Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Forced to do more with much less, the small businesses that have managed to survive and even thrive during these tough times have recognized one important factor: You can’t always compete on price, but you can compete on service. Provide refunds quickly and efficiently. Use technology to provide quick, efficient customer service.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 6, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. So how exactly does a small firm with only 20 employees manage to make millions every year without offering prices much lower than their competitors? Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Meanwhile, Whole Foods could lower its prices (organic avocados for just $1.69!) Tight cultures have an efficient orderliness and reassuring predictability, but are less adaptable. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who is known to expect unwavering discipline from his workers, personifies this leadership style.

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Price Decentralization Long-term CEO 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

Attitudes have changed since 2010, the last time Washington debated serious climate action, and not only because most of us have connected the dots between climate change and the extreme weather events that ravage our communities. Low-carbon leadership isn’t just confined to the coasts. And the U.S.

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Power Planning Proposal Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Some of them provide free or highly subsidized care to as many as half or two-thirds of all their patients — and still earn a good enough return to attract private investors, even though Indian prices for most medical procedures are 1%–10% of U.S. a cataract operation can cost $200 or less, compared with $3,500 in the U.S. .;

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 26, 2011

This non-traditional, gung-ho guide is not afraid to lay out the leadership methods that can effectively get a new business off the ground, and through the requisite fast-track growth phases that produce tangible success measured by your bottom line and your wallet. To read Michael Feuer’s complete biography, click here.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

Who were the Top Five in 2010 ? Success today in every field is about so much more than price, performance, features — pure economic value. The companies that I admire aren't just efficient and productive, they are memorable to encounter. Who are the Top Five organization's on Fortune's list for 2011? Anybody shocked?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

firm, Qualcomm, developed the world’s most advanced technology for second-generation mobile telephony, but European firms had an advantage: a coherent pan-Continental IP strategy that included mandating technology sharing among European competitors and setting the pricing and licensing arrangements to ensure rapid adoption.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

After 2010, climate all but disappeared from the national conversation. Since January, we have seen record drought, rising commodities prices, the lowest Arctic ice levels in recorded history, and a rash of costly extreme weather events. Put a price on carbon. Hurricane Sandy put it back on the map. Fortunately, U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

Investors also did well: A $100 investment in Ruger in late 2010 was worth $443 in late 2015, while the equivalent investment in the S&P 500 yielded only $163 over that time frame. It’s worth remembering Peter Drucker’s famous distinction: “management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right thing.”

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Licensing Drucker Retail Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. And apparently not in the fight over leadership of the World Bank.

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Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

A second was introduced in a medical-surgical unit at Theda Clark Hospital in Neenah in 2009, and a third in another medical-surgical unit at Appleton Medical Center in 2010. The results to date show that the inpatient-care model is succeeding in improving safety, efficiency, and effectiveness. Getting Real About Health Care Value.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

” In such a case, a firm’s leadership may respond sluggishly to evolving risks. The SEC has recognized this point; in 2010 it issued a planning document asking publicly traded companies to disclose their climate exposure risk. Different companies will learn about different risks.

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Company Porter Forrester Simon 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Without greater investment in new capacity, tight supply will ration demand and prices will skyrocket — which could bring the world economy to its knees. The per barrel oil price of $140 four years ago was not an aberration, but a warning. It serves nobody's purpose for our political leadership to vilify oil producers.

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