Summer school 2004
Resources
In depth
Managers look for the moral dimension
In the conclusion to our month-long series, Thomas Stewart writes that bosses have a golden opportunity to improve the world.
Learn how to cheat death
The idea of a corporate life cycle suggests that every company's existence is finite.
Tantalised by the promise of wisdom
In 1998 Michael Earl met 20 chief knowledge officers; today, few are left. So what ever happened to knowledge management?
How to deal with decline
Viewed from inside a failing company, the process may look irreversible.
Caveat emptor: a rule for the new deal
As mergers and acquisitions come back into vogue, buyers must plan meticulously.
Related content and features
Introduction
Return to classroom for business leaders
Simon London opens our month-long summer school with a look at the challenge that successful managers in the current golden business cycle must meet: how to balance operational and strategic priorities
Negotiation
The right set-up makes a deal
Most research into negotiation focuses on the cut and thrust of dealmaking at the table. Tactics at the table are important but success can depend on smart preparatory moves.
Corporate life cycle
After survival, what next?
In order to enable continued growth, it is time to look at the company itself and consider how it needs to be expanded.
Business planning
The crucial first two years
Success is about shifting focus from the day-to-day and looking ahead, writes Morgen Witzel
Innovation
Work that is never done
Staying ahead of the competition requires more than just inventors in a workshop or scientists in a laboratory churning out ideas that the company then tries to exploit.
Professional management
The test of team-building
Professional management is essential for business success; the dotcom bubble showed us what happens when amateurism takes over.
