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Regional Strategies for Global Leadership
Global Business Magazine ArticleThe leaders of such global powerhouses as GE, Wal-Mart, and Toyota seem to have grasped two crucial truths: First, far from becoming submerged by the... -
Smarter Offshoring
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleDuring the past 15 years, companies have flocked to a handful of cities in India and Eastern Europe for offshore service functions. As a result, the most... -
Managing Risk in an Unstable World
Global Business Magazine ArticleWith emerging markets like China and politically unstable countries like Saudi Arabia figuring more than ever into companies' investment calculations,... -
Souq.com's CEO on Building an E-Commerce Powerhouse in the Middle East
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleIn 2005, when Souq.com was founded, the Middle East had tremendous potential for e-commerce: Its total population was more than 350 million, half of whom... -
What Happens When Consultants Work for Authoritarian Regimes
Global Business Digital ArticleThey can play a valuable role at first, but then quickly bow to the desires of ruling elites. -
The CEO of Aramex on Turning a Failed Sale into a Huge Opportunity
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleIn 1984 the express delivery company Aramex had launched several small offices in the Middle East, hoping to become the first courier company based in... -
Right Up the Middle: How Israeli Firms Go Global
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleSmall and midsize companies that want to expand abroad often face a daunting task: finding the sweet spot between multinationals, with their extensive... -
Leadership Under Fire
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleDov Frohman was the head of Intel Israel at the start of the First Gulf War, and it fell to him to determine how the company would respond. In this first-person... -
Where Babies Come from: Supply and Demand in an Infant Marketplace
Organizational Development Magazine ArticlePersistent demand from people who have been denied the blessings of parenthood has created an assisted-reproduction market that stretches around the globe... -
Israel's Future: Brainpower, High Tech - and Peace
Global Business Magazine ArticleIsrael faces an imperative to grow in the 1990s. This year, Israel welcomed 200,000 Russian immigrants (a number that will double in the coming year).... -
Economics of Peace
Global Business Magazine ArticleThe strife between Israel and the Palestinians is largely viewed as a political problem requiring a political solution. But it's also economic, says this... -
Growth as a Process: The HBR Interview
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleUnder Jack Welch's leadership, General Electric's managers applied their imaginations relentlessly to the task of making work more efficient. Jeffrey... -
HBR List: Breakthrough Ideas for 2006
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleWe highlight 20 ideas just bubbling up to the surface in 2006. Howard Gardner contends that the ability to synthesize information will be the most valued... -
Stop Making Plans; Start Making Decisions
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleMany executives have grown skeptical of strategic planning. Is it any wonder? Despite all the time and energy that go into it, strategic planning most... -
Decisions Without Blinders
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleBy the time Merck withdrew its pain relief drug Vioxx from the market in 2004, more than 100 million prescriptions had been filled in the United States... -
Leadership in a Combat Zone (HBR Classic)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleLeadership is often presented as an abstract undertaking, a matter of vision and values rather than practical details. But in the author's world, the... -
Understanding the Arab Consumer
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleA growing middle class in the Arab world yearns for progress and modernity, but has no interest in abandoning its religious traditions. Companies that... -
Preparing for a Pandemic
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThis month, all of Harvard Business Review's Forethought contributions address avian influenza, its potential to become a pandemic, and the red flags... -
Managing Middlescence
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleThey make up more than half your workforce. They work longer hours than anyone else in your company. From their ranks come most of your top managers.... -
Building the Green Way
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleJust five or six years ago, the term "green building" evoked visions of barefoot, tie-dyed, granola-munching denizens. There's been a large shift in perception....
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Managing a Global Team: Greg James at Sun Microsystems, Inc. (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Understanding the tensions in a team spread across the globe. -
IKEA in Saudi Arabia (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details A Swedish newspaper reveals that IKEA has erased all images of women from its catalog for Saudi Arabia. The article sparks criticism of IKEA from the... -
Becton Dickinson: Global Health Strategy
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) was a medical technology firm headquartered in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, with 43,000 employees and 2016 revenues... -
TaKaDu
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details In December 2012, Amir Peleg, founder and CEO of TaKaDu, reflected on how to position his young firm for the next fiscal year and beyond. The small Israeli... -
Emirates Airline: Connecting the Unconnected
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Narrates the story of Emirates, an airline founded in 1985 in Dubai that by 2013 was among the three largest commercial airlines in the world. The case... -
Israeli Wines in China: Reaching for New Heights
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In 2012, Golan Heights Wines wanted to take advantage of the Chinese market. In recent years, China had demonstrated incredible growth in the wine market.... -
Zebra Medical Vision
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details An Israeli startup founded in 2014, Zebra Medical Vision, develops algorithms that produced diagnoses from X-rays, mammograms, and CT-scans. The algorithms... -
CyberArk: Protecting the Keys to the IT Kingdom
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details CyberArk was the recognized leader in the Privileged Account Management (PAM) space, a cybersecurity sub-segment it had essentially created to secure... -
The Diet Center: The SAP ERP Decision
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The Diet Center (DC) was Lebanon's first nutritional company to offer food consultancy services and meal catering to the public. The company faced numerous... -
Managing a Global Team: Greg James at Sun Microsystems, Inc. (B)
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details This case updates students on the steps Greg James took to solve the problems that instigated the crisis documented in "Managing a Global Team: Greg James... -
DayTwo: Going to Market with Gut Microbiome
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details DayTwo is a young Israeli startup that applies research on the gut microbiome and machine learning algorithms to deliver personalized nutritional recommendations... -
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd.
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details How do companies develop a strategy that is both low-cost and differentiated without becoming squeezed in the middle? Describes how Teva, Israel's first... -
Garanti Bank: Transformation in Turkey (Abridged)
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Discusses the complete transformation and turnover in every division of Garanti Bank. Describes the multiple change projects managed and cross-cultural... -
Ajeej Capital: Investing in Emerging Markets
Finance & Accounting Case Study15.05View Details In October 2007, Tarek Sakka and Fouad Dajani launched Ajeej Capital, the first independent investment advisory in the MENA region. Fittingly named ajeej,... -
International Investor: Islamic Finance and the Equate Project
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Equate Petrochemical Co. (Equate) is a joint venture between Union Carbide Corp. and Petrochemical Industries Co. (PIC) for the construction of a $2 billion... -
Fetchr: A New Way of Last Mile Delivery
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details By mid-2016, five years of aggressive growth had transformed Fetchr from a small logistics startup to a 1,000-employee, full-fledged last-mile delivery... -
Northern Telecom and Netas (B): Transferring Technology to Central Asia
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details In the early 1990s, the Turkish telecommunications firm, Netas, established joint ventures in Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan as miniature replications of Netas's... -
Georgian Glass and Mineral Water
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Georgian Glass and Mineral Water (GGMW), was created in 1995 by a Georgian entrepreneur and Western investors in Georgia (former Soviet Union) to bottle... -
Transforming Culture in the Kingdom: How Saudi Telecom Focused on People to Compete in the Digital Age
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details This case describes Saudi Telecom Co.'s (STC's) transition from a government-run entity to a business competing on the open market. Early in its transition... -
iyzico: Fundraising in Emerging Markets (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The case opens in 2016 as Barbaros Ozbugutu, co-founder and CEO of the Istanbul-based payment technology start-up iyzico, contemplates the offers the...