Richard Rumelt, a giant in the field of strategic planning, explains why it often isn’t strategic at all. He also sounds off on diversification, how companies can capitalize on a changing business environment, managing for share prices, and the role of the CEO. Click here to read the interview with Richard Rumelt
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Strategy’s strategists: Putting strategy into strategic planning
Posted on 16 January 2009.
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Women Confront a “Grass Ceiling”
Posted on 16 January 2009.
Researchers at the University of New Mexico have identified a link between the placement of women’s tees on golf courses and their professional success. The farther apart men’s and women’s tees are in a region, they found, the fewer women there will be in sales management, general management, and marketing positions in the region and […]
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Are Overconfident Executives More Inclined to Commit Fraud?
Posted on 16 January 2009.
No one makes it to the top ranks of corporate management without a healthy amount of self-assurance. Confidence underlies decisive, strong leadership, but does overconfidence lead managers to cross the line and commit fraud? New research by Wharton accounting professor Catherine M. Schrand and doctoral student Sarah L. C. Zechman examines patterns in frauds to […]
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There are two types of complexity. Understanding where to intervene is the key to managing them to create value – Cracking the Complexity Code
Posted on 15 January 2009.
Most businesspeople focus primarily on institutional complexity and thus fail to see that some forms of complexity, if managed well, can create value and do not have to generate excessive complexity at the individual level. Institutional complexity can enhance organisational resilience and enable companies to take on new strategic opportunities. ‘Cracking the Complexity Code’, an […]
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The Athena Factor: a new Harvard Business Review Research Report examining the female brain drain
Posted on 15 January 2009.
Many business leaders are looking to foreign talent to fill the gap in science, engineering, and technology workers. But the talent they need is right here in the U.S. Women make up 41% of highly qualified tech workers on the lower rungs of the corporate ladder. But they’re leaving their professions in droves. 52 per […]
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What Are Your Customers Really Worth?
Posted on 15 January 2009.
The book titled, “Managing Customers as Investments: The Strategic Value of Customers in the Long Run” (Wharton School Publishing) by Sunil Gupta and Donald R. Lehmann, offers practical examples and case studies to help companies estimate the lifetime value of their customers. That information, the authors suggest, can then be used […]
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