Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

Resources 52

Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

And of course, there's always the small fear that we are about to do something stupid, as in the early days of email, when your colleague actually managed to message "Philips is a complete tool" to everyone in the company. In a culture that flowers with an increasingly diverse variety, this is useful. So it's a double bind.

Marketing 14

Marketing Bottom-up Sharpe Follow-up 14

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

What is the number #1 characteristic of an employee/contract worker that hiring managers look for when hiring? What is the number #1 characteristic of an employee/contract worker that hiring managers look for when hiring? The #1 characteristic that I believe hiring managers seek in a candidate is flexibility. Initiative.

Career 74

Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2012

Win or lose, I'll Have Another's situation provides useful lessons about business and markets. Since 1950, only 3 of 21 have managed the feat, and none have done so since 1978. For a market to be efficient, where price is an unbiased estimate of value, investors must be cognitively diverse. That's about a 40% rate.

Beyer 14

Beyer Tversky Price Kahneman 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

It continues to live on in places as far-flung and diverse as Iran, Burma and Zimbabwe, just to name a few. The contrast is sharp and it is no accident. Otpor might have been a protest group, but it operated as if it was a startup company marketing a product. Successful movements do things that failed ones don’t.

Management 8

Management Bureaucracy Sharpe Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2012

In 2005, HP split off the printer business from the personal computer business, dissolved the Customer Solutions Group (CSG) which was a sales and marketing organization that cut across product categories, and pushed selling responsibilities down to the product business units. The merging of the two businesses is a reversal for HP.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Organization Sharpe 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2012

Win or lose, I'll Have Another's situation provides useful lessons about business and markets. Since 1950, only 3 of 21 have managed the feat, and none have done so since 1978. For a market to be efficient, where price is an unbiased estimate of value, investors must be cognitively diverse. That's about a 40% rate.

Beyer 10

Beyer Tversky Price Kahneman 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

And while two years of shrinking GDP growth , sanctions , and a volatile ruble have led some companies like GM to leave the market, there has not been a large-scale exodus of MNCs from Russia. For multinational firms, Russia’s attractiveness lies primarily in the size and sophistication of its market.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

In the decades since Deng Xiaoping instituted market reform, millions of women have profitably followed Deng's dictate that "to get rich is glorious." One manager in a multinational corporation explained why she decided against a low-paying academic career, despite scoring third in the nationwide university entrance exam for biology majors.

Survey 13

Survey Policies Globalization CFO 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

Off the Bell Curve Pay Attention to Your “Extreme Consumers” Working Knowledge Marketers worry too much about the average consumer and don’t spend enough time thinking about “extreme” customers — those quasi-maniacs who passionately love or hate a brand. Avery and Michael I. Norton of Harvard Business School. And long lines ?

Norton 8

Norton Brand Sharpe Storytelling 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 30, 2019

More often than not, enthusiastic entrepreneurs need to research the market and evaluate their options before being in a position to offer services that meet the audience expectations. In reality, building and maintaining your market presence is the most critical operation. Reason for failing: Ignoring the international competition.

Audience 58

Audience Open-book Entrepreneur Proposal 58

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

In both cases, senior managers had posed a seemingly simple question. Experimentation has a rich and storied history in product development and market research. And over the years, I''ve helped many others conduct simple and effective experiments in areas as diverse as customer onboarding to policy deployment.

Sample 8

Sample Information Technology Industry Sharpe 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

Diversity is the crucial element for group creativity. Innovation teams tasked with creating new products or technologies or iterating existing ones need tension to produce breakthroughs, and tension comes from diverse points of view. Everyone is just like us — say, marketers or engineers. How to get started?

Diversity 14

Diversity Creativity Team Groupthink 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

There are over two thousand consumer-focused subscription businesses capitalizing upon customers’ diverse tastes. Approximately 13% of subscription businesses tracked by the subscription-related website My Subscription Addiction have failed, and many more have seen sharp reversals of fortune. that aggregate sales in the U.S.

IPO 8

IPO How To Metrics Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2017

But I’ve found that managing an organization in which there are a range of passionately-held political views requires a proactive approach. But I’ve found that managing an organization in which there are a range of passionately-held political views requires a proactive approach.

Politics 9

Politics Sharpe Media Diversity 9