When Shareholders Speak Their Minds
Bottom Line: A large proportion of shareholder proposals contested by firms receive support from other investors when put to a vote. In an era when corporate responsibility has increasingly come…
Singapore: The First-Mover Nation for Driverless Cars
Autonomous vehicles and connected cars are prompting a number of automakers and technology companies to reconsider their strategy. They want to avoid being left behind. But if their strategy is…
Is U.S. Manufacturing Really in Decline?
Did you hear that U.S. manufacturing just had another big month? That output has risen about 20 percent in the past six years? That industrial capacity is actually expanding? Probably…
The Internet Shakes Up the Art Market
For as long as there has been art and people wanting to buy it, there have been dealers, fairs, and auctions bridging the gap between the worlds of the creative…
Hedge Fund, Meet Highway
Illustration by Lars Leetaru The deal was inked in 2007, and at the time it garnered little attention. The New York–based private equity firm Blackstone Group Holdings had cobbled together…
What Hiring Committees Can Learn from the NFL Draft
How important are intangibles such as character, organizational citizenship, and good team-building skills in predicting the bottom-line performance of a potential employee? If they are important, how do you assess…
Steve Blank’s Required Reading
From black ops to lean startups, it seems there has never been a dull period in Steve Blank’s career — except, perhaps, the one semester Blank spent at the University…
The End of the Affair
The controversial dating site Ashley Madison is providing the marketing world with a case study in whether it’s possible to rebrand a company whose image, and failings, are deeply burned…
Is the End Looming for Razor-and-Blades Pricing?
Bottom Line: Companies might want to rethink the storied model of charging less up front to get more down the line — especially as e-commerce offers consumers ever greater flexibility,…
Innovation in the World Demands Adaptability in the Workplace
Innovation is a great thing — but what happens when it begins happening so fast that we don’t have time to respond to change? Consider that in the last 25…
Innovate by Adopting a Role Model Organization
Can you innovate and improve business performance by copying another company from an entirely different industry? This is what the Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital in Michigan did when it…
Play to Win
Are you rewarding your team for outrageous thinking about your product or service mix? Do you give them ample room to experiment and defy expectations about such things as new…
Intellectual Property Rights for Startups [presentation]
Where Technology, Business, and Law Intersect By striking the right balance between the interests of innovators and the wider public interest, the IP system aims to foster an environment in…
The Lean Startup
Everything You’ve Wanted to Know But Have Been Too Afraid To Ask Many of you ask us, ‘What is Lean Start-up?’ and almost as many follow up with the question,…
How to use Design Thinking to get fit and lose weight
Really interesting article in the New York Times relating to Bernard Roth’s book The Achievement Habit. Roth, a prominent Stanford engineering professor, says that Design Thinking can help everyone form the kind…
8 Ways to Fight Brain Drain when Baby Boomers Retire
In today’s workplaces, multigenerational challenges and conflicts are all too common. In addition, many companies are also in a state of generational flux as the median employee age at most…
GE Supplies IoT Developer Kit For Predix
GE Digital is making it easier for IoT developers to tap into Predix analytics and use machine learning with the release of a new hardware and software kit. (Click image…
The Weakest Link in Cyber-security? Us
It’s increasingly clear that cyber-crooks are becoming smarter and better at breaking into systems. Yet, all of this isn’t the result of any remarkable advances in malware. It’s mostly due…
Tableau 10 Puts Control Back In IT Hands
Data visualization platform provider Tableau is updating its flagship product with new features that give oversight and data governance control back to IT organizations. It also makes a host of…
Tesla Unveils Gigafactory As Production Ramps Up
The partial opening of Tesla’s Gigafactory will give the electric car manufacturer the ability to make the majority of components under one roof, including lithium ion batteries. (Click image for…