Journal of Business Strategy: Volume 15 Issue 6

SHORTTAKES

Betsy Wiesendanger, Bristol Voss, B.V.

The movement to benchmark best practices long ago crossed industry lines, but the strange, hybrid results can still startle the outside observer. Take the issue of how to deal…

CLIPPINGS

Industrial policy is a somewhat grandiose political term for what government has been doing since priests or princes directed seasonally unemployed peasants in the construction of…

Global Policy: Misguided Morality

David A. Heenan

America's strategists are at sixes and sevens. At issue: how to chart the United States' moral compass. Repeatedly, we intervene in a host of nations—Bosnia, Rwanda, Somalia…

Competitive Intelligence: The Care and Cultivation of Corporate Main Brains

Bill DeGenaro

Part of the challenge of strategy is the “educated guess” component—perhaps the most esoteric angle of the planning arts. It's also the most important. Mastering it comes from…

Strategic Management Einstein: Still No Equal

Carol Ann Dorn

“Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible,” said the great theoretical physicist Albert Einstein. Now, nearly half a century later, his words still have merit…

Story Time

Fables, poems, novels—these sure aren't your ordinary business books. Here's a look at the new trend in strategic fiction.

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A BIRD WATCHER

Meryl Davids

Kenny Rogers Roasters has been pecking away at competitor Boston Chicken for the past three years. The company's recipe for success includes founder John Y. Brown—the ex‐Kentucky…

UNIONS AND MANAGEMENT:: THE OLD LABELS DON'T STICK ANYMORE

Michael J. McDermott

After a long slide, organized labor is back waving some high‐flying numbers—and demanding a higher profile in the lives of workers and management. Here's a look at what this means…

Case Study: Equifax: Gets Extra Credit

Russell Shaw

OF COURSE YOU'VE HEARD OF EQUIFAX, INC., THE ATLANTA‐BASED CREDIT‐information‐services agency. Remember two months ago, when you picked out the handsome gray Lexus that's now…

Out‐of‐Pocket: Learning From Teaching

Betsy Wiesendanger

Ginger Conwell isn't the type of teacher that the second graders at George Washington Carver Elementary School in Santa Ana, California, are used to. For one thing, she's an…