Strategy & Operations
Keeping it in the family
Source: Randel S Carlock, Elizabeth Florent-Treacy and Manfred Kets de Vries, INSEAD
Reviewed: 06-Dec-07
News Corp's takeover of Dow Jones is a major deal. But it has raised serious issues for the two battling families involved: the Murdochs and the Bancrofts
Knowing your category
Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Reviewed: 19-Sep-07
Succeeding in any market requires being noticed by and appealing to relevant customer audiences. But as social scientists have shown, "appeal" is a tricky thing.
World Business Interview - Polly Courtice
Source: By Morice Mendoza
Reviewed: 13-Sep-07
Polly Courtice is director of the University of Cambridge Programme for Industry (CPI), which provides research, dialogue and programmes for leaders on the social, environmental and economic context in which global businesses operate. Amongst its key themes are climate change, poverty and development and ethics.
Spot markets in the supply chain
Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Reviewed: 30-Aug-07
Supply chains have traditionally operated with gross inefficiencies resulting from what they don't know.
The right recall strategy
Source: HBS Working Knowledge
Reviewed: 30-Aug-07
Mattel has been criticized heavily for having to recall not once but twice in as many weeks 20 million toys manufactured in China with lead paint and/or loose, potentially dangerous magnets.
Bagels and the law of profit maximisation
Source: Chicago Graduate School of Business
Reviewed: 14-Aug-07
Profit maximization is one of the most fundamental assumptions in economics, yet it is rarely testable because of data limitations and the complexity of most firms. New research tests the theory of profit maximization and suggests that one under-appreciated strategy to making profit-maximizing decisions is feedback.
