N2Growth Blog
APRIL 29, 2021
Global connectedness is blurring borders and time zones. When put to work, new technologies create many positive ripple effects on the global market, spawning some of today’s most exciting new businesses, even creating whole new industries and movements around them. Innovation is doing new things.” – Theodore Levitt.
First Friday Book Synopsis
MARCH 4, 2011
The Marketing Imagination (Expanded Edition) Theodore Levitt Free Press (1986) Do not be misled by the date of this Expanded Edition: Of the more than 27 gazillion books on marketing now in print, none has had a greater impact than has this one. It is truly a masterpiece. By way of background, in 1960 (in [.].
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The Practical Leader
MARCH 25, 2020
When Nobel Laureate, Michael Levitt, first analyzed Chinese infection rates, he tracked an increase of 30% per day in Hubei province. Global banks are much stronger and less leveraged than in 2008. Over 96% are now closed/recovered cases, with 66% of currently infected patients in mild condition.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 28, 2010
Levitt and Dubner, they of Freakonomics, offer a slightly more sophomoric example when they point out that the "average" adult in a global sample has one breast and one testicle. Wouldn't it make sense to manufacture a lukewarm tea that everyone is guaranteed to like? Problem, of course, is that it doesn't make any sense to do so.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 26, 2014
Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner note that most street-level drug dealers earn modest wages at best — they may neglect their schoolwork, and some take straight jobs in addition to make ends meet. In this way, the industry parallels drug dealing. Hear me out. Twitter has 2,700 employees; Dropbox has 550; Snapchat has 21.
HR Digest
APRIL 3, 2021
There are concerns among investors about the recovery “It seems to be the recovery [is] happening much more quickly than people thought could possibly move the Fed into a position where they may have to do something sooner rather than later,” Tom di Galoma, a managing director with Seaport Global Holdings, said. percent from near zero.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 18, 2015
As Ted Levitt pointed out 55 years ago, companies develop significant myopia over time, only seeing things that are squarely in the mainstream of their market. Christensen and two co-authors revisit where disruption theory stands today in a new HBR article, “What Is Disruptive Innovation?”
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