December 20, 2010
Successful Strategic Planning
In times of great uncertainty, strategic planning must shift from a bureaucratic, linear process to a more targeted approach that is both analytic and creative.
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December 13, 2010Billion-dollar Ideas: Finding Tomorrow’s Growth Engines Today
To create growth in uncertain times, use this disciplined and market-focused methodology. It can help you discover and distill attractive new ideas and build a business case for implementing the best of them.
December 13, 2010Helping the CIO Lead
Charlie Feld, the former CIO of Frito-Lay and a pioneer in his field, explains how IT can play a key role in developing corporate strategy.
November 23, 2010The Right to Win
Business strategy is at an evolutionary crossroads. It’s time to resolve the long-standing tension between the inherent identity of your organization and the fleeting nature of your competitive advantage.
November 23, 2010Road Map to Relevance
How a capabilities-driven information technology strategy can help differentiate your company.
November 23, 2010The Good, the Bad, and the Trustworthy
Even successful public relations is no longer enough to protect a company’s reputation.
November 15, 201015 Years, 50 Classics
To celebrate a decade and a half of publication, we asked the s+b editors to look back and choose the articles that have had the greatest impact.
November 8, 2010The Coherence Profiler
An interactive diagnostic test can show you how focused your company’s activities are — with sometimes surprising results.
September 13, 2010A 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.
August 24, 2010Getting Tensions Right
How CEOs can turn conflict, dissent, and disagreement into a powerful tool for driving performance.
August 24, 2010Growth through Focus: A Blueprint for Driving Profitable Expansion
Rather than seek increased revenues and profits by expanding products and markets, companies should follow a seven-step strategy for achieving more with less.
August 24, 2010Theory U and Theory T
Thoughts on the 50th anniversary of one of the most influential contributions to management theory.
August 9, 2010Navigating 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, 2010The Life’s Work of a Thought Leader
In interviews conducted before his untimely death, C.K. Prahalad — the sage of core competencies and the bottom of the pyramid — looked back on his career and talked about the way ideas evolve.
June 14, 2010Boards of Prevention
Corporate directors can – and should – play a much more active role in overseeing risk and avoiding major crises.
May 25, 2010CEO Succession 2000-2009: A Decade of Convergence and Compression
The role of the chief executive is evolving. CEOs from around the world discuss the game-changing practices that lead to success.
May 25, 2010Herman Miller’s Design for Growth
The office-furniture design leader is betting on innovation as it continues to push the envelope of management practice.- May 25, 2010
It Makes Sense to Adjust
Business transformation is now a continuous process that most companies haven’t mastered. Here’s a formula for managing ongoing change. 
May 10, 2010The Thought Leader Interview: Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD’s expert on leadership development clarifies how self-awareness can break the destructive pattern of corporate narcissism.
May 3, 2010Why We Hate the Oil Companies
As Shell’s then top U.S. executive traveled the country, he discovered how corporate leaders create their own reputation for arrogance — and lose their chance to deliver the right message.
April 26, 2010Leading Outside the Lines
Integrating formal metrics and informal communication can lead to new levels of performance.
April 19, 2010Putting Strategy into Practice
Celebrating a “must-read” concept, based on data from thousands of companies: Information flow and decision rights are integral parts of the strategic process.
April 5, 2010Clarity from Switzerland
How well does your company’s annual report communicate and reinforce leadership intent and corporate values?
March 22, 2010Getting China Right
Booz & Company’s Edward Tse believes that, despite the challenges in today’s headlines, companies should take a long-term view when shaping their China strategy.
March 15, 2010Management by Reflection
Managing author Henry Mintzberg believes that to improve business schools, we must first understand the essence of what managers do.- March 8, 2010
Six Industries in Search of Survival
Despite improvements in the global economy, chemicals, retail banking, consumer packaged goods, engineered products and services, oil and gas, and technology still need to transform. 
February 23, 2010Seven Chapters of Strategic Wisdom
A shortcut to the big themes in the conversation about corporate strategy.
February 23, 2010The China Challenge
For global companies, ignoring China is not an option. But they must adapt their strategies to the country’s changing markets, increased competition, and shifting government priorities.
February 23, 2010What Is Your Risk Appetite?
To avoid swinging between over-exuberance and excessive caution, set a disciplined target for your desired investment outcomes.
February 23, 2010Jack’s Right Fight
When the head of a division had an impossible target to meet, the only way forward was through a constructive battle between allies.
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