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Two leading researchers discuss the value of oddball data (Spanish version)
Scherer, Stephen; Martin, RogerArticle HBS-F0911BStrategyRoger Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Management, talks with renowned autism and genomics researcher Stephen Scherer about how to tackle a big, messy problem.Starting at €8.20
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Don't Get Blinded by the Numbers (Spanish version)
Martin, RogerArticle HBS-F1103EStrategyRoger Martin on a new challenge facing business schools: how to teach managers to look beyond the data and use factors such as empathy and trust when making important decisions.Starting at €8.20
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Bringing Science to the Art of Strategy
Lafley, A.G.; Martin, Roger; Rivkin, Jan W.; Siggelkow, NicolajArticle HBS-R1209C-EStrategyMany managers feel doomed to trade off the futile rigor of ordinary strategic planning for the hit-or-miss creativity of the alternatives. In fact, the two can be reconciled to produce novel but realistic strategies. The key is to recognize that conventional strategic planning, for all its analysis, is not actually scientific--it lacks the careful generation and testing of hypotheses that are at the heart of the scientific method. The authors out...Starting at €8.20
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Cumulative Advantage
Lafley, A.G.; Martin, Roger; Gunther McGrath, Rita; Cook, Scott; Knudstorp, Jorgen Vig; Champion, DavidArticle HBS-R1701B-EStrategyWhy do companies routinely succumb to the lure of rebranding? Because, say A.G. Lafley and Roger L. Martin, the authors of "Customer Loyalty Is Overrated," they believe they must continually update their business models, strategies, and communications toStarting at €8.20
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The Age of Customer Capitalism (Spanish version)
Martin, RogerArticle HBS-R1001BStrategycustomer-driven capitalism. Companies that make customers their top priority, as P&G and J&J do, generate returns that are just as high as, if not higher than, those of shareholder-focused companies, and can sustain them for longer. If companies put the customer first, they will make better decisions, because they can focus on improving operations and products and services, rather than on spinning lines to shareholders.Starting at €8.20
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The Big Lie of Strategic Planning
Martin, RogerArticle HBS-R1401F-EStrategyStrategy making forces executives to confront a future they can only guess at. It's not surprising, then, that they try to make the task less daunting by preparing a comprehensive plan for how the company will achieve its goal. But good strategy is not the product of endless research and modeling; it's the result of a simple process of thinking through how to hit a target and whether it's realistic to try. Discomfort is part of the process. If yo...Starting at €8.20
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M&A: The One Thing You Need to Get Right
Martin, RogerArticle HBS-R1606B-EStrategyThe financial world set a record in 2015 for mergers and acquisitions. It's too soon to have data on how those deals will work out, but the signs are not promising. Last year Microsoft wrote off 96% of the value of the handset business it had acquired from Nokia in 2014 for $7.9 billion. The rule, confirmed by nearly all studies, remains true: M&A is a mug's game, in which some 70% to 90% of acquisitions are abysmal failures. The author has an ex...Starting at €8.20
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The Big Lie of Strategic Planning (Spanish version)
Martin, RogerArticle HBS-R1401FStrategyStrategy making forces executives to confront a future they can only guess at. It's not surprising, then, that they try to make the task less daunting by preparing a comprehensive plan for how the company will achieve its goal. But good strategy is not the product of endless research and modeling; it's the result of a simple process of thinking through how to hit a target and whether it's realistic to try. Discomfort is part of the process. If yo...Starting at €8.20
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Management Is Much More Than a Science (Spanish version)
Martin, Roger; Golsby-Smith, TonyArticle HBS-R1705LStrategyThe idea that management is a hard science, which MBA programs have promoted for the past six decades, has become even more entrenched in the era of big data. But a scientific approach has its limits, say Martin, the coauthor of the best-seller "Playing to Win," and consultant Golsby-Smith. In fact, overreliance on scientific analysis tends to narrow strategic options and shut down innovation. That's because it's designed to understand natural ph...Starting at €8.20
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Saving the Planet: A Tale of Two Strategies
Martin, Roger; Kemper, AlisonArticle HBS-R1204B-EStrategyBusiness is the engine of the developed economies that devour a disproportionate share of the world's nonrenewable resources and produce a disproportionate share of its emissions. We see it, therefore, as both a cause of and a solution to environmental degradation. But how, exactly, can business contribute? To answer this question, the authors explore two schools of thought. According to one, consumers and companies should do more with the resour...Starting at €8.20