Building Ethical Business Cultures: BRIC by BRIC
By Alexandre Ardichvili, Douglas Jondle, Jack Wiley, Edgard Cornacchione, Jessica Li & Thomas Thakadipuram
As the economies of Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRICs) continue...
A ‘Sigh of Relief’ at Davos: Confidence and Caution Shared Center Stage
By Michael Useem
“Wharton management professor Michael Useem, returning from his 11th trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos, reports that confidence in the...
Why Our Decisions Get Derailed and How to Get Back on Track
By Francesca Gino
The Ducati motorcycle racing team, Ducati Corse, decided to compete in a motorcycle racing circuit, the MotoGP, for the first time in...
Predictive Analytics: New-generation Strategic Decision Support
By Tobias Klatt & Klaus Moeller
Environmental turbulence has be- come a key challenge for companies’ strategic planning. Planning results remain arbitrary and risky, and...
Unlocking Innovation Through Business Experimentation
By Stefan Thomke
There is a downside to businesses that focus heavily on standardization, optimization, and driving out variability: Such organizations leave themselves vulnerable to...
Flexibility to Improve Forecast Accuracy
By Karin Bursa
To succeed in a business economy shaped by uncertain demand and rapid market changes, companies must be able to sense and adapt...
DAFZA Offers Highly Developed Infrastructure and Quality Services to European Companies
Established in 1996 as a part of the Dubai Government’s strategic plan to be an investment driven economy, DAFZA is one of the fastest...
Structuring Your Organization to Meet Global Aspirations
By Suzanne Heywood & Roni Katz
The matrix structure is here to stay, but its complexity can be minimized, and companies can get more value...
Making Corporate Learning Work
By Shlomo Ben-Hur & Nik Kinley
Corporate Learning functions are under pressure to deliver like never before. Yet studies have repeatedly shown that business leaders’...
The Silicon Valleys of Latin America – searching for “Shared Value” development models
By Luciano Ciravegna
Between 2003 and 2012 Latin America has lived through an unprecedented period of stability and positive economic performance. A region once associated...
Who Innovates Out of the Crisis?
By Daniele Archibugi, Andrea Filippetti and Marion Frenz
The recent economic crisis has severely reduced the short-term willingness of firms to invest in innovation. But...
Accelerating Your Worldwide Business with a Hub in Switzerland
By Aargau Services Economic Promotion
Switzerland has a stable, prosperous and high-tech economy thanks to its liberal economic system, its political stability, its high quality...
Luxury is a necessity in People’s Republic of China: Social Rejection of New Wealth...
By Pierre Xiao Lu
Research Phenomena
China is the second largest market for luxury goods in the world, behind the US and before Japan1. More...
Innovation and Integration for an Environmentally Friendly Alberta
Alberta is committed to responsible energy production – because Albertans and Canadians expect nothing less.
Located in Western Canada, Alberta is a province rich with...
Disagreement to Convergence: Wisdom in Diversity
By Adam Kingl
Teams typically desire harmony above all. The most common fear is that of conflict. The assumption is that conflict and effectiveness are...
Leading The Capability Revolution
By Jonathan Trevor
These are revolutionary times, we believe, and our established notions of leadership, many of which are more romantic than functional, must change...
Board of Directors Oversight of Leadership Risk
By Patrick R. Dailey and Charles H. Bishop
The practice of Enterprise Risk Management was born as a consequence of the Enron collapse in...
You Must Own Your Reputation: Networking, Entrepreneurship and Reputation
By Jim Pulcrano
Reputation is owned by the people who gossip about you1.
This disquieting statement is by one of the preeminent researchers in the field...
Softscaling: A New Growth Strategy for Volatile Environments
By Ritu Agarwal and Peter Weill
In an increasingly volatile world what were tried and true business maxims yesterday probably won’t work today. Just think...
The Benefits of Trusting More (with reservations)
By J. Keith Murnighan
Trust is critical for leaders. Without trust, leadership is impossible. The problem, however, is that trust always entails risk.
“Every stranger is...
Reclaiming the Battlefield of Consumer Influence
By Paul F. Nunes and Joshua B. Bellin
Companies are increasingly finding their marketing messages contradicted – or worse, turned against them – by a...
Going for Gold in the Productivity Olympics? Your Choices in Reward Administration are Business...
By James Markham
In my previous article (ref: TEBR July/August 2012 edition), I argued that organisations are not paying enough attention to how the Reward...
Gamifying E-Commerce: Gaming and Social-Networking Induced Loyalty
By Yasmin Razavi, Bernard Ho and Mark S. Fox
Introduction and Motivation
Customer loyalty has been an ongoing concern of retail companies and with the...
The Hedgehog Effect: Building High Performance Teams
By Manfred Kets de Vries
You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it within himself. — Galileo Galilee
The organizations we...
Transforming Employee Performance One Coaching Conversation at a Time
By Brian Souza
Why is it that so many good people are such bad managers? It’s an interesting question, isn’t it? Often when I give...
