by Clayton M. Christensen, Matt Marx, and Howard H. Stevenson Managers can use a variety of carrots and sticks to encourage people to work together and accomplish change. Their ability to get results depends on selecting tools that match the circumstances they face. T JIM FRAZIER the primary task of management is to get people to work together in a systematic way. Like orchestra conductors, managers direct the talents and actions of various players to produce a desired result. It’s a complicated
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numerous organizational changes that were necessary for the company’s survival, but ultimately affected how stakeholders viewed his effectiveness. During the first three years of Barrett’s term as CEO, major changes were made to reorganize the company’s business units and corporate culture. There are several factors, both internal and external, that served as the catalyst for change during Barrett’s tenure, from the 2001 collapse of the IT market to the fact that his new position in the organization meant
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“IT Doesn’t Matter” Management Information Systems The Idea that “IT Doesn’t Matter” as proposed by Nicholas Carr in the Harvard Business Review article that was published in 2003 raises just as many questions as it does answers to this very question as well as it has stirred up quite a bit of controversy over since its publication. What Carr is saying unlike the title of the paper he does not say there is no need for IT. The idea was to draw up controversy. Carr’s argument is to have a strategic
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The Harvard Business School (HBS) Case Method Over 80 percent of cases sold throughout the world are written by HBS faculty, who produce approximately 350 new cases per year. Simply put, we believe the case method is the best way to prepare students for the challenges of leadership. How the HBS Case Method Works When students are presented with a case, they place themselves in the role of the decision maker as they read through the situation and identify the problem they are faced with. The
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receiving. The author considers the intangible factors present in all products and also advises producers of services about how best to hold on to their customers. Mr. Levitt is the Edward W. Carter Professor of Business Administration and head of the marketing area at the Harvard Business School. He has written nearly two dozen articles for HBR, including the well-known "Marketing Myopia" {published in i960 and reprinted as an HBR Classic in September-October 1975) and "Marketing When Things Change"
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Paulson was born December 14, 1955 and is the founder and president of Paulson & Co. which is a New York-based hedge fund (Wikipedia). 2. He was Valedictorian of his class at New York University’s College of Business and Public Administration and received his MBA from Harvard Business School as a Baker Scholar, the school’s distinction for the class’ top students. 3. Paulson is worldly known as the hedge-fund manager who made billions of dollars betting against the mortgage market (nymag
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Strategies for Learning from Failure Written by Amy C. Edmondson, this article on Harvard Business Review, outlines and interprets key perspectives and strategies that need to be considered when analyzing failures and learning from them. Edmondson shrewdly pinpoints the common downfalls that many senior executives fall into when encountering a failure, such as the blame game, and how factors such as this are counterproductive to tracing the real root of the problem and how to constructively learn
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organization, but especially for a church. Yet the equally important learning is that change efforts are still important to face.... and the sooner the better. John Kotter (who teaches Leadership at Harvard Business School) has made it his business to study both success and failure in change initiatives in business. "The most general lesson to be learned from the more successful cases is that the change process goes through a series of phases that, in total, usually require a considerable length of time
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customer service. Make Your Dealers Your Partners by Donald V. Fites A decade ago, many observers predicted that Caterpillar would join the long list of U.S. corporations that had fallen to the Japanese. Doomsayers on Wall Street, at business schools, and in the press focused particularly on the rivalry between Caterpillar and Komatsu. With Komatsu boasting tremendous eost advantages (as much as 40% in some product lines) and excellent produets, they accepted as a foregone conclusion
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Bentley University McCallum Graduate School of Business Administration GS601-100 Strategic Information Fundamentals Spring 2012 Syllabus & Schedule as of January 3, 2012 Professor: Dennis Anderson Office: Smith 402 Email: danderson@bentley.edu Office Phone: 781 891 2238 Class Times: Section 100: Monday, 7:30 - 9:50 pm Office Hours: For quick/easy questions, send me an email. For tough questions, career advice and other matters, face to face is better,
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