Description: If you want to grow your small to medium-size business, you need to rank well in online search results. As many as 90% of customers check online reviews before making a purchase,? and 98% of web users choose a business that is on the first page of their search result.? To most Internet users,… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Management
What does it take to turn around a company?
Description: NRG Energy CEO, David Crane, explains how questioning the direction of the company helped the energy giant rebound. Source: Fortune.com Date: May 27, 2015 Link: http://for.tn/1KxMFI3 Questions for Discussions: What does David Crane say about leadership style? What was the most significant comment he made in this report, in your opinion?
FIFA officials charged with corruption
Description: Swiss police arrested six FIFA officials on corruption charges from the United States. Source: CNNMoney.com – video report Date: May 27, 2015 Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2015/05/27/fifa-officials-corruption-charges.cnnmoney/ Questions for Discussions: Why do you think corruption became a wide-spread problem in FIFA? How much is leadership at the center of this story? How would you clean-up the organization… Read more »
Apple promotes Jony Ive to Chief Design Officer
Description: Designer Sir Jony Ive has been promoted from his role as Apple’s Senior Vice President of Design. Source: Fortune.com – video report Date: May 26, 2015 Link: http://for.tn/1FMVM4C Questions for Discussions: How important is the continuity of design ideas and leadership for Apple? Do you think creative design is mostly the result of one… Read more »
Raising the Next Generation of Chief Executives
Description: Perhaps the most compelling family business narrative has long been about passing on an enterprise to the next generation. But with small business start-ups proliferating, and frequently growing in step with the children of company founders, it is not just the enterprise but the spirit of enterprise — the desire to create a new… Read more »
The Price Is Right, or Uber Will Raise It
Description: One can’t help but admire Uber’s willingness to follow the basic logic of economics any place it happens to lead. Even to price gouging. Source: Bloomberg.com Date: May 19, 2015 Link: http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-05-19/the-price-is-right-or-uber-will-raise-it Questions for discussion: What does this report say about pricing strategies and management’s strategic thinking? Do you agree with a strategy of… Read more »
Following shoppers to the perimeter of the supermarket
Description: Fortune’s Beth Kowitt discusses the changing landscape of grocery shopping and the impact it has on pre-packaged food. Source: Fortune.com – video report Date: May 21, 2015 Link: http://for.tn/1FBS4ww Questions for Discussions: How does the landscape inside the grocery store reflect consumer behavior? What should food companies be doing about these trends?
Is This the Office of the Future or a $5 Billion Waste of Space?
Description: Workers of a certain age may recall.. Source: Bloomberg.com – video report Date: May 21, 2015 Link: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-05-21/wework-real-estate-empire-or-shared-office-space-for-a-new-era- Questions for Discussions: How is work and the workspace changing? What do you think the managerial implications are for these new environments?
Women Need To Listen To This Advice Given To Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer
Description: You may think the advice that one super-successful corporate titan gives to another super-successful almost-CEO is something you can safely ignore. Yet the last thing that Google founder Sergey Brin told Marissa Mayer right before she ascended to the throne of chief executive of Yahoo is something we all need to hear. Especially women…. Read more »
A Tech Boom Aimed at the Few, Instead of the World
Description: The tech industry used to think big. As early as 1977, when personal computers were expensive and impractical mystery boxes with no apparent utility or business prospects, the young Bill Gates and Paul Allen were already working toward a future in which we would see “a computer on every desk and in every home.”… Read more »
