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How Transparent Should Boards Be?

Jim Heskett asks: As a director for HP, would you have dismissed the CEO? Why?

Multinational Firms, Labor Market Discrimination, and the Capture of Competitive Advantage by Exploiting the Social Divide

Multinationals gain significant competitive opportunities by scanning the host-market social landscape and hiring members of excluded groups to positions of management responsibility. Research by Jordan I. Siegel, Lynn Pyun, and B.Y. Cheon.

Featured Cases

Water Shortage and Property Investing In Mexico City

by John D. Macomber, Regina Garcia-Cuellar, Griffin H. James

A real estate fund manager assesses investment prospects in Mexico City in the context of a major water supply and distribution crisis. She must also consider how the fund might extend her assessment to infrastructure issues in other cities and countries with potential investment opportunities.

Emotiv Systems Inc.: It's the Thoughts that Count

by Elie Ofek, Jason Riis, Paul Hamilton

Emotiv, an unknown startup, is getting ready to launch its innovative brain-computer interfacing (BCI) technology and highly sophisticated software that can translate a person's emotions, cognitive thoughts and facial expressions into digital outcomes. The case allows students to analyze the launch of a completely novel technology.