Economics

Urban Company (UC) was a digital labour platform that connected consumers with service providers (referred to as "partners" by UC) for home services such...

The case is set in 2023. The protagonist is Elon Musk, CEO and Technoking of Tesla, Inc. The vertically-integrated clean technology company designs, develops,...

Details Whirlpool's initial years in China and illustrates the problems that a global industry leader can face while entering a new, developing market...

Jim McDowell, VP of marketing at BMW North America, is debating how to follow up the success of his latest marketing campaign, "BMWFilms." This campaign...

China's oil industry, with majority ownership vested in the government, had engaged in an "equity oil" strategy for the past few years--acquiring equity...

KTM is a small motorcycle manufacturing company located in Austria. As a result of difficult economic conditions in 1999, KTM went private with the help...

The case is set in 2023; the protagonist is Chris Kempczinski, CEO of McDonald's Corporation. McDonald's is the world's largest hamburger fast-food restaurant...

The in-coming Social Democrat-Green coalition government in Sweden cancelled a decades-long arms treaty with the Saudi Arabia, on the grounds of the latter's...

This series of six short two-part cases ("caselets") is written to highlight workplace dynamics faced by women professionals. Women represent about half...

This case series deals with an executive education institution and its entrepreneurial-minded leader on the 25th anniversary of the institution. Central...

Supplements the (A) case.

This case describes the history of Desko, a Canadian manufacturer of wood office furniture, as it faced a crisis that threatened its own existence. The...

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Supplement to case 616020

Washington Mutual issued 6 billion Euro of covered bonds in 2006. The objective of the case is to ask whether these bonds are mispriced in late 2008....

An entrepreneur comes up with a great idea for a new business that would service what he calls "the time-starved" segment. Using Wal-Mart as the warehouse,...

Describes three years of the Volcker monetary policy experiment. The Federal Reserve changed the focus by its operating procedure from an interest rate...

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At the age of 39, Solmaz Altın took over the helm at Allianz Turkey. Solmaz quickly realized that, although the insurance market was thinly penetrated...

The organizational structures of many multinational corporations are inadequate to the task of capitalizing on opportunities in emerging markets. Locating...

Business realities demand that organizations place a strategic emphasis on developing knowledge workers and becoming a learning organization. Numerous...

That is, if businesses embrace a circular economy.

The “boring” world of institutional investment is ripe with possibility.

It’s disaster in the desert. Late last week, Dubai World quasi-defaulted — and took the Emirate’s credibility with it. Will Dubai meet its obligations? It’s the question the beancounters of the universe are nervously asking. As usual, it’s the wrong question. Dubai was a mini-America: finance and real estate made up the lion’s share of […]

How they can help overcome partisanship and special interests.

What companies need to know.

Avi Goldfarb, a professor at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, explains the economics of machine learning, a branch of artificial intelligence that makes predictions. He says as prediction gets cheaper and better, machines are going to be doing more of it. That means businesses — and individual workers — need to figure out how to take advantage of the technology to stay competitive. Goldfarb is the coauthor of the book “Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence.”

Entrepreneurs sit on the sidelines for fear of innocently running afoul of the law.