Curated articles from various sources.
ByHBR.org
At a recent strategy meeting with the leaders of a Fortune-500 company, the word “culture” came up almost 30 times in just 1.5 hours. As most business leaders believe, a strong organizational culture is crucial to success, yet culture tends to feel like some magical force that can’t be controlled. As such, most executives manage it using pure intuition. By…
As the Economist would have it, Clay Christensen (Mr Disrupter) should not be given the last word on disruptive innovation by any means. Having established a company in his own right, he is regularly named as the world’s most influential management guru. He has applied his theory to an ever-wider range of subjects with books such as…
Pfizer and Allergan are in talks to create the world’s biggest drug company by market value. The problem with this scenario? Pfizer’s take over of Allergan have faced a political backlash in the United States over fears that the deal would lead to the company shifting its headquarters and taxable profits to Ireland. But a Reuters…
ByTED
Communications technology innovator, Harold Haas, is the pioneer behind a new technology that can communicate as well as illuminate. In this groundbreaking TED talk, Haas dares to answer the question: What if we could use existing technologies to provide Internet access to billions of people living in places where the infrastructure currenty does not allow…
Huntsville in Alabama may seem like one of the most unlikely cities to base a center for genomics and other biological-technological endeavors. Yet Huntsville turns out to be a great place to recruit high-tech workers. In fact, it’s one of a growing number of smaller U.S. cities, far from the grandiosity of Silicon Valley, that…
Reuters reports that suppliers of everything from groceries to sports equipment are being squeezed for price cuts and cost sharing by Wal-Mart Stores. Moreover, they are bracing for the pressure to ratchet up even more after a shock earnings warning from the retailer last week. The discount store has always had a reputation for demanding…
