Management - Leadership

More and more companies recognize the importance of corporate responsibility to their long-term success - and yet the matter gets short shrift in most boardrooms, consistently ranking at the bottom of some two dozen possible priorities.

Corporate America began to really take notice of the looming retirement crisis in the wake of the dot-com crash, when companies in major industries went bankrupt in large part because of their inability to meet their pension obligations.

The gap between marketers' aspirations and what their organizations can accomplish creates intense pressure to reshape how marketing is done.

Despite the $11 billion spent on customer relationship management (CRM) software annually, many consumer companies don't understand customer relationships at all. They aren't aware of the variety of relationship types and don't understand what kind their customers want.

Marketing is rapidly becoming one of the most technology-dependent functions in business. In response, a new type of executive is emerging - the chief marketing technologist (CMT). CMTs are part strategist, part creative director, part technology leader, and part teacher.

Yang Yuanqing assumed the reins at Lenovo (formerly known as Legend) in 2001, when the company's founder, Liu Chuanzhi, moved on to become chairman.

The article examines how leadership enabled the Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Station to survive the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that destroyed its sister plant, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. Superintendent Naohiro Masuda focused decision making on the critical issues of preserving cooling functions and structural integrity.

This fictionalized case study presents a dilemma faced by leaders in real companies and offer solutions from experts. This study explores whether an entrepreneur should scale up his business across several countries or whether he should focus on the largest one. Those sharing opinions on the matter are Ashish J.

Ozon CEO Maelle Gavet left the Boston Consulting Group to join Ozon in part because she had once been an entrepreneur and missed the excitement - but mostly because she saw the company's potential to become the Amazon of Russia.

This article presents a framework to help managers take business model innovation to the level of a reliable and improvable discipline.