Connecting People

There was drama to spare in the overthrow of the Robert Mondavi Corporation, the iconic California winemaker.

The more rapid the changes in the business environment, the more knowledge-intensive the economy and the more global the competition.

Investment bankers are good at many things, but redesigning the inventory control system at a building-supplies manufacturer.

There are countless books — probably more than anyone can bear to read — promising to tell you the secrets of leadership.

Modern management has gone overboard with some popular concepts, leading to some counterproductive results.

Just as the global economy is tentatively re-establishing its footing in the aftermath of the financial crisis, a fresh wave of controversy threatens the nascent stability.

In a recent New Yorker article titled “The Sure Thing,” Malcolm Gladwell makes the case that successful entrepreneurs are not the high-wire acts that they are mythologized to be.

According to the authors of Clever (Harvard Business Publishing, 2009), the industrial economy of the 20th century is being replaced by the “clever” economy of the 21st century.

Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo is both passionate and humble.

When Harvard University officials thought about creating one of the first graduate schools of business early in the 20th century, they wrestled with whether business was a profession and whether it was properly a subject for study in the academy.

The European Union has bent over backward to admit Greece — first to what was then the European Economic Community in 1981 and then to the euro zone

Becoming a star in the controversial academic discipline of behavioral economics is not for the faint of heart.

In the next five years, more than 200 new airports will be built in Asia Pacific, and 140,000 hotel rooms will be added.

In August of 2009, off-duty Highway Patrol officer Mark Saylor was on a family outing.