Avie Glazer
CEO, Zapata;
this is an article about Zapata’s foray into the Internet arena but along the way it provides a lot of interesting background info on Avie and Malcolm Glazer (his father).
Content: Thought Leader | Source: Business 2.0 | Subject: Management
How to Think With Your Gut
A look at the power of intutive decision-making; induction, deduction and abduction; and matching decision-making to the four types of problems.
Content: Article | Authors: Nancy Einhart, Thomas A. Stewart | Source: Business 2.0 | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior
6 Rules for a Happy Marriage … uh, Partnership
As in any relationship, the keys are respect, long-term commitment, and not asking the lawyers to settle your differences.
Content: Article | Author: Rosabeth Moss Kanter | Source: Business 2.0 | Subjects: Management, Strategy
The Power of Optimal Pricing
New software calculates precisely how much you should charge to squeeze maximum profit from every product, at any time.
Content: Article | Author: Amy Cortese | Source: Business 2.0 | Subjects: Marketing / Sales, Pricing
Videogames vs. Hollywood
Is TiVo Bad for Business?
Local Fixed-Line and Wirless Telephone Consumer Spending
What Makes a Great Leader?
We locked two of the smartest management thinkers on earth (Jim Collins and Clayton Christensen) in a room with each other (and 275 readers) and asked them this question. Here’s how they answered.
Content: Article | Author: Joshua Macht | Source: Business 2.0 | Subjects: Leadership, People
Rehearsing for Success
Want to win your next negotiation? Role-playing, that much-maligned management technique, could actually do the trick.
Content: Article | Author: Dylan Tweney | Source: Business 2.0 | Subject: Negotiation
What’s an MBA Really Worth?
It will cost more than $100,000 to earn a degree at an elite business school. Just one problem: There’s little real evidence that it will enhance your career.
Content: Article | Author: Andy Raskin | Source: Business 2.0 | Subjects: MBA Related, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources
Tomorrow Belongs to Them
New graduates of the nation’s top business schools still believe it’s the ticket to a rich life.
Content: Article | Author: Damon Darlin | Source: Business 2.0 | Subject: MBA Related
Your Inventory Wants to Talk to You
In a few years, a new generation of electronic sensors called RFID tags will track your inventory, stock your shelves, pinpoint enemy soldiers — and even (perhaps) do your laundry.
Editor’s Note: for a good overview of RFID, see the European Business Forum (EBF) article “Had a chat with your refrigerator lately?” at:
Content: Article | Author: Mark Roberti | Source: Business 2.0 | Subject: Operations
To Get Ahead, Get Mad
Studies suggest that a little anger can take your career a long way.
Content: Article | Author: Joshua Macht | Source: Business 2.0 | Subject: Career
Taking the Measure of Customer Loyalty
Reuben Mark
Tired of celebrity execs who ruin companies and flee with stock options? Meet Colgate’s Reuben Mark, who shuns publicity and has a better record than Jack Welch.
Content: Thought Leader | Source: Business 2.0 | Subject: Management | Industry: Consumer Products
How to Get the Geeks and the Suits to Play Nice
Voyant Technologies was struggling to get ahead — until the CEO persuaded his engineers and his MBAs to work together.
Content: Article | Author: Stephanie Clifford | Source: Business 2.0 | Subjects: Best Practices, Organizational Behavior
Inside the (Twisted) Mind of the Average Consumer
Classic economics assumes that people always act rationally when it comes to money. Behavioral economists like Dan Ariely are proving that the truth is much stranger.
Content: Article | Author: Paul Keegan | Source: Business 2.0 | Subjects: Economics, Marketing / Sales
Jim Collins
Of all the persistently good companies we studied in Good to Great, only one was led by a CEO who had an MBA. The most common academic background, oddly enough, was law. I asked one of the CEOs how law school helped prepare him to be a business leader, and he replied, “It taught me to ask the right questions rather than come up with … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Source: Business 2.0 | Subjects: Leadership, Legal
Technophobia Over the Years
Historically, the courts have refused to let copyrights block technology.
Content: Article | Author: Matthew Maier | Source: Business 2.0 | Subject: Legal
Charlie Feld
Content: Thought Leader | Source: Business 2.0 | Subject: Management | Industry: Information Technology