Business Strategy
Business Strategy
Marc J. Epstein’s book Making Sustainability Work is the ultimate “how-to” guide for business leaders who want to control their company’s social, environmental, and economic impacts. Drawing on decades...
In March 1998 Jerry Newman visited a fast food restaurant with his daughter for breakfast. In her breakfast sandwich was a finger from a plastic sanitary glove. That experience led Newman, a university business...
The costs associated with technology are rapidly approaching zero at an unprecedented rate, while at the same time the digital world is increasingly moving into the physical realm as people are working and playing on...
Corporate crises, such as those resulting from the Three Mile Island nuclear accident and the Tylenol poisonings, have always been a part of business, but the number and magnitude of crises have increased greatly since...
Customers and investors demand much from modern companies. They require absolute integrity, full disclosure of financials and business practices, and dialogue with company managers, and in the age of social media they...
In Stirring It Up, Gary Hirshberg describes the mission behind Stonyfield Farm and catalogs the lessons he has learned while seeking profit via environmental sustainability over the past 25 years....
In The Pursuit of Something Better, authors Dave Esler and Myra Kruger tell the story of U.S. Cellular’s revolutionary transformation under the leadership of CEO Jack Rooney. Rooney’s instrument of...
Successful organizations know that they must deal with unexpected events with flexibility, adaptability, and alertness. They learn from their mistakes, are less concerned with blame, and promote communication. In...
72 pp. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2009 Everyone knows what a shortcut is: a quicker, easier way to get somewhere. In Be a Shortcut, author Scott Halford uses the word in a slightly different sense: a Shortcut is that...
Business leaders of today face tremendous challenges. Global data capabilities allow work production across distributed networks, requiring that companies manage the flow of raw material, work-in-process, money, and...
