Competitive Strategy
Firms often wall off their inventors to protect proprietary knowledge, but stronger trade secret protection appears to free them to bring that knowledge together.
Strategic Management Explorer What the Hyperscaler Race Teaches Managers About AI Strategy By Abhinav Ray People are measuring the generative AI race in many ways: everyday use, AI use cases,…
September 17, 8:00 am – 9:00 am CST
Retention improves not when firms measure it more closely, but when they organize for it more deliberately.
In the corporate world, the term “wartime CEO” is often used to describe a leader who can make the cold, calculated decisions necessary to save a company during a crisis. While we often think of these shifts in leadership as a matter of skill or experience, a new groundbreaking study says otherwise.
Greater technological uniqueness can boost firm performance, but it also limits spillovers and makes it harder for equity analysts to recognize a firm’s value.
Toyota’s strategic use of historical values to safeguard its distinctiveness offers profound insights for contemporary corporations navigating the digital age.
September 24, 2025 from 10:00am to 11:00am CT.