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Ann Graham

Ann Graham is a contributing writer and former executive editor of strategy+business. She focuses on business strategy and management theories and practices that make businesses more valuable as societal assets. Her latest work includes Gender Lens Investing: Uncovering Opportunities for Growth, Returns, and Impact (Wiley, 2016). She also writes for BREAKER, a website covering blockchain technology.

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Danny Meyer’s Recipe for Success
How the restaurant mogul behind Union Square Cafe, Shake Shack, and many other dining destinations uses culture to drive scale. See also “Building a Culture of Hospitality: Danny Meyer’s Team Prepares for Service.”
June 20, 2018 by Ann Graham
Customer Loyalty Isn’t What It Used to Be
Instead of relying on points programs and clever marketing, companies have to listen carefully to customers and adapt products and services to their changing expectations.
October 10, 2016 by Beth Benjamin and Ann Graham
The Thought Leader Interview: Jonathan Haidt
The NYU social psychologist says that the ethical risks for a business depend on its ingrained cultural attitudes.
February 1, 2016 by Ann Graham
Bonding with Infrastructure
Management guru Rosabeth Moss Kanter urges the private sector to invest in the U.S. transportation system.
October 15, 2015 by Ann Graham
The Impact of a Corporate Idealist
In a recent video interview, Christine Bader explains why paying attention to your company’s ethical, environmental, and societal consequences pays off.
March 12, 2015 by Ann Graham
The Thought Leader Interview: William J. O’Rourke
The former head of Alcoa Russia teaches executives that in international business practice, ethics and competitive advantage go hand in hand.
November 27, 2012 by Ann Graham
A Global Mash-Up
A review of Standing on the Sun, by Christopher Meyer with Julia Kirby.
August 28, 2012 by Ann Graham
A Family-owned Business Goes Global
As director of human resources (and CEO of a prominent subsidiary), Santrupt Misra oversees the Aditya Birla Group’s strategy for cultural change as it steps out onto the world stage.
September 13, 2010 by Vikas Sehgal, Ganesh Panneer, and Ann Graham
Navigating Turmoil in the Global Technology-services Sector
For Girish Paranjpe, co-CEO of India’s Wipro Technologies, the best response to economic crisis was reinvestment: in people, green technology, and expansion.
August 9, 2010 by Vikas Sehgal and Ann Graham
Too Good to Fail
India’s Tata, one of the world’s largest conglomerates, is basing an ambitious global strategy on 142 years of social entrepreneurship.
February 23, 2010 by Ann Graham
William Haseltine: The Thought Leader Interview
A molecular biologist and entrepreneur sees green as the next wave of the genomic revolution.
February 24, 2009 by Ann Graham
Best Business Books 2007
November 28, 2007 by Ann Graham
The Company That Anticipated History
Eskom, Africa’s largest electric company, has shown the world how to combine social leadership and business success.
November 30, 2006 by Ann Graham
Best Business Books 2005: Work and Life
The Upside of Downtime
November 29, 2005 by Ann Graham
Lynn Sharp Paine: The Thought Leader Interview
The Harvard Business School ethics scholar says values are defining a new standard of corporate performance.
May 21, 2003 by Ann Graham