Publications

November 1997
Case

Borden Ranch: Balancing Private Property Rights and Social Interests in Ag

By: Ray A. Goldberg, Don Daniels and Diane Richmond

Angelo Tsakopoulos wanted to convert grazing land to crop agriculture. He received different advice from different government agencies and became involved in legal battles. View Details

Keywords: Property; Social Entrepreneurship; Rights; Agribusiness; Social Issues; Interests; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Government Relations; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry

04 Jan 2013
News

The Age of Insourcing: How Tech Helps Megacompanies Rope Us In

10 Jul 2024
Video

Inequality in the Digital Age | An Interview with Daron Acemoglu from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

May 2023 (Revised January 2024)
Case

Quigley-Simpson & Heppelwhite: The Ad Agency Model in the Age of AI

By: David C. Edelman and James Barnett

In October 2022, Quigley-Simpson & Heppelwhite CEO Carl Fremont considers how the advertising agency will integrate artificial intelligence tools into the business. View Details

Keywords: Marketing; Strategy; Advertising Industry; United States

04 Sep 2017
News

In age of Trump, politics has become a game with no shame

06 Sep 2019
Podcast

Who Owns Your Data? Agency, Autonomy, and Inclusivity in the Digital Age

Precision medicine requires intimate knowledge of the patient in order to develop personalized treatments. But not all patients are willing to give their data to precision medicine companies. Sage Bionetworks CCO John Wilbanks explores data ownership and informed... View Details

26 Feb 2020
Podcast

Richard Florida: the creative class in the age of the superstar city

Nearly twenty years ago, Richard Florida famously identified the “creative class,” an amalgamation of knowledge workers and those in the arts, culture, and design fields. He established creativity as a basic economic force. Amid increasing inequality and unstable work... View Details

January 2025
Teaching Note

Population Aging in the U.S.: Is America Ready for the 'Silver Tsunami?'

By: Marco Tabellini

January 2025
Case

Population Aging in the U.S.: Is America Ready for the 'Silver Tsunami?'

By: Marco Tabellini

Article

Democracy and Its Discontents: Contesting Suffrage Rights in Gilded Age New York

By: Sven Beckert

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2019
Book

The Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power

By: Michael A. Cusumano, Annabelle Gawer and David B. Yoffie

The Business of Platforms explores the strategic, economic, and technology management challenges of digital platform businesses. We have five major themes in the book: 1) The world’s most valuable companies are all platforms, in part because platforms have... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Technology; Platform; Internet and the Web; Management; Competitive Strategy; Digital Platforms

1988
Book

In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power

By: S. Zuboff

Keywords: Power and Influence; Information Technology

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Article

Effects of Cultural Ethnicity, Firm Size, and Firm Age on Senior Executives' Trust in Their Overseas Business Partners: Evidence from China

By: Crystal Jiang, Roy Y.J. Chua, Masaaki Kotabe and Janet Murray

We investigate trust relationships between senior business executives and their overseas partners. Drawing on the similarity-attraction paradigm, social-categorization theory, and the distinction between cognition- and affect-based trust, we argue that executives trust... View Details

Keywords: Ethnicity; Culture; Management Teams; Cognition and Thinking; Networks; Globalized Firms and Management; Partners and Partnerships; Business Growth and Maturation; Size; Trust; China