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What the West Gets Wrong About China
Global Business SpotlightMany people have wrongly assumed that political freedom would follow new economic freedoms in China and that its economic growth would have to be built... -
Why Business Leaders Must Resist the Anti-ESG Movement
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleRetreat isn't just inadvisable; it's dangerous. -
Why the News Is Not the Truth
Global Business Magazine ArticleThe news media and the government are entwined in a vicious circle of mutual manipulation, mythmaking, and self-interest. Journalists need crises to dramatize... -
Power and Politics in Organizational Life
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleOrganizations are political structures which provide platforms for the expression of individual interests, and which revolve around the accumulation of... -
The Strategic Challenges of Decoupling
Global Business SpotlightMost business executives who have put time, effort, and investment into developing a presence in China resist the notion of decoupling. With the Biden... -
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... -
Robert S. McNamara's Good Brain - And Bad Judgment
Global Business Digital ArticleHow do we think about the late Robert S. McNamara? On the one hand, he was perhaps the first systematic analytical thinker to lead in both the private... -
Leadership Lessons from Parliament
To lead effectively, you have to trust your instincts about political dynamics and constituency interests. You also need to boost your persuasive power... -
4 Ways Businesses Can Help Uphold Democracy
Global Business Digital ArticleSome ways your company can improve the system without being partisan. -
Is India the World's Next Great Economic Power?
Global Business Digital ArticleHistorically, the country's expected rise has remained elusive. Here's a look at what's different now. -
Research: When Geopolitical Risk Rises, Innovation Stalls
Innovation Digital ArticleAn analysis of more than 4,600 U.S. companies suggests that the negative impact can persist for three to five years. -
Is It Time to Exit Russia? (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Global Business Magazine ArticleIn this fictional case, the CEO of a global pharmaceutical company based in Belgium with operations in Moscow is contemplating what to do in the wake... -
How to Negotiate After a Staggering Defeat: A Playbook for Democrats
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleIf you can create value, you have leverage. -
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... -
Fixing U.S. Politics
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleAlthough people tend to think of the American political system as a public institution based on high-minded principles, it's not. Politics behaves according... -
Do Politics Shape Buyout Performance?
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleA new study of private equity buyouts shows that, on average, U.S. acquisitions made in "red" (Republican) states deliver significantly higher returns... -
Where Are the Male Allies in U.S. Politics?
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleMen have a key role to play in preventing and addressing sexual harassment. -
Melinda Gates Q&A: A Billion Dollars for Gender Equality
Global Business Digital ArticleThe philanthropist is funding women in a big way. Will others follow? -
Xbox Polling and the Future of Election Prediction
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleIt's easier, cheaper, and just as accurate. -
Do Business and Politics Mix? (HBR Case Study)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleNatural Foods, a midsize chain of organic grocery stores, has chosen to donate to a super PAC that plans to fund ads promoting political candidates with...
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The Turnaround Artist: Craig Coy Tackles Political Influence at Massport
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Craig Coy, a business executive, retired Coast Guard officer, and former White House security adviser, was named executive director of the Massachusetts... -
Pacesetter, Riverdale, and the Illinois Campaign for Affordable Housing, Epilogue
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Zenovia Evans, mayor of the small Chicago suburb of Riverdale, was determined to save the subdivision of Pacesetter which had once been her home. As part... -
Security Planning for the 2004 Democratic National Convention (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details When the city of Boston applied to host the Democratic Party presidential nominating convention of July 2004, it did so in the belief that the event would... -
The KIDSNET Story: Sequel
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details This sequel accompanies the case 1800.0. In January, 1997, the Rhode Island Department of Public Health inaugurated KIDSNET, an effort to harness the... -
Denmark: Globalization and the Welfare State
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details This case describes how Denmark has balanced the impacts of globalization, including outsourcing and movement of labor with its social welfare offerings.... -
The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: The Politics of Crisis Response (A)
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Following the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in late April 2010, the Obama administration organized a massive response operation to contain... -
The AmeriCorps Budget Crisis of 2003 (A): Why the National Service Movement Faced Cutbacks and How it Responded
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The (A) case (1739.0) focuses on the early years of the program in the 1990s, providing a definitive account--based on interviews with those who drafted... -
The KIDSNET Story: Can a Medical-Information System Improve Public Health?
