Strategic Direction: Volume 28 Issue 11

Accelerating senior leaders' development and driving growth strategy: Merck's Executive Development Program integrates residential learning modules with high‐return action learning projects

To describe an executive development initiative contributing directly to the achievement of business goals, enhancement of leadership skills and succession planning strength.

Raising global awareness in early‐career high‐flyers: Saïd Business School, University of Oxford help BAE Systems, Inc. develop early‐career high‐potential employees

Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

Linking theory and practice in Siemens' new training initiative: Using lean training to teach employees principles of lean manufacturing

Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

Leeds University Business School and Goldman Sachs bring 10,000 small businesses to Yorkshire: Program to help small businesses and social enterprises create jobs and improve communities

Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

Executive education stimulates strategic thinking and action: Lonza's learning initiative boosts individual capabilities and delivers organizational growth

To describe how a major Swiss company revitalized its organizational capabilities by using the combined know‐how of an experienced provider of executive education and the…

Good deeds tops for bottom line: How social responsibility can benefit companies

Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

Horses for courses: Business school teaching in today's world

Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

Credibility and trust on the agenda: Authentic leaders bring a touch of humanity

Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

Celebrating excellence in practice: an interview with Jan Ginneberge and Martine Plompen

The purpose of this article is to provide an interview with Jan Ginneberge and Martine Plompen.

“It’s a macho thing, innit?” Exploring the effects of masculinity on career choice and development

Business process outsourcing industry in India: additional benefits of a CSR approach

Beyond McDonald’s CSR in China: corporation perspective and report from case studies on a damaged employment reputation

Design Is How It Works: How the Smartest Companies Turn Product into Icons

A contextual theory of organizational learning from failures and successes: a study of acquisition completion in the global newspaper industry, 1981-2008

Editorial

Up and away: five ways to harness creativity, spark innovation and harvest ideas

Corporate social responsibility in Japan: family and non-family business differences and determinants

Firm size and the effectiveness of training for customer service

Diary

Maximizing strategic value from megaprojects: the influence of information-feed on decision-making by the project manager