Thought Leadership
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A Winning Combination: Sales and Marketing
All too often, organisations find that they have a marketing function inside sales, and a sales function inside marketing
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Uncovering Your Passions and Their Applicability
Some guidelines to help a person rediscover the path to passion
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Web 2.0 Innovation in the Banking Industry
Web 2.0 innovation and transformation journey to fuel growth and expand current offerings in financial services
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Stretch the Competitive Playing Field Beyond the Market
Activists and NGOs can impact your firm’s reputation and its ability to carry out strategic projects
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Joseph Stiglitz: Developing Nations Need to Attempt to Reverse Natural Resource Curse
Developing nations need to embrace economic, political processes to reverse natural resource curse, says Nobel Prize-winning economist
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Peers Influence Decision to Become an Entrepreneur
Why do some geographic areas — such as California’s Silicon Valley — produce so many entrepreneurial companies?
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Robert Shiller: Economists Need to Take a Closer Look at How People Make Decisions
Decades of economic research have assumed people pursue their goals in a rational manner, discounting the effects of emotion, bias, error, and other irrational forces. Robert Shiller, Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics at Yale University, argues that economists need to take a closer look at how people make decisions
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Family Values: Leading the Way Out of the Downturn
Family-owned businesses have suffered along with everyone else, but are able to leverage a competitive advantage to ensure they survive and prosper
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Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
The concept of personal rapid transport (PRT) has been percolating since the mid-1950s and is finally gaining ground
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What Do We Owe the Bottom Billion?
Princeton philosopher Peter Singer has been a prominent, often controversial, figure. His most recent book, The Life You Can Save, looks at the responsibilities of individuals for addressing global poverty.