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Profile: Polly McMaster, CEO, The Fold
The Fold offers a new take on how women buy what they wear at work.
Online funding: Google’s venture investments reveal future trends
What do you do if you are an individual, or a small business, that is in need of a loan? Turning to your bank is the common answer. Well, Google’s recent investments suggest a different route; crowd and online funding platforms.
Transform your business model by discovering your Plan B
If the founders of Google, Starbucks, or PayPal had stuck to their original business plans, we’d likely never have heard of them. Instead, they made radical changes to their initial models, became household names, and delivered huge returns for their founders and investors. How did they get from their Plan A to a business model that worked?
Reinventing the corporation
Lynda Gratton asks - what is it that you most want to change about corporations?
Tracking the enemies of agility
The failure of big companies to adapt to their changing circumstances is one of the fundamental puzzles in the world of business. Occasionally, a genuinely “disruptive” technology, such as digital imaging, comes along and wipes out an entire industry. But usually the sources of failure are more prosaic and more avoidable.
The path to power
Do leaders get “selected” by the times they live in, or “self-select” – put themselves forward because they recognise this is their time?
Leadership lessons from Sir Alex Ferguson
What are the lessons of Sir Alex Ferguson’s 27-year tenure as manager of Manchester United? Pundits and former players have been falling over each other to praise Ferguson’s successes and his ability to bring out the best in his players. But I think there are some wider lessons for the business world that can be learnt from his lengthy reign, and from the way he has handled his departure.
Rethinking the responsibility of business leaders
What is the primary responsibility of business leaders today? Is it to make a financial return for their shareholders? Or is it to contribute more broadly to the welfare of employees and society as a whole?
Attention deficit
Firing up your neurons of choice from ‘The Influence of Selective Attention and Inattention to Products on Subsequent Choice.’ Journal of Consumer Research.
Profile: David Pitt-Watson, consultant, investor and author
Consultant, investor and author David Pitt-Watson occupies a unique niche.
“How and why do businesses take the sorts of decisions that they do? What are the ones that work? What are the ones that don’t work?”
"London Business School empowers individuals and organisations to perform at their best."
