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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. -
How to Fight a Price War
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticlePrice wars are a fact of life, whether we're talking about the fast-paced world of knowledge products, the marketing of Internet appliances, or the staid,... -
The Balanced Scorecard—Measures that Drive Performance
Balanced scorecard Magazine ArticleWhat you measure is what you get. Senior executives understand that their organization’s measurement system strongly affects the behavior of managers and employees. Executives also understand that traditional financial accounting measures like return-on-investment and earnings-per-share can give misleading signals for continuous improvement and innovation—activities today’s competitive environment demands. The traditional financial performance measures worked well […] -
Innovation Doesn’t Have to Be Disruptive
Innovation Magazine ArticleCreate new markets for growth without destroying existing companies or jobs. -
What Is Strategy?
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleToday's dynamic markets and technologies have called into question the sustainability of competitive advantage. Under pressure to improve productivity,... -
AI Can Help You Ask Better Questions — and Solve Bigger Problems
Technology and analytics Digital ArticleLeaders should focus less on automation and more on innovation. -
Know Your Customers' "Jobs to Be Done"
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleFirms have never known more about their customers, but their innovation processes remain hit-or-miss. Why? According to Christensen and his coauthors,... -
The Questions Every Entrepreneur Must Answer
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleDiversify your product line. Stick to your knitting. Hire a professional manager. Watch fixed costs. Those are some of the suggestions that entrepreneurs... -
How Brands Can Sell to Environmentally Conscious Nonconsumers
Organizational Development Digital ArticleThere is an undeniable gap between what consumers say they want and what they are actually putting in their baskets. -
The Five Stages of Small-Business Growth
Entrepreneurial management Magazine ArticleNo researcher has explored the earliest period of a business’s development in detail—until now. -
What Is Web3?
Technology & Operations Big IdeaWeb3 is being touted as the future of the internet. The vision for this new, blockchain-based web includes cryptocurrencies, NFTs, DAOs, decentralized... -
Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleIn the past decade, the author has watched more than 100 companies try to remake themselves into better competitors. Their efforts have gone under many... -
Generative AI Has an Intellectual Property Problem
Intellectual property Digital ArticleStrategies to help companies mitigate the legal risk and ensure they’re in compliance with the law. -
3 Strategies for Making Better, More Informed Decisions
Cognitive bias Digital ArticleHow to overcome the limitations of our self-serving biases. -
What Leaders Really Do
Change management Magazine ArticleThey don’t make plans; they don’t solve problems; they don’t even organize people. What leaders really do is prepare organizations for change and help them cope as they struggle through it. -
How to Write a Winning Business Plan
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleA well-conceived business plan is essential to the success of an enterprise. Whether you are starting up a venture, seeking additional capital for an... -
What Is Disruptive Innovation?
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleFor the past 20 years, the theory of disruptive innovation has been enormously influential in business circles and a powerful tool for predicting which... -
Why Conflicting Ideas Can Make Your Strategy Stronger
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleIn a volatile world, think of your strategy as a portfolio of options, not a roadmap. -
Leader's Framework for Decision Making
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleSnowden and Boone have formed a new perspective on leadership and decision making that's based on complexity science. The result is the Cynefin framework,... -
What VUCA Really Means for You
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleTo meet the challenges of a complex world, strategic planners need to understand the differences between the four elements of VUCA--volatility, uncertainty,...
