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Don't Waste Your Time on Networking Events, Chinese Version
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThere are more-productive ways to build relationships. -
China + India: The Power of Two
Global Business Magazine ArticleChina and India are burying the hatchet after four-plus decades of hostility. A few companies from both nations have been quick to gain competitive advantages... -
Life's Work: An Interview with Julia Gillard
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleAustralia's former prime minister talks about discipline, resilience, and misogyny. -
Research: The Industrial Revolution Left Psychological Scars That Can Still Be Seen Today
Global Business ResearchEconomic change can influence personality trends of an entire region. -
A Guide to the Big Ideas and Debates in Corporate Governance
Corporate governance Digital ArticleThe questions that boards, managers, and shareholders should be asking. -
David and Goliath, Reconsidered
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleLarge corporations and small start-ups are not mutually exclusive organizational forms. Rather, they exist symbiotically, each requiring and drawing on... -
What 45 Years of Data Tells Us About Globalization's Influence on the Shadow Economy
Global Business Digital ArticleHow openness to trade and participation in IMF programs influence the informal economy. -
Breakthrough Ideas for Today’s Business Agenda
Finance and investing Magazine ArticleIn a chaotic year bursting with bold and unsettling new ideas, how should executives decide which ones to heed? The editors of HBR select seven of the best. -
The Art of Commerce
Business history Magazine ArticleThe story of a royal trading company comes to life on an 18th-century stock certificate. -
A Brief History of Britain’s Relationship with Europe, Starting in 6000 BCE
Business history Digital ArticlePulling up the drawbridge has never been an option. -
Does Manufacturing Matter?
Global Business Magazine ArticleThe short answer is: not much for the U.S. economy. Here's why. -
Zeitgeist Leadership
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleCompanies and leaders don't succeed or fail in a vacuum. When it comes to long-term success, the ability to understand and adapt to changing business... -
What's a Business For?
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleIn the wake of the recent corporate scandals, it's time to reconsider the assumptions underlying American-style stock-market capitalism. That heady doctrine--in... -
The Management Century
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleIn 1886, addressing the nascent American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Henry R. Towne proposed that "the management of works" be considered a modern... -
Life's Work: An Interview with Dean Koontz
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleDean Koontz is one of the world's most prolific and best-selling writers, with more than 120 novels to his name. During a difficult childhood, books were... -
Tocqueville Revisited: The Meaning of American Prosperity
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleWhy is business so admired in the United States and so often denigrated in Europe? How has America created 30 million new jobs in the last 20 years while... -
Power Without Purpose: The Crisis of Japan’s Global Financial Dominance
International business Magazine ArticleJapan today sits on the largest cache of wealth ever assembled. It has the power to move markets anywhere in the world. Consider that. The Tokyo Stock Exchange has now surpassed New York to become the world’s largest on the basis of market capitalization. Osaka has bumped London to fourth place. Of the world’s ten […] -
Inventing HBR
Business history Magazine ArticleHow a modest guide for new managers morphed into an agenda-setting institution -
Lead Your Business Through the Coronavirus Crisis
Business history Digital ArticleTwelve lessons on analyzing data, communicating information, and protecting your employees. -
Life's Work: George Mitchell
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThe politician and peace negotiator on starting a dialogue, getting people to listen, and the importance of public service.
