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4 Areas of Cyber Risk That Boards Need to Address
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleHow companies can build a long-term strategy that will keep them secure. -
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. -
Managing Risks: A New Framework
Risk management Magazine ArticleSmart companies match their approach to the nature of the threats they face. -
Company Culture Is Everyone's Responsibility
Organizational Development Digital ArticleA top-down approach doesn't work anymore. -
A More Sustainable Supply Chain
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleIncreasingly, multinational corporations (MNCs) are pledging to procure the materials and services they need from companies committed to fair labor practices... -
Global Supply Chains in a Post-Pandemic World
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleThe U.S.-China trade war and the supply and demand shocks brought on by the Covid-19 crisis are forcing manufacturers everywhere to reassess their supply... -
Reputation and Its Risks
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleRegulators, industry groups, consultants, and individual companies have developed elaborate guidelines over the years for assessing and managing risks... -
What Do We Do About the Biases in AI?
AI and machine learning Digital ArticleThree steps for leaders to take. -
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... -
The Big Lie of Strategic Planning
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleStrategy making forces executives to confront a future they can only guess at. It's not surprising, then, that they try to make the task less daunting... -
The Devastating Business Impacts of a Cyber Breach
Cybersecurity and digital privacy Digital ArticleNo company can afford to underestimate the long-term financial costs. -
Does the Capital Asset Pricing Model Work?
Financial crisis Magazine ArticleAn important task of the corporate financial manager is measurement of the company’s cost of equity capital. But estimating the cost of equity causes a lot of head scratching; often the result is subjective and therefore open to question as a reliable benchmark. This article describes a method for arriving at that figure, a method […] -
How to Keep Cyberattacks from Tanking Your Balance Sheet
Cybersecurity and digital privacy Digital ArticleThe average cost of a data breach reached $4.35 million in 2022, according to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report in 2022. -
Strategies for High Market-Share Companies
Competitive strategy Magazine ArticleIn recent years, a growing number of business practitioners and theorists have postulated that one way for a company to increase its return is by increasing its market share, and studies appear to have confirmed this relationship. But the authors of this article refuse to accept the blanket inference that “more” is necessarily always going […] -
Bringing the Environment Down to Earth
Finance and investing Magazine ArticleManagers should make environmental investments for the same reason they make other investments: because they expect them to deliver positive returns or to reduce risks. -
When Should Multinationals Move Back into Venezuela?
International business Digital ArticleCompanies should hope for the best and prepare for the worst. -
Strategic Analysis for More Profitable Acquisitions
Financial analysis Magazine ArticleLess than a decade after the frantic merger activity of the late 1960s, we are again in the midst of a major wave of corporate acquisitions. In contrast to the 1960s, when acquirers were mainly freewheeling conglomerates, the merger movement in the 1970s includes such long-established giants of U.S. industry as General Electric, Gulf Oil, […] -
Entrepreneurs and the Cult of Failure
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleDaniel Isenberg on why "embracing failure" to encourage entrepreneurship is bad policy. -
Life's Work: An Interview with Alex Honnold
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThe star of the 2018 Oscar-winning documentary "Free Solo" talks about how he prepares for climbs, the way he thinks about risk, and what's next now that... -
How to Successfully Implement a Change Initiative
Putting change into action isn't always a one-size-fits-all approach. Four practices will help you find the path that works best for your team.
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Parker Brothers (B)
Sales & Marketing Case Study5.00View Details Describes the recall program designed by Parker Brothers following the death of two children, which may have been related to a new product. -
Show Me the Money (B)
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details A business unit leader faces a major decision when an employee critical to a high profile transaction asks for a unique compensation arrangement that... -
Executing the Bogibeel Bridge for Social Impact: Risk Planning and Managing Earned Value
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details The case goes on to describe the enormous challenges involved in building the 4.94 km long Bogibeel Bridge in the North Eastern Region (NER) of India.... -
1994-95 Mexican Peso Crisis
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Explores the peso crisis of 1994-95 and why it occurred. Students must examine Mexico's policies, the capital market's reactions, and the implications... -
"GEnron"? Markopolos versus General Electric (B)
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to the (A) case that offers an assessment of the August 2019 Markopolos report on General Electric. -
Bausch & Lomb, Inc.: Pressure to Perform
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Bausch & Lomb is the subject of press attacks and experiences a sharp fall in stock price when management practices are exposed. Aggressive goal setting,... -
Mike Mayo Takes on Citigroup (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The case details the conflict between Mike Mayo, an influential banking analyst, and Citigroup about what Mayo considers aggressive accounting policies.... -
State of South Carolina
Finance & Accounting Case Study6.95View Details This case presents the managerial dilemma faced by the treasurer of South Carolina in 1998. Until last year, the South Carolina state pension fund (with... -
Atlanta Schools: Measures to Improve Performance
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The widespread cheating scandal that rocked the Atlanta public school system in 2010 and 2011 illustrates how high-stakes performance pressure, without... -
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... -
Baker Hughes: Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In 2002, Baker Hughes was accused of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). This case describes the actions taken by the company in response... -
Fixing the Payment System at Alvalade XXI
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Outlines the situation at the Alvalade XXI football stadium in Lisbon with the planned introduction of an electronic payment system in the restaurant... -
E.ON Corporate Strategy
Strategy & Execution Case Study6.95View Details Examines the corporate strategy of German energy giant E.ON. The firm is vertically integrated, horizontally diversified across electricity and natural... -
Honeywell, Inc. and Integrated Risk Management
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Honeywell was the first to introduce an integrated risk management program that combined traditionally insured risks with other risks in an insurance... -
UnME Jeans: Branding in Web 2.0
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details This case introduces emerging Web 2.0 social media in virtual worlds, social networking sites, and video sharing sites, and encourages students to explore... -
Strive Asset Management
Management Case Study8.95View Details Strive Asset Management, which launched in 2022, was actively targeting several leading U.S. companies in the upcoming 2023 proxy voting season to stop... -
Cross Country Group: A Piece of the Rock (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details A new MBA graduate joins a privately held family business and sets ambitious growth goals for the next five years. To enhance motivation, he proposes... -
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...
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4 Areas of Cyber Risk That Boards Need to Address
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleHow companies can build a long-term strategy that will keep them secure. -
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. -
Managing Risks: A New Framework
Risk management Magazine ArticleSmart companies match their approach to the nature of the threats they face. -
Company Culture Is Everyone's Responsibility
Organizational Development Digital ArticleA top-down approach doesn't work anymore. -
A More Sustainable Supply Chain
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleIncreasingly, multinational corporations (MNCs) are pledging to procure the materials and services they need from companies committed to fair labor practices... -
Global Supply Chains in a Post-Pandemic World
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleThe U.S.-China trade war and the supply and demand shocks brought on by the Covid-19 crisis are forcing manufacturers everywhere to reassess their supply... -
Reputation and Its Risks
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleRegulators, industry groups, consultants, and individual companies have developed elaborate guidelines over the years for assessing and managing risks... -
What Do We Do About the Biases in AI?
AI and machine learning Digital ArticleThree steps for leaders to take. -
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... -
The Big Lie of Strategic Planning
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleStrategy making forces executives to confront a future they can only guess at. It's not surprising, then, that they try to make the task less daunting...