Business model change is hard. But the December issue of s+b reveals three critical abilities that will give you the power to push ahead.

These fundamental guidelines, drawn from experience, can help you reshape your organization to fit your business strategy. See also “A guide to organization design.” 3.The rise of the eco-friendly ...

These fundamental guidelines, drawn from experience, can help you reshape your organization to fit your business strategy. See also “A guide to organization design.” 3.The rise of the eco-friendly ...

A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost? Almost everyone feels the temptation to answer “10 cents” because the sum $1.10 so neatly ...

When John Reed, longtime chairman of Citicorp, accepted the Academy of Management’s Distinguished Executive of the Year award in 1999, he ended his acceptance speech by challenging his audience of ...

You wouldn’t expect to be able to predict the overall strategic direction of most companies by studying their executive training facilities. But ever since the 1950s, General Electric Company has ...

Over the last few years, companies in a wide variety of industries have created increasingly senior executive positions in supply chain management. Lucent Technologies Inc., the ChevronTexaco ...

Hiromoto Fukuda started a new kind of dating club in Osaka a few years ago. At the Tu-Ba Café, men and women sit on opposite sides of a glass divide. A man who sees a woman he wishes to meet can ask a ...

Neuroscience shows why numbers-based HR management is obsolete. 4.The new fortune at the bottom of the pyramid Profound changes are closing the gap between the world’s poorest consumers and others, ...

It has become commonplace to argue that the combination of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States and the conflict in Iraq has forced business strategists to make geopolitical ...

In 1972, the (future) Nobel Prize–winning physicist Philip Anderson published an article in the journal Science titled “More Is Different.” Dr. Anderson was exploring what happens when a number of ...

A land of political and economic extremes, Latin America has long been among the world’s most challenging regions in which to do business. But corporations, some headquartered within the region and ...