By George S. Day
George S. Day’s new book Innovation Prowess: Leadership Strategies for Accelerating Growth is an essential guide to building a framework for...
Used by over half the Fortune 100 companies, BoardVantage is making the paperless boardroom a reality.
The expansion of its internal functionality to different digital...
By Stephanie L. Woerner, Peter Weill, & Mark P. McDonald
Today’s technologically savvy firms have created an internal digital reuse culture that significantly reduces time-to-market...
By Karin Bursa
Does your company have the right S&OP process in place?
These 5 steps to success allow you to assess trade-offs between many interdependent...
Corporate Governance
The Chief Strategy Officer in the European Firm: Professionalising Strategy in Times of Uncertainty
By Markus Menz, Günter Müller-Stewens, Tim Zimmermann & Christian Lattwein
The chief strategy officer (CSO) position has recently been gaining prominence in European firms. However,...
By Luciara Nardon, Richard M. Steers & Carlos J. Sanchez-Runde
In our globally expanding economy, it is no longer enough for successful managers to have...
By Vimal Choudhary, Martin Dewhurst & Alok Kshirsagar
As Western multinationals shift their focus to emerging markets, they must adjust their structures, processes, and decision-making...
Design Thinking
50+20 Management Education for the World: PART 1: Designing a Radically New Vision of Management Education
By Katrin Muff, Thomas Dyllick, Mark Drewell, John North, Paul Shrivastava & Jonas Haertle
Extracts from chapter 5 of the forthcoming book “Management education for...
By Majken Schultz & Steve Maguire
At the heart of any successful organisation lies a powerful conception of identity: the coherent way in which it...
By Nik Kinley & Shlomo Ben-Hur
Talent management is built upon talent intelligence—the understanding that businesses have of the skills, expertise and qualities of their...
Organisation & People
Turning Talent Data into Talent Intelligence
Nik Kinley & Shlomo Ben-Hur
Identity In and Around Organisations
Majken Schultz & Steve Maguire
Business Education
50+20 Management...
By William Duggan
“Design thinking” is slowly but surely taking over the field of innovation. The result is terrific design. But that’s not the same...
By Irv Rothman
The article is an excerpt from the book “Out-Executing the Competition: Building and Growing a Financial Services Company in Any Economy”, by...
By Pankaj M. Madhani
DCM creates strategic assets for the firm in terms of the overall value creation as it enables the firm to implement...
Business Process
Performance Management Systems in Mexico: The Dual Logics of Evaluating Performance
By Anabella Davila & Marta M. Elvira
Understanding Performance Management systems implementation is critical for multinationals operating in countries with contrasting cultures. For firms...
By Terence Tse, Mark Esposito & Khaled Soufani
This article is dedicated to provide a working definition of these markets, which we call “Fast-Expanding Markets”...
By Alexandre Ardichvili, Douglas Jondle, Jack Wiley, Edgard Cornacchione, Jessica Li & Thomas Thakadipuram
As the economies of Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRICs) continue...
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...
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...
Corporate Governance
CEOs, Mind Your Own Business! Why and How Corporate CEOs Should Pay More Attention to Corporate Functions
By Andrew Campbell, Sven Kunisch & Günter Müller-Stewens
The corporate office consists of the CEO and the corporate functions. It is the main vehicle for...
By Tobias Klatt & Klaus Moeller
Environmental turbulence has be- come a key challenge for companies’ strategic planning. Planning results remain arbitrary and risky, and...
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...
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...
Climate Change
How Sustainability and Carbon Footprint Reduction is Transforming the DNA of Leadership Key Trends for 2013
By Nikos Avlonas
2012 introduced several significant developments in sustainability, most notably around the issues of climate change, risk management, and supply chain ethics.
June’s Rio+20...
Global Business
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...
By Suzanne Heywood & Roni Katz
The matrix structure is here to stay, but its complexity can be minimized, and companies can get more value...
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’...
By Antonio Argandoña
Why should managers put Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) into practice? The so-called legal, ethical, social and business cases provide several reasons. In...
Global Economy
A 'Sigh of Relief' at Davos: Confidence and Caution Shared Center Stage
Michael Useem
Global Recessions: A Survivor’s Manual
Irv Rothman
Global Management
Fast-Expanding Markets:...
Global Business
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...
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...
By Stephen Shapiro
In today’s fast-paced business environment, the ability to innovate is not enough. You need to innovate efficiently, quickly, and with less risk....
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...
Editors' Pick
Luxury is a necessity in People’s Republic of China: Social Rejection of New Wealth in the Socialist Market Economy
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...
Alberta is committed to responsible energy production – because Albertans and Canadians expect nothing less.
Located in Western Canada, Alberta is a province rich with...
INNOVATION
Will Innovation Save the Planet? How the principles of successful innovation could slow global warming.
By Morten Olsen
“Combating climate change requires urgent and ambitious action,” proclaimed the RIO+20 summit held in June 2012. Yet, strong commitments failed to materialize...
By Claudia Peus and Armin Pircher Verdorfer
Imagine you have been asked to support a company with their employee survey. You have done your research,...
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...
By Avinash Goyal, Suzanne Heywood & Toby Gibbs
Consistent global processes add value—up to a point. New research helps companies find the right balance between...
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...
By Miklos Sarvary
Big data versus quality information
‘Big Data’ is the new buzzword of today’s business world. Management consultants, corporate strategists and IT executives...
By Patrick R. Dailey and Charles H. Bishop
The practice of Enterprise Risk Management was born as a consequence of the Enron collapse in...
Leadership
Board of Directors Oversight of Leadership Risk
Patrick R. Dailey & Charles H. Bishop, Jr.
Leading The Capability Revolution
Jonathan Trevor
Ethics + Business: Ingredients for Great...
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...
By Thomas R. Fox and Ryan Morgan
The nightmare of every corporate director is to wake up to find out that the company of the...
Business Process
Transformers: Supply Chain 3.0 and How Automation will Transform the Rules of the Global Supply Chain
By Sean Culey
From the 1960’s up until the 1990’s Western manufacturing companies were out-performed by new levels of quality, cost and efficiencies emanating from...
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...
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...















































