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strategy+business: Corporate Strategy And Leadership Articles

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s+b’s coverage of corporate strategy and leadership is extensive and path-breaking. Featuring the work of noted thought leaders, as well as Booz & Company corporate strategy experts, our thought-provoking articles on leadership cover topics such as strategic planning, risk management, leadership skills building, and business transformation. The world’s most prominent writers on leadership — including Warren Bennis, James O’Toole, and former Procter & Gamble CEO A.G. Lafley — write for strategy+business. We also publish Booz & Company’s comprehensive annual CEO Succession Study.

Strategy & Leadership

 

The Top 10 M&A
Fallacies and
Self-Deceptions

by Barry Jaruzelski, Marian Mueller, and
Peter Conway
With merger and acquisition activity heating up, here’s a due diligence checklist for regaining clarity.


Resetting the Cost Structure at Shell

by Gerard Paulides
 
A senior finance executive explains how a zero-based cost management effort is leading to significant performance improvements.
 

CEO Succession 2010: The Four Types of CEOs

by Ken Favaro, Per-Ola Karlsson, and
Gary L. Neilson
Booz & Company’s annual study of turnover among chief executives — now increasingly diverse, as the world’s largest companies migrate to emerging economies — suggests that the nature of the job varies with the role of the corporate core.


How to Be a Truly Global Company

by C.K. Prahalad and Hrishi Bhattacharyya
 
Many multinational business models are no longer relevant. Skillful companies can integrate three strategies — customization, competencies, and arbitrage — into a better form of organization.
 

Seven Value Creation Lessons from Private Equity

What top-tier PE firms can teach public companies about creating and sustaining value over time.

Big Pharma’s Uncertain Future

The business model that drove the major drugmakers’ success isn’t working anymore, and their very future is in doubt. The survivors will be those that make smart strategic bets supported by winning capabilities.

Best Business Books 2011: Ethics and Aspirations

The Good Company Revisited

Best Business Books 2011: Strategy

Asking the Right Questions

Best Business Books 2011: Leadership

Learning to Lead the Old-Fashioned Way

Best Business Books 2011: Management

The Battle for Management’s Future

How to Prepare for a Black Swan

Disrupter analysis can help assess the risks of future catastrophic events.

10 Clues to Opportunity

Market anomalies and incongruities may point the way to your next breakthrough strategy.

How to Prevent Self-Inflicted Disasters

All too often, companies unintentionally create their own worst crises. With a little awareness of your organizational DNA, you can avoid that fate — and the headlines that go with it.

M&A in the New CPG Strategy

For consumer products companies seeking acquisition targets, the game-changing deals are those that bring more coherence.
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