1299 Posts found for Source: strategy+business

Article discusses the controversy of whether companies should estimate the present value of employee stock options, when granted, and then account for them as a current expense. Though the article is a little dated (referring to an old FASB proposal), the issues addressed continue to be relevant.

Content: Article | Authors: Amy P. Sweeney, Patricia M. Dechow, Richard G. Sloan | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Accounting, Corporate Governance

Head of Rhone-Poulenc, France’s chemical giant; previously C.E.O. of the largest French consulting firm

Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management | Industry: Chemicals

Short article centers on a traditional 2×2 consulting matrix for purchasing, with the price as the x-axis and cooperation as the y-axis. This high-level analysis is interesting in that it was published in early 1996 before the huge SCM craze.

Editor’s Note: This is part 1 of a 3-part series.
Part 2: “Systems, Modules or Components? New Light on Purchasing”
Part 3, “Setting Supplier … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Timothy M. Laseter | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Operations

A good look at why people resist change, drawing largely from the book “Managing at the Speed of Change” by Daryl R. Conner. Offers more insight on why people resist change than on how to counter the resistance.

Content: Article | Authors: Daryl R. Conner, Jay Marshall | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Change Management

“Even the best strategies do not implement themselves” is the pithy opening sentence of this article. The authors suggest that many management systems come up short because they focus too narrowly on measurements and results. Measurement is not management, as they put it. Instead, they argue in favor of the Booz-Allen system, Performance Management, that continuously analyzes decision-making and draws on intra-company relationships rather than … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: John K. Shank, Paul A. Branstad, Walter G. Jewett Jr. | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Consulting / Analytical Tools, Management

Lecturer at Harvard, academic director of the Managing Innovation program at Stanford University and a visiting professor at the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training

author guru of organizational learning and former employee of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies

Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management

During his long and fruitful career, Warren Bennis has been a student, soldier, scholar, university provost, university president, student of leadership and group dynamics and distinguished professor.

Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training

visiting professor at the London Business School, co-author of “Competing for the Future” with C.K. Prahalad

Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training

James Bryant Conant Professor Emeritus of Education and Organizational Behavior at Harvard University

Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training

Citibank Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, a private think tank in New Mexico

Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training

Thomas D. Dee Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University

Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training

Ford Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Has been called “The Great Debunker,” a title won from journalists and colleagues for subjecting the gloomy profession’s fads and fashions, and much of its commonly accepted wisdom, to the sharp edge of his analysis.

Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training

co-director of Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the school’s John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor in Cognition and Education; developed the concept of multiple intelligences.

Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training

chairman and chief executive officer of France Telecom

Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management | Industry: Telecommunications

Author and Class of 1960 Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School.

Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training

Part scientist, part artist and part philosopher, John Seely Brown is chief scientist of the Xerox Corporation and director of its Palo Alto Research Center, better known as PARC.

Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management | Industry: Other

M.B.A. Class of 1952 Distinguished Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School

Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training

Charles Handy is Europe’s best known and most influential management thinker. In an interview with Joel Kurtzman, editor of Strategy & Business, Mr. Handy elaborates on his concept of ‘membership community’ for the corporate model of the future. ‘Corporations are not things, they are the people who run them,’ he says. ‘In order to hold people inside the corporation, we can’t really talk about them … [ Read more ]

Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management | Industry: Other

Priceline.com’s founder and vice chairman

Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management