McDonald has dedicated his career to exploring innovation-related challenges and their solutions. His early research on startups drew the attention of Harvard’s Clayton Christensen, who became a ...

The last few years have brought real change. Balance sheets today have significantly more nontangible assets—intellectual property and digital capability, for example—than ever before. And a series of ...

Success requires understanding—and measuring—the potential disconnect between the culture of an organization and the strategy under consideration. Cultures can change, but they can’t change radically ...

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 ...

The crucial question is, how? How can members of the next generation act as responsible stewards of the family legacy while also being catalysts for necessary change? After all, the strategies that ...

When Kolbert came across Alley’s book in 2001, she’d been contemplating a big project—something really important that would let her go deep and tell a story that needed to be told. She had been ...

A version of this article appeared in the Summer 2022 issue of strategy+business. We’ve been thinking a lot about teams lately. As more companies release formal policies around hybrid and remote work, ...

Although the bank was using agile techniques to make some progress, it wasn’t becoming more agile as an organization. It was planting a lot of agile trees that weren’t growing into an agile forest. In ...

A version of this article appeared in the Autumn 2021 issue of strategy+business. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could just take a simplicity vaccine that would immunize us from the chaos in our world?

An ultra-short-term focus, however, is not sustainable. As pressing as today’s demands are, as businesses continue to struggle with impact of COVID-19 and economic uncertainty, leaders should strive ...

A version of this article appeared in the Summer 2021 issue of strategy+business. Niki Leondakis, a veteran hotel-industry CEO, started managing people in college when she was promoted from waiter to ...

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 ...