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Innovation

The Promise (and Perils) of Open Collaboration

by Andrea Gabor
Companies like IBM and P&G have prospered by opening their borders, but there are cautionary lessons from the quality movement of the 1980s.
 
Finance

What Banking Needs to
Become

by Vanessa Wallace and Andrew Herrick
Regulations and consumer expectations are changing. The business models, capabilities, and practices of the financial-services industry must change with them.
Strategy & Leadership

Leadership Lessons and the Economic Crisis

by Richard Rawlinson
 
The economic crisis has brought calls for a new style of business leadership. In thinking about the qualities needed, it’s helpful to consider where we’ve been and what the times will require.
Strategy & Leadership

The Most
Powerful Paths to Profits

by Mia de Kuijper
 
Twelve strategies to shape a company’s destiny.
 

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Thought Leaders

On Peter Drucker’s Centennial

Why the impact of this preeminent, farsighted management writer is still so difficult to gauge.
INTERVIEW: Robert Reich on the excesses of capitalism
INTERVIEW: David MacKay on how arithmetic and rational analysis can wean us off fossil fuels
CREATIVE MIND: Ikujiro Nonaka helps corporations create knowledge more consciously
Business Literature

Author’s Choice: Can You Support Your Successor?

Frances Hesselbein, author of Hesselbein on Leadership, introduces a lesson on one of the many pitfalls that leaders must avoid as they prepare to hand over the reins from Succession, by Marshall Goldsmith.
KNOWLEDGE REVIEW: Selling Gets Complex The Internet, technology, and globalization have changed this age-old game for good
BOOKS IN BRIEF A review of Rules of Thumb: 52 Truths for Winning at Business without Losing Your Self, by Alan M. Webber
Recent Research

The True Characteristics of Entrepreneurs

The profile of the typical entrepreneur is different from the picture painted by the media.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP Examining the characteristics of the typical entrepreneur
VENTURE CAPITAL Location is a determing factor for which companies VC firms will invest in.
ORGANIZATIONS & PEOPLE Fear of unemployment is linked to declining health and increased stress
RESUMING OPERATIONS The challenges business owners faced in the wake of Hurricane Katrina
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Motivating Talent in a Contracting Economy

Sylvia Ann Hewlett, the internationally renowned authority on talent management and author of Top Talent: Keeping Performance Up When Business Is Down (Harvard Business Press, forthcoming) discusses specific ways companies can leverage a recessionary environment to attract and retain the best and brightest talent.