strategy+business

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The New Golden Age

by Mark Stahlman

The history of investment and technology suggests that economic recovery is closer than you think, with a new silicon-based global elite at the helm.

Operations & Manufacturing

The Case for Backshoring

by William J. Holstein

Which manufacturing operations should return to the United States?

Health Care

A Better Model for Health Care

by Gary D. Ahlquist,
Minoo Javanmardian, and
Sanjay B. Saxena

An innovative experiment in Florida shows the potential for more systemic collaboration as the catalyst for lower costs and improved quality.

Business Literature

Biography: Unconventional Lives

by James O'Toole

From s+b’s Best Business Books 2009: Three masterfully written volumes with insights relevant to the lives of contemporary businesspeople.

Thought Leaders

Carlota Perez: The Thought Leader Interview

According to this influential long-wave theorist, the world is due for a technological and economic boom that truly lifts all boats. When? That’s up to us.

PROFILE: KISHORE MAHBUBANI, a Singaporean diplomat, says the West should lose its arrogance and the East should step up to global leadership

INTERVIEW: Gretchen Daily on how we can build long-term prosperity by assigning prices to the ecosystems next door

INTERVIEW: W. Brian Arthur says the value of innovation depends on harnessing shared knowledge

Business Literature

Author’s Choice: Managing Naturally

Walter Kiechel III, author of The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World (forthcoming, March 2010), introduces an excerpt from Managing by Henry Mintzberg that proposes a more organic view of managers and their work.

Best Business Books 2009 Our annual review selects the books that provide fresh insights for leaders on subjects ranging from the meltdown to marketing, in eight essays written by top thinkers in their fields

BOOKS IN BRIEF A review of Why GM Matters: Inside the Race to Transform an American Icon, by William J. Holstein

Recent Research