Some pandemic-induced trends might accelerate in 2022. How will they affect your planning and management strategies?

Meet Your Plan Early in my career as a business unit leader, there was a year with an unusual spike in input prices. This upended my annual financi ...

Manage Your Margins The financial community is trying to assess whether the inflation we are seeing is “transitory” or not, and what “transit ...

From the onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic to frequentsevere weather, the past few years have presented noshortage of obstacles for the lubricants in ...

I am in New York City these days, and the “animal spirits” have been unleashed here due to the high level of vaccinations leading to low infection ...

Best Practices The world seems to be turning the corner on COVID-19 as vaccinations are administered and businesses are reopening, albeit at differ ...

Rethink Your Risk Analysis Over the past month or so, there have been several stunning examples of systemic failures in our society, all of which r ...

Get Ready for a Post-pandemic Economy 2020 was a difficult and important year in many ways. The pandemic affected virtually everyone in the world a ...

Partly because of the coronavirus pandemic, businesses are undergoing more change than ever these days, which of course is a challenge in and of itsel ...

Compartmentalizing at Work  Thank heaven 2021 is finally here. Last year was an especially tough one.  We’ve made it to this point, ...

Own Your Failure I recently watched on CNBC an extremely interesting interview with former EBay chief Meg Whitman and Jeffrey Katzenberg, former CE ...

Today’s lube manufacturers blend hundreds of different products on the same equipment, necessitating periodic flushing to prevent cross-contaminatio ...

Staying Relevant I was surprised to see ExxonMobil stock removed from the Dow Jones Industrial Average in August, leaving Chevron the sole oil comp ...

Cyber criminals are always angling for a way into the supply chain. Outdated or underfunded cybersecurity protocols make your company easy to snare.

Sara Lefcourt says businesses can reap some value from every crisis—even one as painful as this pandemic.

Sara Lefcourt explores which trends may be accelerated—or made permanent—by covid-19.

Sara Lefcourt offers up tips for effective communication during a crisis.

Sara Lefcourt provides tips on how to plan for pandemics and other emergencies.

Sara Lefcourt explains how companies can incorporate environmental, social and governance principles into their investment decisions.

Sara Lefcourt offers up a new way to look at your business and tips for future success.