Business management

Advice for tackling one of the toughest parts of the job-hunting process.

A guide for employees and managers.

Think: present, past, future.

New research from Bain shows what the most productive companies do differently.

For more than 30 years, the TED conference series has presented enlightening talks that people enjoy watching. In this article, Anderson, TED's curator,...

How companies can build a long-term strategy that will keep them secure.

Price wars are a fact of life, whether we're talking about the fast-paced world of knowledge products, the marketing of Internet appliances, or the staid,...

What you measure is what you get. Senior executives understand that their organization’s measurement system strongly affects the behavior of managers and employees. Executives also understand that traditional financial accounting measures like return-on-investment and earnings-per-share can give misleading signals for continuous improvement and innovation—activities today’s competitive environment demands. The traditional financial performance measures worked well […]

Too many applicants are screened out because they don't fit a particular pattern.

For starters, it’s not the same as operational effectiveness.

Motivating yourself is one of the main things that sets high achievers apart, and it's hard. How do you keep pushing onward when your heart isn't into...

Firms have never known more about their customers, but their innovation processes remain hit-or-miss. Why? According to Christensen and his coauthors,...

Debunking three common misconceptions.

Steps you can take now to prepare for the future.

New CEOs are typically focused on creating and implementing a strategy, building a top team, and driving culture change. Optimizing administrative workflow...

When Steve Jobs returned to Apple, in 1997, it had a conventional structure for a company of its size and scope. It was divided into business units, each...

By using new technologies and services, U.S. health providers can take virtual health care to the next level.

Much of an executive's workday is spent asking others for information--requesting status updates from a team leader, for example, or questioning a counterpart...

What every manager ought to know about the different kinds of forecasting and the times when they should be used.

In the face of rapid, disruptive change, companies are realizing that managers can't be expected to have all the answers and that command-and-control...