Strategy & Management

Magazine articles on business strategy, management and leadership.

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National Defense February 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Pentagon Takes Another Stab at Business Reform As with past attempts at reforming defense management practices, it remains to be seen whether new business reform plans will fizzle out or achieve real results.
National Defense February 2006 Reeder & Hickey	Defense Industry Political Activities: Do's and Don'ts Basic knowledge of the do's and don'ts of corporate political activity will prevent serious and potentially embarrassing pitfalls, and corporate leaders must know or be able to assess quickly the nuances before permitting any financial participation by anyone.
HBS Working Knowledge January 30, 2006 Manda Salls	Looking Behind Bad Decisions Harvard professor Max Bazerman explores how psychological science helps explain how leaders' decision making is influenced by such forces as parochialism, nationalism, and dysfunctional competition, while also providing tools that foster rational decision making.
HBS Working Knowledge January 30, 2006 Mallory Stark	Lessons From Privately Managed Schools An interview with Steven Wilson, founder and former CEO of educational management organization (EMO) Advantage Schools on how -- and if -- professional business management practices can improve the performance of troubled American public schools.
HBS Working Knowledge January 30, 2006 Stever Robbins	Productivity Means Working Smarter, Not Longer Working smart means getting the same results in less time. To do that, you must change how you work. You'll get the most by changing your speed, increasing focus, and organizing to do things in parallel.
BusinessWeek February 6, 2006 Amy Borrus	Not Your Ordinary Gold Watch Hank McKinnell's pension haul is making him a poster boy for executive excess.
Wall Street & Technology January 24, 2006 Cory Levine	A New View of Risk Only now are financial firms approaching the risk associated with their technology infrastructures as a business-critical initiative with substantial bottom-line implications and devoting greater resources to their maintenance.
Wall Street & Technology January 24, 2006 Greg MacSweeney	Flush Firms Eye Acquisitions After posting record profits in 2005, many financial services firms are looking to acquire smaller players with unique business lines and/or financial products, or to bolster their technology.
Wall Street & Technology January 24, 2006 Larry Tabb	Data: The Final Frontier If we can develop the flexible and informative infrastructure to capture, clean and manage accurate data quickly, then our traders, bankers, analysts and financial engineers certainly can figure out how to profit by it.
Wall Street & Technology January 24, 2006 Cory Levine	Temple Joins Bank of New York As part of its business expansion, Bank of New York hired Ken Temple as senior vice president of the BNY Global Transition Management unit.
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