In 1998 in a lakeside town in the highlands of Guatemala, Hugo Beteta, a foundation executive, and Otilia Lux de Coti, an indigenous human rights campaigner, went for a walk. They were an unlikely ...

In Bangalore, India, the cost of a Western-style hotel room is typically US$250 to $300 per night. But the indiOne hotel charges $20. The indiOne is modern; every room includes an attached bathroom, ...

Rita Gunther McGrath thinks it’s time for most companies to give up their quest to attain strategy’s holy grail: sustainable competitive advantage. Neither theory nor practice of strategy has kept ...

This decade’s most re­markable business story has been the rise of Google from the dot-com ashes. The company didn’t even exist 10 years ago — it was incorporated by its founders, Stanford University ...

Imagine that you’re one of millions of people whose job is threatened by digital technology. You’re the compliance officer at a bank, an operations manager on an assembly line, a technical writer, a ...

A version of this article appeared in the Summer 2021 issue of strategy+business. In the blink of an eye, COVID-19 disrupted the business environment and illuminated a profound, sometimes overlooked ...

Leadership is not just for leaders anymore. Top companies are beginning to understand that sustaining peak performance requires a firm-wide commitment to developing leaders that is tightly aligned to ...

Since the mid-1990s, the source of competitive advantage has been shifting. Leading companies used to be diverse conglomerates that based their competitive strategy on assets, positions, and economies ...

This interview is part of the Inside the Mind of the CxO series, which explores a wide range of critical decisions faced by chief executives around the world. If you have bought clothing or other ...

A version of this article appeared in the Autumn 2020 issue of strategy+business. Senior executives, accustomed to annual performance reviews and 360-degree assessments, can be quick to acknowledge ...

A version of this article appeared in the Summer 2019 issue of strategy+business. Going into the annual meeting, the hotel chain’s chief financial officer knew he’d be quizzed about the company’s new ...

So says Tokyo-based business scholar Ikujiro Nonaka, coauthor (with management researchers Ryoko Toyama and Toru Hirata) of Managing Flow: A Process Theory of the Knowledge-Based Firm (Palgrave, 2008) ...