Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 8th Global Drucker Forum. Peter Drucker called this a turning point in human history. Agile methods and Scrum are creating space for individuals to self-organize and work in iterative processes.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Becoming a true digital organization is not just about becoming tech-savvy. Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 7th Global Drucker Forum. The first step managers need to take is to assess their organization’s purpose and vision.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

The advent of the modern organization and the practice of management constitutes a “social technology” that has been equally transformative. Tumbling transaction costs are altering the economics of organizations and, at a stroke, invalidating old business models.

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

We offer one degree and one degree only: the master’s of business administration, the MBA. We incorporate Peter Drucker, who was my professor when I got my doctorate and a good friend afterward for many, many years until he passed away some years ago. Drucker really mentioned what to do, but he rarely taught us how to do it.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Many business leaders are fond of the spurious Peter Drucker quote that “you can’t manage what you can’t measure.” Core metrics naturally acquire power in an organization, but people might not be aware of how they can bias decisions. Against which metrics are they building their businesses?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

Sloan’s book My Years with General Motors , written half a century ago, is still a readable business classic. Peter Drucker wrote that Sloan was “the first to work out how to systematically organize a big company. He had each of the divisions start systematic strategic planning.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

It focuses on the major management challenges that successful start-ups encounter when leaders decide to grow and scale their businesses. The book is divided into two parts – text and cases – to provide professors with maximum flexibility in organizing their courses. Discussion questions are provided for each case.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

R&D has been starved at HP for years, and it will be hard to pull enough irons out of the fire to propel organic growth. HP is a decade behind IBM in business model change. Strengthen the board and develop a kitchen cabinet. Lafley used the late Peter Drucker. Get the best advisers.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

All businesses face opportunity costs. In the case of a sales organization, money, time, and effort allocated to accounts A and B are resources not available for accounts C, D, and so on. Busy sales managers tend to treat reviews as cursory, drive-by conversations that are mainly about compensation, not evaluation and development.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Increasingly, the CIO and IT must be seen less as developing and deploying technology, and more as a source of innovation and transformation that delivers business value, leveraging technology instead of directly delivering it. Not only are there new systems, business and delivery models, types of information, technologies, etc.,

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

So it shouldn’t be surprising when a new business model, such as ridesharing, disrupts existing systems and causes friction between entrepreneurs and local government officials, right? Elinor Ostrom (44 years before her Nobel Prize) observed public entrepreneurs inventing new models in the 1960s. It still operates today.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2015

It’s the best way yet invented to focus the organization’s capital, human, and time resources toward the goals of the business. Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 7th Global Drucker Forum. Management is a lens.

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