Best Practice


Going Global
| Mar. 19 2020
China’s national sportswear champion, Anta, has set its sights on becoming the country’s new market leader. Will it.


Changing Tides: The Chinese Management Style Adapts to Modern Times
| Sep. 26 2019
The Chinese management style is adapting as China shifts to a knowledge-based economy.
The Science of Improving Your Work Life
Whether you’re working at your dream job or you’ve been plotting your escape for months, chances are you.


| May. 9 2016
Design and Business: The Substance of Style
Once upon a time, design was a coat of paint on the locomotive of the real economy. Today, value depends.


| May. 3 2016
Sydney Finkelstein And The Superboss Playbook
Throughout our careers, we encounter a range of management styles, with mixed results. But what is it that distinguishes a.


| Apr. 20 2016
Holacracy and Its Discontents
Developments in technology have always led to changes in management practices. Papyrus and writing made the first empires possible, and.


| Mar. 22 2016
Countering Supplier Power: Can an Employee be Too Good?
Managers instinctively think about the threat of competitors because they can push down prices and lower profits. But there are.


| Mar. 9 2016
Banking’s Uber Moment: Enter the Blockchain Gang
Ten years from now, business historians will offer a number of reasons financial services had changed so radically since 2016.


| Mar. 1 2016
The Banking Industry’s Uber Moment: Reinventing Retail Banking
For consumers in mature markets, the financial technology boom doesn’t seem very exciting. What they’ve seen so far.


| Feb. 16 2016
The Banking Industry’s Uber Moment: A More Efficient Oligopoly?
From the crash of 1929 to around 1981, banking was generally considered a fairly dreary business. And between now and.


| Feb. 15 2016
Adidas in China: Chasing First
When you think of sports brands, there’s pretty much a 50% chance that it’s Adidas that comes to.


| Feb. 9 2016
Rachel Botsman on the Collaborative Economy
The sharing economy has gone from being a niche idea most familiar to Silicon Valley insiders to one that has.


| Feb. 2 2016
Holacracy, Managerless Offices and The Future of Work
About 15 years ago, Brian Robertson was feeling frustrated with the management hierarchy traditionally used by companies. He felt it.


| Feb. 1 2016
Alibaba’s Massive IP Protection Challenge
Alibaba, China’s largest e-commerce firm, recently smashed global records for its ‘Single’s Day’ promotion on 11th November.


| Jan. 27 2016