This article is based on some interesting research by Columbia (New York) Business School where the author is a professor. It adopts the same approach as many previous studies – …
‘How to win investors over’ by Baruch Lev, Harvard Business Review, November 2011
This article is an interesting counter to the messages coming over from CEOs like Paul Polman of Unilever and Warren Buffet of Hathaway, that producing too much information to the …
‘Defining moments’ by Joseph Badaracco, Harvard Business Press
Although this book is by a Harvard Professor, it is refreshingly practical, short and easy to read, much more so than the Seglin’s book. Badaracco shares Seglin’s view that ethical …
‘How eBay developed a culture of experimentation’, by Adi Ignatius, Harvard Business Review, March 2011
This article was a disappointment because it didn’t live up to its title billing and, though interesting, was not what you expect to see in the Harvard Business Review; it …
‘Creating Shared Value’ by Michael Porter and Mark Kramer, Harvard Business Review, January 2011
This article had to be a certainty for review because Porter was perhaps the leading figure in strategic thinking during the second half of the last century and at MTP …
‘Stress-test your strategy’; the seven questions to ask’, by Robert Simons, Harvard Business Review, November 2010
I was initially attracted to this article because it seemed to offer a practical approach to assessing strategy, which is quite unusual from a Harvard Professor. But I ended up …
‘No. management is not a profession’ by Richard Barker, Harvard Business Review, July- August 2010
It is interesting that, soon after the appointment of a new Dean who is a leading advocate of management as a profession, the Harvard Business Review should publish an outspoken …
‘The Decision Driven Organisation’ by Marcia Blenko, Michael Mankins and Paul Rogers, Harvard Business Review, June 2010
We brought this article forward from the last blog because we were then reviewing other articles from Harvard Business Review. As the authors are from Bain and Company, a leading …
‘The Coherence Premium’ by Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, Harvard Business Review, June 2010
This article is written by senior people of the well-regarded (but amusingly named) management consultants Booz & Company. As I read it I found myself agreeing with much of what …
‘How to stop customers from fixating on price’ by Marco Bertini and Luc Wathieu, Harvard Business Review, May 2010
I have mixed feelings when reviewing articles on pricing because, though, as a financial person, I appreciate the importance of price as a driver of margin and shareholder value, it …