Rivalries between nations are reshaping the global chip industry. Executives in every sector should pay attention, says ...

John Mackey, cofounder and former CEO of Whole Foods Market, shares lessons learned during his 44-year tenure and his vision ...

In 1996, Monsanto Company hired U.K. consultant John Elkington to help its executives better understand how to run a sustainable corporation — that is, a company that seeks to preserve the environment ...

Over the last few years, companies in a wide variety of industries have created increasingly senior executive positions in supply chain management. Lucent Technologies Inc., the ChevronTexaco ...

A strong car brand can create significant value in the automotive industry. The price consumers expect to pay for otherwise identical luxury vehicles can vary as much as $4,000, depending on the car’s ...

I remember the day I realized the world was getting weird — so strange and unpredictable that conventional approaches to market forecasting would not work. It was an otherwise ordinary day in May 1985 ...

George Bernard Shaw observed that if all the world’s economists were laid end to end, they still wouldn’t reach a conclusion. Although the line sums up a popular view of the dismal science, an ...

As s+b marks 20 years of publication, we look back (and forward) to reflect on the themes, people, and ideas that have ...

In 1972, the (future) Nobel Prize–winning physicist Philip Anderson published an article in the journal Science titled “More Is Different.” Dr. Anderson was exploring what happens when a number of ...

It’s been only three short years since pandemic-era shortages brought production lines to a standstill for many goods that rely on semiconductor chips. In 2021 alone, chip shortages led to an ...

You wouldn’t expect to be able to predict the overall strategic direction of most companies by studying their executive training facilities. But ever since the 1950s, General Electric Company has ...

A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost? Almost everyone feels the temptation to answer “10 cents” because the sum $1.10 so neatly ...