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2007

Business Strategy Review, Winter 2007 cover

Volume 18, Issue 4, Winter 2007

This issue of Business Strategy Review looks at the new ideas that will drive businesses in 2008.

Highlights include:

  • Chris Higson, Oliver Rivers and Martin Deboo believe that creative enterprises are, nonetheless, businesses. They explore whether lessons from Hollywood could teach us how to manage better (download PDF 211KB).  
  • Kjell Nordström and Jonas Ridderstråle return to argue that it's a new world for everyone, especially managers. They list what you, as a manager, should focus upon now.
  • David Bach talks about nonmarket strategy – managing relationships with governments, regulators, NGOs, the media and society at large. It's a new horizon for management, and Bach believes your future success hinges on mastering the concept
  • Andrew and Nada Kakabadse consider an interesting question: in an age of empowerment, what of the corporate chairman? They assert that the role of the chairman is growing as a result of change.  
  • A fascinating profile of Fergie Balfour by Anthony Landale. Here's a leader who thinks his most important job is unlocking people's energy. Ready to meet the "new breed of 21st century business leader"?
  • Pablo Triana keeps watch for 'black swans', arguing preparedness for an  "unlikely rare event" may be the best way to make sure tomorrow's horizon is a sunny one.

Volume 18, Issue 3, Autumn 2007

Business Strategy Review suggests that the most successful managers are also treasure hunters. It delves into who in business is hunting successfully, engaging in breakthrough thinking, exploring new horizons, and discovering buried treasure. Dig in.

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Business Strategy Review, Summer 2007Volume 18, Issue 2, Summer 2007

This issue focuses on the myriad of sources - idea, individuals, and organisations - from which businesses take their inspiration. It includes:

  • Many CEOs cite historical biographies - from Lord Nelson to Nelson Mandela. Historian Niall Ferguson examines why business leaders have a huge appetite for history. And why they should. (download article PDF 140 KB)
  • Organizational "hot spots", centres of high performance and breakthrough innovation, need a special touch when it comes to management. Lynda Gratton discovers how executives manage hot spots without getting burned
  • Gerry George describes what happens when a company transforms its technological capabilities by entering a "new to the firm" niche, and shows how companies harness technology to create new opportunities essential for growth
  • Nirmalya Kumar tells us why retailing is sexier than it has ever been but private labels are still overlooked
  • Major marketing failures grab a lot of attention. But why such failures occur is often overlooked. N. Craig Smith tells how society often creates marketing nightmares.
  • Srikumar Rao asks: have you really got sight of what you want in life? Or are you working too hard to see the wood for the trees?
  • Nader Tavassoli on the dangers when brand names are 'lost in translation'
  • Bruce Weber outlines how heated competition between companies on the LSE has destroyed traditional loyalties in business
  • Narayan Naik and Mark Tapley highlight the democratisation of hedge funds
  • Randall Peterson on why the trend line for the modern CEO is away from the boss whose chief weapons are fear and control. So where does the trendline lead?
  • The latest research from London Business School's Management Innovation Lab from its executive director, Alan Matcham.

 

Business Strategy Review, Spring 2007Volume 18, Issue 1, Spring 2007

Highlights of this issue include:

  • An interview with Charles Handy - writer, broadcaster, thinker and teacher whose books have sold over one million copies. He has been an oil executive, an economist, a professor at London Business School and the warden of St George's House in Windsor Castle. His latest book is The New Philanthropists, and Gay Haskins expands that topic to look reflectively at Handy's achievements as well as his concern with the need for us all - as individuals - to shape our own lives, set an agenda and make a difference (download article PDF 125KB)
  • After over 40 years of academic research and consultants' advice on whether strategy works, many managers remain sceptical. Gerry Johnson and George Yip suggest a new approach
  • Is Corporate Social Responsibility at a crossroads? CSR has been around long enough not to be considered a fad. Yet, as. N. Craig Smith and Halina Ward find, it is not quite an established reality either
  • Stuart Crainer provides the inside story of the revival of Pitney Bowes, and it's carefully calibrated transformation.

 

2006

Business Strategy Review, Winter 2006Volume 17, Issue 4, Winter 2006

This is a special issue focusing on entrepreneurship. Highlights include:

 

Business Strategy Review, Autumn 2006Volume 17, Issue 3, Autumn 2006

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Business Strategy Review, Summer 2006 Volume 17, Issue 2, Summer 2006

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Business Strategy Review, Spring 2006 Volume 17, Issue 1, Spring 2006

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2005

Business Strategy Review, Winter 2005 Volume 16, Issue 4, Winter 2005

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Business Strategy Review, Autumn 2005 Volume 16, Issue 3, Autumn 2005

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Business Strategy Review, Summer 2005 Volume 16, Issue 2, Summer 2005

Highlights of this issue include:

  • 'Dynamic partners,' by Donald N Sull (PDF 48KB)
  • 'The ex-factor,' by Helga Drummond
  • 'The secret diary of corporate venturing,' by Julian Birkinshaw
  • 'Merging on the miraculous,' by Richard Carr, Graham Elton, Sam Rovit and Till Vestring
  • 'Welcome home: innovating the forward supply chain,' Kenneth K Boyer and G Tomas M Hult
  • 'Intangible balls,' by Deli Yang and Mahmut Sonmez.

