An Offshoring Model to Create Better Value: Interview with Narayana Murthy
Narayana Murthy, cofounder of Infosys, the global IT services company based in India, consistently makes the list of most admired/most respected/most powerful global leaders, being named one of BusinessWeek’s Stars of Asia as well as one of Time’s top 10 global leaders who are helping to shape the future of technology. Here he talks innovation, offshoring and social responsibility with IESE’s Sandra Sieber.
Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Narayana Murthy, Sandra Sieber | Source: “IESE Insight” | Subjects: Miscellaneous, People
Tea and Empathy with Daniel Goleman
The author of Emotional Intelligence says business leaders will need greater interpersonal awareness in an era of corporate transparency.
Content: Article | Authors: Daniel Goleman, Lawrence M. Fisher | Source: “strategy+business” | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, People
Ten Commandments from Entrepreneurial ‘Evangelist’ Guy Kawasaki
Venture capitalist, consultant and former Apple software “evangelist” Guy Kawasaki talked about “the art of innovation” during a recent visit to the University of Pennsylvania. He offered 10 rules for entrepreneurs and innovators.
Content: Article | Author: Guy Kawasaki | Source: “Knowledge@Wharton” | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, People
The House That Ogilvy Built
The legendary advertising innovator David Ogilvy created an enduring organization using culture, integrity, and charm.
Content: Article | Author: Kenneth Roman | Source: “strategy+business” | Subjects: History, People
Commodore: The Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
The latest from Renehan, author most recently of a much-praised biography of another titan of 19th-century business, Jay Gould, is a thorough look at Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794–1877), who rose from nothing to amass one of the great fortunes in American history (more than $158 billion in 2005 dollars) in the burgeoning steamship and railroad industries. A brilliant, vicious businessman with little education, manners or patience … [ Read more ]
Content: Book | Author: Edward J. Renehan Jr. | Subjects: History, People
A conversation with entrepreneur and software engineer Marc Andreessen
A conversation with Marc Andreessen, co-founder and chairman of Ning and an investor in several startups including Digg, Plazes, and Twitter. Best known as co-author of Mosaic, and founder of Netscape. He is on the Board of Directors of Facebook and eBay.
Content: Multimedia Content | Authors: Charlie Rose, Marc Andreessen | Source: “PBS” | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, People
Myself and Other More Important Matters
Management guru Handy quotes Voltaire, How infinitesimal is the importance of anything I do, but how infinitely important it is that I do it. That combination of modesty and determination underlies this autobiography from title to final page. Born in 1932, raised in Ireland and educated at Oxford, Handy disappointed his family by entering trade for Shell Oil in Asia. Returning to London, he embarked … [ Read more ]
Content: Book | Author: Charles Handy | Subject: People
Charlie Rose Interviews Michael Porter
Charlie Rose interviews strategy Guru Michael Porter of Harvard Business School on his PBS show.
Editor’s Note: The Porter interview comes after an interview with Henry Kissinger…
Content: Multimedia Content | Authors: Charlie Rose, Michael E. Porter | Source: “PBS” | Subjects: People, Strategy
10 new gurus you should know
You’ve heard of Peter Drucker, Jim Collins, and C.K. Prahalad. Here we introduce the next generation of management experts who are changing the way business gets done.
Content: Article | Source: “FORTUNE” | Subject: People
Pankaj Ghemawat: The Thought Leader Interview
The seer of “semiglobalization” argues for appreciating regional distinctions.
Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Art Kleiner, Pankaj Ghemawat | Source: “strategy+business” | Subjects: International, People
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
In this startlingly frank account of Buffett’s life, Schroeder, a former managing director at Morgan Stanley—and hand picked by Buffett to be his biographer—strips away the mystery that has long cloaked the word’s richest man to reveal a life and fortune erected around lucid and inspired business vision and unimaginable personal complexity. In a book that is dominated by unstinting descriptions of Buffett’s appetites—for profit, … [ Read more ]
Content: Book | Author: Alice Schroeder | Subject: People
Seeing beyond the woman: An interview with a pioneering academic and board member
Sandra Dawson addresses the changing role of women in business over the last 40 years.
Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Mary C. Meaney, Sandra Dawson | Source: “McKinsey Quarterly” | Subjects: People, Women in Business
Updating a Classic: Writing a Great Business Plan
Harvard Business School professor William A. Sahlman’s article on how to write a great business plan is a Harvard Business Review classic, and has just been reissued in book form. Now a decade old, we asked Sahlman what he would change if he wrote the article today.
Content: Article | Authors: Sean Silverthorne, William A. Sahlman | Source: “Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge” | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, People
Malcolm Gladwell: What we can learn from spaghetti sauce
Tipping Point author Malcolm Gladwell gets inside the food industry’s pursuit of the perfect spaghetti sauce — and makes a larger argument about the nature of choice and happiness.
Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Malcolm Gladwell | Source: “TED Conferences LLC” | Subjects: Market Research, Marketing / Sales, People
Howard Gardner Does Good Work
The originator of multiple intelligence theory prescribes a code of ethics for business.
Content: Article | Authors: Howard E. Gardner, Lawrence M. Fisher | Source: “strategy+business” | Subjects: Ethics, People
Edward E. Lawler III
Most companies are operated in ways that downplay the importance of people. They have bureaucratic structures that optimize the value of financial capital, machinery, equipment, and natural resources, at the expense of talent development and the opportunity for people to use their skills. Work processes are designed with simplified, standardized jobs, and individuals are controlled through well-defined hierarchical reporting relationships, highly monitored budgets, and close … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Author: Edward E. Lawler III | Source: “strategy+business” | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior, People
Nondestructive Creation
Nobel laureate Edmund Phelps says that Joseph Schumpeter was wrong: Entrepreneurship can generate stable growth.
Content: Article | Author: Glenn Hubbard | Source: “strategy+business” | Subjects: Economics, Entrepreneurship, People
Exploring Business’s Social Contract: An Interview with Daniel Yankelovich
A founding father of public-opinion research explains why shareholder value isn’t enough.
Content: Article | Authors: Daniel Yankelovich, Lenny T. Mendonca, Matt Miller | Source: “McKinsey Quarterly” | Subjects: Management, People, Strategy
The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy: An Interview with Michael E. Porter
Michael Porter published an article in the January 2008 Harvard Business Review updating his famous five forces model. Here is an interview with him (12:57 minutes) on the relevance of the 5 Forces in today’s world.
Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Michael E. Porter | Source: “Harvard Business School (HBS)” | Subjects: People, Strategy
Saudi Arabia’s Global Investor: An interview with Prince Alwaleed
The biggest individual foreign investor in the United States discusses the pace of reform in Saudi Arabia, his investments, and the future of Islam.
Content: Thought Leader | Author: Kito de Boer | Source: “McKinsey Quarterly” | Subject: People | Industry: Investing