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details In January, 1997, the Rhode Island Department of Public Health inaugurated KIDSNET, an effort to harness the power of information technology to ensure... -
Medellín Reborn (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study15.05View Details In 2003, mathematics professor Sergio Fajardo was elected mayor of Medellín, Colombia - one of the most violent cities in the world at that time. As mayor,... -
Vietnam: A Concise Profile, 2020
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details This concise country profile provides an up-to-date introduction to the history, politics, foreign relations, society, and economy of Vietnam, supplemented... -
Dealing with the Devil: The Tobacco Control Negotiations of 1997-98
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The decade of the 1990s was one of increasingly bitter public criticism of the major US tobacco companies on the part of a number of anti-tobacco advocacy... -
Repsol and YPF (C): Recovering Value
Global Business Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case P90. Back in 1999, the Spanish oil company Repsol purchased 98 percent of the Argentine oil company YPF's shares for more than $15... -
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,"... -
Poland--1989
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Describes the political and economic situation in Poland in 1989, following the country's first democratic elections and the subsequent establishment... -
Braver Angels: A Grassroots Effort to Depolarize American Politics
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The founders of Braver Angels, an organization that uses family therapy principles to foster constructive dialogue between conservatives and liberals,... -
Endesa Chile: Raising the Ralco Dam (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Endesa Chile, the largest electricity generation company in Chile, is building a major power plant on the Biobio River in Southern Chile. A historic conflict... -
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic and the Global Economy (B)
Global Business Case Study5.00View Details By December 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic had swept across the globe, creating widespread disruption in all aspects of everyday life. Almost 90 million... -
The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy
Our political system in America is broken, right? Wrong. The truth is, the American political system is working exactly how it is designed to work, and... -
2012 Obama Campaign: Learning in the Field
Organizational Development Case Study15.05View Details The development and utilization of an intentional Field learning strategy developed for the Obama for President campaign in 2012 following an after action... -
Brexit: A Withdrawal Agreement? - Boris Johnson
Global Business Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to 717028. The UK was due to leave the EU in March 2019 after a referendum vote in June 2016. Following additional extensions and multiple...
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What the West Gets Wrong About China
Global Business SpotlightMany people have wrongly assumed that political freedom would follow new economic freedoms in China and that its economic growth would have to be built... -
Why Business Leaders Must Resist the Anti-ESG Movement
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleRetreat isn't just inadvisable; it's dangerous. -
Why the News Is Not the Truth
Global Business Magazine ArticleThe news media and the government are entwined in a vicious circle of mutual manipulation, mythmaking, and self-interest. Journalists need crises to dramatize... -
Power and Politics in Organizational Life
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleOrganizations are political structures which provide platforms for the expression of individual interests, and which revolve around the accumulation of... -
The Strategic Challenges of Decoupling
Global Business SpotlightMost business executives who have put time, effort, and investment into developing a presence in China resist the notion of decoupling. With the Biden... -
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 Turnaround Artist: Craig Coy Tackles Political Influence at Massport
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Craig Coy, a business executive, retired Coast Guard officer, and former White House security adviser, was named executive director of the Massachusetts... -
What Leaders Need to Know About a Looming Recession - and Other Global Threats
Finance & Accounting Audio20.18View Details A conversation with economist Nouriel Roubini about what lies ahead. -
Pacesetter, Riverdale, and the Illinois Campaign for Affordable Housing, Epilogue
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Zenovia Evans, mayor of the small Chicago suburb of Riverdale, was determined to save the subdivision of Pacesetter which had once been her home. As part... -
Security Planning for the 2004 Democratic National Convention (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details When the city of Boston applied to host the Democratic Party presidential nominating convention of July 2004, it did so in the belief that the event would...
