Strategy & Leadership: Volume 40 Issue 3

Michael Beer – higher ambition leadership

Brian Leavy

The purpose of this paper is to present an interview with Professor Michael Beer of Harvard Business School, whose recent book is Higher Ambition: How Great Leaders Create…

From maximizing shareholder value to delighting the customer

Stephen Denning

The paper was written with the intention of drawing attention to a fundamental dysfunction that is widespread in large organizations today – a myopic focus on maximizing…

Disruptive innovation: a new model for public sector services

William Eggers, Laura Baker, Ruben Gonzalez, Audrey Vaughn

This article aims to provide examples of opportunities to implement disruptive innovation and offer a framework to introduce it in the public sector – proposing a way to use…

Global leadership teams: diagnosing three essential qualities

Robert J. Thomas, Joshua Bellin, Claudy Jules, Nandani Lynton

Companies that operate globally have to be adept at managing certain tensions: between global and local, between differentiated and integrated and between many cultures and one…

Beyond stage‐gate: restoring learning and adaptability to commercialization

Nate Hutchins, Amy Muller

The authors of this paper contend that too many firms' innovation initiatives are shackled with archaic budgeting and planning methodologies that are intended to protect managers…

How cloud computing maximizes growth opportunities for a firm challenging established rivals

David Rader

This paper aims to explain how cloud computing – conducting business functions on shared, off‐premises computing systems – introduces strategic options and business‐control…

Hamel: What Matters Now

Robert J. Allio

Quick takes

Catherine Gorrell

Awards, honors and new team members

Robert M. Randall

Strategy in the media

Craig Henry