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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1 C h a p t e r 1 I n f o r m a t i o n T o d a y LEARNING TRACK 1: HOW MUCH DOES IT MATTER? In May 2003, Nicholas Carr, an editor at Harvard Business Review, wrote an article titled “IT Doesn’t Matter,” which stirred significant debate in the business community. Carr’s argument in a nutshell is that because every firm can purchase IT in the marketplace, because any advantage obtained by one company can easily be copied by another company, and because IT is now a commodity based
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management isn't just a buzz-word for those in sales, it is vitally important for those working in professional services too -something which hasn't yet been fully grasped writes Das Narayandas, a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, in Harvard Business Review (Sept). Chris Sanderson, the director of The Future Laboratory, says: "The relationship between consumers and brands is going to become very one-sided in the next five to ten years; in favour of the consumer." We expect
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Event 1936 Konrad Zuse - Z1 ComputerFirst freely programmable computer. 1942 John Atanasoff & Clifford Berry ABC ComputerWho was first in the computing biz is not always as easy as ABC. 1944 Howard Aiken & Grace Hopper Harvard Mark I ComputerThe Harvard Mark 1 computer. 1946 John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly ENIAC 1 Computer20,000 vacuum tubes later... 1948 Frederic Williams & Tom Kilburn Manchester Baby Computer & The Williams TubeBaby and the Williams Tube turn
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Bonaccio and Dalal (2006) Jacobson, Dobbs-Marsh, Liberman, and Minson (2011) Liberman, Minson, Bryan, and Ross (2012) Jensen and Meckling (1976) Jensen (1986) Mayers (2001) 2 25/02/2014 04/03/2014 2 3 3 : , , 11/03/2014 18/03/2014 4 5 Eisenhardt and Martin (2000) Teece (2007) 4 25/03/2014 01/04/2014 6 7 March (1991) O’Reilly and Tushman (2004) Gupta, Smith, and Shalley (2006) Godes and Mayzlin (2009) Edelman (2010) Guinan, Parise, and Weinberg (2011) Libai and Nitzan
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Shame is Worth a Try - Argument Dan M. Kahan Dan M. Kahan was born in 1963 and graduated from Middlebury College in 1986 and Harvard Law School in 1989, where he served as president of the Harvard Law Review. He clerked for Judge Harry Edwards of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia circuit in 1989–1990 and for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1990–1991. After practicing law for two years in Washington, D.C., Kahan launched his teaching career, first at the
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What the CEO Wants You To Know Using Your Business Acumen to Understand How Your Company Really Works by Ram Charan Copyright © 2001 by Ram Charan. Published by arrangement with Crown Business, a division of Random House, Inc. 144 pages Focus Leadership & Mgt. Strategy Sales & Marketing Finance Human Resources IT, Production & Logistics Career Development Small Business Economics & Politics Industries Regions Concepts & Trends Take-Aways • Develop your "business acumen" by learning
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Forces for Change Author Note This paper was prepared for Management 689, Managing Change and Organizational Learning taught by Professor Doyle. Forces for Change Discussion of the readings It is evident that change within a business or organization is integral to its solvency and profitability. Even more important is to execute the process of change in a deliberate, methodical and precise manner. If a company brings about change too quickly and erratically, it can burn out quickly
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Developing a Rural Market e-hub The case study of e-Choupal experience of ITC B. Bowonder, Vinay Gupta and Amit Singh Abstract ICT has potential to make significant inroads in a traditional agrarian economy like India. Indian agro-sector has been exploiting the benefits to ICT. Innovative ICT application platforms are being created by private sector players in conjunction with local farmers. One such private initiative has been by ITC Ltd in the state of Madhya Pradesh. It has helped the farmers
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