Microsoft’s Playbook for Thriving in Uncertainty
BCG recently outlined five essential actions for CEOs to maintain confidence in turbulent times. Microsoft offers a vivid example of how these strategies can drive bold pivots and help companies seize new opportunities. In a world that never stands still,…
Did Oracle Crack the Leadership Code?
Safra Catz Leaves CEO Role at Oracle. Despite strong financial results, the cloud giant has opted for a leadership duo whose style looks markedly different from their predecessor’s. Far from unusual, this shift seems to be one of Oracle’s success…
Lea Riccoboni x Carole Daniel : “Mindfulness allows us to make fairer choices in our daily lives.”
One is a professional triathlete who graduated from SKEMA Business School in 2018; the other is a lecturer and researcher at the same institution, and an amateur triathlete. Lea Riccoboni accepted the challenge of confiding in Carole Daniel, who specialises…
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Do you have the right business model for your strategy?
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Anticipating crises: the filters that hinder the analysis of weak signals
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What is the most profitable way to sell ? Evidences from research
Auctions are commonly used in many different situations (art, fish, flowers, etc). But at the same time, many products are sold through posted prices or negotiations. In the joint article with Dan Bernhardt and Tingjun Liu, published in Journal of Economic Theory, we identified the "value discovery" as the merit and the "participation cost" as the demerit of auctions in order to study the most profitable way to sell.
Christo: a business model designed to preserve creative freedom
After 60 years of setbacks and negotiations, months of engineering studies and weeks of execution, Christo’s final posthumous work, L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped, is now on public display for two weeks. While its artistic value may be a matter for debate, its financing is exemplary since no public funding was needed.
Informal networks, formal structure and incremental innovation
Where are the most innovative employees within organizations? What is their position in the informal knowledge-sharing network and the formal organizational structure? What is the relationship between formal and informal dimensions?
MIGRANT WORKERS’ ‘RIGHTS-TALK’: AN IMMENSE PROMISE FACING HIGH SOCIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL BARRIERS
The United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) require that business know and show that they respect human rights. They can do so by conducting human rights due diligence and by translating and embedding human rights throughout their organization.
Do you have the right business model for your strategy?
You should change your business model! We regularly hear this injunction from mentors coaching startups or from strategy consultants called by managers to improve the performance of their (small or large) company. This may be true… or not.
THE WORLD AFTER COVID-19: THE FOUR APPROACHES OF DECISION MAKERS WHEN FACED WITH UNCERTAINTY
We are all trying to figure out what tomorrow holds, either by making our own predictions or by listening intently to those made by others, particularly the experts...
How the Covid-19 crisis is exacerbating inequalities between male and female researchers
Academic careers depend on the researcher’s capacity to publish scientific articles in the best journals in their field. Publication is the deciding factor for promotion and peer recognition. Women are less present in this race and their numbers decrease the further up the academic ladder we look.
International organised crime, a lucrative form of entrepreneurship
Illegal drug trade, arms and human trafficking, counterfeiting... “Grey globalisation” players have spawned transnational organised crime (TOC) that is difficult to stamp out. Indeed, it is complex on account of its production bases, networks, funding and demand. An analysis of drug trafficking through the lens of consilience provides a better understanding of this issue and its challenges.
Remote work, trust and surveillance in times of pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic crisis is affecting our ways of living, travelling, and working. In conditions of lockdown and gradual reopening of businesses, companies around the world had to rapidly deploy large-scale remote work solutions wherever possible and even where it was previously thought to be unfeasible. What are the potential consequences and how can these be addressed?
Startups and large firms relationships: When both David and Goliath win
We all know about the David against Goliath story and the result of their battle. When applied to startups and large firms, the asymmetry of the situation of the stakeholders usually ends up the other way around. This asymmetry is…
The role of data science in the target analysis process
So far, the field of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) does not seem to have made the shift to digital. Yet machine learning and artificial intelligence could be used in several phases of the process for evaluating a target company.
Consilience or “the unity of knowledge”: an approach to complexity, a critical compass, a course of action
In a complex world, it is no longer possible to content ourselves with deeper but disjointed knowledge. Consilience or “the unity of knowledge” is a way to approach the problems and challenges of our time by interconnecting fields of knowledge…
Culminating events and time working together in top management teams
Top management teams (TMTs) – comprising the most influential executives in an organization – are important because of their influence over strategic choices and performance. Prior studies have shown that TMT characteristics such as age, education, and functional background affect…
Anticipating crises: the filters that hinder the analysis of weak signals
Before the COVID-19 crisis erupted, several signals warning of a possible pandemic had been emitted. Certain scientific studies, some of them published in prestigious journals , reported the risk of zoonotic disease outbreaks and propagation, notably linked to SARS type viruses, as…
Effectual reasoning, a tool for tackling complexity
Organisations must contend with a staggering level of uncertainty: climate change, energy transition, Brexit, etc. Yet, the way we make decisions to act seems to disregard this new reality. Are we even conscious of the way we reason to make…
The war for talent: no competitive edge without attractiveness in the job market
In the early 2010s, a Geneva bank believed that the new banking regulations presented an opportunity for growth. Its strategic intent was to develop finance software that would enable it to comply with all rules imposed by the authorities, then…
