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- How Responsible is Starbucks' CSR Program?
- Starbucks retail stores quietly display brochures that read "Social Responsibility: How is My Starbucks doing its part?" That's a hot question, it turns out. Those little brochures summarize all sorts of compelling figures from the company's corporate social responsibility CSR annual report, touching on improvements in sustainable farming, community involvement,...
- Blog posts 2007-06-04
- The "No Asshole Rule" from Stanford
- There's a ton of literature out there on the topic of business leadership, but Robert Sutton is in a field of his own. The Professor at Stanford University's Management Science and Engineering department has written a volume of influential work on topics ranging from data-driven decisioning to his latest...
- Blog posts 2007-06-01
- And Why Are We Capturing All These Data?
- Data pervade businesses in every industry -- some more than others, to be sure, but whether you're in financial services or hi-tech manufacturing, data is increasingly the lifeblood of decision-making. That raises an important question: why are we collecting all those data? What's the real motivation behind data capture?...
- Blog posts 2007-05-16
- Executives Beware the Fossilized Worldview
- There's a big risk that comes with success: over-reliance on the ideas and methods that got you there. The business environment evolves constantly and a well-defined worldview can stifle innovation and spell disaster for you and your company. Charles Ehin, Professor of Management and author of Unleashing Intellectual Capital and...
- Blog posts 2007-05-09
- BNET Daily Dispatch: Wal-Mart, P&G, Oracle, and Patent Law
- A 200-page study released today by Human Rights Watch claims that Wal-Mart has repeatedly broken the law by eavesdropping on employee conversations, tracking employees with surveillance cameras, and firing pro-union workers to prevent its workforce from organizing. Wal-Mart vehemently defended its labor practices, and a spokesman said Wal-Mart gives employees...
- Blog posts 2007-05-01
- The Perennial Struggle: Continuous vs. Breakthrough Innovation
- Google will be at the 2007 World Innovation Forum to talk about how they develop breakthrough innovations. Meanwhile, GE uses Six Sigma continuous process improvement CPI to stay near the top of Fortune’s most admired companies list. Google is all about rule-breaking creativity; GE is about the incremental pursuit of...
- Blog posts 2007-02-27
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- BNET Daily Dispatch: Thomson, Amazon.com, HP, and Icahn
- Thomson Corp. is planning to acquire Reuters in a $17.5 billion deal that would create the world's largest financial news and information company. Analysts say the deal makes sense and would produce synergies and provide more room for cost-cutting. The resulting company would present a serious threat to Bloomberg LP,...
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- Bottom Line Trust
- Trust is so essential to business that it's easy to overlook its role in helping companies succeed, especially with regard to the personal trust between individual employees and individual managers. An in-depth article from Human Resource Executive gives some practical tips for managers in the constant effort to build trust,...
- Blog posts 2007-05-01
- Now Boarding: Southwest Airlines Goes International
- Southwest Airlines has built its reputation -- and profit leadership -- on a low-cost domestic carrier strategy. Now, Southwest is closer than ever to offering international flights. Gary Kelly, the company's chief executive, spoke earlier this week in Baltimore and gave some detail into their international expansion strategy. Two distinct...
- Blog posts 2007-06-21
- Microsoft's Search Strategy Goes Vertical
- How often do you query the Web through MSN or Windows Live? Right, and that's one of Microsoft's biggest problems. Hardly anyone uses its online search services, which means it's losing out big time on advertising opportunities. The Google brand of Internet search is so far ahead and has stood...
- Blog posts 2007-06-27
- Shareholders Look Beyond the Balance Sheet
- Managers hear it from consultants and activists, and they hear it increasingly from customers: "do good in the world, don't just do business." But investors, too, are calling on companies to be upstanding and ethical citizens, and that means scruples can seriously affect your access to equity capital. Thomas Kostigen,...
- Blog posts 2007-07-17
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