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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... -
When Staying Neutral Backfires
Global Business Digital ArticleResearch shows that "staying out of it" might make you seem more suspicious and untrustworthy than outright disagreement. -
Life's Work: Ken Burns
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThe noted documentarian on waning attention spans and why business leaders should study history. -
Companies Can’t Avoid Politics — and Shouldn’t Try To
Politics Digital ArticleNeutrality is no longer a viable option. -
The Problem with FEMA No One Is Talking About
Global Business Digital ArticleThe agency reduces our incentives to adapt to climate change, and that's a bad thing. -
The Best-Performing CEOs in the World
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleSteadiness and stability--important virtues in turbulent times--characterize the 100 CEOs on HBR's list of top chief executives for 2018. Of those 100... -
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. -
Corporate Political Spending Is Bad Business
Business and society Magazine ArticleHow to minimize the risks and focus on what counts -
Leadership in a Politically Charged Age
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleWhy are discussions of politically charged issues often so fraught in the workplace today? How can managers ensure that they aren't caught flat-footed... -
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... -
Life's Work: An Interview with Julia Gillard
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleAustralia's former prime minister talks about discipline, resilience, and misogyny. -
Civics and Civility (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleThe Denver office of Clarion Co., a $30 million, full-service marketing firm, has always been a politics-free zone. Nonwork conversations revolve around... -
Democracy Under Attack
Organizational Development Digital ArticleDemocracy is in trouble. Fifty-five percent of Americans say their democracy is weak. A Pew Research poll of 27 countries shows that only 45% of people... -
Presidential Obsession
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleSince Donald Trump took office in January 2017, he has issued tens of thousands of tweets--some positive, some angry, some serious, some bonkers. Invariably,... -
GE's Immelt Takes Heat for Bringing Things to Light
Communication Digital ArticleGE chief executive Jeff Immelt made some remarks yesterday that were unguarded (and possibly exaggerated in the reporting), and GE has promptly disavowed...
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Electric Car Wars, 2018
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Electric cars had long been championed by environmentalists as a superior solution to the internal combustion engine (ICE), but, despite large government... -
Marfrig's Quest for Sustainable Beef
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Marfrig, one of the world's leading meatpackers, strived to comply with its commitment to have a deforestation-free value chain in Brazil by 2030. The... -
National Parks Conservation Association
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details The National Parks Conservation Association seeks to help the U.S. National Park Service increase its efficiency by incorporating principles of business... -
Rospil.info
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details What should business leaders do about corruption? In December 2011, four HBS alumni met to debate how to engage the unprecedented protests against Vladimir... -
Cuna Mas: Peru's Early Childhood Program Struggles to Maintain Quality as It Scales Up
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details In 2012, amid much fanfare, Peru's President Ollanta Humala launched an ambitious program on early childhood development called Cuna Más. The program,... -
The Affordable Care Act (A): Legislative Strategy in the House of Representatives
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details In early 2009, the Obama administration and the Democratically-led Congress began working on what would eventually become the Affordable Care Act. The... -
The Affordable Care Act (I): The Supreme Court
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details In the spring of 2012, the Supreme Court hears arguments and releases its decision on the constitutionality of the ACA. -
Turkey and Russia: Dangerous Liaisons
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details The case opens in November 2015, after the Turkish military's shooting down of a Russian military airplane over the Turkish-Syrian border. The incident... -
What Makes a Policy Intervention Successful? Part A: Background: Glimpses of experience in Brazil's Fundescola education reform
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Fundescola is an educational reform introduced in Brazil in the first decade of the 21st century. It was introduced after Brazil's successful educational... -
Jamnalal Bajaj, Mahatma Gandhi, and the Struggle for Indian Independence
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Describes the role of a leading Indian business leader in the campaign for independence before 1947 and his close relationship with the legendary Mahatma... -
India: State Capacity and Unity in Diversity
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details As 2018 drew to a close, India prepared to once again carry out the largest democratic exercise in human history, as in less than six months more than... -
Cameron Trebbi at Taylor Lowell, LLP
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Cameron Trebbi is a senior executive overseeing accounting policy at a large global auditing firm. His role is to lobby the firm's position with various... -
Veracity Worldwide in Syria: Assessing Political Risk in a Volatile Environment
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details This case explores the dynamic set of political risks raised by a local-partner contract renewal within the context of Syria's unfolding political upheaval.... -
Should Business Influence the Science and Politics of Global Environmental Change? (B): The Oil Industry and Climate Change. Climate Change Strategies of Three Multinational Oil Corporations
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Case B: Presents the climate change strategies of three multinational corporations Exxon Mobil, BP Amoco, and Total-Fina-Elf. -
Leadership and Power Dynamics in Crisis Management (E): U.S.A.
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplement for Case IN1684 -
Repsol and YPF (A): A Perfect Marriage?
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Back in 1999, the Spanish oil company Repsol purchased 98 percent of the Argentine oil company YPF's shares for more than $15 billion and changed its... -
Sapientis and the Launch of CECE
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This case invites students to grapple with the dilemmas faced by Laura Lopez, the new Executive Director of a Puerto Rican educational advocacy NGO called... -
Viva Macau (A)
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details A fast-growing Macau-based airline backed by private US investors faces a dramatic expropriation in the wake of the first change of head of government... -
India 2020 - Governance and Growth
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details In January 2012, the government of India faced significant challenges to achieving three key objectives of high growth, inclusive development, and improved... -
Uruguay: Facing the 21st Century
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details In the fall of 2017, self-made businessleader Edgardo Novick pondered his campaign to be elected President of Uruguay, "the Switzerland of Latin America."...
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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... -
Electric Car Wars, 2018
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Electric cars had long been championed by environmentalists as a superior solution to the internal combustion engine (ICE), but, despite large government... -
EnergyNow: Powering a New Market, Teaching Note
Management Digital ArticleTeaching note for case 723361. -
When Staying Neutral Backfires
Global Business Digital ArticleResearch shows that "staying out of it" might make you seem more suspicious and untrustworthy than outright disagreement. -
Marfrig's Quest for Sustainable Beef
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Marfrig, one of the world's leading meatpackers, strived to comply with its commitment to have a deforestation-free value chain in Brazil by 2030. The...