Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

In a marketplace gone global, productive partnerships are more crucial than ever. Getting executives into a room and hammering out a contract doesn''t make a deal. This means priming the pump through joint sales calls and other marketing efforts. Every partnership is like moving a stubborn mule. Think Small.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Uber’s global assault on the taxi industry is well known. Village matchmakers started making their living organizing marriage markets millennia ago. Microsoft Windows, for example, has been the dominant platform for users, developers, and hardware makers for more than 25 years. Platforms are all the rage these days.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2012

I also argued that capital markets regulators are much more lackadaisical about protecting the game that has been entrusted to them — and they should learn a lesson from the NFL before their game is irreparably damaged. NFL fans collectively gasped when the hammer came down. How about Commissioner Goodell on 'bounty-gate'?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

Chafkin relies on the nifty narrative technique of inverting eight entrepreneurship rules ("Think locally and globally – all at once," for example) to explain what went so terribly wrong. In this lengthy investigation of the company, writer Max Chafkin says founder Shai Agassi "made great Kool-Aid and then drank it all himself."

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2011

An executive in the company's finance operations adopted a Six Sigma belt-driven approach to reduce costs in the company's global shared service centers. For example, GE runs process improvement projects with Six Sigma Master Black Belts, Black Belts, and Green Belts armed with explicit financial targets.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Likewise, no matter how slick your company’s online idea market, it won’t yield many high-value ideas if your associates haven’t been taught to think like innovators. In our experience, it can take several months for a company to hammer out its defini­tion of innovation. This definition may seem somewhat generic.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

For example, China is the largest producer and exporter of steel and the largest source of excess steelmaking capacity. EU, and Japan are also tackling steps inside and outside the WTO to combat forced technology transfers both in China’s domestic market and, through mergers and acquisitions, abroad. Although the U.S.,

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