Business Models

Experts weigh whether short-term financial pressures will complicate businesses’ environmental sustainability efforts.

Experts consider whether early-entrant platform businesses like Uber and Netflix have lost their first-mover advantage.

Experts consider whether generative AI tools like ChatGPT will refuel Google’s and Microsoft’s search engine rivalry.

Inflation and supply chain disruption are exposing the risks of relying on a subscription model in some markets.

Transparency about how minerals are sourced advances environmental justice and climate protection.

Success means that when investors and customers do well, workers, partners, and communities do too.

The data streams generated by customers using smart, connected products can lead to new products and services.

The data streams generated by customers using smart, connected products can lead to new products and services.

Companies from Zoom to Slack lean on the product itself to find customers and convert them to paying.

Learn what B2B leaders must do to help their companies achieve genuine digital transformation.

Current rules leave investors lacking a full, accurate view of many pre-IPO companies’ prospects.

Learn how operating model transformation supports CP companies’ success now and in the future.

Unit economics can help entrepreneurs determine if scaling their business will make it profitable.

To remain competitive, companies must rethink their approach to front-line compensation, job design, and career paths.

A more inclusive strategy-making process is needed when disruptions come from all directions.

Tom Davenport and Laks Srinivasan share findings from a recent Return on AI Institute study for which they interviewed more than 45 executives about their organizations’ uses of artificial intelligence.

Five building blocks of ecosystem governance help leaders create value and manage risk.

Ecosystem success requires that both leaders and followers avoid the trap of egocentric thinking.

Having a minority stake in a business partnership doesn’t always mean having fewer rights.

Great strategy addresses investor and consumer interests and also recognizes the value of nontraditional stakeholders.