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To Understand the Future of Tesla, Look to the History of GM

Harvard Business Review

Peter Drucker wrote that Sloan was “the first to work out how to systematically organize a big company. Sloan kept the corporate staff small and focused on policy making, corporate finance, and planning. Sloan’s book My Years with General Motors , written half a century ago, is still a readable business classic.

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Be a Minimally Invasive Manager

Harvard Business Review

Peter Drucker. These companies tend to be run by engineers and creatives, not MBAs. At least in Silicon Valley, management is becoming just another operating function, like payroll and finance and sales, all serving to facilitate the work of the technically and creatively skilled who do the heavy lifting.

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Pricing Strategy: Pricking the Veil of Value Exchange

Strategy Driven

The book draws the best thinking from numerous disciplines, including marketing, economics, and finance, to deliver a comprehensive presentation that comes alive through numerous case studies, memorable examples, and graphs. Pricing is a strategic challenge, not an engineering challenge.

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How China’s Government Helps — and Hinders — Innovation

Harvard Business Review

The number of PhDs in science and engineering graduating each year has grown dramatically and is now just behind that of the United States. Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 8th Global Drucker Forum.