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Why Value Value?
By Tim Koller, Richard Dobbs and Bill Huyett
Most executives have figured out how to create value for shareholders through experience, observation, and intuition. They’ve...
Big Data: Big Deal or Big Hype?
By Sunil Gupta
Google Flu Trends article of November 2008 heralded in a new age for big data where where it is possible to leverage...
Reinvention: Critical to Business Success, but not Always Obvious
By Lloyd E. Shefsky
Strategic reinvention is a powerful engine for value creation, but business leaders sometimes miss opportunities to harness it. Lloyd Shefsky uses...
Conflict Contagion: A Virus to Watch and Treat Early
By Karsten Jonsen, Karen A. Jehn, Sonja Rispens and Lindred L. Greer
Conflicts are daily realities of organisational teams, and most people are aware of...
Analysis Paralysis: How “Big Data” May Finally Spell the End of...
By Chris Surdak
In this article, Chris Surdak speaks from experience and argues that financial models are not used to present scientific or mathematical fact...
Sustainable Business Model Innovation to Create Value in a World of...
By Christophe Sempels and Jonas Hoffmann
We have jumped into an era of scarce resources. The related impacts will crescendo in the coming decades but...
The Future of Gender Equality, from School to Boardroom
Helena Morrissey Talks with Camille Merrells
Helena Morrissey is the unstoppable CEO of Newton, Chair of the Investment Management Association (IMA) and founder of...
Strategic Transformation at Tennis Canada
By Roger Martin
Aside from the small percentage of hugely successful game-changing start-ups like Apple, Microsoft and Google it can be hard for a small...
The Digital Revolution is an Evolution for the Outsourcing Industry
By Mike Salvino
Digital technology has transformed virtually every industry, affecting the way companies serve customers, manufacture products,
Marketing Lessons Luxury Wine Brands Teach us About Authenticity and Prestige
By Klaus Heine and Francine Espinoza Petersen
Luxury brands have spent decades, and sometimes centuries, cultivating the perfect mix of authenticity and prestige to remain...
Innovation Strategy
By Christoph Loch and Stelios Kavadias
Many top level executives are still hopelessly behind when it comes to designing an effective innovation strategy in the...
Unpacking the ‘Big Data’ Skill Set: It’s not Just – or...
By Mihnea Moldoveanu
Big Data presents challenges and opportunities that need a new set of skills. Current formulations of the Big Data skill set are...
“I Can’t Help You:” The Dangers of Employees Disablement in the...
By Christopher Surdak
The quality of customer service has been steadily declining in recent years, but now that increasing digitisation has shifted more power to...
Improving Digital Innovation in Large Enterprise: Strengthening e-Leadership at C-level
By Joe Peppard, Simon Robinson and Tobias Hüsing
If your company doesn’t want to miss out on the new opportunities IT offers for business innovation,...
Dream Bigger Be Braver
Exclusive Interview with Cheryl Giovannoni by our editor Camille Merrells
Cheryl Giovannoni is the dynamic CEO of Ogilvy & Mather UK, the advertising giant responsible...
The World Business Forum New York
By Henrietta Morris “We have to unlearn what we think we know about leadership.” – Linda Hill This was the message, in this instance boldly stated
Can Women Fix Capitalism?
By Joanna Barsh
Gender equality at the top of business has stalled, and trust in business is alarmingly low. Putting more women in charge could...
The Digital Transformation Opportunities Ahead
By Mike Sutcliff
The proliferation of digital technologies allows scope for innovation in the way organisations deliver customer experience. Here Mike Sutcliff explores the first...
The End of Competitive Advantage
Interview with Rita McGrath
The European Business Review talks to Forbes’ #6 most influential business thinker, Rita McGrath, about innovation, the end of competitive advantage,...
Leveraging Your Collective Genius
Interview with Linda Hill
Harvard Business School Professor and World Business Forum speaker Linda Hill gives The European Business Review her take on leading innovation.
Linda...
Will Europe’s Leading Companies Survive the ‘Lost Decade’?
By Dan Steinbock
Growth in the Euro area continues to stagnate as Europe's “lost decade” progresses slowly. Dan Steinbock discusses where Brussels and the European...
What Could Be a Hidden Key for a Successful Merger and...
By Mark Goyens and David De Cremer
The way we engage, communicate and deal with people involved in each phase of a merger and...
Technology Innovation the New Currency of the Digital Age
By David Stokes
The advent of the internet changed modern day lives irreversibly but the new game-changer is already here: mobile digital technology is changing...
Swarm Economics: How 3D Manufacturing Will Change the Shape of the...
By Olaf Groth, Mark Esposito and Terence Tse
The collaborative economy and commons are challenging the way
Disruptive Digital Technologies Can Help Europe Recapture Competitiveness
By Mauro Macchi
European countries have long lagged behind other developed economies in productivity and innovation, even prior
Rethinking Network Security in the Age of the Internet of Things
By Aaron Portnoy
The rapid onslaught of the Internet of Things poses new challenges to network security; each and every connected device is susceptible to...
