The best consumer strategies start with knowing where and why people shop for your product.

Number crunching can be valuable for firms exploiting their existing resources, but can backfire for companies seeking to branch out with new products or services.

Creating a company-wide culture that prizes sensitive brand, process, innovation, and database information is the key to extracting value from proprietary jewels without giving them away.

Marketers can use big data to improve their strategic efforts.

Attracting new employees and doing right by its current workforce aren’t the only factors that lead a company to adopt LGBT-friendly HR policies.

Companies are using advanced data analytics to focus on a range of new business problems, and have found there are several keys to success in using big data. For more related insights, read “Overcoming Big Data’s Challenges.”

Companies that have the most success leveraging big data are getting three things right: talent, technology, and culture. For more related insights, watch “SoundBite: Why Does Big Data Matter?”

The streamlining of corporate operations is usually executive-led, but engaging frontline employees is crucial to genuine reform.

Balancing the immediate desire for personalization with a need to understand more than our immediate environment might ultimately offer the deeper reward.

An age-old bit of wisdom can help you overcome outcome bias to improve your decision making as a leader.

Customer service websites can help B2B firms keep their costs down, but they must invest in traditional hotlines and tech support to satisfy their neediest clients.

This infographic provides a snapshot of the emerging wearable technology market.

Thriving amid rapid change, authors Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler argue, requires a fearlessness that borders on hubris.

Job ads that specifically seek team players can have the unintended downside of scaring away potential hires with technical rather than collaborative skill sets.

Expectations don’t match reality, says the UCLA Anderson School of Management professor, when it comes to the performance of certain personality types in teams.

A CEO’s character can change a company’s culture, the way it operates, and its performance.

Being honest about the expenses that go into developing and distributing a product can increase sales and enhance a firm’s bond with consumers.

In The Reciprocity Advantage, Bob Johansen and Karl Ronn argue that the most successful partnerships start with sharing, not protecting, your intellectual capital.

Potentially harmful rumors can start because employees feel inadequately informed, and they can spread when companies fail to keep their promises to their workers.

In top urban areas, socioeconomic balance attracts residents and lays the groundwork for prosperity.

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

Based on 10 years of organizational design (“organizational DNA”) research and 220,000 diagnostic surveys, here’s what we’ve learned about building high-performance companies.

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

Building a great team starts with being a great leader.

Check out this new interactive graphic to see if your profession will soon become automated.