Professor Michael E. Porter Harvard Business School COMPETITIVE STRATEGY AND REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT REMARKS TO THE 1989 HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL REAL ESTATE SYMPOSIUM1 The real estate industry is an industry in which many of you will have to make some choices about how you will compete in the future. Past modes of behavior probably will not carry you through the next decade. The questions are how do you think about the question of strategy for your business and how do you do that in a constructive
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Reading List for Technology and Innovation Strategy: 463 - Management and Strategy‚ Kellogg School of Management Professor Shane Greenstein Students will be held accountable for all required readings. These must be read ahead of class discussion. Related readings are relevant background. These are included for the interested student. I highly recommend them for a fuller perspective on the topic. Topic 1: Basic Frameworks and Toolkits Topic 1a. Adoption and Evolution Required reading:
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Riofrir‚ R. 2013. “The used of information technology in office system and in business.” A Library Research Paper‚ WIT. Information Technology (IT) is the application of computers and telecommunications equipment to store‚ retrieve‚ transmit and manipulate data. Nowadays it had been proven that almost of the business industry are using IT especially in big business. In dealing business and office system‚ using IT is very convenient‚ it’s because it can carry out transactions‚ provide information
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and Four members of Harvard Business School’s research on what strategies to communicate with young people on curtail drug use among Boston’s school-going population. Drug products reached the Boston market around 1985&1986 and Mayor Flynn make curtailing drug abuse a top priority. They had limited the scope of the study and use a methodology within their budget of $20‚000 and with appropriate research questions for study. Based on the findings‚ all Harvard business school students agreed to use
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New case study at Harvard Business School: gender equity Boston: When the members of the Harvard Business School class of 2013 gathered in May to celebrate the end of their studies‚ there was little visible evidence of the experiment they had undergone for the last two years. As they stood amid the brick buildings named after businessmen from Morgan to Bloomberg‚ the 905 graduates were united into one genderless mass. But during that week’s festivities‚ the Class Day speaker‚ a standout female
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R0605X A larger-than-life CEO left Innostat with larger-than-life problems. The new boss knows the company needs fundamental change‚ but the image of her predecessor hovers. HBR CASE STUDY Big Shoes to Fill COPYRIGHT © 2006 HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING CORPORATION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. by Michael Beer The memorial service was a sellout. Jack Donally had been a colossal figure who commanded a lot of respect‚ if not affection. He’ll be a hard act to follow‚ Stephanie Fortas
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priorities—financial and otherwise—in advance of that meeting. What was best for Sugar Bowl wasn’t necessarily best for Givens. Or was it? Background After graduating from business school in 2009‚ Givens returned to her native Raleigh‚ NC to implement a turnaround of Westlake Lanes. The ailing seventies-style bowling business was started by her deceased grandfather‚ Dane Sugar‚ in an old mill in downtown Raleigh. Guided by an entrepreneurial spirit and interest in general management‚ Givens tightened
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executives use analogies to make strategic choices. The best strategists know both the power and peril of such comparisons. How Strategists Really Think Tapping the Power of Analogy by Giovanni Gavetti and Jan W. Rivkin COPYRIGHT © 2005 HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING CORPORATION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Strategy is about choice. The heart of a company’s strategy is what it chooses to do and not do. The quality of the thinking that goes into such choices is a key driver of the quality and success
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to create and market a piece of software designed to help people better understand music and create it‚ began with a small group. This group was soon supplemented by others‚ including Henry Tam and his team‚ who were attempting to win a Harvard Business School contest based on their work with MGI. The 5 Whys Ultimately‚ this project was a failure. The reasons for this failure are difficult to define‚ primarily because of the complex interactions of the various individuals over time. One way to
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more to gain by developing your gifts and leveraging your natural skills than by trying to repair your weaknesses. Here is a systematic way to discover who you are at your very best. How to Play to Your Strengths COPYRIGHT © 2004 HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING CORPORATION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. by Laura Morgan Roberts‚ Gretchen Spreitzer‚ Jane Dutton‚ Robert Quinn‚ Emily Heaphy‚ and Brianna Barker Most feedback accentuates the negative. During formal employee evaluations‚ discussions
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