Shifting Your Focus from Short-Term Efficiency to Long-Term Resilience
Efficiency is usually something businesses strive for, but is it possible to be too efficient? Strategy expert Roger Martin warns that an obsession with eliminating inefficiencies in U.S. companies ha...
14 Feb 202426min
Best Buy’s Hubert Joly on Redefining Your Company’s Purpose
When Hubert Joly became CEO of Best Buy in 2012, online retailers like Amazon were exploding in popularity, and Best Buy was facing a sea change. But Joly famously turned around the struggling electro...
7 Feb 202429min
Growth Strategy Lessons from the Middle East’s First Unicorn Start-Up
Careem launched as the “Uber of the Middle East” in Dubai in 2012, with a mission to make life and work better for drivers in the region. Despite technical, cultural, and financial pressures, Careem e...
31 Jan 202420min
Refocus Your Strategy for Success
Have you ever put a lot of time and energy into strategy work, but instead of finding clarity, ended up even more overwhelmed by conflicting priorities? Harvard Business School professor Felix Oberhol...
24 Jan 202428min
How IKEA Evolved Its Strategy While Keeping Its Culture Constant
The Swedish furniture maker IKEA found huge success producing quality furniture at affordable prices. But in 2017, the company was at a crossroads. Its beloved founder had died, and the exponential ri...
17 Jan 202424min
The Key to Identifying Your Most Valuable Customers
Do you know who your “superconsumers” are, and why they’re so important for your strategy decisions? Growth strategy expert Eddie Yoon says they’re your most passionate, most valuable customers—not ju...
10 Jan 202420min
Does Your Family Business Have a Succession Plan?
Rohit Gera had turned his family’s boutique real estate development firm into a dynamic housing solutions innovator for urban Indian families. But as he prepared to retire, Gera had to decide who woul...
3 Jan 202429min
Competing with TikTok: When to Imitate, When to Differentiate
In 2023, TikTok became the fourth largest social network by number of users, behind Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram. Meanwhile, competition in the market for short-form videos intensified. Instagram ...
27 Des 202334min
