and progress. Diversity as Strategy COPYRIGHT © 2004 HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING CORPORATION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. by David A. Thomas When most of us think of Lou Gerstner and the turnaround of IBM‚ we see a great business story. A less-told but integral part of that success is a people story—one that has dramatically altered the composition of an already diverse corporation and created millions of dollars in new business. By the time Gerstner took the helm in 1993‚ IBM already
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Tripled Its Innovation Success Rate Inside the company’s new-growth factory by Bruce Brown and Scott D. Anthony 64 Harvard Business Review June 2011 HBR.ORG Bruce Brown is the chief technology officer of Procter & Gamble. Scott D. Anthony is the managing director of Innosight. June 2011 Harvard Business Review 65 B SPOTLIGHT ON PRODUCT INNOVATION 66 Harvard Business Review June 2011 BACK IN 2000 the prospects for Procter & Gamble’s Tide‚ the biggest brand in the company’s fabric
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LARRY E. GREINER ELIZABETH COLLINS A Day in the Life of Alex Sander: Driving in the Fast Lane at Landon Care Products 5:25 A.M. Sweat dripped onto the handlebars of Alex Sander’s StairMaster. Sander was half an hour into a cardiovascular workout‚ while carrying on a conversation in the fitness center of the downtown condominium complex with a neighbor who was climbing steadily on his own StairMaster. At 32‚ Alex was the newest‚ and youngest‚ product manager in the Toiletries Division of Landon
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STRATEGY & COMPETITION M Honing & ACCOUNTING MARKETING MARKETING ORGANIZATION & CULTURE MANAGING TECHNOLOGY FINANC FINANCEYour Competitive Edge Employee Motivation A Powerful New Model by Nitin Nohria‚ Boris Groysberg‚ and Linda-Eling Lee 78 Harvard Business Review G | GETTING PEOPLE TO DO THEIR BEST WORK‚ even in trying cir- cumstances‚ is one of managers’ most enduring and slippery challenges. Indeed‚ deciphering what motivates us as human beings is a centuries-old puzzle. Some of history’s
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1. How accurate was the demand forecast for the first quarter of 2005? First‚ is wise to make a comparison in the individual level‚ between the forecasts made for the year 2004 and the real demand. The Forecast overestimates the real demand in every single product. As it is shown in the tables above the average difference percentage in the individual level is higher that the difference percentage in the aggregate level. What is the current demand forecasting method
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implemented strategically. The defender typology will focus on improving the efficiency of Dollar Tree’s existing operations. Analyzers keep a watchful eye on their competitors for new ideas and often implement those ideas into their marketing strategy and business development plans. Reactors respond on an as-needed basis‚ they monitor the situation and respond accordingly.Reference:Gimenez‚ F. P. (2000). The Benefits of a Coherent Strategy for Innovation and Corporate Change: A Study Applying Miles and Snow’s
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a huge amount of executives’ time‚ forcing them into endless rounds of dull meetings and tense negotiations. It encourages managers to lie and cheat‚ lowballing targets and inflating results‚ and it penalizes them for telling the truth. It turns business decisions into elaborate exercises in gaming. It sets colleague against colleague‚ creating distrust and ill will. And it distorts incentives‚ motivating people to act in ways that run counter to the best interests of their companies. Consider just
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INSIDE EMPLOYEES’ MINDS…page 72 www.hbr.org WHO’S A GENIUS?…page 121 May 2007 62 Surviving Your New CEO Kevin P. Coyne and Edward J. Coyne‚ Sr. 72 Inner Work Life: Understanding the Subtext of Business Performance Teresa M. Amabile and Steven J. Kramer 84 Strategies to Crack Well-Guarded Markets David J. Bryce and Jeffrey H. Dyer 96 Customer Focus 98 Silo Busting: How to Execute on the Promise of Customer Focus Ranjay Gulati 110 Even Commodities Have Customers François M. Jacques 22
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In assessing the ethical issues surrounding the Goldman Sachs Abacus controversy‚ there are several factors that must be taken into consideration. Despite John Paulson playing a limited role in the ultimate construction of the CDO by having a hand in the asset composition selection process‚ as well as Goldman’s lack of disclosure in excess of the law‚ it is important to recognize that the counterparties to the CDSs were sophisticated investors. As sophisticated investors‚ making large speculative
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BUSA 4980 • Strategic Management • Fall 2013 Assignment – Blood Bananas: Chiquita in Colombia Access: Students have to purchase a copy of the case from Harvard Business School Publishing. Please follow the link below to access the case study‚ which will cost $3.95. https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/access/22949615 Description: Chiquita Brands International and its leaders learned a very hard lesson about paying off terrorist groups to protect their employees. Over the past 25 years‚ no place
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