Embedded Values and Induced Spirituality in Management Education
The Case of Two Successful Business Schools in Barcelona
By S. L. Dolan, Y. Altman, B. Capell and M. Raich
Building an Innovation Mindset
By Jeff Gaspersz
The prime source of the innovation power in any firm lies in the mind of its employees. When they are mentally prepared...
Growth Through Innovation: Innovation Principles for the Technology-Driven Enterprise
By R. Boutellier and M. Heinzen
Technology is the key to our growth, but with it comes many risks. Below, Roman Boutellier and Mareike Heinzen...
Three Traps Facing New Corporate Centre Executives
What Companies Should Consider When Hiring for Corporate Role
By Sven Kunisch & Eva Bilhuber Galli
When appointing corporate centre executives, many large firms focus on...
Better Be a Baller: The Coming Talent Gap May be the...
By Christopher Surdak
The concept of Big Data has rapidly emerged as web and telecoms-based networking has expanded on a global scale. Christopher Surdak explores...
Multipolar Innovation – and Europe
By Dan Steinbock
Emerging markets are no longer just “world factories.” Led by China, several are turning into global innovation hubs. Below, Dan Steinbock discusses...
A New Synthesis for Business Decision Making: Left Brain, Right Stuff
By Phil Rosenzweig
Business executives do not seem to heed the lessons of decision research, and continue to make strategic decisions without considering common errors....
International Facility Management
By Kathy O. Roper
Kathy O. Roper discusses the growing field of Facility Management and charts how it has evolved over the last 25 years...
Managing Your Manager
By Bill Smullen
Most everyone still working today either has a boss or is a boss. Either way, you should want the boss to be...
Are Leaders Fair? On the Need to Understand Fairness Management...
By D. De Cremer, G. Houwelingen, C. Ilse, H. Niek, L. Brebels, M. Van Dijke & A. Van Hiel
It is human nature to want...
Are High Growth Firms Really About Profit, or Just Greed?
By Malin Brännback and Alan Carsrud
Successful and profitable growth firms come from a variety of industries, but many viable business ideas are overlooked by...
Crowdsourcing Disaster Response: Mobilizing Social Media for Urban Resilience
By Thérèse F. Tierney
As urban populations continue to expand worldwide, natural disasters are precipitating increased challenges to public health, welfare, and safety. Informal methods,...
The Well-Focused Leader
By Daniel Goleman
Directing attention where it needs to go is a primal task of leadership. Below, Daniel Goleman considers how leadership hinges on capturing...
Agile Business Model Innovation
By Adam J. Bock and Gerry George
Business model innovation(BMI) is risky, but when companies do it with agility, they thrive. This article looks at...
Rise and Fall of Leadership
By Guido Stein
Few concepts have received such widespread attention over the last two decades as that of leadership. Below, Guido Stein discusses the complicated...
Demographic Changes in the Workplace
By Andrés Hatum
The global ageing population and the new generation of young professionals entering the market are changing the shape of the workplace. Companies...
Building Capabilities in Segmentation Implementation
By Adina Poenaru, Paul Baines, and Hugh Wilson
Segmentation is central to marketing strategy but implementing it is fraught with challenges. In this article, Paul...
The Magic of Innovation
By Stefan Thomke and Jason Randal
Why do certain product and service experiences seem to have that undeniable “wow” factor, while others disappoint customers? Perhaps...
Designing Luxury Experience
By Vadim Grigorian and Francine Espinoza Petersen
In luxury brand management, experiences are essential. However, most of what we know about designing customer experiences originates...
The TRUST Principles: How to Embrace the New World of Work
By Alison Maitland and Peter Thomson
The transformation of work in the digital, global era is gathering pace, with demonstrable benefits for business, people and...
Boards Face Leadership Crisis in Changing Times
By Andrew Kakabadse
Boards can prove easy targets for their critics. Below, Andrew Kakabadse discusses how to make boards work, and argues that directors should...
The 3 W’s Growth Dilemmas: What, When & Where?
By Mª Julia Prats
How do you go from one store in 2006 to 44 (and 28 concessions) in six countries today? Clever experimentation to...
Women’s Leadership: Leaning in Without Falling Over
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A new program for women executives combines business acumen with leadership development and career reflection. It’s an approach designed to strengthen the key skills...
Identifying the Factors for Successfully Managing Supply Chain Risks
By Sime Curkovic & Thomas Scannell
The decision to manage supply chain risks constitutes a major undertaking for most firms. In this study, Sime Curkovic...
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Services have Become Invisible to Customers in B2B and B2C
By Fernanda Arreola and Alfonso Castañeda
For customers in B2B and B2C environments, the true providers of the services they consume have become invisible. In this review, we gather the opinions of service providers and service...
Highlights and Key Trends from Bloomberg’s 2024-25 Business School Rankings
Bloomberg Business week has long been regarded as a leading authority in evaluating global business schools. Known for its thorough, data-driven methodology, the annual Bloomberg business school rankings provide prospective MBA students with a...
