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The Art of Commerce
Business history Magazine ArticleThe story of a royal trading company comes to life on an 18th-century stock certificate. -
When Your Brand Is Racist (HBR Case Study)
Communication Magazine ArticleA national brewing and distilling company grapples with its most profitable brand's racist history. This fictional case study by Joseph C. Miller, Michael... -
What Is the Theory of Your Firm?
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleAsked to define strategy, most executives would probably come up with something like this: Strategy involves discovering and targeting attractive markets... -
How Analytics Has Changed in the Last 10 Years (and How It's Stayed the Same)
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleWhat I learned revising my book on data and strategy. -
When Your Brand Is Racist (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Communication Magazine ArticleA national brewing and distilling company grapples with its most profitable brand's racist history. This fictional case study by Joseph C. Miller, Michael... -
What 45 Years of Data Tells Us About Globalization's Influence on the Shadow Economy
Global Business Digital ArticleHow openness to trade and participation in IMF programs influence the informal economy. -
Zeitgeist Leadership
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleCompanies and leaders don't succeed or fail in a vacuum. When it comes to long-term success, the ability to understand and adapt to changing business... -
Working with Your In-Laws Isn't Always a Terrible Idea
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleAdvice from people who've made it work. -
Training for Nuclear War and the C-Suite
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThis post is part of an HBR Spotlight examining leadership lessons from the military. For four years in the early 1980s, John Meyer spent most of his... -
The U.S.’s “Special Relationship” Is with Germany, Not Britain
Business history Digital ArticleA brief review of the economic history. -
Mindfulness as a Management Technique Goes Back to at Least the 1970s
Business history Digital ArticleStrategic planners were among the first to adopt it in their work. -
Power Without Purpose: The Crisis of Japan’s Global Financial Dominance
International business Magazine ArticleJapan today sits on the largest cache of wealth ever assembled. It has the power to move markets anywhere in the world. Consider that. The Tokyo Stock Exchange has now surpassed New York to become the world’s largest on the basis of market capitalization. Osaka has bumped London to fourth place. Of the world’s ten […] -
Why Read Peter Drucker?
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticlePeter Drucker's extensive writings, including more than 30 HBR essays, are landmarks of the managerial profession. They've influenced the practice and... -
Life's Work: Zandra Rhodes
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThe 73-year-old Zandra Rhodes became famous in the 1970s, had to close up shop in the 1990s, and is now enjoying a renaissance. In this interview with... -
Xbox Polling and the Future of Election Prediction
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleIt's easier, cheaper, and just as accurate. -
Human Moment at Work (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleIn the last decade or so, technological changes--mainly voice mail and e-mail--have made a lot of face-to-face interaction unnecessary. Face-to-face contact... -
Life's Work: An Interview with Cal Ripken Jr.
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThe All-Star shortstop and third baseman for the Baltimore Orioles talks about his two-decade career, mentoring teammates, having his father as a coach,... -
Stuff: When Less Is More
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleToday we use far fewer materials to get the same things done--manufacture a PC, for instance, or produce a ton of steel. But with that efficiency has... -
The Problem with the U.S. Economy Isn't Something Politicians Can Fix
Global Business Digital ArticleStandards of living aren't rising as fast as they used to. -
When All the World's a City
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleUrban growth projections for 2020 show a dramatic expansion of industrial corridors and population centers, predominantly in southern and eastern Asia....
