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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Maturity Drucker Osborne Middle Management 8

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.

Management 8

Management Drucker EPS Short-term 8

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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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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Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

This is a big dream worthy of our attention, and Alibaba has won the world’s admiration as an exciting and viable organization. To quote Peter Drucker, “The purpose of an organization is to make ordinary people do extraordinary things.” billion business after two years.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

The same diminished economic frictions, along with new business models, organizational structures and enabling technologies, have accelerated the appearance of new, unanticipated competitors with new value propositions or the old value propositions presented faster, better and/or cheaper. Barriers to entry have been destroyed.

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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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Entrepreneur Osgood Storytelling Osborne 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Trends that are affecting fundamental concepts of business, and in turn IT: The basic ideas of capitalism--return on investment (ROI) and return on assets (ROA)--are being challenged by the historical stalwarts of capitalism ( Harvard , Drucker Society , Forbes , the London School of Economics and many more). IT management ROA ROI'

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CIO ROI Agility Information Technology 8

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. Lafley used the late Peter Drucker. A technology company without strong internal innovation capabilities is a company on the verge of disappearing.

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Tips CEO Software Drucker 11

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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