Companies, Choose Your Name Wisely
The right name can signal that you are a safe bet.
Operations
Why Power Companies Love Smart Meters
Smart meters provide richer data, enabling smarter pricing strategies and a smoother electricity supply chain.
Entrepreneurship
A Crowdfunding App that Pays the Bills
A startup in Kenya captures an underserved market.
Leadership
Podcast: How to Rid Your Company of Toxic Employees
Tips for how to avoid hiring them, manage their improvement, or decide when to let them go.
Four Ways Cuba Can Become More Business-Friendly
What will it take to make the country attractive to investors?
Organizations
Hire a Superstar or Dump a Toxic Worker?
Difficult employees are a bigger drag on your company than you think.
Finance & Accounting
Credit Where Credit Is Due
New ways of assessing credit worthiness could open up access to the global banking system.
Marketing
Philip Kotler on Marketing’s Higher Purpose
How social marketing can be a force for good.
Innovation
Creating Urgency around Corporate Innovation
What intrapreneurs in established firms must do to succeed.
Economics
Two Distinct Motivations Drive Violence against Americans in the Middle East
Lessons about cultural dominance have implications for the business world.
Organizations
How a Restaurant Chain Keeps Its Independent Spirit
At Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises, growth begins with a learning mindset.
Finance & Accounting
Did Irrational Exuberance Cause Vegas’ Housing Bubble?
Why a city surrounded by open land saw prices spike.
Finance & Accounting
What Went Wrong at AIG?
Unpacking the insurance giant’s collapse during the 2008 financial crisis.
Innovation
How to Tango With Startups
Kellogg’s BrandVoice partnership with Forbes looks at how venture thinking can spur innovation in corporate settings
Innovation
Watson Is Just the Beginning
How machine learning will change education, product development, and decision-making.
Is Your Company Culture Too Strong?
A diversity of viewpoints can help organizations weather disruption.
Entrepreneurship
Building the Right Team to Scale a Startup
Three crucial elements to growing your business.