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Do You Know Why Your Company Needs a Chief Diversity Officer?
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleSix questions to ask before you fill the role. -
Are You Offering the Mental Health Benefits Your BIPOC Employees Need?
Organizational Development Digital ArticleA one-size-fits-all plan isn't good enough. -
How Businesses Can Recruit and Develop More Young People of Color
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleA guide to building a better pipeline. -
Do Your Employees Feel Safe Reporting Abuse and Discrimination?
Organizational Development Digital ArticlePeople won't speak up if they don't trust the process. -
How "Neutral" Layoffs Disproportionately Affect Women and Minorities
Organizational Development Digital ArticleResearch on downsizing, gender, and race. -
New Criteria for Market Segmentation
Marketing Magazine ArticleThe director of marketing in a large company is confronted by some of the most difficult problems in the history of U.S. industry. To assist him, the information revolution of the past decade puts at his disposal a vast array of techniques, facts, and figures. But without a way to master this information, he can […] -
Where Predictive Analytics Is Having the Biggest Impact
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleCompanies are using big data for pricing, maintenance, and more. -
Spend a Day in the Life of Your Customers
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleA senior executive's instinctive capacity to empathize with and gain insights from customers is the single most important skill he or she can use to direct... -
Customer Has Escaped
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleEvery company makes choices about the channels it will use to go to market. For instance, traditionally, customer demographics guided the decision to... -
Do Your Diversity Efforts Reflect the Experiences of Women of Color?
Organizational Development Digital ArticleCompanies need to take an intersectional approach to inclusion. -
The Future of Marketing Is Intergenerational
Sales and marketing Digital ArticleOlder consumers can’t just be an afterthought for brands — but that doesn’t mean just shifting the focus from one generation to another. -
Update Your DE&I Playbook
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleAddressing structural racism requires structural change. -
New Research Shows How Employees Feel When Their Requests for Raises Are Denied
Organizational Development Digital ArticleIf you can't say yes to a raise, you at least have to be able to say why. -
Hiring Discrimination Against Black Americans Hasn't Declined in 25 Years
Organizational Development Digital ArticleA meta-analysis of job callback rates. -
We're Entering the Age of Corporate Social Justice
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleThere's no such thing as neutral. -
Life's Work: Goldie Hawn
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThe actor, producer, director, and mother talks about adjusting to fame at a young age, developing rapport with other actors, how her industry has changed,... -
Power of Virtual Integration: An Interview with Dell Computer's Michael Dell
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThis interview offers a deeper look inside Dell's highly publicized success and offers managers a model of how traditional relationships in a value chain... -
Colorblind Diversity Efforts Don't Work
Organizational Development Digital ArticleEfforts to minimize differences have been shown to backfire. -
Research: Black Employees Are More Likely to Be Promoted When They Were Referred by Another Employee
Organizational Development ResearchThe same is not true for women. -
Making Personalized Marketing Work
Sales & Marketing Digital ArticleCustomers still struggle to find the products they want.
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Omnitel Pronto Italia
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Describes the situation faced by Omnitel soon after launching its mobile telecommunication services in Italy in December 1995. Competing against the Italian... -
AIP Healthcare Japan: Investing in Japan's Retirement Home Market
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details The CEO of a health care-based REIT is considering alternative nursing home investment strategies. Students must consider macro-industry trends, scale... -
Google, King of Search
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details This survey of Google's rise to prominence as the de facto search engine of choice focuses on the theme of relevance as a guiding principle. As Google... -
Investing in Early Learning as Economic Development at the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In his role as Senior Vice President and Director of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (Minneapolis Fed), Art Rolnick and his colleague,... -
Cyworld: Creating and Capturing Value in a Social Network
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details In May 2008, the new CEO of Cyworld, a social network company in Korea, had to decide how to create and capture value from his rapidly growing user base.... -
RegionFly: Cutting Costs in the Airline Industry
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details RegionFly is a small, private airline specializing in ultra-premium services. Founded shortly after the "Golden Age of airline travel," RegionFly's financial... -
Eastman Kodak Co.
