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Managing Oneself
Drucker, Peter F.Article HBS-R0501K-ELeadership and People ManagementThroughout history, people had little need to manage their careers--they were born into their stations in life or, in the recent past, relied on their companies to chart their career paths. But times have drastically changed. Today we must all learn to manage ourselves. What does that mean? As Peter Drucker tells us in this seminal article first published in 1999, it means we have to learn to develop ourselves. We have to place ourselves where ...Starting at €8.20
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Cross-Silo Leadership
Casciaro, Tiziana; Edmondson, Amy C.; Jang, SujinArticle HBS-R1903J-EToday the most promising innovation and business opportunities require collaboration among functions, offices, and organizations. To realize them, companies must break down silos and get people working together across boundaries. But that's a challenge for many leaders. Employees naturally default to focusing on vertical relationships, and formal restructuring is costly, confusing, and slow. What, then, is the solution? Engaging in four activitie...Starting at €8.20
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What You Can Learn from Family Business
Kachaner, Nicolas; Stalk, George; Bloch, AlainArticle HBS-R1211H-EStrategyThough the term "family business" may call to mind visions of local mom-and-pop firms, family- controlled companies play a huge role on the global stage. Not only do they include sprawling corporations like Walmart and Tata Group, but they account for more than 30% of all companies with sales in excess of $1 billion. And over the long term, their financial performance exceeds that of traditional public companies, according to a new study by BCG a...Starting at €8.20
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What's Your Personal Social Media Strategy
Dutta, SoumitraArticle HBS-R1011L-ELeadership and People ManagementSocial media are changing the way we do business and how leaders are perceived, from the shop floor to the CEO suite. But whereas the best businesses are creating comprehensive strategies in this area, research suggests that few corporate leaders have a social media presence-say, a Facebook or LinkedIn page-and that those who do don't use it strategically. Today's leaders must embrace social media for three reasons. First, they provide a low-cost...Starting at €8.20
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The Next Scientific Revolution
Hey, TonyArticle HBS-R1011B-EStrategyFor decades, computer scientists have tried to teach computers to think like human experts. Until recently, most of those efforts have failed to come close to generating the creative insights and solutions that seem to come naturally to the best researchers, doctors, and engineers. But now, Tony Hey, a VP of Microsoft Research, says we're witnessing the dawn of a new generation of powerful computer tools that can "mash up" vast quantities of data...Starting at €8.20
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Managing Risks: A New Framework
Kaplan, Robert S.; Mikes, AnetteArticle HBS-R1206B-EStrategyRisk management is too often treated as a compliance issue that can be solved by drawing up lots of rules and making sure that all employees follow them. Many such rules, of course, are sensible and do reduce some risks that could severely damage a company. But rules-based risk management will not diminish either the likelihood or the impact of a disaster such as Deepwater Horizon, just as it did not prevent the failure of many financial institut...Starting at €8.20
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Strategies for Two-Sided Markets
Eisenmann, Thomas R.; Parker, Geoffrey; Van Alstyne, Marshall W.Article HBS-R0610F-EStrategyIf you listed the blockbuster products and services that have redefined the global business landscape, you'd find that many of them tie together two distinct groups of users in a network. Case in point: The most important innovation in financial services since World War II is almost certainly the credit card, which links consumers and merchants. The list would also include newspapers, HMOs, and computer operating systems--all of which serve what ...Starting at €8.20
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Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything
Blank, Steven G.Article HBS-R1305C-EEntrepreneurshipIn the past few years, a new methodology for launching companies, called "the lean start-up," has begun to replace the old regimen. Traditionally, a venture's founders would write a business plan, complete with a five-year forecast, use it to raise money, and then go into "stealth mode" to develop their offerings, all without getting much feedback from the people they intended to sell to. Lean start-ups, in contrast, begin by searching for a busi...Starting at €8.20
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Artificial Intelligence for the Real World
Davenport, Thomas H.; Ronanki, RajeevArticle HBS-R1801H-EInformation TechnologiesCognitive technologies are increasingly being used to solve business problems; indeed, many executives believe that AI will substantially transform their companies within three years. But many of the most ambitious AI projects encounter setbacks or fail. A survey of 250 executives familiar with their companies' use of cognitive technology and a study of 152 projects show that companies do better by taking an incremental rather than a transformati...Starting at €8.20
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Managing for Business Effectiveness (Spanish version)
Drucker, Peter F.Article HBS-63303Productive business managers are those who obtain optimum economic results from the prevailing resources. A series of primary steps, which have proven to be highly effective for managers in actual business situations, include: 1) analyzing the facts in terms of opportunities and costs of products, as well as the contributions of staff, and the "cost streams"; 2) allocating resources, according to projected results, by analyzing present and future...Starting at €8.20