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Cleanteach: Can David Learn to Love Goliath
We are seeing a shift from cleantech-focused venture capitalism to cleantech-oriented M&A, accelerated by the fact that the downturn has ensured there are "a lot of cheap assets on the chopping block."
His most recent book was The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World (Harvard Business School Press, 200 Traveling around Silicon Valley last week, I heard the David vs. Goliath story over and again, but in surprisingly different versions.
Fast Company
- Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Why Peace and Harmony Are Bad for Innovation
Citing examples from wartime as well as from the current downturn, they say they've found that "shocks and surprises did not deter progress, but actually drove it forward."
Some of the deepest thinking about creativity and innovation comes from Dorothy Leonard of Harvard Business School and Walter Swap, formerly of Tufts, who have written about the value of "creative abrasion," a term they attribute to the auto designer Jerry Hirshberg . To me, one of the most disturbing images in literature isn't Big Brother's menacing stare or Anna Karenina's body under the train, but what the Parsee did with his cake crumbs.
HarvardBusiness.org
- Friday, February 26, 2010
Never Mind the Valley: Here's New York City
Wilson jokes that the peak of this era was epitomized in a television interview with Calacanis in which he suggested Harvard students take whatever remaining money they had and use it to start a tech company.
Some wonder whether New York's critical mass is higher than that of Silicon Valley, where innovation has seen a slight downturn coupled with significant job loss. Known by many as The Big Apple, and by some in the tech scene as Silicon Alley, New York City has been an international hub for media, art and business for decades. More recently New York has ebbed and flowed with
ReadWriteWeb
- Tuesday, February 16, 2010
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Pricing Strategies for the Downturn
Pricing power doesn't necessarily decrease in a downturn . Companies should let their sales people know how much leeway they have to negotiate a deal [link to Harvard Negotiation Program], and should train them to ensure they consistently realize the best negotiated price.
I used to love the television game show " The Price is Right ." Beyond the insane level of excitement of the show was the oddly compelling quest to discover the right price of everyday items like refrigerators and bar stools.
HarvardBusiness.org
- Tuesday, March 3, 2009
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Video: How to Market in a Downturn
But these old schemes are now obsolete, warns Harvard Business School professor John A. Jocz, and in the video interview above, John explains that companies need to rethink their customer segmentation, factoring in people's emotional response to the downturn. So you think you know your customers? Maybe you had a handle on them a year ago, but as the economy spirals downward you need to abandon old assumptions.
HarvardBusiness.org
- Wednesday, March 25, 2009
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How Much Do You Trust Colleagues During a Downturn?
To get at this question, we surveyed Harvard Business Review readers about how their level of trust in core business relationships has changed in the past year. More than a 1,000 Harvard Business Review Advisory Council members responded. Spending my days around colleagues I both like and respect makes all the difference in how I see my job. I
HarvardBusiness.org
- Tuesday, May 19, 2009
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Why You Need to Fail
And for others still it was the failure of a larger system, like an economic downturn, that required them to step up.
Yet According to Psychologist and Harvard researcher the late David McClelland, that's the sweet spot for high achievers. "Peter, I'd like you to stay for a minute after class." Calvin teaches my favorite body conditioning class at the gym.
"What'd
HarvardBusiness.org
- Monday, July 6, 2009
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The Once and Future MBA
Like many stories of its kind, it uses the image of Harvard Business School--literally a picture of the campus--to represent "B-Schools." Last week, The Sunday Times ran a less temperate article titled, subtly, " Harvard's Masters of the Apocalypse ." Of course the public conversation about the MBA--its meaning, its value, its role in the global downturn--is intensifying. As of 2:01 Monday afternoon, the New York Times website listed " Is It Time to Retrain B-Schools? " as its most e-mailed article.
HarvardBusiness.org
- Monday, March 16, 2009
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Why Peace and Harmony Are Bad for Innovation
Citing examples from wartime as well as from the current downturn, they say they've found that "shocks and surprises did not deter progress, but actually drove it forward."
Some of the deepest thinking about creativity and innovation comes from Dorothy Leonard of Harvard Business School and Walter Swap, formerly of Tufts, who have written about the value of "creative abrasion," a term they attribute to the auto designer Jerry Hirshberg . To me, one of the most disturbing images in literature isn't Big Brother's menacing stare or Anna Karenina's body under the train, but what the Parsee did with his cake crumbs.
HarvardBusiness.org
- Friday, February 26, 2010
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Exploring New Forms of Economic Leverage
But, as we begin to see the very real downsides of financial leverage, we might want to explore other forms of leverage that are far more robust in times of economic downturn. I explored this opportunity in an article on Leveraged Growth in Harvard Business Review.
In contrast to financial leverage, these forms of leverage alleviate and diffuse pressure during economic downturns, rather than magnifying pressure We watch in disbelief as financial markets retreat and the investment banking industry morphs into something yet to be determined. We are witnessing the dark side of
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What Coaches Can Do for You
For the first time ever, Harvard Business Review has conducted its own research into some aspect of business, in this case executive coaching. The results of this survey, conducted with 140 experienced coaches, will appear in the January issue of HBR in an article co-authored by executive coach and Harvard Medical School professor Carol Kauffman and me. Most of the respondents to our survey replied that the field is still in Despite the widespread use of coaches in organizations today, little is known about who coaches are, what they do, or how much they earn. In addition,
HarvardBusiness.org
- Monday, December 29, 2008
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American Consumption and the New Normal
economy would fall back into a downturn. Robison Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where her research focuses on entrepreneurship and leadership. She is the editor of the book The Story of American Business: From the Pages of the New York Times, published by Harvard Business Press in October 2009.
...Tags: American consumer attitudes about how we think about and spend our hard-earned dollars are undergoing the biggest change since the end of the Great Depression and World War II. As in the 1940s, we now find
HarvardBusiness.org
- Thursday, December 31, 2009
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Winning in Turbulence: The Power of Managing Complexity
This is post 6 in a series of blog posts from downturn strategist Darrell Rigby and fellow partners at Bain & Company. We will walk you through the tools and strategies you need to survive the current downturn and to improve your competitive position. To go deeper and complement these posts, we will provide early chapters--available free for download here for a limited time, and then available for sale on Amazon--of Rigby's forthcoming book with Harvard By Mark Gottfredson and Darrell Rigby
We understand the need for companies to get started immediately.
HarvardBusiness.org
- Monday, February 23, 2009
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