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There Are Still Only Two Ways to Compete

Harvard Business Review

Back in the early 1960s, the great Boston Consulting Group founder and strategy theorist Bruce Henderson asserted that there was only one way to successfully compete: gain a relative market share advantage over all competitors so as to have lower costs than all of them. But two-sided markets have actually been with us for centuries.

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Why Management Matters: Welcome to the HBR Insight Center

Harvard Business Review

We judge our success in part by the bottom line — on our circulation, our newsstand sales, our advertising dollars. Since there's no simple metric to determine whether we're delivering on that, we rely on our readers to let us know whether we're living up to our promise. We are also, of course, a business. And that's quality.

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The Ideas that Shaped Management in 2013

Harvard Business Review

But then we end up debating what counts as best — important? The good news is that millennial men are changing the way they define leadership and demanding work that fits around their families. Why the Lean Start Up Changes Everything. all three? — Note: the majority of the pieces below were written by men.

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Why President Kagame Runs Rwanda Like a Business

Harvard Business Review

So when Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter invited HBR last month to attend a class where Kagame was the guest speaker, and talk to him and Kagame afterwards, I was curious but also a little worried about being enlisted as a Kagame salesman. To Porter] How did you hook up with this guy? They''re critical.

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