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Strategic Choices Need to Be Made Simultaneously, Not Sequentially

Harvard Business Review

And Capabilities and Management Systems act as a reality check on the Where to Play and How to Win choice. If you can’t identify a set of Capabilities and Management Systems that you currently have, or can reasonably build, to make the Where to Play and How to Win choice come to fruition, it is a fantasy, not a strategy.

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Why Family Businesses Come Roaring out of Recessions

Harvard Business Review

Some studies (see here or here ) have shown that during periods of economic growth, family-managed companies in the US actually perform better than professionally managed businesses. However, a rising tide lifts all boats; it’s the ebbing tide that reveals the truth. during the non-recession years to 1.9% during the recessions.

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What U.S. E-Commerce Can Learn from Its Global Copycats

Harvard Business Review

We were unable to capitalize on first mover advantage. But first mover advantage is a simplistic tenet of global strategy. It offers COD payments, a difficult to manage payment method, and built its O-Courier delivery platform which Ozon believes is a key differentiator.

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Five Myths of a CEO's First 100 Days

Harvard Business Review

An incoming CEO of an entertainment company, eager to secure first-mover advantage, instituted an ambitious growth strategy and set specific targets for managers. FACT : Before defining standards and evaluation criteria for others, new CEOs should first establish and communicate how they themselves will be evaluated.

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A Survey of 3,000 Executives Reveals How Businesses Succeed with AI

Harvard Business Review

Long-term: Work with academia or a third party to solve a high-impact use case (augmented human decision making in a key knowledge worker role, for example) with bleeding-edge AI technology to potentially capture a sizable first-mover advantage. Machine learning is a powerful tool, but it’s not right for everything.

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How Netflix Expanded to 190 Countries in 7 Years

Harvard Business Review

In France and India, for example, homegrown leaders offer local-language video content, thus depriving Netflix of first-mover advantage. and Netflix has managed to make inroads into even those markets where Prime arrived first. Yet the majority of Prime subscribers are in the U.S.,

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How Netflix Expanded to 190 Countries in 8 Years

Harvard Business Review

In France and India, for example, homegrown leaders offer local-language video content, thus depriving Netflix of first-mover advantage. and Netflix has managed to make inroads into even those markets where Prime arrived first. Yet the majority of Prime subscribers are in the U.S.,