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A Partial Defense of Our Obsession with Short-Term Earnings

Harvard Business Review

HBS professor Rebecca Henderson , along with Hazhir Rahmandad of Virginia Tech and Nelson Repenning of MIT, set out to explore that apparent contradiction. I spoke with Professor Henderson about their research. Henderson: To answer that, I need to tell you about two different research interests. A little more, still fine.

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Designing the Machines That Will Design Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Within this machine, people and technology must each play their particular roles in an integrated fashion. As BCG’s founder, Bruce Henderson, once stated , “The first definition of a problem is inescapably intuitive. Amazon represents the state-of-the-art in deploying an integrated strategy machine.

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Exit, Voice, and Albert O. Hirschman

Harvard Business Review

A fashionable political science theory of the 1950s and 1960s held that, in a two-party system, vote-maximizing parties would inexorably move toward the political center. He was just making the point that while exit had been the main thing economists paid attention to — not to mention the culturally preferred option in the U.S.,