Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

The book is divided into two parts – text and cases – to provide professors with maximum flexibility in organizing their courses. As the late business guru Peter Drucker said: The sole purpose of business is to serve customers. The thirty-five cases can be used in conjunction with the text, or independently. magazine.

Learning-by-Doing 62

Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

We hear similar ideas in Peter Drucker’s bestseller, The Age of Discontinuity , where he argues that all sectors of society are “affected with the public interest” but must operate in symbiosis, like an orchestra—each playing its own part in collaboration with other institutions.

Company 10

Company Decentralization Long-term Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Peter Drucker was writing about it nearly 50 years ago, and over the last decade it has come back in vogue. One of my weaker areas of leadership has always been finance. It's why I still take an occasional finance course. The importance of strengths is hardly a new idea. Working on weaknesses is a drag.

Finance 14

Finance Class Drucker Report 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Peter Drucker. At least in Silicon Valley, management is becoming just another operating function, like payroll and finance and sales, all serving to facilitate the work of the technically and creatively skilled who do the heavy lifting. And nobody is more important in an organization than the people doing the work.

Management 9

Management Drucker Creativity Finance 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

Peter Drucker famously said that the point of a business was to create a customer. Embrace your organization’s humanity. Make 2014 the year you begin to move your organization from the mindless management of numbers to the creation of customer and employee value, organized around a clarifying and motivating purpose.

Levitt 11

Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

He studied the relative importance of management teams in 106 venture capital-financed firms from early business plan to IPO. This finding is a ringing modern confirmation of what Peter Drucker was telling us in 1967 about what makes executives effective.

Stage-Gate 8

Stage-Gate Kaplan Competitive Advantage Intangible Assets 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

Peter Drucker wrote that Sloan was “the first to work out how to systematically organize a big company. Sloan kept the corporate staff small and focused on policy making, corporate finance, and planning. Sloan’s book My Years with General Motors , written half a century ago, is still a readable business classic.

Transportation 8

Transportation Automotive Brand Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

But whatever happens with investigation, there are a couple of lessons we can all take away if we are trying to create behavior change in our own organizations. To modify the Peter Drucker quote, "Culture eats tools for breakfast" — if you don't understand the culture you're operating in, creating change will be an uphill battle.

Metrics 12

Metrics Education Software Tools 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Most are organized as public companies with stock prices that are jerked around by the volatility aficionados. This post is part of a series leading up to the annual Global Drucker Forum , taking place November 13-14 2014 in Vienna, Austria. Economy Finance' Read the rest of the series here.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Marketing Real Estate Price 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

The section on the profit maximization hypothesis at the end of the introductory chapter of his classic 1988 textbook on industrial organization concludes by saying that even if a firm doesn’t maximize profits, it can be treated, for the purposes of many of its interactions with the outside world, as if it does. Economy Finance'

Management 8

Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

The section on the profit maximization hypothesis at the end of the introductory chapter of his classic 1988 textbook on industrial organization concludes by saying that even if a firm doesn’t maximize profits, it can be treated, for the purposes of many of its interactions with the outside world, as if it does. Economy Finance'

Management 8

Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

How can you possibly be expected to grow an organization if you’re not growing yourself? If you are anything less then you are not only cheating yourself, but you’re also cheating your organization. It includes books by Peter Drucker, Charles Handy, Charles Koch, Jack Welch, and Bob Sutton.

Blog 419

Blog Open-book Library Learning-by-Doing 419

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 8th Global Drucker Forum. In Silicon Valley, what was critical was the decentralized network of intelligent public organizations that facilitated feedback loops throughout the whole innovation chain.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Cost-Benefit Analysis Policies Drucker 8