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Marketing in an Unpredictable World
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Television’s Future Has a Social Soundtrack
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Playing to the Back Row
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World Cup Leadership Lessons
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CEOs with Headsets
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A Whole New Way of Looking at the World
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Bruce Springsteen, Artful Leadership, and What Rock Star Bosses Do
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On the New York Times Paywall, Eh
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You Bought It. Does That Make it Yours to Sell?
Global Business Digital ArticleIn the ongoing battle between content producers and their customers, the Supreme Court takes a stand. -
What Baseball Can Teach You About Using Data to Improve Yourself
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleGet better at getting better. -
There Are Better Ways to Pitch Your Book
Public relations Digital ArticleThey say that the books business is beleaguered, bordering on broken. Over-production, under-consumption and the looming threat of digital perdition are concentrating minds as never before. Will publishing, as many fear, follow music and movies into an illegal download free-for-all? Or will J.K. Rowling ride to the rescue with a clutch of Harry Potters, as […] -
All the Wrong Moves (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
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When Fandom Clashes with IP Law
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Marvel’s Blockbuster Machine
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The BBC Should Keep Calm and Answer a Lot of Questions
Leadership Digital ArticleThe BBC’s eight big organizational challenges are extreme, but not unique. -
Life’s Work: An Interview with Jerry Seinfeld
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What Data Journalists Need to Do Differently
Analytics and data science Digital ArticleRelying too heavily on the same sources leaves important stories untold. -
Life’s Work: An Interview with Sarah Cooper
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Rupert Murdoch, the NFL, and the Negotiation That Remade TV
Negotiation strategies Digital ArticleThe deal turned Fox into a powerhouse. -
Life’s Work: An Interview with Billie Jean King
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Cirque du Soleil
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Retaining talent is an issue for any company whose success relies on the creativity and excellence of its employees. This is especially true for Cirque... -
CEMEX Mexico: The Path to Responsible Competitiveness
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details The case presents CEMEX Mexico's situation in 2004, shortly after its social responsibility committee was created and became operational. Two distinctive... -
Stonestreet Farms: Making a Business in the "Sport of Kings"
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details By the early 21st century, the economics of thoroughbred horse racing in the United States was backwards - owners invested about four times as much money... -
MacAfee Building Supply: Improving Performance Across Retail Stores (C)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details MacAfee Building Supply, a distributor of building supplies and heating and plumbing products, had grown to become the largest company of its kind in... -
FIFA and The World Cup: The Future of Football
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Should FIFA host its biggest event-the FIFA World Cup-every two years instead of every four, as it has been doing since the event's inception in the 1930s?... -
HBO Boxing: Should Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. Fight on Cable or Pay-Per-View?
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Professional boxing was once a mainstream sport, whose stars were widely known to the general public. Major fights were broadcast on network television.... -
EuropaCorp S.A.: A Second Attempt at a Turnaround
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details In 2017, the French film producer and distributor EuropaCorp S.A. (EuropaCorp) announced a historical record loss of €119.9 million. The company had almost... -
Wladimir Klitschko: F.A.C.E. Your Challenges
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details In 2020, Olympic goal medal winning boxer and former heavyweight world champion Wladimir Klitschko had built himself a "second ring" to continue his career... -
Beech-Nut Nutrition Corp. (A1)
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Dirk Nowitzki: Changing the Game
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details NBA Superstar Dirk Nowitzki was unsure whether the 2018-19 season would be his last as an NBA player. He had not faced such uncertainty since 1998, when... -
BTS & ARMY
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details The South Korean K-pop band, BTS, is shattering linguistic boundaries and reshaping the global music industry. BTS became the first band in Billboard... -
Tommy Chen: Using Sun Tzu's Art of War in Business
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details In 2014, the general manager and a director of an Australian building company were seeking an outside investor to provide the company with the needed... -
Spotify: Face the Music (Update 2024)
Management Case Study11.95View Details The year 2023 was another remarkable one for Spotify. Once more, the company reported record figures in both revenue ($13.1 billion) and users, boasting... -
Note on Incentives in the NFL
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details This case describes compensation and incentive issues in one of the major U.S. professional sports leagues, the National Football League (NFL). It first... -
Hulu: Redefining the Way People Experience TV
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In May 2017, Hulu CEO Mike Hopkins announced the launch of Hulu Live TV, a new offering that would "change the way people experience TV." The new service... -
Urbi and the City Licensee Managers
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details A leading low income housing builder in Mexico decides which prospective new local partner best extends its advantages in managing twin production lines... -
Erik Peterson (B)
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details This one-paragraph case adds to the data presented in the (A) case. A redisguised version of an earlier case. -
National Football League and Private 5G
Management Case Study11.95View Details Two years later, on September 7, 2023, Verizon officially launched their Private 5G network, Verizon's Managed Private Wireless Solution, across all 30... -
Cinépolis
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Two weeks after Cinépolis released a documentary film about corruption, a judge ordered its provisional suspension, claiming it had to be edited before... -
Maison Bouygues
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details The vice president of marketing is reviewing the 1991 marketing plan and budget for Maison Bouygues, the leading builder of new single family homes in...
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Cirque du Soleil
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Retaining talent is an issue for any company whose success relies on the creativity and excellence of its employees. This is especially true for Cirque... -
CEMEX Mexico: The Path to Responsible Competitiveness
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details The case presents CEMEX Mexico's situation in 2004, shortly after its social responsibility committee was created and became operational. Two distinctive... -
Identify Critical Roles to Improve Performance
Management Digital ArticleRather than building strategy around the people they have, organizations should develop a better understanding of the roles that will be most critical... -
Stonestreet Farms: Making a Business in the "Sport of Kings"
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details By the early 21st century, the economics of thoroughbred horse racing in the United States was backwards - owners invested about four times as much money... -
Marketing in an Unpredictable World
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Television’s Future Has a Social Soundtrack
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CEMEX Mexico: THe path to Responsible Competitiveness, Teaching Note
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MacAfee Building Supply: Improving Performance Across Retail Stores (C)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details MacAfee Building Supply, a distributor of building supplies and heating and plumbing products, had grown to become the largest company of its kind in... -
FIFA and The World Cup: The Future of Football
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Should FIFA host its biggest event-the FIFA World Cup-every two years instead of every four, as it has been doing since the event's inception in the 1930s?... -
HBO Boxing: Should Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. Fight on Cable or Pay-Per-View?
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Professional boxing was once a mainstream sport, whose stars were widely known to the general public. Major fights were broadcast on network television....
