strategy+business

Business for the Environment

Six Industries in Search of Survival

by the Booz & Company industry teams; introduced and edited by Karen Henrie

Despite improvements in the global economy, chemicals, retail banking, consumer packaged goods, engineered products and services, oil and gas, and technology still need to transform.

Operations & Manufacturing

Virtuous Connections

by Richard Verity and
Chris McNally

A fine-tuned supply chain is more than the sum of its parts. Ideally, each link improves the next.

Global Perspective

Too Good to
Fail

by Ann Graham

India’s Tata, one of the world’s largest conglomerates, is basing an ambitious global strategy on 142 years of social entrepreneurship.

Innovation

Five Gates to Innovation

by William J. Holstein

Corning Inc.’s process for developing inventive products actually works, a claim that few companies can make.

Thought Leaders

When Disruptive Integration Comes to Health Care

For The Innovator’s Prescription coauthor Jason Hwang, the real solution to health-care costs lies in the business models that incumbent companies have not yet embraced — but can no longer ignore.

INTERVIEW: Erik Brynjolfsson, MIT’s theorist of productivity, draws a link between innovation in management practice and ongoing prosperity

INTERVIEW: William Fung, the head of a large Hong Kong trading company, on making and selling products in a vastly altered global landscape

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

Business Literature

Author’s Choice: Don’t Ignore the Transparency Imperative

Nell Minow, coauthor of Corporate Governance, introduces a lesson in corporate transparency from The Responsibility Revolution: How the Next Generation of Businesses Will Win, by Jeffrey Hollender and Bill Breen.

BOOKS IN BRIEF A review of How the Mighty Fall and Why Some Companies Never Give In, by Jim Collins

Knowledge Review A shortcut to the big themes in the conversation about corporate strategy

Recent Research