Curated articles from various sources.
Expected to open in June 2011, the Berlin Brandenburg International Willy Brandt Airport was intended to handle 27 million passengers a year and be crowned as Europe’s “most modern”. But as it were, inspectors consisting of a team of logistics, safety, and aviation experts could hardly believe their eyes upon performing a series of checks and…
ByHBR.org
Working across organizational boundaries was a new way of thinking 25 years ago —one that was largely championed by the then CEO of GE, Jack Welch. Fast forward to today, and we live in a different world where our communications technologies have dramatically improved. Nevertheless, many organizations still have hierarchical, siloed, and fragmented processes and cultures, and…
Tom Scott, a former U.S. executive at Toshiba Corp, remembers his former boss Atsutoshi Nishida as an aggressive leader. “He gave me goals that scared the hell out of me,” Scott told Reuters after Nishida resigned as an adviser to Toshiba. He further described him as “tough as nails, maybe a little like Patton in World…
ByHBR.org
In-house strategy and consulting groups are growing in popularity, supplementing and increasingly winning business from, many high-profile companies including Cisco, Google, IBM, Samsung, Siemens and Disney. But building an internal consulting group is an unprecedented endeavor for many companies. Harvard Business Reviews reports back on what has been learned about how to establish a successful internal…
The Economist suggests that high valuations should give investors pause – as the implication of high valuations is that future returns are likely to be subdued, of which the most obvious case is that of bonds. This being said, there is always the chance that profits or valuations will return to their historical norms, which is sobering…
Reuters reports how Berkshire Hathaway Inc’s $37 billion deal for aerospace supplier Precision Castparts Corp is encouraging investors to consolidate the fragmented aircraft components industry. This, as Boeing Co uses its clout as the world’s biggest plane maker to put a check on some deals. Moreover, Berkshire chief Warren Buffett isn’t alone in seeing potential…
