Thought Leadership
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Are Stock Recommendations Useful?
Analysts’ intrinsic value estimates based on their forecasts of future earnings, but that is not what we observed, says Ole-Kristian Hope of Rotman School of Management in an interview.
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Innovating Globally
Costas Markides of London Business School has spent over two decades studying business strategy and innovation. Can the techniques used by managers to create innovation inside organizations work with global change?
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Ayala: Taking Care of The Bottom Line While Seeking a Social Impact
Measure the success of a business not only by the financial and economic value it creates for shareholders, but also the impact it makes in the lives of the people and in the communities it operates
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iPads, Kindles, and the Close of a Chapter in Book Publishing
Traditional trade book publishers are scared as the whole physical distribution system—is on the cusp of changing fundamentally
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The Promise of Franchising
Franchising promises a better chance of success, and the purports lower failure rate results in a better assignment of economic resources
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Alstom Powers Up To Fight Climate Change
Coal is a must in the production of electricity, and the really important thing now is to make coal clean
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The Dawn of Reverse Innovation
Vijay Govindarajan is the Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business and Director of its Centre for Global Leadership.
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The New Deal: Negotiauctions
If you put aside fixed-price mechanisms, such as buying lettuce at the grocery store, negotiations and auctions are the only two ways in which assets get sold in any market economy
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Managing an A-Team of Far-flung Experts Requires Special Leadership Tactics
Monitoring each team member’s contributions can be easier in a virtual team, but the team leader must create explicit methods for measuring contributions