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Managing strategy
November 3, 2017, 11:28 PM IST
By Ron Ashkenas Capabilities lie at the heart an organization’s ability to achieve results, so it’s hardly a surprise that different results require different capabilities. But strategic plans often get this simple equation wrong. First,…
November 3, 2017, 11:28 PM IST
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What’s Behind the Hype About Artificial Intelligence?
November 2, 2017, 10:33 PM IST
By Apoorv Saxena There are multiple factors driving strong interest in AI recently. First is significant gains in dealing with long-standing problems in AI. These are mostly problems of image and speech understanding. For example,…
November 2, 2017, 10:33 PM IST
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Overhead Capital
October 31, 2017, 10:50 PM IST
By Jonathan Woetzel ET AL Today, the world invests nearly 14% of global GDP in infrastructure and real estate. Ailing infrastructure assets, rising populations and the demands of economic development are driving countries’ desire to…
October 31, 2017, 10:50 PM IST
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Why luck matters
October 30, 2017, 11:21 PM IST
By Robert Frank When successful people reflect on their paths to the top, they tend to view their success as having been all but inevitable. In their attempts to construct narratives to explain it, they…
October 30, 2017, 11:21 PM IST
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Services strategy
October 26, 2017, 11:41 PM IST
By THOMAS STEWART Design thinking is a way of approaching problems. Industrial design is a way, of course, of making beautiful and functional designs. And service design takes design thinking and some of the sort of…
October 26, 2017, 11:41 PM IST
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Supply-side housing
October 24, 2017, 12:09 AM IST
By JONATHAN WOETZEL ET AL One feeling unites billions of people in cities around the world: a sense of sticker shock whenever they attempt to find a new home. Rents and home prices have risen far…
October 24, 2017, 12:09 AM IST
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On digital payments
October 22, 2017, 11:36 PM IST
By GEOFFREY GARRETT Four hundred and sixty-nine million people made online payments in China in 2016. A larger number used phones to pay in offline retail stores. For comparison, the user base of Apple Pay, by…
October 22, 2017, 11:36 PM IST
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Constructing change
October 20, 2017, 11:37 PM IST
By Steffen Fuchs Et Al Productivity in the construction sector has stagnated for decades, with the average capital project reaching completion 20 months behind schedule and 80% over budget. Some overruns result from increased project…
October 20, 2017, 11:37 PM IST
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Managing oneself
October 19, 2017, 11:43 PM IST
By Vivek Murthy There is good reason to be concerned about social connection in our current world. Loneliness is a growing health epidemic. We live in the most technologically connected age, yet rates of loneliness…
October 19, 2017, 11:43 PM IST
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Globalism Analysed
October 18, 2017, 11:57 PM IST
By Pankaj Ghemawat Business leaders are scrambling to adjust to a world few imagined possible just a year ago. The myth of a borderless world has come crashing down. Traditional pillars of open markets —…
October 18, 2017, 11:57 PM IST
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Managing synergy
October 17, 2017, 10:59 PM IST
By Ankur Agrawal Et Al Information is the lifeblood of investor efforts to confirm — or challenge — their confidence in a company’s ability to create value. This is especially true when companies make deals…
October 17, 2017, 10:59 PM IST
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Happiness at work
October 16, 2017, 11:45 PM IST
By Annie Mckee It doesn’t matter where you sit in the organisation, you are susceptible to disengagement and unhappiness even at the very top. We think if you’re making all of that money and you’ve…
October 16, 2017, 11:45 PM IST
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Managing Strategy
October 14, 2017, 12:25 AM IST
By Lindsay Mcgregor Our research into over 20,000 workers of all skill levels across US industries, and a review of hundreds of academic studies on the psychology of human performance, shows that most leaders and…
October 14, 2017, 12:25 AM IST
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Ground reality
October 10, 2017, 11:29 PM IST
By Richard Thaler Whether or not they have ever studied economics, many people seem at least implicitly committed to the idea of homo economicus, or economic man: the notion that each of us thinks and…
October 10, 2017, 11:29 PM IST
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Hit ground running
October 8, 2017, 11:31 PM IST
By Andy Molinsky ET AL To be successful, young workers — or anyone starting a new job or career with little previous experience in a given field — need to be seen as credible before…
October 8, 2017, 11:31 PM IST
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Technology & economics
October 6, 2017, 11:23 PM IST
By W Brian Arthur A year ago in Oslo Airport, I checked into an SAS flight. One airline kiosk issued a boarding pass, another punched out a luggage tag, then a computer screen showed me…
October 6, 2017, 11:23 PM IST
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Managing innovation
October 6, 2017, 12:23 AM IST
Obsessing too much about budget and deadlines will kill ideas before they get off the ground.
October 6, 2017, 12:23 AM IST
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Economic rationality
October 4, 2017, 11:59 PM IST
By Richard Bookstaber Economic theory asserts a level of consistency and rationality that not only leaves the cascades and propagation over the course of a crisis unexplained but also asserts that they are unexplainable. Everything’s…
October 4, 2017, 11:59 PM IST
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On private equity deals
October 4, 2017, 12:20 AM IST
By Pamela Fung In terms of looking for a good private equity fund, you look obviously at the manager’s past track record. Are the returns good? Are they mediocre or not performing very well? However,…
October 4, 2017, 12:20 AM IST
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Managing Decisions
October 3, 2017, 12:14 AM IST
By Aaron De Smet et al In today’s world, there is the added complexity that many decisions (or parts of them) can be “delegated” to smart algorithms enabled by artificial intelligence. Identifying the parts of…
October 3, 2017, 12:14 AM IST
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