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How Merck Is Trying to Keep Disrupters at Bay

Harvard Business Review

Pharmaceutical companies, buffeted by regulatory changes, new drug technologies that alter entry barriers and competition, price pressures, and an estimated 300,000 job cuts since 2000, seem to fit the popular narrative of large organizations unable to deal with disruptive forces. Experimentation is vital.

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Customer Reference Programs at The Tipping Point

Harvard Business Review

Is your firm ready for this new age of peer-to-peer marketing? How long does it take our social media, PR or marketing people to find our customer advocates when they're needed to rebut a critique or attack, or talk to a media interviewer? Let's say you're preparing for a major product or service launch.

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Meet Your New R&D Team: Social Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

The 'iPods' of poverty alleviation and literacy have likely been invented and put to use by small organizations in some corner of the globe, but there is no market for identifying these breakthrough ideas and ensuring widespread adoption.". There are significant ethical issues with applying this model to HIV in the USA.

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Customer Reference Programs at The Tipping Point

Harvard Business Review

Is your firm ready for this new age of peer-to-peer marketing? How long does it take our social media, PR or marketing people to find our customer advocates when they're needed to rebut a critique or attack, or talk to a media interviewer? Let's say you're preparing for a major product or service launch.

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What If Google Had a Hedge Fund?

Harvard Business Review

The rising ability to identify, capture, and repurpose the data byproducts of an ongoing business is coming to rival the perceived "core competence" of the core business itself. Yes, this exercise will surface all manner of ethical — and possibly legal — conflicts and risks. BIG DATA INSIGHT CENTER.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

Core Business. Enron (like many other companies) got into areas beyond their core competencies. Enron did not demand enough accountability, fairness, ethics and operational autonomy from its outside auditor. Technology companies must now learn the lessons that steady-growth companies in other industries absorbed.