We study competitive interactions between Intel and Microsoft, two producers of complementary products. In a system of complements, like the PC, the value of the final product depends on how the different components work together. This, in turn, depends on the firms' investments in complementary...

Resolving the tension between theories E and O of change / Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria -- Purpose of change. Value maximization and the corporate objective function / Michael C. Jensen -- The puzzles and paradoxes of how living companies create wealth: why single-valued objective functions are...

The essential evolution: personnel, human resources, talentship -- What is a decision science applied to talent? -- The HC bridge framework: pivot-points in impact, effectiveness, and efficiency -- Impact: finding the strategy pivot-points -- Impact: linking strategic pivot-points to...