102 Posts found for Source: FORTUNE

chairman and former CEO of Intel

Content: Thought Leader | Source: FORTUNE | Subject: Management | Industry: Semiconductor

Corporate earnings are as much opinion as fact. Here’s a radical way to fix the problem.

Content: Article | Author: Jerry Useem | Source: FORTUNE | Subjects: Accounting, Finance

It’s not sex. It’s not drinking. It’s stress–and it’s soaring.

Content: Article | Author: Cora Daniels | Source: FORTUNE | Subjects: Human Resources, Miscellaneous

A ‘rank and yank’ system like GE’s is based on a bell curve. It assumes a random sampling, which a company is not.

Content: Article | Author: Anne Fisher | Source: FORTUNE | Subjects: Human Resources, Management

CEOs offer every excuse but the right one: their own errors. Here are ten mistakes to avoid.

Content: Article | Authors: Jerry Useem, Ram Charan | Source: FORTUNE | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Trends / Analysis

Knowledge isn’t power; the ability to act on knowledge is power.

Most firms grossly overinvest in technologies that let people see what’s going on and dramatically underinvest in delegation and true empowerment.

Content: Quotation | Source: FORTUNE | Subjects: Knowledge, Power / Authority

What is the Big Lie of the Information Age? That knowledge is power…

Content: Article | Author: Michael Schrage | Source: FORTUNE | Subjects: Knowledge Management, Management

“A good name for every compensation consulting firm would be Ratchet Ratchet & Ratchet. Any other kind of consultant you can think of is brought in to try to cut costs. The basic goal of compensation consultants is to justify whatever it is the CEO wants to make. After all, who’s going to recommend these consultants to other CEOs? Not the little old lady in … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Carol J. Loomis | Source: FORTUNE | Subject: Corporate Governance

Grading employees via forced rankings is a valuable management tool, say many companies. A slew of employees beg to differ.

Content: Article | Author: Matthew Boyle | Source: FORTUNE | Subjects: Human Resources, Management

Sure, if caring brings a profit. And businesses are discovering that it pays to be concerned about society.

Content: Article | Author: Geoffrey Colvin | Source: FORTUNE | Subject: Social Responsibility (ESG)

The assets that really count are the ones accountants can’t count–yet. Here’s one way to put a dollar value on corporate knowledge.

Content: Article | Author: Thomas A. Stewart | Source: FORTUNE | Subjects: Accounting, Finance

The conversion rate captures the crucial aspects of a Website. A small increase in it can have powerful effects.

Content: Article | Author: Bill Gurley | Source: FORTUNE | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Management

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In June, 1998, almost nothing at Seagate was going right. After years in which Seagate had enjoyed comfortable technical leadership in drives for high-performance computers, competitors including IBM and Quantum were catching up. The volume part of the business, hard disks for personal computers, was overloaded with production capacity and glutted with inventory. The largest customers, the computer makers, were demanding not only more … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Philip Siekman | Sources: eCompany Now, FORTUNE | Subject: Change Management

Two experts argue that the MBA is heavy on the ‘B’ and light on the ‘A’–teaching business functions, not the practice of administering.

Content: Article | Authors: Henry Mintzberg, Joseph Lampel | Source: FORTUNE | Subject: MBA Related

Fortune uncovers 12 truths about how the Net really changes business in this six-part article. The 12: (1) The Internet isn’t as “disruptive” as we thought; (2) If it doesn’t make cents, it doesn’t make sense; (3) Time favors incumbents; (4) Making a market is harder than it looks; (5) There is no such thing as “Internet time”; (6) “Branding” is not a strategy; … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Jerry Useem | Source: FORTUNE | Subject: IT / Technology / E-Business

No, it’s not the person behind Benchmark’s $2.5 billion payoff with eBay. Try Kleiner Perkins’ Vinod Kholsa, who parlayed a less than $5 million investment into Juniper Networks into shares worth more than $8 billion.

Content: Article | Author: Melanie Warner | Source: FORTUNE | Subjects: People, Venture Capital

What are the best products and services in e-commerce, e-hardware and at-home tech? Fortune magazine puts together a wide-ranging and handy guide.

Content: Article | Source: FORTUNE | Subject: Productivity / Work Tips

Fortune set out to discover why incubators aren’t the model for creating the next wave of great companies. Incubators claim that they provide an atmosphere that encourages growth, but what happens if a company falls behind? Equity is the price of admission, as is potential loss of control and maybe your job. Incubators can confer instant credibility on startups–but which ones, and for how long? … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Maggie Overfelt, Peter Carbonara | Source: FORTUNE | Subject: Entrepreneurship

Fortune columnist Stanley Bing humorously applies Netownian mechanics to the world of business to explain among other things how a person’s height, cost of suit, size of office and number of direct reports equates to his power.

Content: Article | Author: Stanley Bing | Source: FORTUNE | Subject: Amusement / Leisure