Corporate executives, the management consultants who advise them, and the financial industry executives who help corporations finance their capital investments tend to believe that whenever their ...

Management is broken—and it’s costing trillions. Employee engagement hovers at dismal levels globally. A PWC study showed that customer trust in executives scrapes 30% (while executives delusionally ...

Roman Z. Matatov is with PKF O’Connor Davies, serving as a CFO for private business clients, and has a valuation and forensics background. In this four-part series of articles, I invite you to explore ...

We often hear the words “value creator” and “business catalyst,” and depending who you speak with, they have different meanings and different impact. A “value creator” is focused on seeking out and ...

If you're competing on price, you'll never achieve maximum profitability. Instead, everyone's job must become value creation. But are you sure that you're providing value to your customers? Even if ...

A version of this article appeared in the Summer 2021 issue of strategy+business. In the blink of an eye, COVID-19 disrupted the business environment and illuminated a profound, sometimes overlooked ...

Shareholder value is the financial value investors receive from owning shares of a company's stock. Increasing shareholder value over the long term typically leads to a higher stock price and ...

When advertising agencies first emerged in the 19th century, their main purpose was to 1) broker space in media (mostly newspapers) and 2) help manufacturers create slogans and imagery to buy their ...