Executive Knowledge Series

By Gopi Rangan     The Valley’s most valuable product is the contrarian thinking that fuels its innovation culture.

By Jason Davis   Indonesian state-owned giant Pertamina had a problem: Its top leaders were all retiring at once. The solution? A

By Oliver Binz   Macroeconomic uncertainty makes firms more profitable in the short-term, but the bill comes due later. The Covid

By Benjamin Kessler   “Disrupt yourself first” is so five years ago. The new motto is “Burn your company to the ground then

By Amitava Chattopadhyay   Creating sustainability initiatives that can scale requires innovative balancing of social impact and

By Klaus Wertenbroch   No one likes to hear “computer says no”. But there may be more ways to be transparent about

By Ko Kuwabara   It doesn’t take very much to bridge the “knowing-doing” gap in networking – even during a pandemic. Be honest:

By Dimitrije Ruzic   Better access to foreign markets benefited exporting firms’ top executives disproportionately more than

By Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries   Organisations have a responsibility towards their staff. The expression mens sana in corpore

By Jason Davis   Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Alibaba are fighting tooth and nail in the cloud market, using strategies heavily