Corporate leadership

He pioneered a new way of looking at corporations’ human resources departmentsDave Ulrich (born 1954) represents one of the biggest shifts in corporate focus in the last years of the 20th century a...

Arthur Sulzberger has come to embody the troubles of America’s newspaper industryTHIS has been Rupert Murdoch week in New York, which has only added to the many difficulties of Arthur Sulzberger ju...

Viral marketing is meant to work like the spread of an epidemicViral marketing involves choosing a small group of well-connected individuals to launch a product or service via the internet or their...

The man who, almost literally, put corporate culture on the mapThe man who put corporate culture on the map—almost literally—Geert Hofstede (born 1928) defined culture along five different dimensio...

A look at noteworthy articles from the business journalsImages of Asia“Branding—the key to Asian survival and sustainability” ...

Lee Scott is stepping down having revived Wal-Mart’s share price—and its reputationONLY last year it seemed increasingly likely that Lee Scott’s reign as chief executive of Wal-Mart would end soon,...

China’s richest man disappears, and his company hits a wallWHATEVER your notion of what constitutes good corporate governance for a listed company, having an important executive arrested is a probl...

A generous gift gives Chicago a new handle, Peter Lorange makes waves about tenure, a new appointment at CEIBS, and moreThe game of the nameIn the always-on renaming game of business education, a p...

Few firms nowadays think about strategy without adding a bit of game theoryThe idea of business as a game, in the sense that a move by one player sparks off moves by others, runs through much strat...

A fight breaks out at the low-cost airlineTHERE is never a good time to have a full-blown boardroom brawl in public. But for Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, a flamboyant serial entrepreneur, to have chos...