Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric Dr. Jay Akridge, Trustee Chair in Teaching and Learning Excellence and Professor, Provost Emeritus, Purdue University “Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric” by Thomas...
Developing Strategy in Turbulent Times Dr. Michael Boehlje, Professor Emeritus The Upside of Turbulence: Seizing Opportunity in an Uncertain World written by Donald Sull Food and agribusiness firms are facing turbulent times – geopolitical uncertainty in terms of the...
The House Advantage: Playing the Odds to Win Big in Business Dr. Nicole Olynk Widmar, Associate Head and Professor, Purdue University, Department of Agricultural Economics The House Advantage: Playing the Odds to Win Big in Business by Jeffrey Ma We talk a lot about...
What Should Danny Do? Dr. Brenna Ellison, Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University What Should Danny Do? by Ganit and Adir Levy In our house, we like to read the classics — Dr. Seuss, Sesame Street, Goodnight Moon, and so on. With...
The Value of Understanding Customer Profitability Author: Dr. Mark Manfredo, professor in the Morrison School of Agribusiness at Arizona State University As our competitive landscape shifts, it demands ag retailers sharpen their business acumen and hone their...
Author: Dr. Pete Hammett, Visiting Professor In this final installment of our series on decision making, we’ll reflect on practical suggestions for improving our effectiveness in decision making. If you’d like to catch up on previous parts of this series, you can read...
Authors: Dr. Lourival Carmo Monaco Neto, Postdoctoral Research Associate Dr. Allan W. Gray, Executive Director and Professor In this final article in the Data-Driven Decision Making in Times of Crisis series (catch up on previous parts of the series here: 1)...
Author: Dr. Pete Hammett, Visiting Professor Back when I worked for a large bank, we would have an annual golf outing for senior management and bank associates each year. During one outing, my team was playing behind four of the bank’s senior executives. At one point...
Author: Dr. Pete Hammett, Visiting Professor In 2007 when I was a director and senior faculty member at the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), I published my first book: “Unbalanced Influence – Recognizing and Resolving the Impact of Myth and Paradox in Executive...
Authors: Dr. Lourival Carmo Monaco Neto, Postdoctoral Research Associate Dr. Allan W. Gray, Executive Director and Professor In this multi-part blog series about data-driven decision making in times of crisis, we have argued that intelligence, not data itself, is the...
