Managing Emotions
Today's leaders must maintain stability while balancing conflicting priorities
Entrepreneurship
Scaling a Marketplace Unicorn
Identifying the key motives for acquisition in unicorn startups
Business Models
Humanizing GenAI in Business Models
Strategy professionals need to be deliberate when choosing which tasks to automate
The Emotional Challenges of Structural Ambidexterity
Frustration over conflicting priorities can make it challenging to balance the exploitation of existing business with the exploration of new opportunities
In-Depth
In unicorn startups, the founding team is crucial to transforming the acquired resources to successfully scale in a winner-takes-all platform market.
Strategy professionals should engage with GenAI through reflexive augmentation, which represents a more deliberate approach to selecting which tasks to automate or augment.
Structural ambidexterity balances the exploitation of existing business with the exploration of new opportunities, but managing these conflicting priorities can present intense emotional challenges.
Automation
Improving Intelligent Process Automation
It is important to evaluate organizational context like size, industry, regulatory environment, and culture
Climate Change
Five Ways to Cut Supplier Emissions
Firms often struggle accounting for upstream emissions in their global supply chains
Social Impact
How to Achieve Large-Scale Social Impact
The most successful mission-driven organizations achieve large-scale social impact by working at the population level
Strategy
Staging a Strategy Intervention
Many participatory initiatives fail to change how work actually gets done
Spotlight
Innovation
Preventing Innovation Portfolio Drift
How innovation portfolios are assembled may matter more than weak strategy or creativity
Organizational Design
AI's New Bottleneck: Compute Capacity
How should AI-driven firms best address their growing compute and energy requirements?
Insight
AI Marketing is a Leadership Issue, Not a Technology Issue
The real challenge in AI marketing is governance
Infrastructure Coopetition Operates by a Different Logic
Organizations increasingly share critical infrastructure while simultaneously competing for customers
The AI Moat is Migrating
Durable competitive advantage is moving back toward the physical experience
Artificial Intelligence
AI and the Industrialization of Expertise
What are the consequences of widening access to capabilities previously constrained by cost and availability?
Artificial Intelligence
Blind Overseers: Does AI Erode Human Judgment?
Proper oversight requires both evaluative judgment and generative judgment
Addressing Overconfidence with Claim Calibration
Current tools detect errors in strategies, models, and more but not the size of the claims.
Governing AI Through Human-AI Symbiosis
The current emphasis on defensive mechanisms and “AI guardrails” is not sufficient
Reimagining the Customer Journey
Digital twins can profoundly transform the nature of the customer journey
Artificial Intelligence
Leaders Shouldn't Treat AI as Inevitable
AI is everywhere. But is it always necessary—or is it sometimes optional?
Brand Management
The Hidden Cost of “Sales-Now”
Short-termism can quickly undermine your brand equity
Teams & Collaboration
Framing the Human-AI Fit
Leaders need to diagnose the problem before collaboration
Artificial Intelligence
AI and the Industrialization of Expertise
What are the consequences of widening access to capabilities previously constrained by cost and availability?
