Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

I emceed concerts with stars like Elvis Presley, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Little Richard, Kenny Rogers, The Beach Boys, Roy Orbison, Simon & Garfunkel, Nelson Riddle, Dionne Warwick and Andre Previn. From 1958-1982, I produced many entertainment documentaries for radio, comprising anthologies of pop music. About the Author.

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Strategic Planning Planning Ethics Learning-by-Doing 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

So, a decade ago, marketing professor Florian von Wangenheim ( now at the ETH Zurich technical university in Switzerland) and his then-student Markus Wübben ( now an executive at a tech incubator in Berlin) set out, in Wangenheim’s words, to “convince companies to use these models.”.

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Simon Retail Uncertainty Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

So, a decade ago, marketing professor Florian von Wangenheim ( now at the ETH Zurich technical university in Switzerland) and his then-student Markus Wübben ( now an executive at a tech incubator in Berlin) set out, in Wangenheim’s words, to “convince companies to use these models.”

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Simon Retail Uncertainty Apparel 8

Roundtable Talk

JULY 5, 2010

and Piers Morgan got compared to the acid tongued Simon Cowell. ← Fast Friday with Colleen Albiston, Head of Marketing & Communications, Tax for KPMG Global Public Mobile CEO learns: shoot your mouth off early, enjoy egg on your face later → Like Be the first to like this post. RoundtableTalk Where ambitious leaders meet.

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Ryan Career Blog Simon 34

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

It's a powerfully proven fact based on the study of the human brain, which Simon Sinek explains here. Traditional advertising and marketing leads with the what, such as, "We make desirable cars with great gas mileage." This isn't my opinion. Then it moves to the how, such as "We do this with great engineers and the best materials."

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Media Advertising Simon Engineering 22

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

It's a powerfully proven fact based on the study of the human brain, which Simon Sinek explains here. Traditional advertising and marketing leads with the what, such as, "We make desirable cars with great gas mileage." This isn't my opinion. Then it moves to the how, such as "We do this with great engineers and the best materials."

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Media Advertising Simon Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Eight years on, the world is tentatively emerging from a financial crisis that almost broke the global economy. Germany has shown the way, its “Mittelstand” encompassing numbers of world leaders or “hidden champions” in highly specialized fields, as Hermann Simon has described in his book of the same name.

Drucker 8

Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

In the 1900s, French mathematician-economist Leon Walras envisioned prices in a market economy being set by an auctioneer (since known as the “Walrasian auctioneer”) conducting continuous auctions for all kinds of commodities. Economists and market design. But that would be a mistake.

Strategy 10

Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2011

No, not World War II, but rather the introduction of the first mass market paperback. Although it had already been introduced in Germany and England, the format didn't appear in the US until Robert de Graaf partnered with Simon & Schuster to create the Pocket Books imprint. It wasn't long before the next crisis.

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Levitt Mass Marketing Simon eBook 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

As the second week of May began, Dimon realized, "The last thing I told the market — that it was a tempest in a teapot — was dead wrong," the Journal reports. housing market could collapse and trigger a global financial crisis. Finally, on April 30, Dimon demanded to see the specific trading positions.

Banking 9

Banking Kahneman Document Simon 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

He often pointed to Simon Bolivar, Venezuela's early visionary and leader (1783-1830), as the model for his political philosophy: Latin America must achieve a united independence from foreign powers. Related to its foreign exchange crisis of 2001, Argentina had borrowed substantially from the IMF and other international lenders.

Politics 8

Politics Price Simon Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

There is a danger that even after dealing with the crisis, managers will continue to give short shrift to their nonmarket and other fundamental corporate choices. Meanwhile, they often fail to think deeply about truly strategic questions, involving political risk, like: how should we supply foreign markets?

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Strategy Politics Short-term Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

Digital markets produce much lower profit per item,” Pakman lectures us. Beyond Stereotypes A Portrait of Europe's White Working Class Financial Times What happens when an entire population is, as the FT''s Simon Kuper reports, "hit by deindustrialisation, economic crisis and the crumbling of the welfare state"?

Industry 8

Industry Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Transportation 8