Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

From time to time, the basis of competition in an industry shifts so dramatically that shifting with it requires a new long-term vision that calls for the organization to do things it never would have done in the past. Consider the case of MedStar Health, the largest nongovernment health care provider in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C.,

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Why stock prices do what they do over the short term is an enduring mystery , and I’m not going to claim to solve it here. For example, if you sell a service that you’ll be delivering for the next twelve months, the costs and revenues are supposed to be parceled out over those twelve months, regardless of when the cash changes hands.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

On a scale of one to five, how important is having a good network to your ability to accomplish your goals? The questions represent a short version of the survey I use with my students. Sociologists use the term density to describe this property of networks: it quantifies the percentage of people who know each other in a network.

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