I recently attended the grand finale of the Whittemore Conference on Hypercompetition at Dartmouth”s Amos Tuck School of Business. Four messages were delivered with particular force: * Think ...

Oddly enough, in many large companies, managers don't have a clear idea of their people's strengths and capabilities. The resulting lack of awareness of in-house skills and experience often makes it a ...

P erhaps you’ve heard by now that the Ohio State University has succeeded in trademarking the word “The,” a move that attracted widespread news coverage and equally widespread ridicule. (“Whose ...

Whether you are a business in New York, Bangalore or Beijing, you probably are vying for the same resources. Having the right talent at the right time makes all difference between companies that ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Unusually for a business book these days, this one has a restrained, unsensational title. But it describes a ...

Is the dream run over for mobile operators in India? This is the question posed by many, with the Indian telecom market being described as one of the toughest in the world. The second largest wireless ...

Q: We liked your two-column series on trend spotting the last Fridays. May we now ask you to leave trend spotting and shift to actual marketing trends that may impact us adversely? We’re into canned ...