Swiss banks continue to rely excessively on financial markets. While good performances in 2017 were heavily driven by the positive market environment, a more challenging 2018 has exposed how weak banks really are. Most have made insufficient progress to enhance business and operating models or to adapt strategies and set ups to ensure sustainable success. If markets take a downturn, most banks will suffer - many to the point of extinction.
Wer die Wende von 1989 gemeistert habe, besitze genau jene Transformationskompetenz, die jetzt gefragt sei, sagt Timo Meynhardt von der Leipziger Manager-Schmiede HHL. Er sieht in der Pandemie aber auch eine Chance zur Annäherung.
We often read in order to understand, but sometimes we read in order to cope. And nearly always, we need to understand in order to cope.
“Coping” is arguably one of the most used verbs these days, heard as frequently as wishes for good health and safety. The books we pick up in order to cope with the current crisis sometimes reflect a desire to escape, a desire that might be fulfilled by comedies, romances, and classic whodunits. Or sometimes we want to face an even deeper abyss, reflect on how much worse the situation could get (with, e.g., Katherine Anne Porter’s Pale Horse, Pale Rider), how much worse it once was (see Michael Buhler’s recent review of Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year[i]), or how much worse it never will be (Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games, hopefully). Many media thus provide those seeking guidance with reading list, covering every possible genre. Thankfully, a nowadays less widely read author sometimes also makes it onto these lists: William Keepers Maxwell, Jr. (1908-2000).
Meynhardt, Timo: Europäische Werte und gute Führung: Rollendistanz wagen. In Flick, Corinne Michaela (ed.): Der Wert Europas in einer bedeutsameren Weltgeschichte. Göttingen : Wallstein Verlag, 2020, S. 93-110.
This introductory chapter offers an overview of the entire book on the management transformation of Huawei. Huawei is now China’s most prominent multinational company and a leader in 5G mobile telephone technology, which will be rolled out across the world in the next few years. What makes Huawei interesting is its rate of growth and the level of detail in which we can observe not only the creation of routines but also the breaking of routines across most the major functional areas (Management, Product Development, HR, Supply Chain, Finance, R&D, Intellectual Property, and International). This makes Huawei an ideal case to advance the theory of routines and dynamic capabilities to change routines. Hence the book will particularly appeal to academics in the field of strategy, management, and business history.
Die Gemeinwohl-Bilanz ist ein Instrument zur Messung des Gemeinwohlbeitrages von Unternehmen. Mithilfe einer bevölkerungsrepräsentativen Studie in Deutschland nähern wir uns der Frage nach der demokratischen Legitimation des Gemeinwohlverständnisses dieser Bilanz. Insgesamt spiegeln sich die Grundzüge des Gemeinwohlverständnisses auch in der deutschen Bevölkerung wider, doch bestehen auch Differenzen bezüglich der intendierten Trennschärfe, Vollständigkeit, Definitionstiefe und Gleichgewichtung der Gemeinwohl-Werte.
Mitarbeiter wollen heute mehr denn je wissen, wofür ihr Arbeitgeber steht. Was müssen Unternehmen tun, um diese Erwartung zu erfüllen? Ein Gespräch mit dem Leipziger Managementprofessor Timo Meynhardt über die richtige Wortwahl, ein neues Führungsmodell und das beste Purpose-Statement Deutschlands.
By design, waste and other negative environmental impacts have become an integral part of our industrialised consumer society. The circular economy (CE) is a way to move away from the linearity of our current industrial and economic systems. The aim of a CE is to keep products, components and materials at their maximum utility and value at all times. The present article provides an actionable path for companies to design, validate, and implement a circular ecosystem with suitable business models that enable sustainable solutions that are beyond the reach of single companies. Our easy-to-navigate framework consists of seven steps.
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