Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2019

All of these factors can impact your new business’s bottom line, and you don’t want to enter into an unprofitable business from the start because you overlooked an important question or two in the preliminary stages. You want to ensure you’re coming out of the gate swinging in order for your new company to be a success.

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Stage-Gate Real Estate PR Brand 51

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Benjamin Graham , the father of value investing, seldom met the managers of the companies he invested in because he felt they would tell him only what they wished him to hear and because he didn’t want to be influenced by impressions of personality. So is there something different about the managers who do succeed?

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Stage-Gate Kaplan Competitive Advantage Intangible Assets 8

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

There is a big difference between “knowing that you can” and “deciding that you want to” and at Bettcher we use a toll gate product development process fashioned after Robert Cooper’s StageGate process. So into the “Scoping” stage we go and the learning begins.

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Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2012

Second, they take a few basic ingredients — brand, marketing, technology, and service — and combine them in just the right ways over the course of five stages. In each stage, they ask themselves what gaps need to be filled. Stage 1: Is there a recognition gap? Stage 2: Is there a brand-personalization gap?

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Stage-Gate Airlines Brand Loyalty 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

That was the answer from a recent Harvard Business School MBA graduate when asked why he decided to participate in the School's Leadership Fellows program — a one-year management fellowship in nonprofit and public-sector organizations. So what does it take to attract these students to pursue careers with a focus on social impact?

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Stage-Gate Career Entrepreneur Short-term 8

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

What I do in that time sets the stage for the day I will have. No one wants to work harder for a complacent or mediocre manager, however, every employee wants to be led by an enthusiastic leader that helps them become more passionate about their work. Your leadership is like a bank account. Dan Miller of 48 Days. Then, hang out!

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Succession Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 316

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

The first stage is when it does what was being done before but better. We manage this transition very carefully. Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft. Bill Gates. Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Founder Grameen Bank. It's hard to know when it will happen but at some point this will be transformative.

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Education Stage-Gate Insurance Class 11