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Digital Growth Depends More on Business Models than Technology

Harvard Business

I explained this in an article that was published in Harvard Business Review in 2008, before any of those companies began, and, now, 10 years later, that still holds true, as more and more of the business discourse is focused on digital transformation.

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Case Study: Can You Fix a Toxic Culture Without Firing People?

Harvard Business

Franklin was in the business of designing, engineering, and manufacturing climate control systems for cars and SUVs. She’d gone to Arkansas to review operational plans and financial projections for the rest of the year with the team on the ground. “So I’m struggling to find a way to make this work.

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The Decline of Yahoo in Its Own Words

Harvard Business

On Google’s earnings call for the first quarter of 2006 – more than a year before the iPhone was released and more than two years before the release of the first Android-operated smartphone – CEO Eric Schmidt went out of his way to talk about mobile. One of the most prominent is that Yahoo was late to mobile.

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The Mistakes PE Firms Make When They Pick CEOs for Portfolio Companies

Harvard Business

When a private equity firm adds a new company to its portfolio, analysts rigorously size up its financial, operational, and competitive condition. From 2008 to 2015 SCA’s revenue rose 88% (from $690 million to $1.3 But that set off the field engineers’ alarm bells. In fact, management consultancy Bain & Co.

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Reflecting on David Garvin’s Imprint on Management

Harvard Business

I’ll fast-forward through the next decade, when Garvin, trained in operations, helped to answer the question much of America was obsessed with at the time: How Japanese automakers could make higher-quality, more-reliable cars than Americans, while charging less for them.