Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel , a new film set in India and directed by Shakespeare in Love's John Madden (age 63), hangs its plot on the notion of "outsourcing" the elderly. Besides, it's cheaper for the superannuated set to move to India than retire in high-cost zones like the U.K. and the U.S.

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Outsourcing Film Hotels Open-book 11

Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers. In other cases, they never learned these fundamentals or mastered them earlier in their career.

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CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 57

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

EDENS, of which the latter is CEO, has led the revitalization of the 45-acre Union Market district in Northeast Washington, DC. The Union Market challenge. Located on the east side of the NoMa train tracks, Union Market began as a working food production and distribution center in the 1930s.

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Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

Initially, these innovations are adopted only by the least demanding industry consumers or those who couldn't afford to participate in existing markets (like the college students who use Reddit to find entertaining Youtube videos instead of paying for HBO). It's the perfect storm. It's that last comment that reminds me that I'm stuck.

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Rogers Telecommunications Disruptive Innovation Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

The look is always the same: A seasoned marketer is cajoled into watching their first Vine video. The marketer gazes quizzically at the smiling young person that brought the video to his attention. Vine was brought to my attention by Gary Vaynerchuk, the internet maven who himself started his career as a YouTube wine celebrity.

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Brand Video Marketing Tactics 8

Roundtable Talk

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Cocky young leaders who haven’t experienced a few career slap-downs but think losing their tempers at their teams is acceptable behaviour… take note. Studio’s throw marketing money at lousy films in an effort to recoup production costs in the same way leaders throw money at key people who are threatening to leave.

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Leadership Film Learning-by-Doing Brand 43

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. Nothing about free fall is easy.

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Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Eric Jacobson

APRIL 4, 2018

The CEO Next Door is the new book that offers career advice for everyone who aspires to rise in their organization and achieve their full potential. Those busted myths, described more fully later in this post, include: Over 70% of CEOs set their sights on the top job late in their careers. Only 7% graduated from a top university.

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CEO Books Succession Charisma 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

Ticket sales cover just a fraction of its production and administrative costs, with the balance coming from donations, grants and endowment. Madhav was in the MSx program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, a program for mid-career managers. ” Like almost every non-profit organization, SFO has limited resources.

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Audience Brainstorming Project Class 8