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We’ve rounded up recommendations for eight books that have held our... View Details

16 Jan 2020
News

How Global Leaders Should Think About Solving Our Biggest Problems

March 2019
Supplement

The Atlanta Opera (B): New (and Old) Challenges

By: Michael L. Tushman and Kerry Herman

January–February 2015
Article

Heroic Villains: Are Foreign Investors Problems or Solutions in the Ebola Crisis?

By: Debora L. Spar

For months, the news out of West Africa has been unrelentingly grim. As of early December, the devastating Ebola epidemic had infected a reported 17,942 people and killed 6,388, according to the World Health Organization (WHO); the actual toll, which would also account... View Details

Keywords: Ebola; Multinational Corporation; Epidemics; Foreign Investment; Extractive Industries; Multinational Firms and Management; Health Pandemics; Developing Countries and Economies; Government and Politics; Africa

Article

A Theory of Predation Based on Agency Problems in Financial Contracting

By: David S. Scharfstein and Patrick Bolton

Keywords: Theory; Problems and Challenges; Finance; Contracts

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10 Dec 2012
News

How Nonprofits Can Use Data to Solve the World’s Problems

29 Oct 2015
News

Walgreens-Rite Aid merger would pose challenge to CVS

May 26, 2021
Article

The Challenge of Rebuilding U.S. Domestic Supply Chains

By: Willy C. Shih, Robert S. Huckman and James Wyner

Massachusetts-based Shawmut scrambled to expand production to meet the soaring demand for N95 masks and hospital gowns during the pandemic. Its experience illustrates a crucial point that policymakers should take to heart: Once a country loses its industrial commons... View Details

Keywords: Supply Chain; Health Pandemics; Production; Management; United States

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2018
Race & 21st century economy: Access, investments and institution-building

The Persistent Problem of the Color Line: Researching Race in the 21st Century

August 2005 (Revised September 2007)
Teaching Note

Financial Reporting Problems at Molex, Inc. (TN) (A), (B) & (C)

By: Paul M. Healy

Keywords: Financial Reporting; Problems and Challenges; Accounting Industry

24 May 2021
News

The Challenge of Rebuilding U.S. Domestic Supply Chains

09 Apr 2020
News

3 Major Coronavirus Challenges for Pay TV

November 1988 (Revised March 1990)
Case

Progressive Corp.: Coping with the Problem of Dual Career Parents (A)

By: Shoshana Zuboff

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Work-Life Balance; Problems and Challenges

02 Mar 2016
What Do You Think?

Is Apple’s Real Privacy Challenge Technology Innovation Itself?

Silicon Valley deceiving itself in thinking that security and privacy in the use of its products can be preserved? Is Apple’s refusal to unlock the phone, as important as it is to its business future, anything more than an effort to delay... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

January–February 2024
Article

The Challenge of Maintaining Passion for Work over Time: A Daily Perspective on Passion and Emotional Exhaustion

By: Joy Bredehorst, Kai Krautter, Jirs Meuris and Jon M. Jachimowicz

Passion for work is highly coveted, but many employees report struggling to maintain their passion over time. In the current research, we explain the challenge of pursuing passion by conceptualizing passion as an attribute with temporal variation. Viewed through a... View Details

Keywords: Passion; Work-Life Balance; Employees; Emotions