37 results for author: Columbia Business School
The 5 Best Business Ideas of 2017
After a year has passed it is customary to take stock: What were the major developments and how should they guide our thinking on managing our businesses more effectively?
As a professor of strategy for nearly twenty years now, my mind turned to this ...
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It’s Not Jobs, It’s Wages: Pulling India Out of Poverty
The head of India's largest search firm highlights five specific interventions that will improve living standards for its neediest citizens.
As chairman and co-founder of Teamlease Services, India's largest staffing and human capital firm, Manish Sabhar...
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Innovation isn’t About Strategy, it’s About Culture
If you are not focused on creating a startup culture that inspires innovation, you could get stuck in the present, soon to be past.
“When strategy and culture collide, culture will win.” 1
Innovation is one of the most important growth engines. ...
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How to Make a Winner
Winning, a debut film by Jacqueline Joseph ’91, looks at the careers of iconic athletes and examines what makes them shine.
All her life, Jacqueline Joseph has loved two things—sports and film. "When I was a junior in high school, I did an independent ...
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For Fintech, a Window of Opportunity
Regulatory arbitrage may provide some of the heat behind fintech's fire.
Fintech, the common name for a wave of startups bringing new technology to traditional financial services, is unquestionably having a moment.
Total annual investment in fintech ...
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Authentic Networking
In the era that spawned the term "truthiness," it can be tough to discern what, and who, is authentic.
It's a dilemma that seeps into nearly every corner of society. Why was Donald Trump perceived as more authentic than Hillary Clinton by many voters? If ...
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How Setbacks Spur Leaps Forward
The tortured artist is one of our most enduring cultural images of creativity.
From Orpheus, the Ancient Greek "father of song" who sought, and failed, to rescue his wife from the Underworld, to Amy Winehouse, creativity seems to be inextricably linked in ...
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Persuasion vs. Negotiation
Top-notch negotiation and persuasion techniques are essential to becoming a better leader. In this video, Columbia Business School professor Bob Bontempo explains why negotiation and persuasion are two complementary skill sets, but with a different set of ...
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Stop Stressing So Much about Multitasking
Switching between tasks can open up new approaches to difficult problems.
Just three minutes: that's how long the average worker spends on a task before switching to something new, according to a 2008 study led by researchers from the University of ...
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In the Digital Era, Growth is About More Than Technology
To bring a legacy business into the digital era, managers need to unlearn all the old rules.
Companies are like people, and we grow up and our own experiences shape — literally shape — the wiring inside our brains, as our neurons form as we grow into ...
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To Lead a Team, Start by Changing Yourself
William Klepper explains the one trap that many would-be leaders fall into.
The first thing I always tell leaders of teams is don't try to be all things to all people. I use the great philosopher Dirty Harry, who said: "A man's got to know his limitation...
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