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Summer 2005

Briefs

A Merger’s Success Is the CFO’s Job

By Frank Galioto, Cindy McNeese, and Gerald Adolph

Today’s chief financial officers are valued analysts who can ensure that mergers achieve scale, grow the existing business, and increase shareholder value.

Media Synergy: The Sequel

By Everette E. Dennis, Stephen Warley, and James Sheridan

How executives of top media companies are facing up to the challenges of digital media and convergence.

Supply Chain Lessons Can Save Capital Projects

By Matt McKenna and Herve Wilczynski

Capital spending can improve corporate performance — but only if projects are properly managed. The best way to do that? By managing capital costs as a supply chain challenge.

IT Matters

In Search of Overhead Heroes

By George Tillmann
By implementing market-driven management, cost centers get what has eluded them: respect and results.
Operating Strategies

The Right Mix for a Pricing Fix

By Tim Laseter and Elliott Weiss
Balancing relationship building and opportunism leads to a strategy for all seasons.
The Innovators

Top-Down Disruption

By Nicholas G. Carr
As Clayton Christensen warns, look out for the underdog — but also beware the leader of the pack.
Special Report

CEO Succession 2004: The World’s Most Prominent Temp Workers

By Chuck Lucier, Rob Schuyt, and Edward Tse
With forced turnover up 300 percent since 1995, business has entered the era of the short-term chief.
Strategy & Competition

Are You Modular or Integral? Be Sure Your Supply Chain Knows

By Charles H. Fine
The hidden source of business model malaise: mismatched architectures.
Management

The Value of Corporate Values

By Reggie Van Lee, Lisa Fabish, and Nancy McGaw
A Booz Allen Hamilton/Aspen Institute survey of corporate behavior finds that leading companies are crafting a purpose-driven identity.
s+b Case Study

Leadership Principles for Public School Principals

By Andrea Gabor
Management gurus and New York City’s school system unite to prove that those who teach can do.
The Creative Mind

Leaning Toward Utopia

By Art Kleiner
The Toyota Production System has revolutionized industry. James Womack and Daniel Jones believe it can transform the world.
Thought Leader

Reinhard Selten: The Thought Leader Interview

By Matthias Hild and Tim Laseter
The Nobel Prize–winning German economist says understanding hindsight will improve foresight.
Knowledge Review

Eurosclerosis Revisited

By Diane Coyle
The productivity boom benefits the U.S. more than Europe. Five reports explore why.
Research Notes

Recent Studies

By Des Dearlove and Stuart Crainer
On straw-man marketing, leadership and meaning, acquired innovation, and other topics of interest.
The Intellectual Capitalist

Leaving on a Jet Plane

By Bruce Feirstein