Corporate strategy

AT&T’s recently announced acquisition of T-Mobile will invite hellfire from telecom regulators who fantasize over a different market structure, in which 17 mom-and-pop carriers serve the masses with tender love and care. As an economist, and as a customer of AT&T (with my mom, wife, and oldest daughter on my account), I am not so […]

And why your company can’t ignore it.

Less than a decade after the frantic merger activity of the late 1960s, we are again in the midst of a major wave of corporate acquisitions. In contrast to the 1960s, when acquirers were mainly freewheeling conglomerates, the merger movement in the 1970s includes such long-established giants of U.S. industry as General Electric, Gulf Oil, […]

High-definition televisions (HDTVs) should, by now, be a huge success. Philips, Sony, and Thompson invested billions of dollars to develop TV sets with...

Visits to the toy store were a lot different for Jim Clayton since he took the job as president of Playto Industries. Long lines at the checkout counter used to infuriate him. Now they delighted him because they signaled a boom in sales for Playto. Trips up and down the aisles used to be part […]

Stacey Barr, performance measure specialist at Stacey Barr Pty Ltd, recommends using sensory words to make your goals stick.

The United States and United Kingdom may be, as Churchill said, two countries separated by the same language. Equally, however, the United Kingdom may be the best window Americans have onto the deliberately opaque landscape of the European Community. Sitting here in London, spiritually closer to Boston than to Brussels, it is easy for me […]

Pharma giant Pfizer recently announced a $350 million partnership with Biocon, one of Asia’s leading biotechnology companies. The deal gives Pfizer the exclusive rights to commercialize Biocon’s biosimilar versions of insulin. (For full disclosure: Dr. Prasad Kaipa, one of the authors, headed up the Biocon Cell for Innovation Management at the Indian School of Business […]

A case study of IBM in the 1990s points to what Dell must do to succeed.

In 1994, Continental Airlines was headed for a crash landing--it was quickly running out of customers and cash. Today, the airline is one of the great...

The problems with the company are ingrained in its business model.

It provides customers with the convenience of ecommerce, and retailers with the profitability of in-store shopping.

In a global survey, 45% of CEOs said they don’t think their companies would survive more than a decade on their current path.

Most companies default to the same approach for executing each new strategy. Here’s a framework for your journey.

Five ways to take meaningful action against climate change.

Targeting the middle market can be lucrative—but companies won’t be able to deliver unless they start from scratch.

And why your company should do it too.

"Mission" for nonprofits is the same as "profits" for private sector companies. In the private sector, corporations achieve their goals by carefully designing...

To accelerate your search for a viable new growth model, start with the two-pizza rule.

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