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A Complete Guide to All 17 (Known) Trump and Russia Investigations
www.wired.com Dec 17, 2018
While popular memory today remembers Watergate as five DNC burglars leading inexorably to Richard Nixon’s resignation two years later, history recalls that the case and special prosecutor’s investigation at the time was much broader; ultimately 69...
Does Manufacturing Need a JIT Revolution?
hbr.org Dec 14, 2018
Japanese companies are very, very good at manufacturing. A decade ago this was new and disturbing to Western managers. The Japanese had captured a substantial share of the U.S. automobile market, offering features, fits, and finishes at prices...
How to Talk to Your Boss When You’re Underperforming
hbr.org Dec 14, 2018
It’s normal to underperform on occasion. After all, everyone has an off quarter — or even an off year — from time to time. But don’t just sit back and wait for that painful performance review. You need to have a conversation with your manager...
Leaked Audio Reveals Google’s Efforts to Woo Conservatives
www.wired.com Dec 10, 2018
In February, The New York Times Magazine published a cover story urging regulators to break up Google because the company abuses its dominance in search to crush promising competitors. The next day, representatives from two conservative think tanks...
Hiring Without Firing
hbr.org Dec 4, 2018
Hiring has never been easy. About two thousand years ago, officials in the Han dynasty tried to make a science of the process by creating a long and detailed job description for civil servants. Archaeological records show that those same officials...
IT Outsourcing: British Petroleum’s Competitive Approach
hbr.org Dec 3, 2018
In 1993, BP Exploration Operating Company, the $13 billion division of British Petroleum Company that explores for and produces oil and gas, outsourced all its information technology operations in an effort to cut costs, gain more flexible and...
How Do You Manage an Off-Site Team?
hbr.org Dec 3, 2018
I was very disturbed to learn that you met with Penelope without my knowledge to discuss my performance. As I said in my memo to you of April 21, the situation between me and Penelope has been building for some time, and it has nothing to do with...
Investment Opportunities as Real Options: Getting Started on the Numbers
hbr.org Dec 3, 2018
The Analogy between financial options and corporate investments that create future opportunities is both intuitively appealing and increasingly well accepted. Executives readily see why investing today in R&D, or in a new marketing program, or even...
Leadership When There Is No One to Ask: An Interview with Eni’s Franco Bernabè
hbr.org Dec 3, 2018
Bernabè’s tireless advocacy for change had prompted the board to demote him and call for his ouster. After Bernabè became CEO, problems at Eni reached the detonating point with the Clean Hands scandal. Eni’s troubled period between 1992 and 1995...
Product Liability: You’re More Exposed Than You Think
hbr.org Dec 3, 2018
Though the product liability crisis has fallen off the front pages, the problem has not gone away. Lower insurance rates, anticipated by liability law reforms, have seldom materialized. Liability insurance premiums remain a tremendous burden for...
Industrial Pricing to Meet Customer Needs
hbr.org Nov 30, 2018
Even back in “the good old days” of the very early 1970s, industrial marketers found pricing to be a great challenge. Then both customers and competitors were applying pressure, and since that time government price controls, double-digit inflation,...
Applying artificial intelligence for social good
mckinsey.com Nov 29, 2018
AI is not a silver bullet, but it could help tackle some of the world’s most challenging social problems. Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to help tackle some of the world’s most challenging social problems. To analyze potential...
Why Some Factories Are More Productive Than Others
hbr.org Nov 29, 2018
The battle for attention is over. The time for banging drums is long past. Everyone now understands that manufacturing provides an essential source of competitive leverage. No longer does anyone seriously think that domestic producers can outdo...
The Double Jeopardy of Sales Promotions
hbr.org Nov 29, 2018
For more than a decade, sales promotions have grown in importance, becoming the most popular tool in the marketer’s kit. A brief look back helps to explain how tougher market conditions and shrinking profits pushed marketers to use promotions to...
Want Someone to Care About Climate Change? Make It Personal
wired.com Nov 28, 2018
The Foreman: Master and Victim of Double Talk
hbr.org Nov 28, 2018
The increasing dissatisfaction of foremen in mass production industries, as evidenced by the rise of foremen’s unions, calls for more human understanding of the foreman’s situation. This dissatisfaction of foremen is no new, nor static, problem. It...
Profit from the Learning Curve
hbr.org Nov 27, 2018
Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Endgame May Be in Sight
wired.com Nov 27, 2018
History may show that Monday ranks among the most consequential days yet of Robert Mueller’s 18-month special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. As George Papadopoulos, one of the most enigmatic...
Decision Trees for Decision Making
hbr.org Nov 24, 2018
How Your Identity Changes When You Change Jobs
hbr.org Nov 20, 2018
End-Game Strategies for Declining Industries
hbr.org Nov 20, 2018
End gamen1: the last stage (as the last three tricks) in playing a bridge hand 2: the final phase of a board game; specifically the stage of a chess game following serious reduction of forces.1 As early as 1948, when researchers discovered the...
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