1297 Posts found for Source: strategy+business

MIT’s theorist of productivity draws a link between innovation in management practice and ongoing prosperity.

Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Education, People

India’s Tata, one of the world’s largest conglomerates, is basing an ambitious global strategy on 142 years of social entrepreneurship.

Content: Case Study | Author: Ann Graham | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Social Responsibility (ESG) | Company: Tata

To avoid swinging between over-exuberance and excessive caution, set a disciplined target for your desired investment outcomes.

Content: Article | Authors: Alan Gemes, Peter Golder | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Risk Management

The educational pedigree of CEOs has no bearing on the long-term success of their companies.

Content: Article | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Corporate Governance

Researchers find no connection between improved overall firm performance and the offering of stock option compensation to rank-and-file workers.

Content: Article | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Corporate Governance, Finance, Organizational Behavior

In interviews conducted before his untimely death, C.K. Prahalad — the sage of core competencies and the bottom of the pyramid — looked back on his career and talked about the way ideas evolve.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Art Kleiner, C.K. Prahalad | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management

Reality is what we pay attention to, but measurement requires classification and classification requires abstraction. By paying attention to abstractions, we grasp the generic, but only at the expense of understanding the particular. This means that we lose the smell, feel, and touch of what’s going on right here, right now. And with that loss of the sensual, we lose our ability to respond quickly … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: David K. Hurst | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Management, Measurement, Observations

Great empires are not built by people who see two sides to every question.

Content: Quotation | Author: David K. Hurst | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Decision Making, Thought, Vision

In trying to make sense of economic uncertainty, it pays to look beyond conventional wisdom for an explanatory theory of the hidden fundamentals that can drive or hinder growth. Hence this interview.

Mark Anderson is the editor, publisher, and chief correspondent of the Strategic News Service newsletter, one of the most incisive publications in its field. Ostensibly about the future of the computer and communications industries, … [ Read more ]

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Art Kleiner, Mark Anderson | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Economics, Trends / Analysis

The office-furniture design leader is betting on innovation as it continues to push the envelope of management practice.

Content: Case Study | Author: Bill Birchard | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management | Company: Herman Miller

Much-needed guidance on making companies more employee-centered, adaptive, and capable.

Content: Article | Author: Andrea Gabor | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management

Corning Inc.’s process for developing inventive products actually works, a claim that few companies can make.

Content: Case Study | Author: William J. Holstein | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Innovation | Company: Corning Inc.

If your aspirations are not greater than your resources, you’re not an entrepreneur. For large companies to be entrepreneurial, they have to create aspirations greater than their resources. You can call it “strategy as stretch” or “strategic intent.”

Content: Quotation | Author: C.K. Prahalad | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Entrepreneurship

The test of a good, powerful piece is when people say, “But it’s so obvious.” You agonize and agonize and then somebody says, “But it’s obvious.” When I was younger, I used to get so irritated by that. Now I think it’s the highest compliment you can get.

Content: Quotation | Author: C.K. Prahalad | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Communication

To change an organization from within, it helps to understand four basic circulatory systems, analogous to the channels of communication in a living body.

Content: Article | Author: Art Kleiner | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Organizational Behavior

In every company, there are really two organizations at work: the informal and the formal. High-performance companies mobilize their informal organizations while maintaining and adding formal structures, balancing the two.

Content: Article | Authors: Jon R. Katzenbach, Zia Khan | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior | Company: Campbell Soup Company

The lessons of history suggest that if we want to reduce poverty in emerging markets, regulation reform and business success are prerequisites, not outcomes.

Content: Article | Authors: R. Glenn Hubbard, William Duggan | Source: strategy+business | Subject: History

Thoughts on the 50th anniversary of one of the most influential contributions to management theory.

Content: Article | Author: Matthew Stewart | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Organizational Behavior

The annual review from strategy+business: Clive Crook on The Meltdown, Charles Handy on Leadership, Phil Rosenzweig on Strategy, Ayesha Khanna and Parag Khanna on Globalization, Judith F. Samuelson on Management, Catharine P. Taylor on Marketing, Steven Levy on Technology, and James O’Toole on Biography.

Content: Article | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Miscellaneous

Managing author Henry Mintzberg believes that to improve business schools, we must first understand the essence of what managers do.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Art Kleiner, Henry Mintzberg | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Management, People