Technology and analytics

The system has drastically reduced payment disputes with freight carriers.

Here's how to restore consumer and investor confidence.

Businesses are becoming more agile, but pay plans have not changed accordingly.

Editor’s note: For an opposing viewpoint on this topic, see Robert E. Litan’s and Hal J. Singer’s entry “Why Business Should Oppose Net Neutrality.” In business school, where I teach, students are often predisposed to see legal concepts as impenetrable and foreign. I watch the lightbulbs go on as they see that Microsoft’s antitrust woes, […]

He could have been the president of any one of a number of successful and growing medium-sized companies in the electronics industry. He had spent the previous day working to salt away the acquisition of a small company that fitted an important position in the product line strategy he had evolved for his organization. Most […]

Where to begin and how to measure success.

The International Baccalaureate tried it. Here are the results.

Consider a more balanced and thoughtful approach to AI transformation.

Earlier this year, Gary Wolf wrote a great article in Wired magazine about Craigslist, the world’s dominant classified ad site. Wolf cites astonishing statistics: It’s the most popular site in the US for dating, jobs, and apartments. It gets more traffic than the job sites Monster, CareerBuilder, and HotJobs combined. It also gets more traffic […]

The trade-offs can be complex.

(I wrote this post with Diamond CTO Chris Curran) Are you taking no more than a squirt gun to the talent wars? Most people find jobs through social connections. In 1974, Harvard sociologist Mark Granovetter published his landmark study that showed four out of five people find jobs through personal connections. Yet, in our recent […]

We do it for financial statements - why not code?

Leaders need to focus on adoption, not just deployment.

Month three of our special series on scaling entrepreneurial solutions that benefit society.

As a matter of policy, we don’t review our own books, but we hope you will. Keep an eye out for the following Press titles in September, and let us know what you think of them in the comments. Empowered: Unleash Your Employees, Energize Your Customers, and Transform Your Business by Josh Bernoff and Ted […]

After the Great Recession, the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington think tank, needed to compete even harder for every dollar. Arthur C. Brooks...

Strategies for remaining gainfully employed in an era of very smart machines

Surprising results from a survey of 1,500 leaders.

When to rely on algorithms and when to trust your gut

“If you want to dance, you must pay the fiddler.” In the last six weeks, two patent transactions shook the world of mobile communications: Unlikely bedfellows Apple, Microsoft, Research in Motion, EMC, Ericsson, and Sony joined together in a creatively named consortium called Rockstar Bidco to win an auction for the patent portfolio of the […]