Management - Leadership

The CFO of a global construction company disagrees with his CEO (and good friend) about the advantages of self-managed teams--particularly because lack of proper oversight of the Russia office resulted in a financial scandal several years earlier.

Sena Aslan, the CEO of FDM Turkey, wished the drive from the Ankara airport to the bank's largest branch were a bit longer. She had made site visits a hallmark of her short tenure at the company's helm, because they helped her see how frontline employees were weathering the changes she'd been spearheading across the bank.

David Pyott, former chief executive officer of Allergan, describes the conditions prior to the hostile takeover bid in 2014 by Pershing Square Capital Management and Valeant Pharmaceuticals.

The study controlled for rareness of unusual names and was conducted using both human participants and machine learning. It is posited that people are motivated to belong to a particular group and be recognized by that group.

Although the U.S. government and the health care industry have spent billions of dollars on information technology, productivity growth lags behind other industries, and there has been only modest improvement in clinical care quality.

Vertical integration, a major competitive advantage at Tiffany, is entrenched for two reasons: a deeply held belief that great houses of luxury should craft their own designs, and an equally strong conviction that diamond traceability is the best means of ensuring social and environmental responsibility.

China and the U.S. in the 21st century

Barbara Hackman Franklin, the 29th U.S. secretary of commerce and international business consultant, believes that shareholder activism has grown in recent years, and that its presence has changed the normal interrelationship between investors, boards, and management. She cites hedge fund activists as an influence on other investors.

Souq.com's chief executive officer describes the circumstances leading up to the company's development. They used Yahoo! and other mainstream web portals as models, and ensured that users did not have to be fluent in English.