Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2020

Source: The Power of Simplicity by Jack Trout with Steve Rivkin. Insecure managers create complexity. Frightened, nervous managers use thick, convoluted planning books and busy slides filled with everything they’ve known since childhood. In reality, of course, it’s just the reverse.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

How Dell went from dorm room startup in 1984, to the world''s largest PC maker in 2005, and then saw its stock plummet precipitously the next year, is the subject of a lengthy Harvard Business School case study by HBS professor Jan Rivkin. That tech buyouts have worked in the past is, of course, no guarantee that it will work in Dell''s case.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

“Many of us who have wound up teaching strategy and doing research in strategy grew up learning game theory from Tirole’s textbook,” says Jan Rivkin, the chair of the strategy unit at HBS. As an example, Rivkin cites the notion of commitment, which Ghemawat wrote a book on.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

But these trends also had more negative consequences, as Jan Rivkin and Michael Porter have argued in their work as co-chairs of Harvard Business School’s U.S. Business has a key role to play in restoring America’s commons, but of course it can’t do so alone. Competitiveness Project. That needs to change.

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