Managing Across Cultures - 3rd ed.

Niccolò Francalanci, General Manager – EMEA & Americas of Ludovico Martelli S.p.A., the maker of Italian Marvis toothpaste, found himself at a crossroads. Francalanci, an experienced marketer, had assumed his current leadership role nearly four ye...

Social networks play a role in exacerbating or ameliorating inequality. The persistence of network-based inequality is well documented. However, the mechanisms that disrupt this unequal access to resources remain poorly understood. This study inve...

Caroline Schmidt, 55, chief strategy officer of Edelweiss Corporation, has just led her company through a remarkable turnaround. When Henri Vonlanthen, CEO of Léman Corporation – a company twice Edelweiss's size – invites her to join Léman's board...

Many companies around the world have made significant progress in adding a higher proportion of board directors from traditionally underrepresented groups, such as women and people of color. But despite the increased diversity, many boards lag on ...

The Bankamoda case looks at due diligence in the impact investing context. The protagonist, Estefanía Abello, is a Colombia-based senior associate at the Swiss AlphaMundi Group (AMG), an impact first but very commercially minded impact investor th...

Societal gender role norms play a crucial role in shaping men's and women's career aspirations. However, prior research documenting this key role of gendered norms has primarily focused on heterosexual women and men in the global North-West. Previ...

Over the past years profound changes in the public sentiment and policy environment suggest the beginning of a new era with reversal attitudes towards globalization. Deglobalization which is commonly defined as the process of decreasing interdepen...