Business and society

A new study shows a correlation with R&D spending.

Based on interviews with 64 female executives.

Wouldn’t you consider it an invasion of your privacy if marketers could rummage through your closet to check your brand preferences? What if potential employers could disguise themselves and enter your social life in order to evaluate you for a job? These things can’t happen, of course. We live secure in the knowledge that they […]

Siemens has just gone through the largest bribery scandal in history, paying more than $1.5 billion in fines and penalties, restating earnings by more...

If people are too worried about staying in their own lane, that's bad.

It's time businesses recognize the importance of this issue.

I was just a year out of college, and interviewing for a sales assistant position at PaineWebber. One of my prospective bosses offered me $24,000. I countered with $27,000. He pulled out his calculator like a gun from a holster, punched in $3,000, divided it by 52, and in a clipped tone responded, “That’s only […]

Samsung’s Lee Kun-hee was in power, then out of power, and is now in power again. And that’s not making life easy for his former employee Kim Yong-chul. As reported today, the latter is in a form of career exile after accusing his boss and other top executives of corruption. The complaint got results: Lee […]

Understand how you’re perceived, but focus on results.

Profession-specific taxes could grow the economy dramatically.

Last year, blockchain activity used more power than 159 individual nations.

When we give voice to our setbacks, we can rebuild confidence and take back control of our journeys.

A senior manager at Cisco once suggested to me that there are two types of challenges in organizations — capacity problems and complexity problems. Capacity problems are those that require more, fewer or different resources. Complexity problems require new thinking and a creative approach. For example, increasing market share for your product can often be […]

Three shifts that will change how businesses compete, collaborate, and create products.

A leading Indian IT company, hit the headlines two days back for all the wrong reasons. First, the company — Satyam Computer Services, Ltd. — announced it was acquiring two companies in an all-cash deal of $1.6 billion. The announcement was made in the morning (Indian time). When the US markets opened, the ADR of […]

You can’t move away from what scares you.

Dismayed by the State Department employees who peeked at Senator Barack Obama’s, Senator Hillary Clinton’s and John McCain’s passport files? Shocked by the nineteen employees, including physicians, who furtively glanced at Britney Spears’ medical files? Don’t be. Snooping isn’t rare. When I worked for CSO, a magazine devoted to executive-level security professionals, I heard countless […]

Online advertising is opaque and often funnels money to sites that can damage your brand. Here’s how companies can protect themselves.

Here’s why.

Bob Berney, president of Newmarket Films, must decide on a distribution and marketing strategy for Mel Gibson's controversial new movie, The Passion of...

This case discusses the efforts by the state of Andhra Pradesh and the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board to provide water services...

The "Moral Complexity in Leadership" series of cases and teaching notes help business instructors harness the power of fiction to prepare students for...

This case examines the unique challenges faced by ridesharing company Careem as a business operating in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region....

In late 2012, recent Harvard Business School graduate Hannah Lopez is given the opportunity to lead entry into a new market for Plámo, a company that...

Describes the evolution of the working relationship of Karen Leary, a new manager of a Merrill Lynch retail branch, and Ted Chung, a new financial consultant...

Climate change is threatening our world. How is your business responding? Heat waves, flooding, extreme storms, harsh winters. The effects of climate...

This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values....

In May 2013, TransDigm, a company that manufactured a wide range of highly engineered aerospace parts for both military and civilian aircraft, announced...

Embraer is the story of a company from a developing country, Brazil, that has become the leader in a high-tech field, regional passenger jets. Embraer's...

"In November 2006, 200 German policemen and prosecutors raided 30 offices and homes of Siemens managers to investigate allegations of embezzlement at...

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For more than 70 years, beginning in 1929, one party-the Party of Institutional Revolution, known by its Spanish initials PRI-dominated political life...

Zoho Corporation Ltd. (Zoho) was a privately held technology company that provided a suite of software applications for businesses of all sizes. The company...

This note describes the market for consumer finance products in the United States. The note focuses on the changes in supply and demand that have occurred...

Supplements the (A) case.

Supplements the (A) case.

Teaching objectives: 1) to show how aggressive marketing can lead to allegations of misconduct, 2) to consider responses under crisis management, and...

This case describes how an intrapreneur helped Credit Suisse launch a commercially viable impact investing business in Asia. It specifically details the...

A new study shows a correlation with R&D spending.

Based on interviews with 64 female executives.

Bob Berney, president of Newmarket Films, must decide on a distribution and marketing strategy for Mel Gibson's controversial new movie, The Passion of...

Wouldn’t you consider it an invasion of your privacy if marketers could rummage through your closet to check your brand preferences? What if potential employers could disguise themselves and enter your social life in order to evaluate you for a job? These things can’t happen, of course. We live secure in the knowledge that they […]

Siemens has just gone through the largest bribery scandal in history, paying more than $1.5 billion in fines and penalties, restating earnings by more...

If people are too worried about staying in their own lane, that's bad.

This case discusses the efforts by the state of Andhra Pradesh and the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board to provide water services...

It's time businesses recognize the importance of this issue.

I was just a year out of college, and interviewing for a sales assistant position at PaineWebber. One of my prospective bosses offered me $24,000. I countered with $27,000. He pulled out his calculator like a gun from a holster, punched in $3,000, divided it by 52, and in a clipped tone responded, “That’s only […]

Samsung’s Lee Kun-hee was in power, then out of power, and is now in power again. And that’s not making life easy for his former employee Kim Yong-chul. As reported today, the latter is in a form of career exile after accusing his boss and other top executives of corruption. The complaint got results: Lee […]