Pursuing sustainable hospitality
Professors Wee Beng Geok and Ivy Buche (Nanyang Business School, Singapore) show how cultural, environmental and social responsibility shape Aitken Spence Hotel Holdings' strategy.

Bollywood dreams of Hollywood
Steven Spielberg and Anil Ambani agreed to a partnership in late 2008. Anant Thaokar and Gollapalli Syam Prasad (IBS Research Center) present the background of the companies involved and the motives behind the deal.

Livestockholder value
Alltech is a global leader in animal feed additives which improve the animal’s immune and reproductive functions. Professor Frank Bradley (Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, University College Dublin) tells the story of its success.

Iterative entrepreneurship
In "Getting to Plan B" John Mullins and Randy Komisar argue that entrepreneurial success is often an iterative process. The capacity to evolve from Plan A toward a Plan B (and C) constitutes the test of entrepreneurial savvy.

Head scarf and no glass ceiling
Fatima Al Jaber is the COO of a large Abu Dhabi construction-based conglomerate, the Al Jaber Group. Professor Kets de Vries (INSEAD) has studied the path she followed to the top and the problems she faces.

Liberating leadership
In "Freedom, Inc." Brian Carney (Wall Street Journal) and professor Isaac Getz (ESCP Europe) look at some companies which have moved away from a hierarchical, bureaucratic mindset to a more freedom-based framework.

Born-again meets marketing
Larry Light served as Global CMO for McDonald’s from 2002 to 2005, during the beginning of the company’s turnaround process. In “Six Rules for Brand Revitalization,” he and Joan Kiddon present six rules culled from that successful revitalization.

Marketing the socially responsible way
Cause-Related Marketing (CRM) is making strides in India. Nagendra Chowdhary (IBSCDC) looks at how Tata Tea revamped its image and increased market share by using CRM for its Jaago Re! campaign.

Carbon markets warming
Market mechanisms are being deployed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Professor George Allayannis (University of Virginia, Darden School of Business) has produced a case which describes the carbon marketscape.

Between a discus and a hard place
How can the Head of Ticketing for the 2012 London Olympics reconcile the diverging needs? His boss expects him to sell $650 million worth of tickets, yet the stadia need to be filled and any decision has to be accepted as fair by the public…

Spending less on spending
For British Airways to aggressively streamline its annual £4 billion in procurement, the company questioned all assumptions. An exercise in change management recounted in a case by Jamie Anderson (ESMT) and Dr. Marc Day (Henley Business School).

Acquiring a taste for IT
In "IT Savvy", Peter Weill and Jeanne Ross, both from MIT’s Center for Information Systems Research (CISR), present the IT journey and highlight the role of digitized platforms on that path.

Call in the collaboration therapist!
In this second part of our five-part series on Morten Hansen’s book "Collaboration", we look at the barriers to collaboration. Identifying which hurdle is blocking productive teamwork can help boost the efficiency of a company's operations.

Working together… sometimes
With a focus on collaboration within large companies, Morten Hansen's book shows how teamwork can deliver results: better innovation, higher sales, and better operations. In this first part we examine whether to collaborate or not to collaborate.