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Leader’s Edge: Interview With Yves Doz
Stephen BernhutArticle IVEY-9B11TA10-EStrategyYves Doz is Professor of Strategic Management and the Timken Chaired Professor of Global Technology and Innovation at INSEAD, and Visiting Professor at the Helsinki School of Economics. He was Dean of Executive Education (1998-2002) and Associate Dean for Research and Development (1990-1995) at INSEAD. He has also taught at the Harvard Business School, Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, Seoul National University, and Aoyama Gakuin University...Starting at €8.20
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The Ivey Business Journal Interview: State Capitalism, with Aldo Musacchio
Stephen BernhutArticle IVEY-9B13TB08-EStrategyThe Ivey Business Journal interviews Aldo Musacchio, associate professor at Harvard Business School and an expert on state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Defining state capitalism as the widespread influence of a government in an economy, Musacchio contends that the current debate on state capitalism and the efficiency or inefficiency of SOEs is outdated. Most observers compare today’s SOEs to Soviet-era SOEs, which often failed to comply with interna...Starting at €8.20
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Leader's Edge: An Interview with Jim Collins
Stephen BernhutArticle IVEY-9B09TD10-EStrategyFrom Built to Last to Good to Great and now to Why the Mighty Fall (HarperCollins), Jim Collins has established himself as the leading management thinker of our time. The former Stanford University Business School professor turned mega-selling author and avid rock climber is the driven researcher and thinker whom many leading companies look to for advice on how to grow, how to improve their performance and how to go from merely good to great. He ...Starting at €8.20
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The Ivey Business Journal Interview: With Steve Coll
Stephen BernhutArticle IVEY-9B12TF09-EStrategyThe Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist Steve Coll is interviewed on the topic of ExxonMobil, the American multinational oil and gas corporation that is often considered both a corporate bully and a paragon of prudent management practices. In describing his research on ExxonMobil, Coll details its extreme degree of discipline and tightness of information released on the energy industry. He describes the former CEO Lee Raymond as sophistica...Starting at €8.20
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The Ivey Business Journal Interview: The "Right" Crowd is the Wise Crowd, Interview with Pia Erkinheimo
Stephen BernhutArticle IVEY-9B13TD10-EStrategyCrowdsourcing can be defined as the application of social media to the process of open innovation. It leverages social media to enable brands, places, and entrepreneurs to engage and seek input from online communities who contribute powerful, creative ideas. Crowds should reflect a diversity of opinions, be independent, be geographically dispersed, and be able to aggregate private judgements into a collective decision. Culture can be an impedimen...Starting at €8.20
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The Great Repeatable Business Model
Zook, Chris; Allen, JamesArticle HBS-R1111G-EStrategyThe sharper a company's differentiation, the greater its competitive advantage. In studying companies that sustained a high level of performance over many years, the authors, both partners at Bain, have found that more than 80% of them had a well-defined and easily understood differentiation at the center of strategy. But differentiation can wear with age: The growth it generates creates complexity, and complex companies tend to forget what they'...Starting at €8.20
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Innovation in Turbulent Times
Rigby, Darrell K.; Gruver, Kara; Allen, JamesArticle HBS-R0906J-EDuring a recession, when many companies face declining revenues and earnings, executives often conclude that innovation isn't so important after all. According to the authors, that's because it isn't integral to the workings of most organizations, so the creativity that leads to game-changing ideas is missing or stifled. Rigby, Gruver, and Allen, all partners at Bain & Company, point to the fashion industry as a model. Every season, successful fa...Starting at €8.20
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Leaders Edge: An Interview with Tom Peters
Stephen BernhutArticle IVEY-9B10TD10-EStrategyAn interview with Tom Peters.Starting at €8.20
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Reigniting Growth
Zook, Chris; Allen, JamesArticle HBS-R1603F-EEntrepreneurshipMost successful new companies eventually face a predictable crisis that the authors call "stall-out"--a sudden large drop in revenue and profit growth or a collapse of once high shareholder returns to well below the cost of capital. Stall-out occurs when the growth engine that powered companies to success stops working. This rarely happens because the business model has suddenly become obsolete--a common misconception. Rather, research by Zook ...Starting at €8.20