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Issue Lit
Strategy & Leadership

The Right Role for
Top Teams

by Rob Cross and Jon Katzenbach
Analysis of informal networks offers a potent leadership model for the C-suite: Make top teams the hub of the enterprise, and watch performance improve.
 
Finance

Seven Value
Creation Lessons
from Private
Equity

by Vinay Couto,
Ashok Divakaran, and
Deniz Caglar
What top-tier PE firms can teach public companies about creating and sustaining value over time.
Marketing, Media & Sales


What’s Your Company’s Facebook LPM?

by Nicholas Hodson,
Umut Aytekin, and
Jon Crawford
Every company can compare its brand value to that of its competitors based on a readily available scale: Facebook “likes,” adjusted for company revenue.
Operations & Manufacturing



Manufacturing’s Wake-Up Call

by Arvind Kaushal,
Thomas Mayor,
and Patricia Riedl
A study of the manufacturing industry shows how jobs can be kept in the United States, by bolstering the sectors where the country is most competitive.
 
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Thought Leaders

The Case for Intelligent Industrial Policy

Economic strategist Clyde Prestowitz argues for better support for manufacturing.
Interview: Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries, INSEAD’s expert on leadership development, clarifies how self-awareness can break the destructive pattern of corporate narcissism
Conversation: Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Ripa Rashid argue that corporate leaders are overlooking one of the most enthusiastic, capable sources of talent in the world: women in emerging markets
Interview: Meg Wheatley, an expert on innovative leadership, warns that too many companies are reverting to fear-driven management
Business Literature
Author's Choice

Leaders Resolve Contradiction

Ronald Heifetz, coauthor, with Marty Linsky and Alexander Grashow, of The Practice of Adaptive Leadership, introduces a lesson in leadership from Inside Coca-Cola, by Neville Isdell with David Beasley.
Best Business Books 2011 Our annual review: James O'Toole on Ethics and Aspirations, Phil Rosenzweig on Strategy, David K. Hurst on Management, David Warsh on Economics, Catharine P. Taylor on Marketing, Barbara Kellerman on Leadership, and Michael Schrage on Technology
Highlights from the Decade strategy+business published its first “Best Business Books” section in Winter 2001. Here, in retrospect, is the book from each year that we think was most significant
Recent Research

How Monitoring by Stock Analysts Pays Dividends

Performance improves at firms that are tracked — the more analysts, the bigger the boost.
Board Effectiveness Gains are seen when a subset of directors and senior executives share knowledge and ideas
Safeguarding Online Transactions Having too many protections puts buyers off by getting in the way of good deals
CSR and Sustainability How a deep commitment translates into better numbers in the stock market and on the bottom line
Antidumping Tariffs Revenues rise at protected companies, but from price hikes — and production decreases
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Measuring Industry Digitization: Leaders and Laggards in the Digital Economy

The pace of digitization is picking up rapidly, but the speed at which digitization is taking place varies a great deal from industry to industry. Booz & Company created the Industry Digitization Index to gain a better understanding of the relative degree to which digitization is transforming different industries (PDF).
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