Business strategy
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Preventing Poor Leadership Decisions: Understanding Cognitive Biases
By Andrew Campbell and Jo Whitehead Leaders can make good decisions or less good decisions. Several years ago, we set out to understand the causes of these less good decisions. Our main finding is t
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Corporate Sustainability Reporting: Trends, Impact & Future
By Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim In the last two decades a growing number of companies across sectors and geographies are communicating to their stakeholders their initiatives and performance
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Building a High-Performing Board Culture: A Comprehensive Guide
By Patrick R. Dailey Culture matters more than before. Unless the right board culture is in place, nothing very special is likely to happen. Talented directors sit shoulder to shoulder around a boa
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Simplify for Success: How CEOs Can Cut Through Business Complexity
By Simon Collinson and Melvin Jay The competitive environment is becoming more complex and unpredictable, and senior managers have no control over the underlying trends, from globalisation to techno
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The Future of Management: Reinventing Leadership for Economic Progress
By Julian Birkinshaw What is the future of management? Can management be reinvented to make it more effective as an agent of economic progress and more responsive to the needs of employees? When y
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Building Ethical Organizations: A Leader's Perspective
By Mark Meaney As millions take to the streets in a global protest of corporate malfeasance, Dean Rich Lyons of the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, has taken the a
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Boardroom Transformation: Navigating Modern Demands & Accountability
By Lucy P. Marcus The board room is going through an extraordinary time of transition. More is being demanded of boards than ever before, and the activities of boards are under greater scrutiny. Co
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Essential Leadership Skills for Modern Challenges
By Patrick R. Dailey From the earliest recorded leadership teachings of Confucius to contemporary theorists and practitioners, leadership has consistently been viewed as the decisive factor in the
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CEO Turnover: Understanding the Rising Rate of Executive Dismissals
By Guido Stein & Manuel Gallego Introduction Companies statistically dismiss twice as many CEOs in bad economic times as in good. Certainly, many senior executives have lost their jobs l
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5 Common Strategy Mistakes: Why Your Plan Isn't a Strategy
By Freek Vermeulen No matter how colourful your PowerPoint presentation, it does not mean you have a strategy. So what is strategy and what are the most common mistakes one can make when presenting
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Functional Leadership: The Growing Influence of Senior VPs in Corporate Strategy
By Maria Guadalupe, Julie Wulf & Hongyi Li Research shows that the recent transformation in the C-suite, that is, the skyrocketing number of executive team of chief officers or Senior VPs that r
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Board Strategy: Assessing & Enhancing Your Board's Strategic Capabilities
By Patrick R. Dailey & Chuck Russell Strategy guidance is a board’s most crucial responsibility. With contemporary directors repeatedly being exhorted to step up their contribution to strategy,
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Building Trust in Leadership: Balancing Risk and Reliability
By J. Keith Murnighan Trust is critical for leaders. Without trust, leadership is impossible. The problem, however, is that trust always entails risk. “Every stranger is a thief.” This old Japanese
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Directors' Fiduciary Duty & FCPA Compliance: A Comprehensive Guide
By Thomas R. Fox and Ryan Morgan The nightmare of every corporate director is to wake up to find out that the company of the Board he or she sits on is on the front page of the New York Times (NYT)
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Board Oversight of Leadership Risk: A Comprehensive Guide
By Patrick R. Dailey and Charles H. Bishop The practice of Enterprise Risk Management [ERM] was born as a consequence of the Enron collapse in 2001. Regulatory safeguards were enacted with t
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Revitalizing Corporate Functions: Why CEOs Need to Lead from Within
By Andrew Campbell, Sven Kunisch & Günter Müller-Stewens The corporate office consists of the CEO and the corporate functions. It is the main vehicle for delivering corporate added value. Yet c
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Ethical Business Practices in Emerging Markets: A BRIC Perspective
By Alexandre Ardichvili, Douglas Jondle, Jack Wiley, Edgard Cornacchione, Jessica Li & Thomas Thakadipuram As the economies of Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRICs) continue to grow both in
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The Evolving Role of the Chief Strategy Officer in European Companies
By Markus Menz, Günter Müller-Stewens, Tim Zimmermann & Christian Lattwein The chief strategy officer (CSO) position has recently been gaining prominence in European firms. However, little is
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Strengthening Board Leadership in a Dynamic Business Environment
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 be independent enough to raise questi
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Driving Digital Innovation: The Role of C-Level e-Leadership in Large Enterprises
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, you need people at C-level with a challenging co
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Understanding the Statement of Comprehensive Income: A Comprehensive GuideThe statement of comprehensive income is a financial statementAnalysis of Financial StatementsHow to perform Analysis of Financial Statements. This guide will teach you to perform financial statement ...
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Smart Ways to Save Money at Work: Be Frugal Without Appearing CheapBeing frugal is hard. You’ve been so disciplined all week with your spending, you’ve kept to your budget, and you’ve even resisted buying that new thing you wanted to try. You are on target to meet y...
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Tuck-in Acquisitions: Definition, Strategy & BenefitsA tuck-in acquisition involves the acquisition of a smaller company and integrating it into the acquirer’s platform. The acquirerAsset AcquisitionAn asset acquisition is the purchase of a compan...
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Mastering Life: Strategies for Achieving Success and FulfillmentLife is a series of games. Sometimes you lose, sometimes you win. We all know this. And yet, we often keep on playing games we lose. Why not play to win? Don’t you enjoy winning? I do. You know ...