Standardized Color in the Food Industry: The Co-Creation of the Food Coloring Business in the United States, 1870–1940

Research by Ai Hisano shows how food manufacturers, dye makers, and regulators co-created the food coloring business in the United States. Food-coloring practices became integrated into an entire strategy of manufacturing and marketing in the food industry.

Sovereign Risk, Currency Risk, and Corporate Balance Sheets

Wenxin Du and Jesse Schreger lay out a case for why a country might be more likely to default on its sovereign debt than allow inflation to eat it away.

November 15, 2016

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Algorithmic Foundations for Business Strategy

Mihnea Moldoveanu uses tools and models from computational complexity theory and the algorithmics of hard problems that are new to the strategy field in order to address how strategic process and structure adapt to the complex strategic scenarios and predicaments.

5 Lessons I Hope Marketers Don't Learn from Donald Trump

5 Lessons I Hope Marketers Don't Learn from Donald Trump

Managing Reputation: Evidence from Biographies of Corporate Directors

Ian D. Gow, Aida Sijamic Wahid, and Gwen Yu analyze biographies of 12,895 board directors published in proxy statements to see how directors make strategic disclosure choices about their past and current experience in biographies.

6 Lessons from Donald Trump's Winning Marketing Manual

Donald Trump's upset election win offers six lessons for marketers looking to beat the odds and overcome powerful competitors, says John A. Quelch.