Europe

New research shows how to attract and retain the best employees in developing economies.

It’s a resurgence other countries should understand before copying.

Bad news for small countries, safe seas, and the U.S.

The United States and United Kingdom may be, as Churchill said, two countries separated by the same language. Equally, however, the United Kingdom may be the best window Americans have onto the deliberately opaque landscape of the European Community. Sitting here in London, spiritually closer to Boston than to Brussels, it is easy for me […]

The story of a royal trading company comes to life on an 18th-century stock certificate.

Customer Strategy Solutions, a California-based developer of order fulfillment systems, is facing a shakedown. Six months after the firm's CEO, Pavlo...

Wisse Dekker, chairman of the Supervisory Board of N.V. Philips’ Gloeilampenfabrieken, is one of the foremost advocates of a true European common market. During the course of a long and distinguished career, many years of which were devoted to Philips’ operations in the Far East, he has spoken forcefully about how global competition and technological […]

The CEO of Carbonite makes the case against the Burr-Feinstein bill.

The aim of strategy is to master a market environment by understanding and anticipating the actions of other economic agents, especially competitors....

The European Commission holds out an alluring vision of the single European market: 320 million consumers, a unified economy larger than that of the United States, faster economic growth with lower prices, and at least two million new jobs. But to European managers, the movement toward a unified market looks uneven and untidy. For instance, […]

A couple of years ago, I coauthored with Rob Lachenauer an article called “Hardball: Five Killer Strategies for Trouncing the Competition.” The piece, along with a subsequent book, was misunderstood by many people. Critics said that hardball meant playing dirty or mean, neither of which is true. What is true is that hardball—let’s face it, […]

"Aldi" is a word that strikes fear in the hearts of brand managers across Europe. A chain of low-budget retail stores with sales of $73.5 billion in 2008,...

The surprising global success of Spanish companies proves the value of good old-fashioned networking.

Economic security would ease Europe’s migration crisis.

Our future needs women at the top.

In Russia, 3M is showing how companies can turn cultural variations into business advantages.

Less than half an hour after Donald Hastings became chairman and CEO of the Lincoln Electric Company in July 1992, he got the shocking news: losses from...

Your organization can become more decisive—and can implement strategy more quickly—if you know where the bottlenecks are and who’s empowered to break through them.

When employees get home at a decent hour, everyone wins.

It will take the right laws.