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Generative AI Has an Intellectual Property Problem
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleStrategies to help companies mitigate the legal risk and ensure they're in compliance with the law. -
8 Questions About Using AI Responsibly, Answered, Chinese Version
Technology & Operations Big IdeaGenerative AI tools are poised to change the way every business operates. As your own organization begins strategizing which to use, and how, operational... -
Who Is Going to Regulate AI?
Government policy and regulation Digital ArticleAs the world reckons with the impact of powerful new AI systems, governments are jostling to lead the regulatory charge — and shape how this technology will grow. -
How to Create a Stakeholder Strategy
Global Business Magazine ArticleLately companies have come to recognize the limitations of the view that they must create value only for shareholders. Recognizing that every stakeholder... -
Why Business Leaders Must Resist the Anti-ESG Movement
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleRetreat isn't just inadvisable; it's dangerous. -
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... -
Neuromarketing: What You Need to Know
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleThe field of neuromarketing, sometimes known as consumer neuroscience, studies the brain to predict and potentially even manipulate consumer behavior... -
A New Model for Ethical Leadership
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleRather than try to follow a set of simple rules ("Don't lie." "Don't cheat."), leaders and managers seeking to be more ethical should focus on creating... -
Customer Data: Designing for Transparency and Trust
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleWith the help of technology, companies today sweep up huge amounts of customer data. But they tend to be opaque about the information they collect and... -
Building an Ethical Company
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleJust as people can develop skills and abilities over time, they can learn to be more or less ethical. Yet many organizations limit ethics training to... -
Why Be Honest If Honesty Doesn't Pay
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleConscience explains why most business men and women keep their word and deal fairly with one another. There is no evidence that honesty pays, despite... -
The Secrets to Successful Strategy Execution
Strategy execution Magazine ArticleResearch shows that enterprises fail at execution because they go straight to structural reorganization and neglect the most powerful drivers of effectiveness—decision rights and information flow. -
Research: The Unintended Consequences of Right-to-Repair Laws
Business and society Digital ArticleA model assessing their potential impact suggests manufacturers might flood the market with cheap goods, raise prices, or both. -
Why Sexual Harassment Programs Backfire
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Three Questions Leaders Must Ask About Their Company
Leadership Digital ArticleToo often we see character, certainly in management circles, in reference to lack of it. That is, some CEO or CFO or senior executive has been caught with his hand in the kitty or in the knickers of some subordinate. Character, as our parents tell us, is what you do when you think no one […] -
Ethical Breakdowns
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleCompanies are spending a great deal of time and money to install codes of ethics, ethics training, compliance programs, and in-house watchdogs. If these... -
Health Care Transparency Should Be About Strategy, Not Marketing
Global Business Digital ArticleReputation management is the wrong goal. -
Lessons from Andy Pettitte: How Not To Apologize
Business communication Digital ArticleIn deciding to make a public statement about his use of human growth hormone, New York Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte did the right thing — and the hard thing. Given his apparently more forthright approach to dealing with his situation than that of friend and teammate Roger Clemens, Pettitte went into his apology with a […] -
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
Finance and investing Magazine ArticleFor the first 40-plus years of their existence, the federal securities laws did not require or prohibit specific managerial practices in the operation of business, other than a business in one of a handful of closely regulated industries. But with the passage of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, the SEC is equipped to […] -
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 […]
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Ten Thousand Villages in Crisis: Can the Fair Trade Pioneer Survive and Flourish in an Economic Downturn?
