Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This new (and alarming) data comes from pricing consulting giant Simon-Kucher & Partners, which conducts its survey every other year with the Professional Pricing Society, a professional association. HBR: Is new products’ high rate of failure really a pricing problem, or does it reflect a more fundamental innovation problem?

Price 9

Price Productivity Products Simon 9

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

I developed the concept of integrating Pop Culture Wisdom with management training and business planning over the last 40 years. 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.

Strategic Planning 51

Strategic Planning Planning Ethics Learning-by-Doing 51

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

This scandal isn't about price-fixing. The most basic function of a financial system is to price money. Who's who — master and servant, mechanism and operator, principal and agent, sovereign and serf? Simon Johnson and numerous others have proposed banks be broken, split, limited. It's not about a bank.

Price 13

Price Short-term Proposal System 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Developments in the Middle East — first the removal of long-time Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011 and now Hosni Mubarak's stepping down in Egypt — suggest that authoritarian regimes in the region are not immune to "people power."

Strategy 13

Strategy Politics Short-term Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Disruption to supply chains will mean reduced output and shortages will send prices soaring. Now, let's assume that Egypt's political instability will be short-lived so that, after a one-time impact to the current year's profits, operations will resume on a steady new path.

NPV 12

NPV Short-term Discount Politics 12