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Eastman Kodak has suffered significant declines in film market share at the hands of lower-priced branded producers and private label products. The case... -
AmorePacific Hong Kong: Marketing Korean Beauty Products
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details As the end of 2016 approached, the managing director of AmorePacific Hong Kong (APHK) was setting the media mix and budget for APHK's four makeup and... -
Quantitative Analysis of Competitive Position: Customer Demand and Willingness to Pay
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This note is designed to provide strategists with tools to perform two critical customer-related analyses: determining willingness to pay - the estimation... -
Borusan Cat: Monetizing Prediction in the Age of AI (A)
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Borusan Cat is an international distributor of Caterpillar heavy machines. Esra Durgun (Director of Strategy, Digitization, and Innovation) and Ozgur... -
DayTwo: Going to Market with Gut Microbiome (Abridged)
Management Case Study11.95View Details DayTwo is a young Israeli startup that applies research on the gut microbiome and machine learning algorithms to deliver personalized nutritional recommendations... -
Algorithmic Bias in Marketing
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details This note focuses on algorithmic bias in marketing. First, it presents a variety of marketing examples in which algorithmic bias may occur. The examples... -
Diamond Foods
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details CEO Michael Mendes has transformed a grower-owned cooperative into a publicly traded top marketer of snack foods. Diamond's organization, culture, product... -
Carolina Foods, Inc.: Can the Duchess Become Queen?
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details After significant growth in 2013 when Hostess Baking, a major competitor, declared bankruptcy, Carolina Foods, Inc.'s CEO, Paul Scarborough, wanted to... -
Apartheid in South Africa
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details A short history of Apartheid in South Africa. -
NWA, Inc. - Northwest Airlines Revenue Management
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Northwest Airlines is evaluating improvements to its revenue management system. This system executes a program of economic price discrimination under... -
Marble Slab Creamery: A Grand Occasion
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details The franchise owner of a Marble Slab Creamery (Marble Slab) in Ontario must submit a grand opening proposal to franchise headquarters in Calgary, Alberta,... -
Cerveceria Polar: The Bear Awakens
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Founded in 1941, CervecerÃa Polar had kept its position as absolute market leader in beer production and distribution in Venezuela with its traditional... -
Market Analysis
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Describes the nature and purposes of market analysis. Among topics briefly discussed are primary and selective demand, determinants of demand, market... -
A Note on Market Definition, Segmentation, and Targeting: Three (of Four) Steps in Developing Marketing Strategy
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Marketing strategy, part of the marketing planning process, flows directly from a company's goals and helps define how the marketing organization will...
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Do You Know Why Your Company Needs a Chief Diversity Officer?
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleSix questions to ask before you fill the role. -
Are You Offering the Mental Health Benefits Your BIPOC Employees Need?
Organizational Development Digital ArticleA one-size-fits-all plan isn't good enough. -
How Businesses Can Recruit and Develop More Young People of Color
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleA guide to building a better pipeline. -
Do Your Employees Feel Safe Reporting Abuse and Discrimination?
Organizational Development Digital ArticlePeople won't speak up if they don't trust the process. -
Omnitel Pronto Italia
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Describes the situation faced by Omnitel soon after launching its mobile telecommunication services in Italy in December 1995. Competing against the Italian... -
AIP Healthcare Japan: Investing in Japan's Retirement Home Market
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details The CEO of a health care-based REIT is considering alternative nursing home investment strategies. Students must consider macro-industry trends, scale... -
How "Neutral" Layoffs Disproportionately Affect Women and Minorities
Organizational Development Digital ArticleResearch on downsizing, gender, and race. -
Google, King of Search
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details This survey of Google's rise to prominence as the de facto search engine of choice focuses on the theme of relevance as a guiding principle. As Google... -
Investing in Early Learning as Economic Development at the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In his role as Senior Vice President and Director of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (Minneapolis Fed), Art Rolnick and his colleague,... -
Cyworld: Creating and Capturing Value in a Social Network
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details In May 2008, the new CEO of Cyworld, a social network company in Korea, had to decide how to create and capture value from his rapidly growing user base....