 

Business Strategy Review, Spring 2005 Volume 16, Issue 1, Spring 2005

Highlights of this issue include:

  • 'Reinventing the rings' by Michael Payne (PDF 124KB)
  • 'The global retail challenge' by Nirmalya Kumar
  • 'Diamond geezers' by Melvin Prince
  • 'Chef executive officer' by Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove
  • 'The hub of the world' by Donald N Sull, Sumantra Ghoshal and Felipe Monteiro
  • 'Trends: What do they know?' by Kevin C. Desouza and Yukika Awazu.

 

2004

Business Strategy Review, Winter 2004Volume 15, Issue 4, Winter 2004

Highlights of this issue include:

  • 'Ryder Cup lessons in team play' by Tony Cockerill (PDF 364KB)
  • Dean Laura Tyson and Nigel Andrews' research into 'Global Business Capabilities'
  • 'Racing to be second' by Costas Markides and Paul Geroski
  • 'Is social enterprise the new economic engine' by Rebecca Harding
  • 'Ohmae's world' by Kenichi Ohmae
  • 'Inside the Corporate Zoo' by Melvin Prince and Mark A Davies.

 

Business Strategy Review, Autumn 2004Volume 15, Issue 3, Autumn 2004

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Business Strategy Review, Summer 2004Volume 15, Issue 2, Summer 2004

Featured articles in this issue:

  • Origins and blasphemies - Des Dearlove
  • What is strategy and how do you know if you have one? - Costas Markides
  • Interview: CK Prahalad -
  • Using strategy to change your business model - George Yip
  • Interview: Philip Kotler
  • The 21st Century CIO - Mark Polansky, Tarun Inuganti and Simon Wiggins
  • Interview: Robert A G Monks
  • If Colin Powell had commanded Enron - Oren Harari and Lynn Brewer
  • What makes a leader?  - Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones
  • Interview: Jeff Skoll
  • A message to Garcia - Thomas L Brown
  • Interview: Paul C Reilly
  • Spinning the wheel of strategic innovation - Chris Styles and Jules Goddard
  • Interview: Arie de Geus

 

Business Strategy Review, Spring 2004Volume 15, Issue 1, Spring 2004

Featured articles in this issue:

  • Entrepreneurial gold mines - John Mullins
  • Famous for one minute - Ken Blanchard
  • The changing balance of power in the consulting market - Ansgar Richter and Sandra Niewiem 
  • Learning to display Emotional Intelligence - Serge Sardo
  • Branding labor-intensive services - Leonard L Berry and Sandra S Lampo
  • In the mail: Pitney Bowes´ CEO gets frank - Stuart Crainer
  • Cost-effective service excellence: lessons from Singapore Airlines - Loizos Heracleous, John Wirtz and Robert Johnston
  • Managing partnerships with state-owned joint venture companies: experiences from Vietnam - Ha Thanh Nguyen and Klaus E Meyer
  • Management in times of change: lessons from The Art of War - Juan Antonio Fernandez
  • Victims of power and tradition in a market economy - Olof Holm
  • Best practices for service organisations - Hans Brechbühl
  • How William Crapo Durant made and lost an industry
  • The destruction of Marconi - Julian Birkinshaw

 

2003

Business Strategy Review, Winter 2003Volume 14, Issue 4, Winter 2003

>Featured articles in this issue:

  • Leading the democratic enterprise - Lynda Gratton
  • Transnational corporations: international citizens or new sovereigns? - Dennis A Rondinelli
  • The seven myths of change management - Michael Jarrett 
  • Value leadership: the principles driving corporate value - Peter S Cohan
  • The radical fringe - An interview with Gary Hamel
  • Seven habits of spectacularly unsuccessful people - Sydney Finkelstein
  • Why trying to reorient a brand can burn your fingers - John W Walsh
  • Windfall economics - Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove
  • Strategically embedding CRM - Fred Langerak and Peter C Verhoef

 

Business Strategy Review, Autumn 2003Volume 14, Issue 3, Autumn 2003

Featured articles in this issue:

  • The dark side of leadership - Manfred Kets de Vries on CEOs, narcissism and magnificent obsessions
  • The great pretenders: the magic of luxury goods - Bernard Catry
  • GM and the great automation solution - Sydney Finkelstein
  • Chief operating officer - a road to nowhere? - Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove
  • Star Trek strategy: real strategy at work - Peter J Brews
  • Effective communication of corporate crises through the internet - Albert H Segars 
  • Teaching elephants how to dance and other silly ideas - Costas Markides and Paul Geroski
  • Marketing: the trouble with finance - Tim Ambler

 

Business Strategy Review, Summer 2003Volume 14, Issue 2, Summer 2003

Featured articles in this issue:

  • Let´s go clubbing - Business by networking
  • Disaster relief - Balanced thinking is the key
  • Knowing me, knowing you - How Siemens shares its knowledge
  • 100 years of management - The thinkers who created the modern age
  • Take your partners - Why sharing equity helps
  • Is the price right? - If not, you may be in trouble
  • Because I´m worth it - How to pay top executives - fairly

 

 

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