Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

Then I hit the treadmill for a minimum of 48 minutes where I listen to positive, inspirational podcasts and audiobooks. Michael Levitt, CEO of BreakfastLeadership.com. So I resigned from two volunteer positions and streamlined the meetings that were necessary at work. And I express gratitude aloud for the life I have.

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Succession Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 316

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2017

But as more data and more data providers flood the market, a competitive position based solely on data becomes impossible to defend. The late economist and marketing professor Theodore Levitt famously said “People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill, they want a quarter-inch hole.”

Health Care 9

Health Care Levitt Competitive Advantage Pharmaceuticals 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Elon Musk pointed to his systems-level ambitions in his presentation when he positioned Tesla Energy as “the missing piece” bridging electric cars and large-scale renewable power (and, specifically, the renewable power company he’s involved with outside Tesla — Solar City). The second has to do with scope.

Strategy 8

Strategy Levitt Energy System 8

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. That’s 1.5

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Levitt Bond Globalization Long-term 69

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2015

In the old days, IBM may have opted to leverage Watson’s unique potential on its own and used it to reinforce the company’s prevailing position in software and technology. In the classic HBR article “Marketing Myopia, ” Theodore Levitt asked a provocative question: “What business are you really in?”

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Levitt Real Estate Business Model Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2013

For us, this exchange was the culmination of a reflection that had started in the classroom and in client engagements, where we were finding an increasing disconnect between telling people about segmentation, targeting and positioning on the one hand, and about the increasing shift of control from brands to consumers, on the other.

Ramaswamy 8

Ramaswamy Levitt Prahalad Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

The field attracts the most students, enjoys the attention of policy-makers and journalists, and gains notice, both positive and negative, from other scientists.". "By almost any market test, economics is the premier social science," Stanford University economist Edward Lazear wrote just over a decade ago.

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Tversky Crisis Levitt Consensus 12

First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Harvard Business Review on Reinventing Your Marketing Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How to use innovative thinking to improve how you create or increase demand for what you offer Those who aspire to maximize the impact of their marketing initiatives will find the material in this HBR book invaluable. It is one of [.].

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Review Marketing Books Innovation 70

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

In fact, a negative relationship turned positive can be a very strong one. Rachel Levitt* had an ongoing conflict with her coworker, Pia*. Is it possible to start anew? What the Experts Say. The good news is that even some of the most strained relationships can be repaired. Case study#1: Find a common purpose.

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Levitt Price Class Case Study 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

The term was coined by the late Harvard Business School marketing professor, Theodore Levitt, in a 1960 article by the same name (republished in 2004). ” As Levitt used to tell his students, “People don’t want a quarter-inch drill. Levitt suggests that leaders ask themselves: What business are we really in?

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Levitt Marketing Transportation Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2011

In January 1980, Harvard's Ted Levitt wrote an article titled " Marketing Success Through Differentiation of Anything." Levitt argued that products were more complicated to consumers than most manufacturers considered. He pointed out that the basic product qualities (i.e., a phone needs to make a call) get a product to market.

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Levitt Succession Wireless Franchising 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Reading has a host of benefits for those who wish to occupy positions of leadership and develop into more relaxed, empathetic, and well-rounded people. It serves as a great introduction to other works by modern writers like Malcolm Gladwell and Steven Levitt, who translate theories from the social and physical sciences into everyday life.

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Books Cialdini Christensen Collins 22

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Reading has a host of benefits for those who wish to occupy positions of leadership and develop into more relaxed, empathetic, and well-rounded people. It serves as a great introduction to other works by modern writers like Malcolm Gladwell and Steven Levitt, who translate theories from the social and physical sciences into everyday life.

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Books Cialdini Christensen Collins 18