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Cumulative Advantage
Lafley, A.G.; Martin, Roger; Gunther McGrath, Rita; Cook, Scott; Knudstorp, Jorgen Vig; Champion, DavidArticle HBS-R1701B-EStrategyWhy do companies routinely succumb to the lure of rebranding? Because, say A.G. Lafley and Roger L. Martin, the authors of "Customer Loyalty Is Overrated," they believe they must continually update their business models, strategies, and communications toStarting at €8.20
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Bringing Science to the Art of Strategy
Lafley, A.G.; Martin, Roger; Rivkin, Jan W.; Siggelkow, NicolajArticle HBS-R1209C-EStrategyMany managers feel doomed to trade off the futile rigor of ordinary strategic planning for the hit-or-miss creativity of the alternatives. In fact, the two can be reconciled to produce novel but realistic strategies. The key is to recognize that conventional strategic planning, for all its analysis, is not actually scientific--it lacks the careful generation and testing of hypotheses that are at the heart of the scientific method. The authors out...Starting at €8.20
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Playing to Win: 8. Shorten Your Odds
Lafley, A.G.; Martin, RogerBook Chapter HBS-7120BC-EStrategyPlay to Win: How Strategy Really Works is an 8-chapter books published in 2013 by Harvard Business Review Press and written by former Procter & Gamble CEO A.G. Lafley and Rotman School of Management Dean Roger L. Martin. The authors present a framework for creating strategy based on a decade of work at P&G. The framework is a strategic choice cascade, made up of 5 decision points that apply to companies of all sizes and in all markets. The model ...Starting at €8.20
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Playing to Win: Conclusion. The Endless Pursuit of Winning
Lafley, A.G.; Martin, RogerBook Chapter HBS-7122BC-EStrategyPlay to Win: How Strategy Really Works is an 8-chapter books published in 2013 by Harvard Business Review Press and written by former Procter & Gamble CEO A.G. Lafley and Rotman School of Management Dean Roger L. Martin. The authors present a framework for creating strategy based on a decade of work at P&G. The framework is a strategic choice cascade, made up of 5 decision points that apply to companies of all sizes and in all markets. The model ...Starting at €8.20
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Playing to Win: 7. Think Through Strategy
Lafley, A.G.; Martin, RogerBook Chapter HBS-7118BC-EStrategyPlay to Win: How Strategy Really Works is an 8-chapter books published in 2013 by Harvard Business Review Press and written by former Procter & Gamble CEO A.G. Lafley and Rotman School of Management Dean Roger L. Martin. The authors present a framework for creating strategy based on a decade of work at P&G. The framework is a strategic choice cascade, made up of 5 decision points that apply to companies of all sizes and in all markets. The model ...Starting at €8.20
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Playing to Win: 3. Where to Play
Lafley, A.G.; Martin, RogerBook Chapter HBS-7110BC-EStrategyPlay to Win: How Strategy Really Works is an 8-chapter books published in 2013 by Harvard Business Review Press and written by former Procter & Gamble CEO A.G. Lafley and Rotman School of Management Dean Roger L. Martin. The authors present a framework for creating strategy based on a decade of work at P&G. The framework is a strategic choice cascade, made up of 5 decision points that apply to companies of all sizes and in all markets. The model ...Starting at €8.20
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Don't Get Blinded by the Numbers (Spanish version)
Martin, RogerArticle HBS-F1103EStrategyRoger Martin on a new challenge facing business schools: how to teach managers to look beyond the data and use factors such as empathy and trust when making important decisions.Starting at €8.20
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Two leading researchers discuss the value of oddball data (Spanish version)
Scherer, Stephen; Martin, RogerArticle HBS-F0911BStrategyRoger Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Management, talks with renowned autism and genomics researcher Stephen Scherer about how to tackle a big, messy problem.Starting at €8.20
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Playing to Win: 5. Play to Your Strengths
Lafley, A.G.; Martin, RogerBook Chapter HBS-7114BC-EStrategywhere-to-play and how-to-win. The authors discuss this step in the context of P&G's acquisition of Gillette and the overall choice cascade for this strategy. They present an adaptation of Michael Porter's "activity system" as a guide for identifying an organization's most important activities and ensuring that they are feasible, distinctive, and defensible. The authors also apply this concept in organizations with more than one product line and ...Starting at €8.20
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M&A: The One Thing You Need to Get Right
Martin, RogerArticle HBS-R1606B-EStrategyThe financial world set a record in 2015 for mergers and acquisitions. It's too soon to have data on how those deals will work out, but the signs are not promising. Last year Microsoft wrote off 96% of the value of the handset business it had acquired from Nokia in 2014 for $7.9 billion. The rule, confirmed by nearly all studies, remains true: M&A is a mug's game, in which some 70% to 90% of acquisitions are abysmal failures. The author has an ex...Starting at €8.20