By Sean Culey
In just 20 years, Amazon has grown from an online startup focusing on selling books, to a devastating multi-platform, multi-industry technological disruptor,...
By Alfredo De Massis and Federico Frattini
Family firms represent a highly ubiquitous form of business organisation globally and are the backbone of many industrialised...
By Hervé Legenvre, Francois Bacalou & Hugues Schmitz
In this article the authors discuss how the competitiveness of an organisation and the health of the...
By Johannes Habel
Many companies draw the wrong conclusions from their customer surveys. There is a simple method that can provide a remedy, leading to...
By Steven P. MacGregor
Why does management development focus almost solely on the neck up, when the demands placed on managers and executives touch every...
By Adam J. Bock and Denis Frydrych
Crowdfunding is a much-hyped tool for entrepreneurs to access capital anywhere in the world. While media and public...
By Warren Shiver and Michael Perla
For a sales organisation to reach its “ideal transformational advantage” it needs to pull the right levers in...
By Guido Stein and Marta Cuadrado
In Part One, we addressed the key reasons why companies decide to pursue merger, the reasons why many...
By Joe Peppard
While “Big data” has garnered a lot of attention over the last number of years, many managers struggle in deciding where to...
By Tijs Besieux
In this article, Tijs Besieux discusses the four steps to overcoming the Holy Grail Syndrome, which could hinder an entrepreneur’s road...
By Alex Makarevich, Christian Acosta-Flamma and Simon L. Dolan
To win in the “war for talent”, companies can no longer rely on conventional recruitment methods...
By David De Cremer and Jess Zhang
Contemporary business develops at a rapid pace, with many uncertainties, internationally connected stakeholders, and little latitude to make...
By Myra Strober
Sometimes it is only with hindsight that one understands the benefits that come from taking an entrepreneurial risk. In 1974, Myra Strober...
Innovation
Building the Everything Store: Amazon’s Cycles of Creativity and Circles of Destruction
Sean Culey
Innovation
Where do you Begin with your (Big) Data Initiative?
Joe Peppard
Crowdfunding
The Secret Life...
From the Editors
In the run up to the 12 May 2016 Anti Corruption Summit in the UK last week, the British premier let off...
“I believe that true passion has no gender and focusing on your goals and dreams helps you to overcome gender and cultural boundaries.”
Simonetta...
We women should not take such gender biases too seriously and put limitations on our career choices and ourselves.
Franziska Gsell majored in Business Administation...
We all take risks in life and that’s why working with professional coaches is important; it should not be a matter of good fortune.
Magdalena...
Through my transformative art, I’m aspiring to shift the old paradigm that governed politics, economics and society so far and destroyed human life: ‘the...
Yes! Income is key to decent living and decent living provides the necessary tools for a woman to occupy her rightful and respectable position...
I believe that true passion has no gender and focusing on your goals and dreams helps you to overcome gender and cultural boundaries.
Simonetta Di...
The role I have carved out for myself is predominantly based on the experiences that molded me into the woman I am today, my...
Without influence, competence is powerless... if we refrain from engaging in politics we are effectively withdrawing ourselves as serious candidates for high corporate office.
Named...
I have always shaped myself according to my values and set goals to realise those values. Instead of focusing on social prejudices, I set...
I am an independent thinker and a creative risk taker . . . It was a big risk to develop and validate my own...
I am convinced that passion is the key to success.
Annelise Alig Anderhalden is a trained engineer and Director of Aargau Services Economic Promotion. She...
I wake up every day grateful for being able to do what I do and looking forward to materialize my research and ideas. Living...
My philosophy for success and leadership is that leaders don’t necessarily have to have all the right answers every time, but they should trust...
Women have strong minds and we believe that our skills to empower the work force can make a difference in the industry that we...
Here's a question I want to see you ask: How can people, who run the economic and social life in their country at large,...
Life is full of challenges, and one of the early lessons that I learnt, is the fact that life does not give you what...
Since I could remember, my grandma has always explained to me that I have control over nothing except what is in my own head...
Support and encourage other women. Because there have been so few spaces for women at the table, this has pitted women against each other...
It has been critical for me to embrace tough assignments. It is easier to take the path of least resistance... It’s far better to...
When I was about 13, my mother was working for an accounting firm and when I told her that’s what I wanted to do,...
Successful women leaders in senior leadership roles can be an important part of a support network that can help emerging leaders be successful.
Nancy Nix...
All that procrastination and weighing up doesn’t get you very far in a male-dominated business world. 'Just get on with it' is sometimes the...
My rule of thumb while raising finance is to always know who you are raising money from. Don’t stop at researching about venture capitalists,...
I think the most important thing is to expose women to technology early enough for them to experiment so that when the time comes...
I’ve found that the best way to deal with gender bias is with a strong offense, meaning you need to be smart and not...
If you have a strong reputation, you have a better chance of charging a premium for your products, even in price-sensitive times; you have...
I’m also always learning and trying to improve – I think I’m a much better leader now than I was two years ago. I’m...
I would like people to think of my brand as not just a fashion label, but as a brand that stands firm against the...
By Peter Fisk
Peter Fisk explores how the next generation of businesses innovate from the future back, and outside in. They start by finding the...
By Brad Lomenick
Leadership is more than hard work; it is habitual work. And the path to becoming a better leader begins with building better...
By Christopher Surdak
In their 1960’s hit song, “Get Off of My Cloud,” Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones lament about others around them ruining...
Businesses operating in Switzerland are particularly exposed to global competition. High production costs and the strong Swiss franc mean that they are forced to...
How Organisations Can Embrace Automation
By Leslie Willcocks
In this article Professor Willcocks discusses the reality of robots, what they mean for ‘human’ jobs and how...
By Adrian Furnham
Counterwork behaviours – CWBs – include fraud, misconduct, and work avoidance cost organisations billions every year. In this article, Professor Furnham discusses...
By Christina Comben
If you do business on a global scale, with multilingual and multicultural clients, you should be localising your marketing message to your...
