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...
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...
By Jeanne G. Harris, Allan E. Alter, Stéphane J.G. Girod and Iris A. Junglas
The role of the information technology department is under scrutiny in...
By Sean Culey
It is over two decades now since Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems first arrived on the scene promising a new dawn of...
By Paul F. Nunes and Joshua B. Bellin
Companies are increasingly finding their marketing messages contradicted – or worse, turned against them – by a...
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...
By Christopher Coonen, EVP Global Solutions, Sales Marketing Strategy at Ingenico
Market Trends
The mobile technology market all over the world is booming, with consumer...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
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...
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...
By Aileen Ionescu-Somers
Short-term thinking and acting has led to the current financial crisis, but has it precipitated a move to more long-term thinking in...
By Nigel Duncan
This article considers how we might best prepare students for ethical business practice. It considers recent developments in evolutionary research and neuroscience...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
By Karl-Heinz Streibich
The digitization of both the commercial and social worlds has blurred any boundaries separating them and is fundamentally changing the way we...
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...
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...
By Ginka Toegel and Jean-Louis Barsoux
In cultivating their leadership style, women have to be conscious of which traits they cultivate and which ones they...
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...
By Mohammad Al-Ubaydli
It was not until the 18th century that scientists accepted the existence of queen bees. Until that point they insisted that only...
By Karin Bursa
What do you want to achieve? Where does your company want to be in 12, 18, 24 months? Do you know? If...
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...
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...
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...
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...
By Joseph Lampel, Ajay Bhalla & Pushkar P. Jha
Criticism of modern corporate capitalism in the wake of the current economic crisis is reawakening interest...
Leadership
Leadership and Culture: Part 2 – Engaging the Enterprise: Creating a Growth Mindset Tribe
Sean Culey
Women Leaders: The Gender Trap
Ginka Toegel and Jean-Louis...
Krems – a small but vibrant university town
Krems is the eastern gateway to the Wachau Valley and only a one hour drive from...
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...
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...
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...
Due to the fierce competition caused by the economic downturn, rising fuel costs and growing customer demand, airfreight companies are forced to look for...
By Kieren McCarthy
Taking on an industry titan is never easy. So it was with a small upstart domain extension hoping to challenge the dominance...
By Andrei Perumal, Kelly Jones & Ann Bryan
The world has changed – and complexity has emerged as one of the defining issues of our...
