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My colleague, Michael Schrage of MIT sent along a fascinating editorial story from the New York Times in which an observer notes that projections for the size, wealth and growth rates of emerging economies –… Read more »

When it comes to information that is used to make managerial decisions, it’s useful to think of it in terms of three timeframes:  Lagging indicators (which are the bulk of those in use) reflect past… Read more »

This week, I’m directing the Columbia Business School Executive Education course Leading Strategic Growth and Change.  The course is designed to help companies learn to better manage opportunities for growth through innovation, new product development… Read more »

I’m here in Japan in a program that Columbia runs in partnership with the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC).  One of the topics we’re working on has to do with managing your boss –… Read more »

In yesterday’s USA Today a columnist noted that banks have taken to the practice of clearing transactions from the highest to the lowest dollar amount, rather than in the order they arrive for processing (USA… Read more »

I hear it (and see it) all the time – executives who are supposed to be studying, discussing or working together tuning in and out as they engage in the so-called blackberry prayer, or trying… Read more »

3MTechnologies.pdf Apollo_Group_Report.pdf ARM_Holdings.pdf BHP_Billiton.pdf Cadence_Design_Systems.pdf DrReddys.pdf GAF.pdf Google.pdf Haier_Report.pdf Infosys_Technologies.pdf Netflix_Report.pdf Puma.pdf Ranbaxy.pdf Ryanair_Report.pdf Save-A-Lot.pdf Tata_Motors.pdf Wahaha.pdf Whole_Foods.pdf Willie_Nelson_Biodiesel.pdf WL_Gore.pdf

Swiss Reinsurance, one of Rita’s clients, has capitalized on a brilliant play in what we’ve sometimes called new market tectonics. What’s come together is the increasing relevance and urgency around global warming with a market… Read more »

Swiss Reinsurance, one of Rita’s clients, has capitalized on a brilliant play in what we’ve sometimes called new market tectonics. What’s come together is the increasing relevance and urgency around global warming with a market… Read more »

Is anyone paying attention over at XM Radio? The so-called ‘advertising free’ medium, for which I pay a hefty regular charge has now started inserting the most stupid, insulting ads into their regular programming. After… Read more »

The transcript of an interview with Mac regarding the Buffet donation of $30 billion to Gates Foundation Knowledge@Wharton: I’d like to start by asking you the same question that Bill Gates himself raised during an… Read more »

Now I’ve seen it all. Business Week (May 1, 2006) has a long discussion of how Tide and other consumer brands are being made into ‘so much more than just detergent’ by companies seeking to… Read more »