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Reflecting on David Garvin’s Imprint on Management

Harvard Business

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. The articles — “Competing on the Eight Dimensions of Quality” (1987) and “What Does ‘Product Quality’ Really Mean?”

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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

Harvard Business

After studying and working with hundreds of companies in free fall, we’ve identified concrete steps that leadership teams can take to engineer successful turnarounds and transformations. When a company is in free fall, it makes sense to replace the management team, for all sorts of reasons. Build a Re-Founding Team.

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Your Organization Wastes Time. Here’s How to Fix It.

Harvard Business

Organizations waste too much time - see how Bain helps them manage it like money in this 10-minute video slide deck. Look closely, and you’ll find that most companies have stretched their brands and product portfolios to customers and markets in which they are undifferentiated and profits are weak. Related Video.

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