org As a market, women represent a bigger opportunity than China and India combined. So why are companies doing such a poor job of serving them? The Female Economy by Michael J. Silverstein and Kate Sayre Included with this full-text Harvard Business Review article: 1 Article Summary The Idea in Brief—the core idea 2 The Female Economy Reprint R0909D The Female Economy The Idea in Brief • Women represent the largest market opportunity in the world. • But despite women’s dominant
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how they could also have solved it. Introduction Technology is truly a boon when you know about it and use it. But it becomes a curse when you can’t. That is the bitter truth about technology. And sadly one of the very prominent reason some business fail is because of lack of investment in technology (Bower & Christensen, 1995). This specially happens among companies which have their history and reputation in the society while using their traditional methods or equipments. This case study is
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THE TOPIC You and your team of professional accountants have been hired by Mike MacCloud to provide his new business with accounting services. Mr. MacCloud has just decided to create his own wine label, and he and a group of three investors have a few accounting questions that they need you and your team to answer. Mr. MacCloud formerly worked in the operations side of the wine business, and while he does have a lot of “on the job” knowledge about accounting, he did not study accounting formally
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RESEARCH & IDEAS Applying Business Theories to Your Life Published: June 4, 2012 Author: Carmen Nobel Scholarly economic theory applies to more than just business. The same causal mechanisms that drive big corporations to success can be just as effective in driving our personal lives, says Professor Clayton M. Christensen. Key concepts include: • In evaluating major life decisions, it's helpful to employ a tool called discovery-driven planning, which essentially boils down to a single question:
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robert duboff (robert.duboff@hawkpartners.com) on January 12, 2012 In an unthinkable crisis, a bank’s chief executive has to make a fast decision. HBR CASE STUDY The CEO Can’t Afford to Panic by Eric J. McNulty COPYRIGHT © 2010 HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING CORPORATION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Gerald Smarten, CEO of Kaspa Financial Services, was presiding over the regular Tuesday morning executive committee meeting in the glass-walled conference room that looked east over Massachusetts
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capital-goods producer canceled several important meetings to attend the funeral of one of his company's local dealers. When I asked him if he would have done the same for DRAWINGS BY MICHAEL WITTE a Belgian dealer, one who did a larger volume of business each year than his late counterpart in Japan, the unequivocal answer was no. Perhaps headquarters would have had the relevant European manager send a letter of condolence. No more than that. In Japan, however, tradition dictated the CEO's presence
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value for the organization. It is concerned with both the determination of the strategic direction of the firm and the management of the strategic process. The course builds on prior studies of functional areas while recognizing that most real business problems are inherently multi-functional in nature. Thus, this course employs an explicitly integrative approach in which we adopt the role of the general manager who has the responsibility for the long-term health of the entire organization. The
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4440 APRIL 27, 2012 DOROTHY LEONARD SUNRU YONG Bella Healthcare India Joseph Cherian, country director of Bella Healthcare in India, wondered whether his team was ready for Project TKO. He listened intently as Jeremy Manning, his director of research and development, described the pros and cons of the project, a proposal to develop a new portable electrocardiograph machine (EKG) specifically for the Indian market. Cherian believed the time was right to tackle the tough, but fast-growing
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Scope In an effort to provide readers with new information and insight into the challenges and problems that exist for women to attain an executive position several different credible sources will be leveraged, including Gartner search group, Harvard Business School, About.com and many other sources. By leveraging research that has already been conducted as well as reviewing information that has been shared regarding this topic this will serve as a basis of determining information that has been already
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century, we have tracked the rise and fall of Japanese business, and our research reveals that the very factors that enabled Japan’s early success led to its later failure. What gets you to the top is not what keeps you there. The problem for Japanese companies is that they’ve been unable to transform the cultures and processes that propelled their early exportled growth into those needed for global leadership. September 2010 Harvard Business Review 99 THE
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