Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

For instance, company-wide variables, such as culture and engagement , play a big role in determining the fate of organizations, so why should we pay CEOs so highly and obsess over which ones are the best ? Third, CEOs’ reputations — their public personas — affect company valuations and stock prices.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Benjamin Graham , the father of value investing, seldom met the managers of the companies he invested in because he felt they would tell him only what they wished him to hear and because he didn’t want to be influenced by impressions of personality. STEVEN MOORE FOR HBR.

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Stage-Gate Kaplan Competitive Advantage Intangible Assets 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

If you want to understand the future of Tesla, and Elon Musk’s role in it — something many are keen to do, given the spate of negative headlines about the company — you should start with a bit of automotive history from the 20th century. The guy who replaced him invented the idea of the modern corporation.

Transportation 8

Transportation Automotive Brand Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

The article castigated companies for losing sight of the essence of their business, setting themselves up for challenges from competitors and, ultimately, for obsolescence. And yet, more than 50 years later, companies have become worse, not better, at answering it correctly – far worse. No, it’s to maximize shareholder value.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Peter Drucker was writing about it nearly 50 years ago, and over the last decade it has come back in vogue. One of my weaker areas of leadership has always been finance. It's why I still take an occasional finance course. But if you really want to make a difference to your company, it's your strengths that will lead the way.

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Finance Class Drucker Report 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Dot-com companies weren’t worth anything close to what their expectations suggested in 1999-2000, nor probably as little as their adjusted expectations implied after the bust. Profit growth of a company may be expected to continue ad infinitum, or losses until bankruptcy. Economy Finance' Every bubble and crash reinforces this.

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Efficiency Marketing Real Estate Price 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Peter Drucker. These companies tend to be run by engineers and creatives, not MBAs. At least in Silicon Valley, management is becoming just another operating function, like payroll and finance and sales, all serving to facilitate the work of the technically and creatively skilled who do the heavy lifting.

Management 9

Management Drucker Creativity Finance 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

For instance, poor decisions by managers at a company will be of more concern if the company is one of a few or, even worse, a monopoly. This post is part of a series leading up to the 2014 Global Drucker Forum , taking place November 13-14 in Vienna, Austria. Economy Finance' See the rest of the series here.

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Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

For instance, poor decisions by managers at a company will be of more concern if the company is one of a few or, even worse, a monopoly. This post is part of a series leading up to the 2014 Global Drucker Forum , taking place November 13-14 in Vienna, Austria. Economy Finance' See the rest of the series here.

Management 8

Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

To modify the Peter Drucker quote, "Culture eats tools for breakfast" — if you don't understand the culture you're operating in, creating change will be an uphill battle. They must be supported by incentives, different processes, training, and often changes in how adjacent activities are carried out (as tools rarely sit in isolation).

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Metrics Education Software Tools 12

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Contrast this with the fact that CEOs of Fortune 500 companies read an average of four to five books a month. It includes books by Peter Drucker, Charles Handy, Charles Koch, Jack Welch, and Bob Sutton. Maybe it's the scale – they aren't the leaders of huge companies. 50+ employees tops.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 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. Thus, technological innovation in these sectors tends to be financed by the government and carried out within government or quasi-government laboratories.

Innovation 8

Innovation Drucker Policies Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

These misunderstandings have allowed the wrong narratives to drive policy making, with individual entrepreneurs and companies as the central characters of the story. 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.

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