Planning Review: Volume 14 Issue 2

How a mature firm fosters intrapreneurs

Robert J. Schaffhauser

It's a deeply held belief that the small entrepreneur develops new businesses better than big companies. A more recent notion suggests that if big companies set up…

The best strategies for corporate venturing

Glenn DeSouza

There is a game of chance played in corporate boardrooms that would intimidate even the most seasoned Las Vegas high roller. The players know the odds of success are low, but they…

Cooperative strategies

Richard P. Nielsen

Michael Porter discusses three generic strategies for outperforming competitors in his influential book, Competitive Strategy—overall cost leadership, differentiation, and focus…

Tricks of the information trade

Harlan J. Brown

“We planned to enter a new market with process equipment licensed from our European parent,” said Parks Souther, President of Parkson Corporation, a subsidiary of A. Johnson &…

Effective interviewing of the experts

No matter what information is desired about a business, there will be a limited number of people either generating the information or observing it being generated. The minds of…

1986 World political risk forecast

William D. Coplin, Michael K. O'Leary

The highlights of the worldwide business climate forecasts for 1986 are:

Struggle for life most severe between individuals and varieties of the same species

Charles Darwin

As the species of the same genus usually have, though by no means invariably, much similarity in habits and constitution, and always in structure, the struggle will generally be…