Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

But what many economists generally gloss over is a notion that I will argue is highly complementary to market failures: management failures. Businesses and management experts, in contrast, tend take the opposite position. This is a reminder that serious students of market performance take market failures seriously.

Management 8

Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 9, 2016

He is a CEO coach, consultant, keynote speaker, and chief launch officer for today’s critical cross-generational issues, bridging the gap between managers and their millennial workforce to increase employee engagement, productivity and profits.

Consultative 70

Consultative Creativity CEO Productivity 70

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

Lewis himself echoes many people’s impression of how Peter Drucker defined the term — “assumptions about what a company gets paid for” — which is part of Drucker’s “theory of the business.” A good business model answers Peter Drucker’s age-old questions, ‘Who is the customer?

Business Model 8

Business Model Drucker Christensen P&L 8

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 20, 2012

One of her recent assignments has been working with owner managers in the School’s flagship Owner/President Management program, an experience that changed her view [.].

Strategy 75

Strategy Management Competitive Advantage Porter 75

First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Jacobs is founder and managing partner of 180 Partners, and the author of Management Rewired: Why Feedback Doesn’t Work and Other Surprising Lessons from the Latest Brain Science. For over two decades, he has helped the leadership of corporations around the world improve the performance of their businesses.

Management 75

Management Leadership Porter Efficiency 75

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

Peter Drucker famously said that the point of a business was to create a customer. Thought leaders like Christensen, Roger Martin , Michael Porter , and Steve Denning have all argued that shareholder value has been exposed as a flawed paradigm. When these are in sync with the creation of customer value, beautiful things will happen.

Levitt 11

Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Creating and Capitalizing on the Best New Management Thinking. Part of our initial response was to rank management gurus according to the measurable influence of their ideas; we were the first researchers to use scholarly methods to do so. For example, a British study showed the precise ways in which management gurus in the 1980s U.K.

Prahalad 15

Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

As a result, according to HBS’s Michael Porter, Singapore developed a highly efficient civil service elite that has been able to dynamically shift policies and priorities over time. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 7th Global Drucker Forum , taking place November 5-6, 2015 in Vienna.

GDP 8

GDP Porter Education Globalization 8

First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 14, 2016

Alan Weiss is one of those rare people who can say he is a consultant, speaker, and author and mean it. His consulting firm, Summit Consulting Group, Inc.,

Succession 79

Succession Consultative How To Porter 79

First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 24, 2016

David Evans and Dick Schmalensee are among the early pioneers in the research of “multi-sided markets” and the economic principles that inform the unique design of business models, pricing and incentive structures, and product design for these platform-based businesses. David is an economist, business adviser, and entrepreneur.

Incentives 70

Incentives Business Model Entrepreneur Price 70

First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Rumelt received his doctorate from the Harvard Business School in 1972, having previously earned a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley. He worked as a systems engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratories and served on the faculty of the Harvard Business School. He joined the UCLA faculty in 1976.

Engineering 75

Engineering Long-term System Teece 75

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Paul Leinwand is a Partner at Booz & Company based in the firm’s Chicago office. He advises organizations on the topic of strategy, growth, and capability building, with a focus on the consumer product and retail sectors. He also serves as chair of the firm’s Knowledge and Marketing Advisory Council. Paul has coauthored a number [.].

Retail 75

Retail Strategy Marketing Company 75