"Profitability is the Key to Value. If You've Got it, Flaunt It. If You Don't Have It, Get It (business strategy). If You Can't Get It, Get Out (capital strategy)."

--- Bill Fruhan, Professor of Finance, Harvard Business School, author of: Financial Strategy: Studies in the Creation, Transfer, and Destruction of Shareholder Value.

Business Strategy

Operating Fundamentals: Markets, Products, Competition, Pricing, Costs.

 The management challenge is to operate its business(es) at:

1) the widest net operating margins (between net operating profit after tax and the cost of capital)

2) for the longest periods

3) with the least capital employed.

Accounting

Blunders & Failures

Compensation

Corporate Communications (Crisis Communications, Investor Relations, Public Relations)

Competitive Intelligence

Customers

Executives

Family Businesses

Human Capital   (Mentoring, Motivation)

Information Technology

Innovation

Knowledge Management

Management History

Manufacturing

Marketing

New Product Development

Organizational Change

Productivity

Quality Management

Reorganization

Sales 

Strategy

Turnarounds