Issue 79, Summer 2015

Five ways automakers can design for safety and profitability.

The Darden School of Business professor describes a new framework for predicting conflict outcomes.

Know your customers, understand new technologies, embrace failure, then take a leap of faith.

When companies “share the shelf,” everyone wins.

With strategic responsiveness and organizational flexibility, you can move quickly when your industry changes.

Oil-field services companies, which invent the technologies used to drill for oil and gas, have reaped the rewards of an intense focus on innovation.

Seven strategies for managing the unique challenges of large technology acquisitions.

These fundamental guidelines, drawn from experience, can help you reshape your organization to fit your business strategy. See also “A guide to organization design.”

Building world-class domestic firms is the overlooked key to economic development.

Economic historian Barry Eichengreen finds telling parallels between the botched responses to the stock market crash of 1929 and the financial crisis of 2008.

Author Andrew Keen offers a stirring guide to how the Internet has changed everything — mostly for the worse.

To reach your true leadership potential, writes INSEAD professor Herminia Ibarra, push yourself outside your comfort zone.

Veteran management guru Fred Kiel uses hard data to prove that soft factors like integrity, forgiveness, and compassion energize employees and customers — and deliver better returns.

The 1990s mania surrounding plush toys tells us as much about irrational behavior as the coincident dot-com bubble.

Your next innovation breakthrough probably won’t come from social media.