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Strategy

Innovation
ORGANISING THE SCIENCE-BASED BUSINESS
Since the early days of management research we've understood that organisation and technology are closely linked. Alfred Chandler taught that organisational innovation and technological innovation are equal partners in economic ...
06 March 2010 Read full article
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Governance

Sustainability
AN OPTIMISTIC VIEW OF THE SUSTAINABLE CORPORATION
The Copenhagen climate summit in December may have failed to reach new policy initiatives, but that doesn't stop the thought-industry from thinking about the next steps. From the World Business Council for Sustainable Developmen...
20 February 2010 Read full article
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Responsiveness

EU financial regulation
BARNIER SETS OUT HIS FIVE-POINT PLAN
After the horse-trading that led to the new European Commission put him into the internal market job, Michel Barnier was bound to attract sceptical scrutiny in his early days in office. A former French agriculture minister, he w...
20 February 2010 Read full article
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Political economy
SOVEREIGN RISK, NOT SOVEREIGN WEALTH?
Three years ago – it seems a lifetime – the authorities in major western countries were voicing concerns about the growth of sovereign wealth funds. Too much money, it seemed was becoming concentrated in the hands of a small num...
12 February 2010 Read full article
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reviews

Strategy in practice
INSIDE THE STRATEGY OVEN – PICKING A TEXT
Q. Why are there so many books on strategy?
A. Because it is a subject we know so little about.
There is an element of truth in this old joke. Strategy is both amorphous and important. Unlike most other subjects in ...
04 March 2010 Read full article

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