressure business environment? As the... -
A Question of Color: A Debate on Race in the U.S. Workplace
Diversity and inclusion Magazine ArticleMore than two decades have passed since affirmative action became law, thrusting the issue of racial diversity in the workplace into the open—and often into the crossfire. Today both government statistics and anecdotal evidence suggest that people of color make up a larger percentage of senior managers than at any point in the past. […] -
What Young vs. UPS Means for Pregnant Workers and Their Bosses
Business law Digital ArticleCompanies that don’t become more accommodating may find themselves facing legal action. -
The For-Benefit Enterprise
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleA growing number of socially motivated entrepreneurs have been creating new kinds of organizations that combine a social mission with a business engine.... -
How Market Smarts Can Protect Property Rights
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleIntellectual property comprises an ever-increasing fraction of corporate wealth, but what's the good of that if an ever-increasing fraction of the property... -
CEOs Say Their Aim Is Inclusive Prosperity. Do They Mean It?
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleThe Business Roundtable's letter is encouraging, but only if it leads to change. -
What Business Needs to Know About the New U.S. Cybersecurity Strategy
Cybersecurity and digital privacy Digital ArticleIt promises to shift liability onto private firms and create incentives to defend against critical vulnerabilities. -
Making the Deal Real: How GE Capital Integrates Acquisitions
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleThousands of companies every year acquire other companies, or are acquired themselves. This event is usually painful and messy--and statistics show, it... -
Smarter, Smaller, Safer Robots
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleA new generation of adaptive robots are creating new efficiencies for manufacturers and changing how companies build things, including factory floors... -
Breaking the Silence
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The Organizational Apology
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleAt some point, every company makes a mistake that requires an apology--to an individual; a group of customers, employees, or business partners; or the... -
When an Executive Defects (HBR Case and Commentary)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleThe news that one of the company's senior managers is leaving comes as a complete surprise to Paul Simmonds, CEO of Kinsington Textiles, Inc. (KTI). Ned... -
Culture Clash in the Boardroom (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleLiu Peijin is the president of Almond China, a subsidiary of the German company Almond Chemical. Almond China's joint venture with Chongqing No. 2 Chemical... -
The AT&T Ruling Shows That U.S. Regulators Don't Understand Media's Present - or Future
Global Business Digital ArticleThe government is focused on today while consumers look to tomorrow. -
Commerce Clause Wakes Up
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThe Granholm v. Heald decision suggests that the Supreme Court is prepared to protect e-commerce initiatives. -
Google's Antitrust Hearing: Three Things Eric Schmidt Must Say
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleGoogle has a lot at stake today when Eric Schmidt, the company's Executive Chairman, testifies before the U.S. Senate subcommittee on anti-trust. Google...
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Responsibilities to Employees
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details The note provides a framework to conceptualize managers' responsibilities to employees in relation to economic, legal and ethical considerations. The... -
Shareholder Activists at Friendly Ice Cream (B)
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details This case study briefly describes the outcome of the Shareholder Activists at Friendly Ice Cream (A) case. -
Fresh to Table
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details After the contentious firing of an office manager, the leadership at Fresh to Table, a software-as-a-service provider for luxury hotels and restaurants,... -
High Performance with High Integrity
25.00View Details Our free-market capitalist system is the world's greatest driver of prosperity, but it has a dark side. Under intense pressure to make the numbers, executives... -
Analyst Conflicts (A): Resolved?
Communication Case Study8.95View Details This case tracks the events leading to the April 2003 industry settlement on equity research in financial services companies. -
Opening Dot EU (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study9.95View Details EURid considers possible market mechanisms to allocate initial domain names within the Internet's newly-created "dot EU." European Union regulations and... -
Luotang Power: Variances Explained
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The general manager of Luotang Power, a coal-fired power plant located in central China, reviews annual results before a meeting with the board of directors.... -
Microsoft in 2005
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Focuses on Microsoft's strategy for sustaining competitive advantage in the global software industry. Also, explores Microsoft's history and its current... -
Creating Global Oil, 1900-1935
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Taught in the elective MBA course entitled The Evolution of Global Business. Examines the development of an international cartel in the oil industry in... -
EFM Capital
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Examples of successful middle-market private equity investments in emerging markets remain very limited. Among the primary constraints are lack of availability... -
Note on Application of the Antitrust Laws to the New Economy: An Analysis of United States vs. Microsoft Corp.
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Analyzes the 1991 decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in the seminal New Economy antitrust case United States vs.... -
High Wire Act: Credit Suisse and Contingent Capital (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details The B case describes the process and terms of the very successful offerings of contingent capital in February 2011, as well as The Basel Committee's preliminary... -
Private Equity Achieves Returns through Operating Improvements: CD&R's Acquisition and Turnaround of Hertz
Global Business Case Study9.95View Details Private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) is preparing a bid for leading US car rental agency Hertz. By replacing Hertz's top managers, improving... -
Strategic Countermoves: Coca-Cola vs. Pepsi
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Describes strategic acquisitions by Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola in the late 1980s. The context allows students to evaluate the implications of the mergers... -
CreditEase: Providing Credit and Financial Services for China's Underclass
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In 2013 Ning Tang, who in 2006 founded CreditEase as a broker of P2P loans to unbanked individuals and small businesses in China, confronts the challenges... -
Securities Law and Public Offerings
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details ... -
Note on the Law of Sexual Harassment
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This note provides an introduction to the law of sexual harassment. It has three parts. Part One describes the laws on harassment in the United States.... -
Opening Dot EU (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details EURid considers possible market mechanisms to allocate initial domain names within the Internet's newly-created "dot EU." European Union regulations and... -
Devonian Coast Wineries: Overcoming Provincial Barriers
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details By late 2015, the chief executive officer of Devonian Coast Wineries in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia had invested in the business and had broadened... -
New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. (B)
Global Business Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case.
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Privatization of Telecommunications in Peru, Teaching Note
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleTeaching Note for HKS200 and HKS290. -
Responsibilities to Employees
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details The note provides a framework to conceptualize managers' responsibilities to employees in relation to economic, legal and ethical considerations. The... -
Shareholder Activists at Friendly Ice Cream (B)
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details This case study briefly describes the outcome of the Shareholder Activists at Friendly Ice Cream (A) case. -
Fresh to Table
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details After the contentious firing of an office manager, the leadership at Fresh to Table, a software-as-a-service provider for luxury hotels and restaurants,... -
How AI Is Changing Contracts
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleThink of a searchable database, not a set of files. -
High Performance with High Integrity
25.00View Details Our free-market capitalist system is the world's greatest driver of prosperity, but it has a dark side. Under intense pressure to make the numbers, executives... -
Analyst Conflicts (A): Resolved?
Communication Case Study8.95View Details This case tracks the events leading to the April 2003 industry settlement on equity research in financial services companies. -
Instructors' Guide to the Professional Services Course
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleModule Note to (9-905-046). -
Buddha and Software: Old Links and New: Opportunities for Cooperation Between China and India
Strategy & Execution Book Chapter8.95View Details This chapter examines connections forged between China and India over the last two thousand years and moves into the present to consider recent efforts... -
Opening Dot EU (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study9.95View Details EURid considers possible market mechanisms to allocate initial domain names within the Internet's newly-created "dot EU." European Union regulations and...