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0616 | Donald Sull & Kathleen Eisenhardt

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Donald Sull is a global expert on strategy and execution in turbulent markets. Ascherman Professor of Strategy at Stanford, a highly cited author, and the co-director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. He is a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Kathleen Eisenhardt is the S.

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Simple Rules for a Complex World

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Donald Sull and Kathleen M. Eisenhardt for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here.

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How and Why Market Anomalies and Incongruities Can Reveal 10 Clues to Business Opportunity

First Friday Book Synopsis

In it, Donald Sull shares his insights concerning how and why market anomalies and incongruities may point the way to the next breakthrough strategy, thence to a wealth of business opportunities. Here is an excerpt from another outstanding article that appears in strategy+business magazine, published by Booz & Company.

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How to Solve Complex Problems Fast

Skip Prichard

Don’t tell people that the answer lies in insourcing or outsourcing or technology or big data or acquisitions or divestitures… Let them conclude for themselves what the answers are, having explored your broad question, from the universe of possibilities you open to them. Don’t treat your stated strategy as a given if it’s not.

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John Donovan (AT&T) in “The Corner Office”

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here are a few insights provided during an interview of John Donovan, the chief technology officer at AT&T since 2008, who learned a lot about the subtleties of team-building earlier [.].

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Business Competition Has Not Gotten Fiercer

Harvard Business Review

Puzzling anecdotes abound: Microsoft has missed out on a series of new products in the past decade, yet as Don Sull points out , it continues to be highly profitable. We are living in a time of amazing technologies, but that’s arguably been true of every period since the industrial revolution.

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Is It Better to Be Strategic or Opportunistic?

Harvard Business Review

I spoke with contributor Don Sull , who teaches strategy at MIT and the London Business School, about the tension between scholars who put sustainable competitive advantage at the center of strategy and those who argue that some industries are changing too quickly to allow for sustained performance. Empirically, this is simply not true.

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