Innovation
Innovation’s New World Order
Asia is now the top regional destination for R&D spending, followed by North America and Europe. See also Interactive: Where Companies Spend Their R&D Money.
Issue 81, Winter 2015
Cover story
In this issue
Organizations & PeopleThe Fortune 500 teller
Having applied the logic of physics to predict the life expectancy of biological creatures and cities, Geoffrey West is now searching for the scientific principles that dictate the life spans of companies.
Business LiteratureBest Business Books 2015
Our annual review of the year’s best business books. See also Best Business Books 2015 — in Pictures.
Thought LeadersBran Ferren on the Art of Innovation
A celebrated proprietor of R&D ateliers explains how companies can cultivate the rare people who create miracles.
Features
FinanceBe Your Own Activist Investor
With these 10 principles for rethinking cost management, you can maximize value and avoid threats from Wall Street.
Best Business BooksBusiness LiteratureBest Business Books 2015
Our annual review of the year’s best business books. Narratives: An Expensive Breakdown in Communications • Leadership: Leading by Biographical Example • Disruption: The Machine Age • Marketing: Capturing Attention – and Data – in a Digital Age• Managerial Self-Improvement: What a Character! • Economics: The (Very) Political Economy • Strategy: The Search for Innovation
Leading Ideas
Strategy & LeadershipConsistency Drives Success at Telus
The Canadian telecom giant transformed its business by adopting a clear, stable approach to strategy and culture.
Auto, Airlines & TransportBonding with Infrastructure
Management guru Rosabeth Moss Kanter urges the private sector to invest in the U.S. transportation system.
Thought LeadersKentaro Toyama on Why Technology Alone Won’t Change the World
The University of Michigan professor believes that to solve human problems, human skill is needed more urgently than ever before.
TechnologyThe Best Defense
Contractors in the aerospace and defense sector can fend off aggressive activist investors by adopting a capabilities-driven approach.
Organizations & PeopleMillennials play the long game
With the right incentives, younger hires want to commit to your organization.
Strategy & Leaderships+b Trend Watch: 20 Years of strategy+business
Two decades of management coverage, charted by topic.
Essays
Consumer ProductsNavigating Retail’s Last Mile
To serve online shoppers effectively, companies need to make complex trade-offs among speed, variety, and convenience.
InnovationThe Frugal Way to Grow
Pioneering companies in mature economies are learning from emerging market companies a new way to expand their businesses.
Recent Research
s+b BlogsDon’t Sweat the Swanky Stuff
C-suite executives with criminal records in their personal lives are more likely to commit fraud than their law-abiding but free-spending counterparts.
Trending articles
- 1.Rethinking total reward strategiesPay, incentives, and benefits haven’t significantly changed for decades, but people’s preferences have. Employee compensation needs a rethink if companies are to attract and retain talent.
- 2.10 principles of strategic leadershipHow to develop and retain leaders who can guide your organization through times of fundamental change.
- 3.The power of feelings at workBy aligning the pursuit of business objectives with the meeting of human needs, companies can tap into powerful emotional forces in their current cultural situations.
- 4.Rebuilding Lego, Brick by BrickHow a supply chain transformation helped put the beloved toymaker back together again.
- 5.How to Brand SandIn commodity-goods markets, price is usually the only differentiator. But if you can brand those goods and bundle them with services, even bricks and sand can command premium prices. Here is how to turn commodities into branded goods.
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