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What Your Stock Price Is Really Means

Harvard Business Review

Alfred Rappaport's article, " Stock Market Signals to Managers ," in the November-December 1987 issue of the Harvard Business Review, provides managers with a clear method for understanding how price reflects the market's expectations about the company's future financial performance.

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Can Hewlett Packard Make its Own Luck?

Harvard Business Review

He blamed the Japan earthquake, the anemic PC market, and a troubled services organization. While HP was once the technology leader that could do no wrong, market watchers are now concerned that the company does not have a clear strategy to overcome its problems. The technology market is the epitome of creative destruction.

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Why Are Some Whistleblowers Vilified and Others Celebrated?

Harvard Business Review

To answer that question Ned Wellman of Arizona State University, Maddy Ong and Scott DeRue of the University of Michigan, and I conducted three studies to examine whether the whistleblower’s level of legitimate power (i.e., whether that person is a formal leader or a peer) influences how others respond to his or her actions.

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Your Team Doesn’t Need a Data Scientist for Simple Analytics

Harvard Business Review

Arthur Nielsen, market research pioneer and founder of the Nielsen Corporation, once said , “The price of light is less than the cost of darkness.” To cope with the shortfall in market supply, companies need to better leverage their existing talent. Data analytics is a powerful and promising source of competitive advantage.

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Companies Collect Competitive Intelligence, but Don’t Use It

Harvard Business Review

This “island mentality” is surprisingly prevalent among talented, seasoned managers. The paradox is that companies spend millions acquiring competitive or market “intelligence” from armies of vendors and deploy the latest technology disseminating the information internally.

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Speeding Up the Digitization of American Health Care

Harvard Business Review

These and many other feats of information management will soon be routine in the United States. Thus, investing in costly and complicated information systems imposes expenses on doctors and hospitals that they cannot recoup through the normal forces of competition. If health care markets functioned well in the U.S,

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Avoiding the Schizophrenic IT Organization

Harvard Business Review

A pharmaceuticals company we''ve been studying decided to deploy more than 20,000 iPads and other mobile devices to the global sales force to improve its engagement with doctors in emerging and developed markets. The Real Power of Enterprise Social Media Platforms. IT management Information & technology' the IT function).