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The Big Picture of Business – Each Role Matters. The Value of Support Staff

Strategy Driven

Bandleaders on the late-night are vital #3 characters on the show, including Doc Severinsen, Skitch Henderson, Paul Shaffer and The Roots band. Therefore, our loyalty to the company rises, and we are more productive. Study and utilize marketing and business development techniques. John Wayne and Roy Rogers had Gabby Hayes.

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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. Do the firms do better?

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The Future Economy Project: Advice from Sustainability Experts

Harvard Business Review

The discussion with Michael Toffel and Rebecca Henderson of Harvard Business School, Tensie Whelan of NYU’s Stern School of Business, and Andrew Winston of Winston Eco-Strategies has been condensed and edited for clarity. Henderson : I’ve seen the same effect in my own work. HBR: Of the interviews, what jumped out at you?

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Unilever’s Big Strategic Bet on the Dollar Shave Club

Harvard Business Review

And it’s a telling tale about whether the consumer products industry can get a digital business model right. While Dollar Shave Club represents a growing share of the razorblades market, it is still tiny, it operates with low margins, is made up of an irreverent albeit engineering-savvy team – and is, as yet, unprofitable.

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Customer-Centric Org Charts Aren’t Right for Every Company

Harvard Business Review

He also emphasized in a 1999 book that “the wrong structure can doom all other market-driven initiatives in the organization to failure.” Each division focuses on one customer group — premium customers or young adults, for example — and, through research, designs products for that segment.

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Twelve Ways to Create Barriers to Competitors

Harvard Business Review

Becoming a moving target as Apple did by following the iPod with products like the nano, shuffle, and iTouch, and Gillette did with razors from the Trac II to the Fusion ProGlide. To paraphrase Bruce Henderson , the founder of BCG, "the essence of strategy is to convince competitors not to invest in areas of strategic importance to you."

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Designing the Machines That Will Design Strategy

Harvard Business Review

But although conventional due diligence for a deal involves deep market research and repeated rounds of interviews with founders and key customers, Correlation focuses on documentary information. As BCG’s founder, Bruce Henderson, once stated , “The first definition of a problem is inescapably intuitive.