Corporate strategy

Strategies for leveraging hidden value.

The key is knowing what your top price is—and having the discipline to stick to it.

Why a dry-cleaning app will never make money.

Congress and regulators must curb combinations that adversely affect the cost and quality of care.

What companies need to know.

Five of the 10 most valuable companies in the world today--Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft--derive much of their worth from their multisided...

Bonuses and other forms of incentive compensation are an effective motivator of executives to achieve ever higher earnings per share. The drive to produce short-term results, however, often influences management to forgo investment in capital equipment and R&D that would benefit the corporation several years hence even more than improved earnings next year would. The […]

Something strange is happening in the debate about the U.S. federal budget deficit. Across the land, in books and on editorial pages, the message seems to be changing. In October 1987, Peter Peterson wrote in the Atlantic Monthly that the federal deficit is the centerpiece of many grim scenarios, including global depression, severe inflation, a […]

To survive over the long haul, a company must reinvent itself periodically, jumping from the flattening end of one business performance curve to the rising...

Many CEOs don't seem to care about organic growth. They either give up on it, in the belief that their companies will inevitably become low growth, or...

During the past 25 years an increasing proportion of U.S. companies have seen wisdom in pursuing a strategy of diversification. Between 1950 and 1970, for example, single-business companies comprising the Fortune “500” declined from 30% to 8% of the total. Acquisition has become a standard approach to diversification. In recent years the productivity of capital […]

This key metric can help you measure customer loyalty.

A Q&A with the company’s VP of Engineering.

Lumiscape, a manufacturer of high-tech streetlights, has recently decided to switch from a direct sale business model to a subscription service, in which...

Marriott, GE, and other traditional companies are finding opportunities to join the so-called collaborative economy--the space best known for start-ups...

Bolsonaro will face many of the same challenges as his predecessors.

The CEO of a computer peripherals manufacturer considers whether to invest in innovation or focus on the core. This fictional case study by Richard Hamermesh...

When the author was tapped to join Levi Strauss, in 2011, the company's financial performance had been erratic for a decade. He went on a listening tour,...

It’s opening up a new world of strategy innovation.

A hypothetical case illustrates managerial problems in a firm that has lost strategic control of technology and its competitive edge by becoming insulated...