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The Effects of Debt Equity Policy on Shareholder Return Requirements and Beta
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This technical note outlines the link between shareholder-return requirements and a firm's use of debt. It explores the theoretical arguments concerning... -
Hostile Takeovers: A Primer for the Decision Maker
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This note introduces the student to the dynamics of the hostile takeover setting and characterizes the decision problem as a "game." In this context,... -
Valuing Companies: An Overview of Analytical Approaches
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This technical note provides an overview of a valuation network: multiples, options pricing, specific-asset valuation, and present value. The strengths... -
Globalization of CEMEX
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details CEMEX is a Mexican company that has become a major international competitor in cement while maintaining a higher level of profitability than other, longer-established... -
Canadian Tire: Selecting a Social Marketing Program
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Canadian Tire is a large retailer of automotive, hardware, and houseware products. As part of the company's marketing strategy, the executive director... -
China's Migrant Workforce and the Reform of Its Housing Registration System
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details This case discusses the housing registration system that was implemented in China in the late 1950s and categorized individuals into two groups: urban... -
Keller Fund's Option Investment Strategies
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details A closed-end mutual fund's decision to study option trading provides an opportunity to study the profit profile and pricing of multiple option investment... -
Wells Fargo: Setting the Stagecoach Thundering Again
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This case raises contemporary issues pertaining to strategy and leadership. It helps to demonstrate that (a) sound economic rationale is a necessary but... -
Airbus A3XX: Developing the World's Largest Commercial Jet (B)
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Diversifying P&G's Supplier Base (A)
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details In February 2003, P&G hosted two meetings-one with its largest woman- and minority-owned suppliers and one with its largest non-minority-owned suppliers.... -
Grupo Garantia (C) Lojas Americanas SA: The Retail Chain
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
ATH Technologies (D)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. Designed as an in-class handout. -
Fluidigm's Survival Battle: Turnaround in the Midst of a Genomics Revolution
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In 2016, new CEO Chris Linthwaite had been brought in to turn around Fluidigm Corporation (Fluidigm), a biotechnology company based in San Francisco.... -
MicroFridge: The Concept
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Robert Bennett, who has a Master's degree in engineering, wants to exploit his idea to combine a refrigerator, freezer, and 500-watt microwave into an... -
Malaysia Airlines: Culture Transformation While Flying Through Turbulence
Management Case Study8.95View Details This case study follows Malaysia Airlines Berhad (MAB) through its Culture Journey (2018-2021), an initiative to rebuild the corporate culture as part... -
SEAS in 2016
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The case explores opportunities and challenges facing the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences as it: 1) grapples with rapid undergraduate... -
P&G Japan: The SK-II Globalization Project, Video
Global Business Case Study150.00View Details Paolo de Cesare and A.G. Lafley review the strategic and organizational challenges they face in deciding whether to make the prestigious Japanese beauty... -
Competing with Dragons: Amazon in China
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Amazon entered China in 2004 by acquiring Joyo, a local e-retailer, and rebranding it as Amazon China, implementing the technology and practices that... -
TSE International Corporation
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Set in May 2000, these cases reflect the separate perspectives of the CEOs as they approach the negotiations of TSE International to acquire Yeats Valves.... -
Grupo Garantia (D) Cervejaria Brahma SA: Beer Brewing and Marketing
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case.
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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. -
How to Fight a Price War
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticlePrice wars are a fact of life, whether we're talking about the fast-paced world of knowledge products, the marketing of Internet appliances, or the staid,... -
The Balanced Scorecard—Measures that Drive Performance
Balanced scorecard Magazine ArticleWhat you measure is what you get. Senior executives understand that their organization’s measurement system strongly affects the behavior of managers and employees. Executives also understand that traditional financial accounting measures like return-on-investment and earnings-per-share can give misleading signals for continuous improvement and innovation—activities today’s competitive environment demands. The traditional financial performance measures worked well […] -
Innovation Doesn’t Have to Be Disruptive
Innovation Magazine ArticleCreate new markets for growth without destroying existing companies or jobs. -
What Is Strategy?
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleToday's dynamic markets and technologies have called into question the sustainability of competitive advantage. Under pressure to improve productivity,... -
AI Can Help You Ask Better Questions — and Solve Bigger Problems
Technology and analytics Digital ArticleLeaders should focus less on automation and more on innovation. -
Know Your Customers' "Jobs to Be Done"
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleFirms have never known more about their customers, but their innovation processes remain hit-or-miss. Why? According to Christensen and his coauthors,... -
The Questions Every Entrepreneur Must Answer
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleDiversify your product line. Stick to your knitting. Hire a professional manager. Watch fixed costs. Those are some of the suggestions that entrepreneurs... -
How Brands Can Sell to Environmentally Conscious Nonconsumers
Organizational Development Digital ArticleThere is an undeniable gap between what consumers say they want and what they are actually putting in their baskets. -
The Five Stages of Small-Business Growth
Entrepreneurial management Magazine ArticleNo researcher has explored the earliest period of a business’s development in detail—until now.