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Novartis: Leading a Global Enterprise
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Novartis, the world's leading healthcare company, was formed in 1996 out of a merger of two very different, mid-tier Switzerland-based pharma companies.... -
From Imitation to Innovation: Zongshen Industrial Group (Abridged)
Management Case Study11.95View Details Like other small shops based in Chongqing, China, Zongshen Industrial Group started by assembling motorcycles from "standard" parts. The quality of its... -
Science Lessons: What the Business of Biotech Taught Me About Management
38.00View Details Widely regarded as the most innovative, successful biotech firm ever, Amgen led its industry in revenue and sales growth in 2007. Top magazines including... -
Wanxiang Group: A Chinese Company's Global Strategy
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details With an almost forty-year history as a business in China, the Wanxiang Group has navigated through the significantly different political and economic... -
Politics of Tobacco Control: A History of the U.S. Tobacco Industry
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Describes the history of the tobacco industry and its emergence as an extremely effective marketer and non-market strategist. After years of success,... -
General Electric's 20th Century CEOs (Abridged)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details General Electric thrived in every decade of the 20th century. Since its founding in 1892, GE has placed a high value on picking and training the best... -
Wendell Weeks at Corning Inc. (B): Valor Glass and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details The (B) case offers a detailed account of Wendell Weeks's innovation strategy at Corning, and how his approach played a critical role in the COVID-19... -
Li Ka-Shing and the Growth of Cheung Kong
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Events in the history of Cheung Kong's growth reveal how Li Ka-Shing applied his skills as a "first-class noticer" to complex political and socioeconomic... -
Wanxiang Group: A Chinese Company's Global Strategy (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the A Case 308-058. With an almost forty-year history as a business in China, the Wanxiang Group has navigated through the significantly different... -
The German Export Engine
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details This case traces the economic history of modern Germany, from its beginnings in the 19th century to its strong performance during the financial crisis... -
WeWork: Tech Comes to Commercial Real Estate
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details In February 2018 New York-based coworking company WeWork was valued at approximately $20 billion, making it the fourth-most-valuable start-up in the U.S.,... -
Forging the New Salomon, Supplement
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Provides a management retrospective. -
Intraoperative Radiotherapy for Breast Cancer (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details "This trial is going to take longer." Those were words that Michael Kaschke, CEO of Carl Zeiss AG, was not surprised to hear as he nurtured the intraoperative... -
Gardenburger Advertising Strategy (B)
Sales & Marketing Case Study5.00View Details In 1997, Lyle Hubbard, CEO of Gardenburger, a producer and marketer of veggie burgers and meat alternative products, had called together his executive... -
William Levitt, Levittown and the Creation of American Suburbia
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Demand for low-cost housing after World War II far exceeded supply. Was this a profitable new market? New York developer William Levitt had to decide.... -
Crucial Conversations
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Todd McKenna, a third-year associate at an investment banking firm, confronts his boss. His boss had told him he would be the top paid associate at the... -
Origins of National Income Accounting
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Set in the Great Depression, this case explores the origins of national income accounting in the United States. Highlights Senator La Follette's 1932... -
The Eagle and the Dragon: The November 1999 US-China Bilateral Agreement and the Battle Over PNTR
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details On December 11, 2001, China became a member of the World Trade Organization. Many say the 1999 US-China bilateral trade agreement and the vote in Congress... -
James Madison, the 'Federal Negative,' and the Making of the U.S. Constitution
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details On June 8th, 1787, at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, delegates from across the United States began discussing a curious proposal to expand... -
The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World
Strategy & Execution Book35.00View Details Imagine, if you can, the world of business--without corporate strategy. Remarkably, fifty years ago that's the way it was. Businesses made plans, certainly,...
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Novartis: Leading a Global Enterprise
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Novartis, the world's leading healthcare company, was formed in 1996 out of a merger of two very different, mid-tier Switzerland-based pharma companies.... -
From Imitation to Innovation: Zongshen Industrial Group (Abridged)
Management Case Study11.95View Details Like other small shops based in Chongqing, China, Zongshen Industrial Group started by assembling motorcycles from "standard" parts. The quality of its... -
4 Business Ideas That Changed the World: Shareholder Value
Business history AudioA roundtable conversation appraises the 50-year reign of shareholder primacy and the growing backlash against it today. -
Science Lessons: What the Business of Biotech Taught Me About Management
38.00View Details Widely regarded as the most innovative, successful biotech firm ever, Amgen led its industry in revenue and sales growth in 2007. Top magazines including... -
Wanxiang Group: A Chinese Company's Global Strategy
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details With an almost forty-year history as a business in China, the Wanxiang Group has navigated through the significantly different political and economic... -
The Art of Commerce
Business history Magazine ArticleThe story of a royal trading company comes to life on an 18th-century stock certificate. -
When Your Brand Is Racist (HBR Case Study)
Communication Magazine ArticleA national brewing and distilling company grapples with its most profitable brand's racist history. This fictional case study by Joseph C. Miller, Michael... -
Everyday People Who Led Momentous Change
Business history AudioNancy Koehn, a Harvard Business School historian, tells the life stories of three influential leaders: the abolitionist Frederick Douglass, the pacifist Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and the ecologist Rachel Carson. They all overcame personal challenges to achieve and inspire social change. In Koehn’s new book, “Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times,” she argues that tomorrow’s leaders of social change will come from the business world. -
Politics of Tobacco Control: A History of the U.S. Tobacco Industry
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Describes the history of the tobacco industry and its emergence as an extremely effective marketer and non-market strategist. After years of success,... -
General Electric's 20th Century CEOs (Abridged)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details General Electric thrived in every decade of the 20th century. Since its founding in 1892, GE has placed a high value on picking and training the best...
