Thought Leadership
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Valuation in Distress
The key to carrying out a reasonable valuation lies in establishing the main objectives that the valuation process needs to achieve
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Growth Engine: China's Search Giant Baidu
Jennifer Li reflects on Baidu’s strategy so far, opportunities for the future and the allegations of Baidu being a Google clone
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Making Big Data Real
Many of the business models used in digital marketing channels are going the way of their counterparts who have become dinosaurs in the offline world. But the market is about to be forced to organize by the vendors offering distinctive services that solve business problems for publishers and marketers, and by strategic investors seeking to create a more efficient marketplace. This author, an authority on trends and developments in digital marketing, describes the forces and the companies setting
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Are Accountants and CFOs Killing Innovation?
What can you do when penny-pinchers get in the way of your disruptive ideas to make necessary, often disruptive, changes in your company?
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Your Genes May Affect Your Financial Decisions
A team of scholars studies the link between emotions and investment behavior
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Blind Spots and How to Work at Them
Douglas Stone, the Boston-based consultant and ‘difficult conversations’ expert talks about blind spots (the bad news: we all have them) and the best way to give and receive feedback
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The High-Growth Conundrum: Helping Companies Cross the Chasm
Geoffrey Moore provides some pointers on how companies can counter the challenges that come with hypergrowth
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The Compensation Game
Do CEOs deserve "star" compensation? The idea that CEO pay is driven by the invisible hand of market forces is a myth from which chief executives have long benefited, say Harvard professors Lucian Bebchuk and Rakesh Khurana
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What Does Wise Leadership Mean?
Wise leaders are self aware, aware of their prejudices, their social conditioning and thus able to moderate the tendency to be over-optimistic with their intuitive instincts
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Lessons From The Dark Side Of Capitalism: How Pirates Help To Shape New Industries
It is a novel and intriguing thought: Business can take a lesson from pirate organizations by paying attention to and working with them to innovate, push forward and become aware of new uncharted territories ahead. This author suggests specific steps a conventional business can take
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Finding Growth at the Base of the Pyramid
As competition in emerging economies intensifies, multinationals are searching for new growth opportunities. Could the poorest of the poor hold the key?