All articles tagged: economics

A favored position creates authentic leadership only when it is tempered by accountability.

Our annual review of the year’s best business books. See also Best Business Books 2014—in Pictures.

Our annual review of the year’s best business books. See also Best Business Books 2014—in Pictures.

The founding editor of strategy+business argues that the United States is about to launch an epic new wave of growth.

Eight principles for succeeding in markets prone to ethical and legal risks.

Soccer, says Ignacio Palacios-Huerta, is a perfect laboratory for testing economic theory.

What are the paths to economic growth for today’s emerging markets?

Economist Don Thompson says a product’s value can rise if it’s accompanied by a compelling backstory, reputation, or buying experience.

Learning what other companies did to acquire firms in developing economies may help U.S. companies be more successful in their own M&A efforts.

The emergence of new technologies could convince physicians and insurers that patient-specific healthcare is here to stay.

In The Son Also Rises, UC Davis economic historian Gregory Clark tracks surnames over hundreds of years to better understand social mobility.

Les Leopold, author of How to Make a Million Dollars an Hour: Why Hedge Funds Get Away with Siphoning Off America’s Wealth, introduces a passage on the debilitating effects of mass firings from Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t, by Simon Sinek.

The former BP policy development manager and U.N. business and human rights advisor on the nuances of promoting social responsibility and sustainability within companies.

A new study explains what’s holding them back, and how they can move forward.

After reading the International Handbook on the Economics of Mega Sporting Events, it’s hard to see how Russia will benefit from hosting the Winter Olympics.

A personality-driven history of economic forecasting by business historian Walter Friedman points up the limitations of the prediction business, then and now.

A review of Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change, by Edmund Phelps.

If the authors of Does Capitalism Have a Future? are right, this year’s WEF attendees should take a hard look at business as usual.

The economist explains how financial crises spread like a disease and what companies can do to immunize themselves.

According to scholar Maurizio Viroli, leaders cited The Prince as a rationale for unethical behavior for far too long. Accomplish something great instead.

Companies that link complementary partners, like dating sites or online auctions, can dominate for years or be swept away in an instant.

To U.C. Berkeley's long-standing strategy thinker, companies gain an edge only when they evolve in ways no one else can match.

When you apply simplistic solutions to complex challenges, you miss out on bigger opportunities.

Businesses must ask themselves what impact they can make on society as social and economic climates change around the world.

Nobel Prize–winning economist Edmund Phelps argues that innovation and the prosperity it engenders are a function of our values.