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Artisans Must Balance the Books

Harvard Business Review

The Conversation Blogs The Conversation Artisans Must Balance the Books 8:12 AM Tuesday November 23, 2010 by Ndubuisi Ekekwe | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print The boy was 11 years old when his father took him to live with a kinsman, a businessman with many shops in Lagos, Nigeria.

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Google Changes the Playing Field on News

Harvard Business Review

In a blog post , Eric Weigle and Abe Epton described Googles new approach to giving "credit where credit is due." Thus, the whole mechanism depends on the development of a norm of cooperation among publishers, just as similar norms have developed in academia. That may happen, it may not, or it may not become widespread.

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The Right CEO Personality for Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

For example, marketing optimizes its activities for its own benefit and the sales and customer service functions do likewise. The end-to-end process of customer acquisition and retention — getting rid of duplicate activities and information across marketing, sales and customer service — isnt touched.

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The Next Frontier of Judgment - Across Enterprises

Harvard Business Review

Over the next few months, well each be authoring posts in this blog to test-drive ideas and invite input as the research progresses.) Now consider the joint judgment involved in a process of co-creation , whereby companies collaborate with customers or other partners to bring new offerings to market.

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The Buzz on Green Business in China

Harvard Business Review

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. The Alert delivers the latest blog posts from HBR.org directly to your inbox every morning at 8:00 AM ET. He advises some of the world’s biggest companies on environmental strategy. Follow him on Twitter at @GreenAdvantage.

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Why the TSA Screening Revolt is Like Poison Ivy

Harvard Business Review

Can we harness the information age to develop some sort of calamine lotion to soothe our hysteria in the face of uncertainty? The Alert delivers the latest blog posts from HBR.org directly to your inbox every morning at 8:00 AM ET.