Ivey Business School
-
A Step Back. A Step Forward: Finding a New Perspective in a Season of Change
Change is like looking at one of those paintings made up of individual images; if you look at it close up, all you can see is a jumble of faces, but when you step back and look at the entire painting from a distance, you can see how all those pieces are interconnected and woven together to create a complete picture.
-
Making the Best of a World Slowdown
Sluggish economic growth is hardly desirable, but as this author points out, it may be a blessing in disguise. In this article he outlines eight steps that executives can take to help their firms survive a slowdown and emerge as a smarter, more productive enterprise
-
Why Top Management Teams In Indian Firms Should be Concerned With Mission
Few Indian companies formally engage in a regular process to define and fine tune their “Vision, Mission, and Values”. Why?
-
What We Can Learn From High Value Indian Outsourcers
How to survive and thrive in the highly competitive outsourcing industry
-
Strategic Leadership Development: The New Frontier For Indian Firms
The need for effective business leaders in India is as intense as it is in most countries. But the path that Indian firms take to develop effective leaders is considerably different than the path followed by American or Canadian firms
-
Indian Entrepreneurship And The Challenges To India’s Growth
How the Indian Family Business and its entrepreneurial spirit play an important role in India’s growth
-
Three Disciplines To Beat The Merger Performance Odds
Mergers fail for several reasons and one of the most common is the failure of managers to plan how to retain the knowledge that existed in both organizations before the merger. Or, simply put, knowledge is too often lost in the merger. A simple solution, meaningful conversation properly organized and structured, will help managers combine not only the companies, but the all important knowledge that employees in both organizations have. This author describes how to do it
-
Social Networking: The Corporate Value Proposition
Marketers habitually find it hard to quantify the value of what they do, and their use of social networks is the latest manifestation of this difficulty. Why is it so hard to determine the business value of social networks? This article explores the slippery slope of coming up with a useful ‘social media ROI’ and offers new ways to understand social networking’s value proposition
-
Effective Management In International Development: What works and what Doesn’t
It was once unthinkable that international aid would be so intensely scrutinized as it is today. But academics and observers have concluded that the very problems and ills international aid was supposed to cure still exist, despite the billions that have been poured into countries. This author, long active in the field, suggests that there are a series of best practices that, when followed, will enable managers in the field to get the results that will make a difference
-
Professors Influence Leader Behaviour
What education tomorrow’s business leaders need?
-
Stretching The Frame
Oana Branzei finds that cross sector partnerships in health care can be a powerful source of value creation