Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Getting executives into a room and hammering out a contract doesn''t make a deal. Not only will we uncover potential hitches but managing the critical buzz is much easier. The vendor with the best sunglasses at the lowest price didn''t get the lucrative partnership. There is no substitute for grass roots research.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2018

So what can a manager do to ensure that people on their team or in their department treat each other well? First, managers need to set expectations. ” Managers at Marriott know that small daily acts affect how employees interact with others and that civility spreads in networks. How Self-Managed Teams Can Resolve Conflict.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2015

Concerned about the company’s lack of focus, Wall Street hammered the Starbucks stock, resulting in a drop in share price of 28% in one day – a $2 billion loss in the company’s market capitalization. Google is wise to learn from these two brand histories.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

Looking at LVMH’s efforts, I’ll highlight three areas where I see great impact and innovation: managing carbon and energy, building a connection with customers around brand purpose, and working closely with suppliers. Managing Carbon and Energy. I’ll then discuss some of LVMH’s challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

It’s not implausible to imagine that one day a “strategist in a box” could autonomously develop and execute a business strategy. Remember Long-Term Capital Management ? If all you have is a hammer, then everything will look like a nail. It must be embedded in what we call the integrated strategy machine.

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Strategy Supply Chain Technology Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

The prizes were awarded “for their empirical analysis of asset prices,” but what the three had been doing looked from the outside less like a common endeavor than a not-all-that-coherent argument. Campbell’s work has also made liberal use of the analytic tools developed by Hansen. Still, Campbell is a great explainer.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2017

As a mathematical model developed by Yale psychologists Adam Bear and David Rand shows , people who are typically surrounded by jerks learn intuitively to be selfish and to not deliberate over their actions. You will garner more support and empower employees to hold one another accountable for civil behavior by involving them in the process.

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