Talent management has been a big issue in strategic management for a long while now. Shortage of people seems sometimes more of a problem than shortage of customers!…

In The Coming Boom in Hybrid Cars ‘in strategy+business makes out that sales of hybrid vehicles are following exactly what would be expected from ‘S-curve theory’ [?] – slow initial…

Sloan Mgmt Review highlights a New York Times article on Walmart’s toughening stance on environmental sustainability. It also points out the inherent conflict in this – that W. relies…

When Dell decided some years ago to bring back home much of its customer support after complaints about service quality, it seemed perhaps to indicate limits to the…

Following my recent post on Tim Devinney’s great work on the realities of green consumer behaviour, see ‘Helping green products grow‘ in McKinsey quarterly. it seems there are…

Interesting to hear Alan Greenspan lay the blame for the scale of US troubles right at the door of the sub-prime idiocy. Since I commented on this, others…

To look past the panic see Taking a Calmer View in strategy+business, which explains how financial institutions that move beyond short-term solutions and focus on restructuring, tightening risk, and…

Another really insightful piece – unpublished as yet … Feldstad, Gao and Burkay of BI Norwegian School of Management on how come Google and eBay – mega powerful…

Yet another great piece at SMS – also not yet published – from Susan Segal-Horn and Alison Dean. What happens when corporate law-firms go international? Seems from in-depth…

I took the trouble to post a query on one of the Academy of Mgmt discussion lists, asking what colleagues felt we had failed to do to allow…