Knowledge@Wharton has published an interesting article about the strategy of the fashion label Burberry. “Founded in London 1856 by draper’s apprentice Thomas Burberry and known for outfitting British military and global explorers, Burberry has evolved into a multi-faceted luxury brand that has more than 300 company-owned stores and concessions in high-end department stores around the [...]

“GLOBALITY: Competing with Everyone from Everywhere for Everything” by Harold L. Sirkin, James W. Hemerling and Arindam K. Bhattacharya describe how the old model of globalization is evolving into a new phase in which “challengers” from rapidly developing economies are competing with incumbent Western giants. Table of Contents What is Globality? Tsunami Minding the Cost [...]

The redit crisis has become a global financial crisis. In a new publication series “Collateral Damage” the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) assess the impact of the financial crisis on the economy and discusses its impacts. The two parts of the series published so far are: “Collateral Damage Part 1: What the Crisis in the Credit [...]

The innovation process in fraught with uncertainty. Managers often do not know ahead of time the ideal mix of individuals and skills needed to solve innovation-related problems. One way around this uncertainty is to have multiple paths, approaches, or designs explored at once. Harvard Business School professor Karim R. Lakhani and colleagues study the outcomes [...]

Strategic Dynamics in Industry Architectures: The challenges of Knowledge Integration Submission due date: January 15, 2009 Guest Editors Stefano Brusoni, Bocconi University Michael G. Jacobides, London Business School Andrea Prencipe, University G. d’Annunzio Motivation Industries can no longer be taken for granted. As sectors disintegrate and re-integrate, converge and transform, the question of how exactly [...]

The new International Journal of Sustainable Strategic Management (IJSSM) seeks contributions with global relevance concerned with organisational and economic sustainability. The journal adresses professionals, academics, researchers and policy makers. IJSSM publishes original and review papers, technical reports, case studies, book reviews, and research notes. Contributions from diverse perspectives are welcome, but each one should blend [...]

The Boston Consulting Group has published insights on the topic how web 2.0 effects financial institutions. Sumit Sahni and Philip Evans argue that financial institutions are not prepared to compete in web 2.0. They recommend to run the web presence as a business not as a distribution channel. BCG Opportunities for Action: Arming for the [...]

Paul J.H. Schoemaker, research director for the Mack Center for Technological Innovation, suggests that, for some companies, the economic crisis can actually provide an innovation platform: “The crisis has multiple impacts: Loss of revenue and profit will at first instill a cost cutting mentality, which is not good for innovation. But if the patient is [...]

Niall Ferguson (Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and William Ziegler Professor at Harvard Business School) wrote an article published in Vanity Fair titled “Wall Street Lays Another Egg” about the credit crunch. “Not so long ago, the dollar stood for a sum of gold, and bankers knew the people they lent [...]

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