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Leader’s Edge: Interview With Yves Doz
Stephen BernhutArticle IVEY-9B11TA10-EStrategyYves Doz is Professor of Strategic Management and the Timken Chaired Professor of Global Technology and Innovation at INSEAD, and Visiting Professor at the Helsinki School of Economics. He was Dean of Executive Education (1998-2002) and Associate Dean for Research and Development (1990-1995) at INSEAD. He has also taught at the Harvard Business School, Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, Seoul National University, and Aoyama Gakuin University...Starting at €8.20
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The Ivey Business Journal Interview: State Capitalism, with Aldo Musacchio
Stephen BernhutArticle IVEY-9B13TB08-EStrategyThe Ivey Business Journal interviews Aldo Musacchio, associate professor at Harvard Business School and an expert on state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Defining state capitalism as the widespread influence of a government in an economy, Musacchio contends that the current debate on state capitalism and the efficiency or inefficiency of SOEs is outdated. Most observers compare today’s SOEs to Soviet-era SOEs, which often failed to comply with interna...Starting at €8.20
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Leader's Edge: An Interview with Jim Collins
Stephen BernhutArticle IVEY-9B09TD10-EStrategyFrom Built to Last to Good to Great and now to Why the Mighty Fall (HarperCollins), Jim Collins has established himself as the leading management thinker of our time. The former Stanford University Business School professor turned mega-selling author and avid rock climber is the driven researcher and thinker whom many leading companies look to for advice on how to grow, how to improve their performance and how to go from merely good to great. He ...Starting at €8.20
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The Right Way to Lead Design Thinking
Bason, Christian; Austin, Robert D.Article HBS-R1902F-EThe authors studied almost two dozen major design-thinking projects within large private- and public-sector organizations in five countries and found that effective leadership is critical to their success. They focused not on how individual design teams did their work but on how the senior executives who commissioned the work interacted with and enabled it. To employees accustomed to being told to be rational and objective, design-thinking method...Starting at €8.20
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The Ivey Business Journal Interview: With Steve Coll
Stephen BernhutArticle IVEY-9B12TF09-EStrategyThe Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist Steve Coll is interviewed on the topic of ExxonMobil, the American multinational oil and gas corporation that is often considered both a corporate bully and a paragon of prudent management practices. In describing his research on ExxonMobil, Coll details its extreme degree of discipline and tightness of information released on the energy industry. He describes the former CEO Lee Raymond as sophistica...Starting at €8.20
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The Ivey Business Journal Interview: The "Right" Crowd is the Wise Crowd, Interview with Pia Erkinheimo
Stephen BernhutArticle IVEY-9B13TD10-EStrategyCrowdsourcing can be defined as the application of social media to the process of open innovation. It leverages social media to enable brands, places, and entrepreneurs to engage and seek input from online communities who contribute powerful, creative ideas. Crowds should reflect a diversity of opinions, be independent, be geographically dispersed, and be able to aggregate private judgements into a collective decision. Culture can be an impedimen...Starting at €8.20
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Neurodiversity as a Competitive Advantage
Austin, Robert D.; Pisano, Gary P.Article HBS-R1703F-EMany people with neurological conditions such as autism spectrum disorder and dyslexia have extraordinary skills, including in pattern recognition, memory, and mathematics. Yet they often struggle to fit the profiles sought by employers. A growing number of companies, including SAP, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Microsoft, have reformed their HR processes in order to access neurodiverse talent--and are seeing productivity gains, quality improve...Starting at €8.20
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Leaders Edge: An Interview with Tom Peters
Stephen BernhutArticle IVEY-9B10TD10-EStrategyAn interview with Tom Peters.Starting at €8.20
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High Margins and the Quest for Aesthetic Coherence
Austin, Robert D.Article HBS-F0801C-EStrategyThe key to selling well-designed, well-crafted products at high margins is the aesthetic coherence of the company and its goods. Embodying that ideal isn't easy, but it's possible if you avoid three temptations.Starting at €8.20