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This case examines major challenges faced by Ten Thousand Villages Canada in 2013, in the aftermath of the 2007-08 global financial crisis. Ten Thousand... -
Ethical Dimensions of Competitive Analysis
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Presents some of the dilemmas of gathering competitive information and the appropriate limits for competitive analysis. Raises the issues involved and... -
Intellectual Ventures Update 2020
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details After raising $6 billion and buying 60,000 patents, Intellectual Venture was confronted with a changing legal environment. A number of important legal... -
Differences at Work: Ben (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In Differences at Work: Ben (A) HBS Case No. 9-408-012 one of Ben's professional colleagues unexpectedly makes an anti-Semitic remark during a casual... -
Diamond Foods, Inc. (B)
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Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards 2017-2025
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details In December 2011, the United States National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Environmental Protection Agency issued a joint proposal... -
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Trust (with bonus article "Begin with Trust" by Frances X. Frei and Anne Morriss)
24.95View Details Business success begins with trust. Trust is the basis for all that we do as leaders and as organizations. Employees who trust their employers are more... -
Theranos: Who Has Blood on Their Hands? (B)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details This supplemental case tracks the results of the Colman and Taubman-Dye class action suit against Theranos as well as Theranos' other legal challenges,... -
TECHNOLOGY EQUIPMENT PARTNERS - Confidential Instructions for the V.P. of Engineering at TEP
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Two-team, six-party, four-issue negotiation between representatives of two corporations setting up a simultaneous high-tech joint venture and purchasing... -
Business Corruption in China
Management Case Study8.95View Details Provides an overview of business corruption in China, placing it in a context that takes into account various political, economic, legal, and cultural... -
Competition Policy in the European Union in 1995
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Describes the history of the competition policy in the European Union, and focuses on the evolution of pan-European and member-state statutes. The tension... -
Goldman Sachs and the Big Short: Time to Go Long?
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details On August 21, 2007, David Viniar, Chief Financial Officer of Goldman Sachs, received an e-mail from a trader in Goldman's Mortgage Department. In the... -
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... -
Coup or Crime? The Case of Carlos Ghosn
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case explores the interplay of global corporations, management styles, and local traditions through the high profile arrest of auto industry icon,... -
Whiskey and Cheddar: Ingredient Branding at the Caesan Cheese Cooperative, Spanish Version
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details The Caesan Cheese Cooperative is considering introducing a new high-quality, high-margin artisan whiskey cheddar cheese. Deidra Kelly, vice president... -
Confronting a Necessary Evil: The Firing of Alex Robins (B), Spanish Version
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details A manager recounts his experience firing the person he was asked to replace and reflects on the challenges of the experience. Teaching Purpose: To role-play... -
Westchester Distributing, Inc. (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study6.95View Details Focuses on the three-way interaction among internal controls, employee behavior, and incentives. Salesmen are illegally providing kickbacks to customers... -
Bayer-Monsanto: The Challenges of a Mega Merger
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In September 2016, German-based Bayer AG (Bayer) and U.S.-based Monsanto Company (Monsanto) agreed to merge entities to create a global leader in agriculture.... -
Sunitha Nath Boutiques: Intellectual Property Rights (C)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This is Case C in a three-case series. In December 2015, the managing director and chief executive officer of Sunitha Nath Boutiques in Bengaluru, discovered... -
Donna Klein and Marriott International, Inc. (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In the early 1990s, Donna Klein, Director of Work/Life programs for Marriott International, surveyed hotel and resort managers and found they increasingly...
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Generative AI Has an Intellectual Property Problem
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleStrategies to help companies mitigate the legal risk and ensure they're in compliance with the law. -
8 Questions About Using AI Responsibly, Answered, Chinese Version
Technology & Operations Big IdeaGenerative AI tools are poised to change the way every business operates. As your own organization begins strategizing which to use, and how, operational... -
Who Is Going to Regulate AI?
Government policy and regulation Digital ArticleAs the world reckons with the impact of powerful new AI systems, governments are jostling to lead the regulatory charge — and shape how this technology will grow. -
How to Create a Stakeholder Strategy
Global Business Magazine ArticleLately companies have come to recognize the limitations of the view that they must create value only for shareholders. Recognizing that every stakeholder... -
Why Business Leaders Must Resist the Anti-ESG Movement
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleRetreat isn't just inadvisable; it's dangerous. -
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... -
Neuromarketing: What You Need to Know
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleThe field of neuromarketing, sometimes known as consumer neuroscience, studies the brain to predict and potentially even manipulate consumer behavior... -
A New Model for Ethical Leadership
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleRather than try to follow a set of simple rules ("Don't lie." "Don't cheat."), leaders and managers seeking to be more ethical should focus on creating... -
Customer Data: Designing for Transparency and Trust
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleWith the help of technology, companies today sweep up huge amounts of customer data. But they tend to be opaque about the information they collect and... -
Building an Ethical Company
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleJust as people can develop skills and abilities over time, they can learn to be more or less ethical. Yet many organizations limit ethics training to...