On successful imitators, differentiated searchers, insecure fast-trackers, and more.

On Southwest’s new IT strategy, reputation as a crime deterrent, the value of self-disclosure, customer perception of offshoring, and more.

On catching malfeasance, improving boards, priming brands, predicting negotiations, and appreciating e-mail.

On the culture of spin-offs, Ken Lay’s calendar, the synergies of digital retail, and the case against microcredit.

On remanufactured products, inaccurate forecasts, misunderstood meetings, and more.

On product piracy, CEO celebrity, me-too brands, and more.

On creative globetrotters, relocated headquarters, a business ethics pioneer, and more.

On watercooler talk, learning from failure, happy accidents, measuring communications, and metaphors.

On schools for elder leaders, Japanese decision making, innovation inertia, and more.

On entrepreneurs, innovation, executive women, and CEO pay.

On auction psychology, e-mail tactics, CEO turnover, and more.

On emerging-world corporate “tigers,” the profitability of innovations, and other topics of interest.

On straw-man marketing, leadership and meaning, acquired innovation, and other topics of interest.

Distributed leadership, shareholder value in family-owned firms, R&D strategy, and other topics of interest.

On the perils of stretch goals, modular engineering, educating CEOs, and other topics of interest.

On diversity’s payoff, e-pricing strategy, marketing and growth, and other topics of interest.

On humor’s management power, venture capital in China, media’s influence on business, and other topics of interest.

Health, wellness, and wisdom are all fair game in the executive suite.

On emotion in advertising, manufacturing metaphors, corporate innovation, and other topics of interest.

On securities analysts, innovation, European happiness, Asian competitiveness, and other topics of interest.

On tournament theory, global competitiveness, corporate whistleblowing, and other topics of interest.

On university high-tech spin-offs, outsourcing strategy, measuring intellectual capital, and other topics of interest.

Silicon Valley still dominates the technology map, but European high-tech clusters are closing in.

Twinning Network, Chairman

Once the preserve of Silicon Valley, Internet incubators are now rapidly expanding in Europe. The question: Will they survive?

On packaged-goods marketing, peer-to-peer networks, leading by listening, and other topics of interest.

Customer-driven product innovation, hidden financial risks, consumer boycotts, and other topics of interest.

On customer feedback online, vanishing COOs, rebuilding trust, and other topics of interest.

The controversial U.K. economist dismantles four myths about the American business model.