Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Digital-first companies, such as Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Twitter, are amassing market share and capitalization, but only a few brick-and-mortar corporations (think Apple, Nissan, and HCL Technologies) have been able to change fast enough to catch up with their rivals. The Leadership Trap.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Attrition Uncertainty Bottom-up 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

It focuses on the major management challenges that successful start-ups encounter when leaders decide to grow and scale their businesses. Customers don’t expect to get bottom-of-the-barrel prices everywhere they go, but they do expect to be treated with respect. Recently I ordered some shoes from Zappos that ended up not fitting.

Learning-by-Doing 62

Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 7th Global Drucker Forum. It works if you are Goldman Sachs, AT&T, or Pfizer but it makes no sense if you are network or market-based company like Airbnb, Lyft, or Etsy.

Drucker 8

Drucker Hotels Decentralization Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

All this excitement about the unicorns is understandable — up to a point. The explosive growth of ride sharing is a big reason why Hertz reported dismal quarterly results in November 2016, leading to a 23% drop in its market value. based unicorns accounted for 56% of the total, with a combined market value of $353 billion.

Innovation 8

Innovation Bureaucracy IPO Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

If you read what Peter Drucker had to say about competition back in the late ’50s and early ‘60s, he really only talked about one thing: competition on price. But that just shrinks the pie as, in the rush to the bottom, profitability declines for the entire industry. A tour de force by any measure, “What Is Strategy?”

Strategy 8

Strategy Porter Blue Ocean Strategy Luehrman 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

Capital markets, as a whole, are also moving in this direction. In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. In turn, this will foster better social outcomes and create new markets and consumer segments. This initiative will soon connect all 1.3

Company 8

Company Decentralization Long-term Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

billion in the bottom half of the scale, and that 70 percent of the world’s people live in countries where income inequality has increased in the past 30 years. Peter Drucker wrote : “One is responsible for one’s impacts, whether they are intended or not. How should business respond to the growing prominence of this issue? Take Action.

Golden Parachute 8

Golden Parachute Apparel Trends Short-term 8