Business leaders often are tempted to focus on strategy over culture. But the strongest companies take four key actions that deliver the best of both. 3.The rise of the eco-friendly consumer During ...

You wouldn’t expect to be able to predict the overall strategic direction of most companies by studying their executive training facilities. But ever since the 1950s, General Electric Company has ...

John Mackey, cofounder and former CEO of Whole Foods Market, shares lessons learned during his 44-year tenure and his vision ...

As s+b marks 20 years of publication, we look back (and forward) to reflect on the themes, people, and ideas that have ...

A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost? Almost everyone feels the temptation to answer “10 cents” because the sum $1.10 so neatly ...

Hiromoto Fukuda started a new kind of dating club in Osaka a few years ago. At the Tu-Ba Café, men and women sit on opposite sides of a glass divide. A man who sees a woman he wishes to meet can ask a ...

In 1996, Monsanto Company hired U.K. consultant John Elkington to help its executives better understand how to run a sustainable corporation — that is, a company that seeks to preserve the environment ...

In episode three of Voices in Tech, we hear from Henrik Utvik, CTO and cofounder of the carbon capture and storage (CCS) ...

A strong car brand can create significant value in the automotive industry. The price consumers expect to pay for otherwise identical luxury vehicles can vary as much as $4,000, depending on the car’s ...

War is not a pathology,” says Philip Bobbitt. “War is a natural condition of the state.” In his groundbreaking book The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace and the Course of History (Alfred A. Knopf, 2002) ...

It’s been only three short years since pandemic-era shortages brought production lines to a standstill for many goods that rely on semiconductor chips. In 2021 alone, chip shortages led to an ...

A land of political and economic extremes, Latin America has long been among the world’s most challenging regions in which to do business. But corporations, some headquartered within the region and ...