Journal of Business Strategy: Volume 22 Issue 5

SHORT TAKES

The Decision Analyst U.S. Economic Index for July showed that the economy as continuing the same stagnant path it had followed since January. Worse, the July results showed…

CLIPPINGS

… [T]oday's multinationals lack the structures, processes, and incentives to leverage knowledge that is scattered in pockets around the world. Traditional multinationals know how…

Real‐Time Strategy: CEO: Long‐term Strategist or Short‐term Hired Gun?

Richard W. Oliver

Lost amid the statistical rhetoric about the economic devastation of the past year, with whole industries (such as telecommunications) laid waste, and the future stolen before it…

HIGH, WIDE, AND WIRELESS

Manuel Barbero, Kenneth Leung, John Antypas

Let's say you're a mobile worker and have a one‐hour layover at an airport, during which you want to connect to the office. You could race to a wireline phone, unpack your PC…

CHEAP AND CHEERFUL

Harvey Meyer

Fastenal's strategy is to pinch every penny twice before letting it go. So far, it's working.

NINTH ANNUAL: STRATEGISTS TO WATCH

Here are eight more people solidly behind the eight ball and their plans for setting up winning shots.

MARKETING IS NOT A ONE‐NIGHT STAND

J. Patrick O'Halloran, Todd R. Wagner

In an age of “conversational marketing,” there are clear parallels between the new rules of marketing and the old rules of courtship.

THE FOUR PHASES OF INNOVATION

Frederick D. Buggie

Here's a process for cherry‐picking the new product ideas that are most likely to succeed.

Stack Attack: Keep on Keepin' On

Bristol Lane Voss

Sure, it's been a blow that so many of us have had to give up our arrogance of confusing a bull market with brains. This may be just the slap in the face we need to realize that…

The Last Word: Decisions, Decisions, Decisions

The word “decision” comes from the Latin decidere, which means “to cut off.” And it's a word that pretty much defines what JBS readers do. After all, deciding—cutting off internal…