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The C.E.O. Other C.E.O.s Turn to for Advice

October 19, 2021

Here is another superb article from David Gelles for The New York Times in which he shares his conversation with Rich Lesser. He  has run Boston Consulting Group for eight years and is stepping down at a moment of enormous…

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The Lords of Strategy: A book review by Bob Morris

May 26, 2017

The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World Walter Kiechel III Harvard Business Press (2010) A unique aristocracy of iconoclasts Kiechel suggests that understanding what he calls the “strategy revolution” requires getting beyond three common…

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With regard to “our new Renaissance,” there’s good news and there’s bad news

October 20, 2016

In Age of Discovery, Ian Goldin and Chris Kutarna explain how most of us are struggling to navigate the risks and rewards of what they characterize as “our new Renaissance.” Today, we are engaged in a contest “between the good…

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The Emergence of “Women Power”

May 31, 2016

Here is an excerpt from a mini-commentary featured at the BOA/Merrill Lynch website. To read the complete article, please click here. * * * Women’s growing clout—as entrepreneurs, executives and consumers—is changing how companies do business and spurring economic growth…

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Rocket: A book review by Bob Morris

November 15, 2015

Rocket: Eight Lessons to Secure Infinite Growth Michael J. Silverstein, Dylan Bolden, Rune Jacobsen, and Rohan Sajdeh McGraw-Hill (October 2015) Here are 16 mini-case studies that demonstrate the physics of accelerated commercial growth I think this book’s subtitle is a…

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There Are Still Only Two Ways to Compete

April 30, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Roger L. Martin for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive HBR email…

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Peter Weill on Digitally Driven Customer-Centricity

February 25, 2014

Peter Weill is chairman and senior research scientist at the Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He recently spoke with The Boston Consulting Group’s Benjamin Rehberg about ways that financial services companies can…

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Caroline Winter on “The TEDification of Corporate America”

January 11, 2014

Here is a brief article by Caroline Winter for Bloomberg Businessweek. To check out other resources, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration by 731 * * * Last November, State Street introduced a…

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Morten Hansen on “How Great Leaders Make Their Own Luck”

June 4, 2012

Morten Hansen is a professor at University of California, Berkeley, and at INSEAD, France. He was previously a professor at Harvard Business School for a number of years. Prior to joining Harvard University, Hansen obtained his Ph.D. from the business school at Stanford University. In addition…

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The Lords of Strategy: A book review by Bob Morris

October 6, 2011

The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World Walter Kiechel III Harvard Business Press (2010) A unique aristocracy of iconoclasts Kiechel suggests that understanding what he calls the “strategy revolution” requires getting beyond three common…

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