Revitalizing Organizational Identity to Spark Turnaround
This article proposes a model for examining and revitalizing identity attributes as needed to support organizational turnaround and avoid organizational death.
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Big Data Decision Making
The process used to gather information in making decisions can be as important as the decisions. Do you rely more on sophisticated analytics or intuition?
The Commercial Global Drone Market
The civilian or commercial drone market in the United States is just beginning to emerge, which puts U.S. businesses behind businesses in other countries.
Editorial: Taking Management Education to a Whole New Level
Imagine a management education learning environment where the student is fully engaged and where the instructor serves as a Play-by-Play-Man!
A Framework To Evaluate Consulting Efforts
Evidence-based evaluation provides a rigorous, valid, and reliable approach for assessing the effectiveness of a consulting engagement.
Arrow Electronics: Surviving and Thriving After Tragedy
John C. Waddell shepherded Arrow Electronics through a major crisis after the tragic loss of the company’s top executives…lessons in leadership, strategy, and HR.
Editorial: Lightning in a Bottle!
Analytics can, through the use of various Big Data-driven computer models, significantly enhance the decision-making process and, thus, hopefully performance.
Is Warren Buffett Unpatriotic?
A tax inversion happens when a firm relocates its headquarters to another country and declares that country as its domicile for the foreign country’s lower tax rate.
The Case of Microsoft’s Surface Tablet
The complexity of organizations has increased. SWOT provides a way to organize information into internal “Strengths & Weaknesses” and external “Opportunities & Threats.”
EDITORIAL: Getting Ready for Virtually Anything in Management Education
The growing use of social media in higher education, in general, and management education, in particular, will forever change the traditional learning landscape.
Facilitating the Inventor–Entrepreneur Interaction:
Technologies could be commercialized with greater economic value if a university-neutral foundation was established to encourage dialogue between entrepreneurs and inventors.
Implementing Intrapreneurship:
A myriad of positive organizational effects, including strategic renewal, business revitalization, and new venture creation, have been attributed to intrapreneurship. If appropriately implemented, it is possible for intrepreneurship to help organizations gain a sustainable competitive advantage.
Facebook: Data Mining the World’s Largest Focus Group
With the amount of data at Facebook’s disposal, can it accurately predict outcomes within the volatile financial markets? If so, can aalso manipulate or influence such predicted events?
CEO Performance of 125 of Northern California’s Largest Companies
A CEO’s primary duty is to allocate capital to its highest and best use, this report ranks CEO performance of 125 of Northern California’s largest companies according to their ability to earn returns above their investors’ required return.
FOR SALE BY OWNER for Less than It Is Worth
What accounts for owners selling items for more or less than they are worth? Do sellers and buyers see the value of an item in the same way? Can a third-party agent impact the selling price of an item to net the seller a higher profit? This article offers some surprising answers.