Our global food system is unsustainable, and its practices are inflexible, inefficient, and inequitable. The December issue of s+b explores why it doesn’t have to be.

Bottom Line: Amazon’s embrace of coopetition—working closely with other firms while also competing fiercely against them—can teach other companies some lessons about counterintuitive thinking. In late ...

A version of this article appeared in the Summer 2021 issue of strategy+business. Kristian Ebbesen Fjelde and his team knew that the executive committee meeting scheduled in mid-2019 to discuss the ...

A version of this article appeared in the Autumn 2018 issue of strategy+business. In December 2014, a year shy of its 30th anniversary and as popular as ever, New York City’s Union Square Cafe faced a ...

A version of this article appeared in the Summer 2021 issue of strategy+business. In the blink of an eye, COVID-19 disrupted the business environment and illuminated a profound, sometimes overlooked ...

Industrial revolutions are momentous events. By most reckonings, there have been only three. The first was triggered in the 1700s by the commercial steam engine and the mechanical loom. The harnessing ...

A version of this article appeared in the Summer 2016 issue of strategy+business. Very few companies have survived as many technological and industrial revolutions as Siemens. Founded in Berlin in ...

Imagine that you are hiring an employee for a position in which a new perspective would be valuable. But while reviewing resumes, you find yourself drawn to a candidate who is similar in age and ...

A version of this article appeared in the Summer 2017 issue of strategy+business. Have you ever had a difficult executive decision to make? This is the kind of decision where the best options aren’t ...

Almost every business today faces major strategic challenges. The path to creating value is seldom clear. In an ongoing global survey of senior executives conducted by Strategy&, PwC’s strategy ...

Colin is a 20-year-old computer science student living in London with two other students in the year 2020. He enjoys backpacking, sports, music, and gaming. He has a primary digital device (PDD) that ...

A version of this article appeared in the Winter 2020 issue of strategy+business. In 1945, a U.S. defense contractor employee was working on the magnetron, a microwave-emitting tube used in radar ...