Industrial revolutions are momentous events. By most reckonings, there have been only three. The first was triggered in the 1700s by the commercial steam engine and the mechanical loom. The harnessing ...

This moment in history provides an opportunity, and a spur, for all organizations to ground themselves in their purpose — that is, to focus intensely on the core questions: Why do we exist? Why are we ...

Although some people thrive in such ambiguity, most people tend to be resistant to change. I’ve seen this dynamic many times in the organizations I have worked for and worked with, which has led to a ...

In the wee hours of September 1, 1939, as German tanks rolled into Poland — triggering a war nearly everyone knew was coming — Winston Churchill was dictating new material for his latest book. Not yet ...

The pandemic has encouraged some bad behaviors that leaders need to look out for in the new hybrid world of work. A new book suggests that the ways in which CEOs define the relationship between ...

Quiz time: What percentage of dot-com startups have failed? If you are like most people we have informally surveyed, you probably estimated around 90 percent. A few people posit a slightly lower ...

Participants were Jaime Elizondo, Luis Farias, Luis Hernandez, Ignacio Madridejos, Juan Pablo San Agustin, Karl Watson Jr.; moderated by Thomas A. Stewart. A version of this article appeared in the ...

Almost every business today faces major strategic challenges. The path to creating value is seldom clear. In an ongoing global survey of senior executives conducted by Strategy&, PwC’s strategy ...

The airline industry is a tough place to make a buck: too many competitors, price-sensitive customers, high capital intensity, boom-or-bust cyclicality, powerful suppliers, and often intransigent ...

Evidence is mounting that conventional approaches to strategic human capital management are broken. This is particularly true for performance management (PM) systems—the appraisal approaches in which ...

Many would chalk up these differences to culture, the seemingly nebulous and hard-to-control factor that contributes to business success. Our work over the last three decades has centered on culture.

A version of this article appeared in the Spring 2020 issue of strategy+business. Close to US$3.8 trillion is expected to be invested by businesses in digital transformations in 2019, up 3.2 percent ...