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Infosys in India: Building a Software Giant in a Corrupt Environment
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Shortly after Infosys was founded in 1981, its managers faced a major turning point when they made a decision to operate without giving in to the petty... -
Schneider Electric: Becoming the Global Specialist in Energy Management
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Global electrical products company assesses growth and market demands in India. Company must decide between a products acquisition or developing a service... -
Donna Dubinsky and Apple Computer, Inc. (C), Japanese Version
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Dubinsky and her boss' boss reflect on what was learned through this difficult chapter in Apple's history. May be used with Donna Dubinsky and Apple Computer,... -
RCA: Color Television and the Department of Justice (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details This case is a supplement to 614-072, which examines the early history of the color television receiver market, and the global consequences of an historic... -
China's Environmental Challenge
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details China faces enormous environmental challenges. This background note looks at the historical, economic and political origins of the environmental crisis... -
Jay Gould, "The Most Hated Man in America"
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Railroad magnate Jay Gould, a controversial figure in the history of U.S. capitalism, was a disruptive influence on an industry that had previously relied... -
A Tale of Two Cities - The Logistics Industry in Singapore and Hong Kong
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details This case compares the impact of disruptive forces on the logistics industry in Singapore and Hong Kong, and the two government responses in terms of... -
JCDecaux, 2016: Global Leader ... Again
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details In 2016, JCDecaux was number one in the world in outdoor advertising. This was a far cry from the situation in 2003; at that time, JCDecaux had been unseated... -
Gardenburger Advertising Strategy (B)
Sales & Marketing Case Study5.00View Details In 1997, Lyle Hubbard, CEO of Gardenburger, a producer and marketer of veggie burgers and meat alternative products, had called together his executive... -
Road Well Traveled (Condensed)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Presents the conclusions of a 1992 mail survey of Harvard MBAs who started their own businesses. Questions focused on 4 areas: 1) development of the business... -
Ukraine: On the Border of Europe and Eurasia
Global Business Case Study8.95View 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... -
Crown Cork & Seal and the Metal Container Industry
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Discusses the technical, economic, and packaging trends in the metal container industry, and the impact of these trends on major companies within the... -
Yunnan Baiyao: Transforming a Chinese State-Owned Enterprise
Global Business Case Study15.05View Details This case tells the story of how Wang Minghui, Chairman of Yunnan Baiyao Group since 1999, transformed a single-product traditional Chinese medicine (TCM)... -
Ivar Kreuger and the Swedish Match Empire
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Taught in Evolution of Global Business. Globalization and corporate fraud are the central themes of this case on the international growth of Swedish Match... -
A. Lange & Sohne, Chinese Version
Technology & Operations Case Study15.05View Details The case describes how A. Lange & Sohne became one of world's leading watch companies. Its obsession with quality and innovation were behind its initial... -
Road to Hell (A), Spanish Version
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Deals with the problems of developing indigenous personnel to take over expatriate positions. Human relations cases, they deal specifically with the problems... -
Keroche (A): Fighting for Share in the Kenyan Alcoholic Drinks Market
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This case discusses the challenges faced by Kenyan alcoholic drinks producer Keroche Industries Limited in 2003, when the Kenyan government accused the... -
Walt Disney and the 1941 Animator's Strike
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Focuses on the leadership lessons drawn from the events precipitating the Animator's Strike of 1941, depicting the growing pains of a company that was... -
Beatrice Companies--1985
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Describes the history of Beatrice Companies from its beginning as a dairy in 1891 to 1985, when the company was a $12 billion conglomerate. Focuses on... -
James Burke: A Career in American Business, Video (Streaming)
Global Business Case Study20.00View Details Designed for use with James Burke: A Career in American Business (A) and (B).
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Don't Waste Your Time on Networking Events, Chinese Version
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThere are more-productive ways to build relationships. -
China + India: The Power of Two
Global Business Magazine ArticleChina and India are burying the hatchet after four-plus decades of hostility. A few companies from both nations have been quick to gain competitive advantages... -
Infosys in India: Building a Software Giant in a Corrupt Environment
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Shortly after Infosys was founded in 1981, its managers faced a major turning point when they made a decision to operate without giving in to the petty... -
Life's Work: An Interview with Julia Gillard
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleAustralia's former prime minister talks about discipline, resilience, and misogyny. -
Research: The Industrial Revolution Left Psychological Scars That Can Still Be Seen Today
Global Business ResearchEconomic change can influence personality trends of an entire region. -
Schneider Electric: Becoming the Global Specialist in Energy Management
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Global electrical products company assesses growth and market demands in India. Company must decide between a products acquisition or developing a service... -
A Guide to the Big Ideas and Debates in Corporate Governance
Corporate governance Digital ArticleThe questions that boards, managers, and shareholders should be asking. -
Donna Dubinsky and Apple Computer, Inc. (C), Japanese Version
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Dubinsky and her boss' boss reflect on what was learned through this difficult chapter in Apple's history. May be used with Donna Dubinsky and Apple Computer,... -
RCA: Color Television and the Department of Justice (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details This case is a supplement to 614-072, which examines the early history of the color television receiver market, and the global consequences of an historic... -
Classical Sociological Approaches to the Study of Leadership
Leadership & Managing People Book Chapter8.95View Details Leadership in organizations, political parties, and nation-states has been the subject of much sociological work since the very inception of the discipline,...