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Culture
On the Rocky Road to Strong Global Culture
It’s not easy to build a strong culture worldwide. “Cultural hubs” beyond headquarters can help.
Business Models
What to Do Against Disruptive Business Models (When and How to Play Two Games at Once)
When two business models, and two business units, make sense.
Executing Strategy
Best Practices for Industry-University Collaboration
To extract the most business value from university research, companies need to follow seven rules.
Corporate Social Responsibility
What Every CEO Needs to Know About Nonmarket Strategy
In a global economy, sustained competitive advantage arises from tackling social, political and environmental issues as part of a corporate strategy.
Business Models
How to Manage Alliances Better Than One at a Time
Systematizing the analysis process should produce more gain and less pain when forming strategic partnerships.
Business Models
A Business Plan? Or a Journey to Plan B?
From Apple to Twitter, some of the most successful businesses are not what their inventors originally envisioned.
Developing Strategy
Collaborative Strategy: A Q & A With Nilofer Merchant
Nilofer Merchant’s The New How: Building Business Solutions Through Collaborative Strategy helps companies focus on the really great ideas.
Global Strategy
Esther Duflo on Ending Poverty
Esther Duflo, a founder and director of MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, says that poverty can be mitigated by transforming how rich nations manage development policies.
Financial Management & Risk
Must Economic Forecasts Always Fail?
How can managers better understand the problems inherent in economic forecasting and still make reasonable projections for their companies?
Developing Strategy
Why Forecasts Fail. What to Do Instead
Managers need to learn from history about what they can and cannot predict, and develop plans that are sensitive to surprises.
Global Strategy
Eppinger on Global Product Development: An Update
The 2006 article “The Practice of Global Product Development” has been updated with up-to-the-moment notes.
Collaboration
The Practice of Global Product Development
This article presents frameworks for companies considering a shift to global product development.
Developing Strategy
The Management Lessons of Las Vegas
In uncertain economic times, it’s important to think twice about what everyone else takes for granted.