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• Leadership & Strategy›

  • Ziopharm Oncology: A New Approach to New Drugs

    For a little biopharmaceutical company, Ziopharm Oncology has attracted capital from some heavy hitters—a coup in an industry hit particularly hard by the financial market crunch. Here, Chief Executive interviews CEO Jonathan Lewis.

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  • In Turbulent Times Women May Prove to Be Better Leaders Than Men

    Do women leaders consult more with peers than men? Do they tend to motivate teams more easily? Recent research reveals a host of provocative findings, some counterintuitive, that suggest the answers are not always what one might think.

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  • Why Ask Why?

    Innovation often begins with a question. Disruptive innovators ask more questions than non-innovators—and their questions tend to be more provocative, according to an eight-year research project based on interviews with founders and CEOs of the world’s most innovative companies.

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• Technology›

  • Gameification: A Rapidly Growing Trend That Will Accelerate Learning for Both Business and Education

    Here are five elements of gameification (using interactive gaming as a tool to transform training and education) that will transform business training.

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  • 5 Reasons For Businesses To Go Mobile Now

    Customers inherently know how to use mobility devices, so it’s not much of a stretch for your business to integrate them into your operations.

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  • Will a Facebook IPO Trigger a New Wave in Business?

    Venture capitalists can be a bipolar lot. Elation is often followed by depression followed by another emotional high. This quarter’s Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Index declined for the third consecutive quarter, landing at a 3.27 out of 5. Yet, the outlook may not be as dire as this index may imply.

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• Corporate Finance›

  • How CEOs Can Control Health Care Costs in 2012

    Group health care plan costs rose only 6.1% on average in 2011, which is down from 2010’s 6.9%. But, the future of health care costs will be uncertain until the Supreme Court rules on the legality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) sometime next June. Here’s how you can start to control your costs in preparation for the legislative changes that are bound to affect your bottom line.

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  • Mergers and Acquisitions: A Deal Gone Wrong

    For our November/December 2011 issue, former CEO and chairman of Procter & Gamble A.G. Lafley tells Chief Executive about an acquisition gone wrong.

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  • M&A Online Exclusive Content

    The brutal truth is that most mergers fail to create market value. Here are some additional M&A pitfalls from Chief’s Russ Banham

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• Talent Management›

  • The Twin Challenge of Talent

    Exceptional leaders know that their greatest contribution is to cultivate other exceptional leaders. Peter Drucker often wrote about the importance of creating leaders for “the future that has already happened.”

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  • Covance: Tactics for Talent Troubles

    Covance’s Joe Herring Innovation has always been near and dear to pharmaceutical heavyweights, such as Pfizer and Eli Lilly, whose [...]

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  • The Limits of Monetary Incentives

    Money isn’t the great motivator people often suppose. In fact, excessive monetary rewards can lead to bad behaviors.

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• CEO Life›

  • CEOs Who Ride the Wind

    Greek mythology’s Icarus, using wax wings, crashed because he flew too close to the sun. But a fair number of [...]

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  • How Accurate is the Idea of the Narcissist CEO?

    A recent study from a management professor at Penn State explores the “Narcissistic CEO,” claiming that qualities like investing heavily in advertising and R&D or conducting lots of acquisitions (and paying high premiums for those acquisitions) indicates that a CEO is narcissistic and may run a company into the ground. Sure, too much ego isn’t a good thing, but is this study taking things too far?

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  • 54% of CEOs Say Top Spot is More Complex than Expected, Feel Isolated from Staff

    A new survey from RHR International has insights into the current pysche of the public company CEO; 50% of CEOs feel isolated and 50% feel increased pressure to perform well financially in a short period of time. Are the external pressures on CEOs leading them to make the best long-term decisions?

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• Operations›

  • So, You Want to be a Multinational?

    Global expansion comes with global risk. As more and more firms expand their supply chains into high-risk emerging markets – often using networks of vendors and agents to rapidly put boots on the ground in these regions – they are increasingly exposed to the kinds of fraud risks that can sink their global aspirations.

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  • It’s All About Removing Hassles: Demand

    When it comes to creating demand, it’s not the first mover that wins, it’s the first to create and capture the emotional space in the market, what the author refers to as the “magnetic”.

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  • The Payback Potential of Power

    Most CEOs know the exact cost of their IT or healthcare spending, yet most don’t know the costs associated with [...]

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• Global Business›

  • What’s Ahead for U.S.-Mexico Relations

    Claudio Gonzalez, 72, is one of the few remaining members of a vanishing breed of senior business figures that have won both deep respect at home and a strong international reputation abroad. He served as the CEO of Kimberly-Clark de Mexico from 1973-2008. Here’s what Gonzalez has to say about the future for U.S.-Mexico relations.

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  • A Tale of Two CEOs

    We are told by the OWS crowd that the nation’s current economic problems are mostly due to the sinister machinations of the “1 percenters,” greedy corporate business leaders and Wall Street plutocrats who rig the system to their advantage and force students to take loans for their college education that they are unable to pay back. As with any caricature there are shadows that outline some truths.

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  • How to Deal with the Chinese Government

    In the real world of doing business in China, the landscape is shifting. Foreign companies can no longer do business in China today in the same way that they have in the past.

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• Marketing & Sales›

  • The Synergy Mirage: A Case Study

    Brand extensions and product expansions don’t always make sense. A razor-like focus on what one does exceptionally well can make all the difference.

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  • DIY Brand Building

    Tom Duncan The Challenge. You’re a manufacturing company looking to make headway in a market saturated with established brands. Like [...]

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  • Who Is Managing Your Marketing?

    We recently witnessed several recent marketing fiascos that begs an answer to the age old question – who is in charge of marketing?

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• Governance/Compliance›

  • Preparing for Board Director Retirement: A Customized Approach to Succession Planning

    Historically, Board Director Succession Planning has been relegated to a process focused on simply “replacing” a particular individual who is retiring with someone who is most like that particular individual. Although instituted quite frequently, this historical approach ignores three truths that are worth examining.

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  • Will Government Crush Economic Recovery?

    There is little question that if the US is to recover from this recession and if unemployment is to be driven down, small business will lead the way. Unfortunately, intentionally or unintentionally, the government is crushing our one hope of recovery.

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  • Study Says CEOs Disappoint as Board Members, But Numbers Tell a Different Story

    A recent survey suggests that sitting CEOs may actually be less effective directors than non-CEOs, citing the responses of 79 percent of directors who said sitting CEOs were no more effective in the role than non-CEOs.

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