Strategy

The women had gathered where the market's largest sugar distributor was giving generous bulk discounts. It was a typical African open market, where people...

When Microsoft recently supported the Texas attorney general's antitrust litigation against Google, it easy to point the finger and cry "hypocrite." After...

I normally write about companies navigating their way toward sustainability, covering topics such as how to save money or drive green innovation. But...

For years, many Nigerian families complained about the cost of laundry detergents. Two companies, Unilever and PZ, dominated the market. They sold their...

Success brings profits, growth, and unbounded optimism. But it also has a way of blinding executives to the many organizational dangers that creep in at the same time. How much internal risk is hiding within your company? Use the risk exposure calculator to find out.

Here's how Johns Hopkins and others are doing it.

The CEO wants to increase collaboration and cut costs with an open-plan work space, but the knowledge workers say they need their walls, their doors, and their privacy.

What do the Burroughs Corporation, Crown Cork & Seal Co., Inc., and the Union Camp Corporation have in common? Although none of them enjoys a dominant market share, all three earn quite respectable returns on their equity, have healthy profit margins, and continue to maintain strong sales growth year after year. In this article, the […]

It's way too soon to say anything definitive about what's going on in Japan. Who really knows what the outcome might be from the frightening breakdown...

As a recent article in the Wall Street Journal noted, a spate of companies in the high technology/high-end services space has rediscovered the joys of vertical integration — you all remember (or at least those of you of a certain age remember) the excited discovery of “M” form organizations and the power of giving product […]

In a rapidly changing world managers need to increase their skills at diagnosing resistance to change and at choosing the appropriate methods for overcoming it.

It's not just about growth.

With a keen eye and a flair for romantic copy, John Peterman created a successful catalog company. As an entrepreneur, he was in his element. As top manager of a fast-growing enterprise, he was ultimately much less successful. What happened?

Guidant's Ginger Graham argues that senior executives are actually better prepared than most lobbyists to inform and educate members of Congress about...

As U.S. nonprofits take on an increasing share of society's work, they face mounting pressure from stakeholders - donors, boards, employees - to show...

The key is knowing what your top price is—and having the discipline to stick to it.

It gets more expensive and less reliable every cycle.

And focus on what your company should really be doing.

Denial dogged my travels around the world these past weeks. At a World Economic Forum gathering in Dubai just before Dubai World’s debt problems made headlines, the head Sheikh touted Dubai’s superiority over the West for problems that Dubai had seemingly avoided. But the idle cranes and empty buildings I saw were monuments to denial […]

In communicating priorities and performance, colors have power.