Corporate governance

The key is knowing what your top price is—and having the discipline to stick to it.

But CEOs increasingly do.

They're worried about their jobs but otherwise optimistic.

Hitting the hiring bull’s-eye is one of an executive’s most important—and most difficult—responsibilities. Ten common mistakes can get in the way, but a pointed and systematic approach can virtually guarantee success.

Last spring Brett Favre pulled the plug on his pro football career, saying that he didn’t have the heart to play any longer. This July he’s had a change of heart. This is not the first time Favre has changed his mind about retirement. But what’s different this time is that his team, the Green […]

By pooling the resources of the poor and by sharing information, religious and financial institutions can work together to change inner-city economies.

Bonuses and other forms of incentive compensation are an effective motivator of executives to achieve ever higher earnings per share. The drive to produce short-term results, however, often influences management to forgo investment in capital equipment and R&D that would benefit the corporation several years hence even more than improved earnings next year would. The […]

Startups typically operate with the mentality that growth and profit come first, higher calling comes second. This strategy, however, is misguided. Increasingly,...

Two ways Cisco does it.

The green movement focuses attention on numerous resources going to waste that could be turned into cost savings, revenue streams, and profitable businesses...

Collaboration between competitors is in fashion. General Motors and Toyota assemble automobiles, Siemens and Philips develop semiconductors, Canon supplies photocopiers to Kodak, France’s Thomson and Japan’s JVC manufacture videocassette recorders. But the spread of what we call “competitive collaboration”—joint ventures, outsourcing agreements, product licensings, cooperative research—has triggered unease about the long-term consequences. A strategic alliance […]

A much-quoted study from a few years back shows that companies with high numbers of female directors on their boards perform substantially better on three metrics—return on equity, return on sales, and return on invested capital—than companies with very few or no female directors. A group of researchers led by Harvard sociologist Frank Dobbin is […]

A Q&A about the storm’s aftermath.

No more excuses.

Central coordination.

Judge your algorithm by its impact, not your intentions.

How one architecture and engineering firm does it.

It’s about incentives, not just fiduciary duty.

Choosing the company's next leader is one of the most crucial decisions a board makes. Yet directors, incumbents, and incoming leaders routinely underestimate...

1920: It was the start of a challenging decade for the U.S. auto industry, and General Motors was troubled. A series of strategic and financial blunders had left the company vulnerable and its stock price skidding. GM’s largest shareholder decided to act. Pierre S. du Pont, chairman of the giant chemical company that owned nearly […]