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Pricing Strategy During Inflation: When Should Small Businesses Raise Prices?

A small bakery owner reviews ingredient costs, receipts, and a calculator while planning a pricing strategy during inflation.
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How contribution margin, break-even analysis, and customer demand can help businesses protect profitability when costs rise. Build a pricing strategy during inflation using contribution margin, break-even analysis, and customer demand to protect small business profits. When discussing business cases with students, I often hear a familiar question: “If our costs are going up, shouldn’t we…

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AI Strategic Decision-Making: Why Better Questions Create Better Strategy

Business leaders using AI Strategic Decision-Making tools to analyze data, compare strategic options, and evaluate business scenarios.
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AI Strategic Decision-Making is changing how companies generate strategic options, challenge assumptions, monitor markets, and build competitive advantage. When I teach organizational management, I often ask a simple question: After your last strategy workshop—after days of preparation, multiple meetings, and perhaps even an outside facilitator—how many genuinely different strategic options did your team actually consider?…

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Made in USA Marketing Risks: Brand Strategy, Backlash, and FTC Rules

Business leaders reviewing Made in USA product labels, compliance documents, and brand strategy materials during a corporate meeting.
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Explore the benefits and risks of Made in USA marketing, including consumer backlash, political signaling, FTC rules, and brand strategy. How pro-American marketing became a strategic liability for some companies, and what business leaders should do about it. One of the patterns I encounter regularly in researching public policy and teaching management cases is this:…

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AI Adoption Is Overloading Middle Managers: The Hidden Bottleneck in Organizational Transformation

A middle manager reviewing AI-generated reports on a laptop while team members work in the background, representing the growing pressure of AI adoption in modern organizations.
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AI and middle managers are becoming a critical issue in organizational transformation. Learn why AI adoption often increases review, coaching, and accountability pressures for middle managers. Artificial intelligence is changing how organizations work. It helps employees draft reports, summarize information, analyze data, write emails, generate ideas, and automate repetitive tasks. For senior executives, AI often…

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