Can Financial Innovations Mitigate Civil and Ethnic Conflict?
By Saumitra Jha
The failure to align the incentives of self-interested groups in favor of beneficial reform is often considered a major cause of civil...
Global Tourism and Travel Industry: Performance During the Double-Dip Recession and Recommendations for Transition...
By Maharaj Vijay Reddy
This review article outlines the impressive growth of the global tourism and travel industry during the on-going economic slowdown. It briefly...
Why Information Providers Need To Be Open To Sharing in Their Business Models
By Joshua Gans
Information content providers, especially publishers of media (including books, news, journals, music and video), have been concerned that “information wants to be...
Why Questions Matter
ByPhil McKinney
Judge a man by his questions, rather than by his answers.1
—Voltaire
One day when my kids were still little, I was sitting in...
Writing a Manifesto for Better Management
By Rafael Andreu & Josep M. Rosanas
The current world economy crisis creates difficulties for many. Beyond “mechanical” causes, we posit that bad management in...
Staying Power: Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World
By Michael A. Cusumano
In December 2005, I was invited by Oxford University to deliver the 2009 Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies and then to...
Google versus the Law
By Tatiana-Eleni Synodinou
Google’s legal adventures in Europe are constantly demonstrating that Google is pushing the boundaries of European information law to their outer limits....
Repeatability: How Companies Create Enduring Businesses in a World of Constant Change
By Chris Zook & James Allen
Contrary to today’s common wisdom, the key to success in a dynamic world is a simple business model that...
Quantitative Intuition: Effectively Using Information to Make Smarter Decisions
By Christopher J. Frank and Paul Magnone
How do you find the truly essential nuggets of information and use them with confidence to effectively grow...
Welcome to the Post-American World: Barack Obama, US Foreign Policy and the 2012 Election
By Robert Singh
Obama set himself the task of managing America’s decline while retaining primacy in the international order. Yet his substantive achievements have been...
EDITOR'S PICK OF THE WEEK
China’s Challenging Search for a New Model of Economic Growth
By Danny Leipziger
China cannot continue to rely on exports to drive its growth, but what are the alternatives?
China ran a $1.2 trillion trade surplus last year, and despite admonitions from the IMF to rely...