Revenue Performance Management As A Business Growth Strategy
By Phil Fernandez
For more than a decade, I have had a mantra that has guided my personal approach to leadership. It goes like this:...
Leadership Development and The High Performing Team: The Wharton Leadership Program
By Jeff Klein
One thing that I’ve never needed to convince an incoming Wharton MBA student is that they should become a leader.
By now, our...
Simpler Organisation Designs Improve Company Performance and Employee Motivation
By Simon Collinson, Melvin Jay & Mary Pizzey
Walmart earns $400 billion each year by serving over 100 million customers every week in 4,500 retail...
Neuroeconomics. An Emerging Field of Theory and Practice
By James Giordano, Roland Benedikter and Nadia Flores
This article gives a short, introductory overview of basic aspects of the emerging field of neuroeconomics, as...
D-Hotel Maris: the Ultimate Luxury Experience
D-Hotel Maris in Turkey combines the exotic elements of the East and modernity of the West through minimalistic style. Located in the stunning reservation...
When Spending Hurts
By Nailya Ordabayeva and Pierre Chandon
Thorstein Veblen coined the term conspicuous consumption in 1899 to describe spending with the intention of gaining social status.1...
Developing Trust and Relationships in the Supply Chain using Social Media
By Daniel E. O’Leary
Social media facilitates gathering information and knowledge from disparate sources, which in turn allows sharing of information, knowledge and plans, all...
Brand Real: How Smart Companies Live Their Brand Promise and Inspire Fierce Customer Loyalty
By Laurence Vincent
Though an act of pure fiction, there were three magical minutes of television that reminded many of us who make our careers...
Transforming the Global Supply Chain
By Carlos Cordon and Winter Nie
The rise of the emerging economies, fluctuating prices in commodities, the lingering effects of the global financial crisis and...
Making China Your Top Priority
By Gong Li, Henry Egan and Andrew Sleigh
Companies have never had such an array of options when it comes to investment opportunities in the...
Effectively Managing Innovation
By Daniel Evans
At EMLYON we have had the opportunity to help develop the innovation efforts for companies around the world. Our combined experience suggests...
The Will and Skill to be Strategic
By Patrick R. Dailey & Chuck Russell
Strategy guidance is a board’s most crucial responsibility.
With contemporary directors repeatedly being exhorted to step up their contribution...
Getting More for Less: Revolutionising the Reward “Asset” Empowering Reward to Perform Better. Are...
By James Markham
In a period of recession, most major companies look for new ways of selling or streamlining operations. Rarely, however do companies turn...
Leadership and Culture: Part 2 – Engaging the Enterprise: Creating a Growth Mindset Tribe
Mindset Tribe
By Sean Culey
Part 1 of this article (published in The European Business Review, May/June 2012) set out the case for Culture; it’s impact...
How Europe Can Rebuild Skills and Generate Growth
By Tim Cooper, Athena Peppes, Mark Purdy and Matthew Robinson
Europe is facing a jobs and unemployment crisis that is unprecedented in recent times
• Since...
Sales Growth: Five Proven Strategies from the World’s Sales Leaders
By Thomas Baumgartner and Maria Valdivieso de Uster
Achieving growth is enormously challenging in today’s complex and fast-changing business environment. But growth opportunities do exist...
The Employee Owned Business Model During Growth and Adversity: How Well Does it Hold...
By Joseph Lampel, Ajay Bhalla & Pushkar P. Jha
Criticism of modern corporate capitalism in the wake of the current economic crisis is reawakening interest...
Social Media Strategy: Learning from the Online Cola War
By Fang Liu and Willem Smit
The battle between Coca-Cola and Pepsi1 has been one of the longest and most arduous in the history of...
Reinventing Professional Services: Building Your Business in the Digital Marketplace
By Ari Kaplan
The technological landscape has reshaped the way white collar workers cultivate and promote their businesses. This article offers insights on taking advantage...
Why You Need Digital Know-How –Why We All Need It
By Howard Rheingold
We’re in a period where the cutting edge of change has moved from the technology to the literacies made possible by the...
Bigger is no Longer Better: Complexity and the New Frontier
By Andrei Perumal, Kelly Jones & Ann Bryan
The world has changed – and complexity has emerged as one of the defining issues of our...
Walking the New Corridors of Power: Positioning your Business for the Era of Emerging-Market...
By Mark Purdy, Athena Peppes, Armen Ovanessoff & Kuangyi Wei
Over the past decade, the corridors of trade and investment have increasingly been occupied by...
Mapping Human Behavior for Business
By Alexander Bentley, Mark Earls and Michael J. O’Brien
Brand data often show that “I’ll have what she’s having” is a better default setting than...
Leadership and Culture: Part 1 – The Case for Culture
By Sean Culey
Issues of corporate culture have long been of great concern to executives and management theorists alike for a simple reason; culture matters...
Needed: Executives (and Citizens) with a Global Mindset
By Nakiye A. Boyacigiller
We are facing challenges of a global nature that require global citizenship, global responsibility, and global solutions. These cannot be achieved...