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John Kotter on A Sense of Urgency John Kotter answers questions on why he wrote A Sense of Urgency. Tags: change management kotter harvard business press urgency |
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Social Intelligence and Leadership An interview with Daniel Goleman, Psychologist. See how you can use emotional and social intelligence to improve your own and your organization's performance. Tags: goleman daniel social intelligence leadership harvard business publishing hbp |
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The Dangers of Nepotism An interview with Gill Corkindale, Executive Coach. While nepotism is accepted in some countries, it poses dangers. These include damaged morale when employees hired by family underperform on the job or receive special treatment. Tags: corkindale gill nepotism harvard business publishing hbp |
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Understand Your Customers' Minds An interview with Gerald Zaltman, Professor Emeritus, Harvard Business School. Learn how to create more effective marketing campaigns based on your customers' unconscious thoughts and feelings. Tags: marketing manager zaltman metaphor metaphoria coca-cola coke michelin budweiser noah's ark personal connections harvard business publishing hbp |
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Managing B Players An interview with Tom DeLong, Professor, Harvard Business School. Executives can get more value from their workforce if they recognize and motivate their B players. These solid, steady performers form the bulk of a workforce--and bring crucial forms of value to companies. Tags: talent management players delong harvard business publishing hbp |
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Innovating by Making the World a Better Place An interview with Maggie Brenneke, Director, Skoll Social Enterprise Program. When businesses consider their social and environmental bottom lines, they identify new opportunities to innovate. Some of those opportunities can be surprisingly counterintuitive. Tags: innovation brenneke social enterprise Muhammad Yunus Grameen Bank microfinance harvard business publishing hbp |
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The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy An Interview with Michael E. Porter, Professor, Harvard University. Porter's five competitive forces is the basis for much of modern business strategy. Understand the framework and how to put it into practice. Tags: strategy porter five competitive forces airlines harvard business review hbr hbp |
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Innovation at Procter & Gamble An interview with A.G. Lafley, Chairman and CEO, Procter & Gamble. Innovation is at the core of P&G's business strategy. See how P&G makes innovation an everyday practice in their organization. Tags: innovation procter gamble a.g. lafley harvard business publishing hbp |
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Key Traits of Social Entrepreneurs An interview with John Elkington, Founder and Chief Entrepreneur, SustainAbility. Social entrepreneurs are generating impressive results -- and capturing the imaginations of businesspeople and public policy makers. Tags: social entrepreneur sustainability Muhammad Yunus harvard business publishing hbp |
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Ask the Coach An interview with Marshall Goldsmith, Ask the Coach blogger for HarvardBusiness.org. Advice for managers who want to learn how to influence up and become leaders in the future. Tags: leadership Goldsmith influence up superiors goldsmith harvard business publishing hbp |
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C.K. Prahalad and Jeb Brugmann accept HBR McKinsey Awards C. K. Prahalad and Jeb Brugmann accept their first-place McKinsey Award for their Harvard Business Review article, "Cocreating Business's New Social Compact". The 49th Annual Harvard Business Review McKinsey Awards were held April 21, 2008 at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. Since 1959 the McKinsey Awards have honored the two best articles published each year in Harvard Business Review. Tags: harvard business review hbr mckinsey awards prahalad jeb brugmann |
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Innovate Like Google An interview with Tom Davenport, Professor of Information Technology & Management, Babson College. While some elements of Google's success as innovator would be very hard to emulate, others can be profitably adopted by almost any business. Tags: innovation Davenport Google Sergey Brin harvard business review hbr hbp |
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How to Be a Social Media Change Agent An interview with Josh Bernoff, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research. Over the past thirteen years, Mr. Bernoff has become one of America's most frequently quoted research analysts. His analysis, which aims at a deeper understanding of people and how they use technology, has been cited by sources from The Wall St. Journal to "60 Minutes." He is the co-author of the book "Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies," which offers myriad data-based strategies for companies that want to harness the power of social technologies like blogs, social networks, and YouTube. Please visit HarvardBusiness.org for more. Tags: social technology Bernoff media Groundswell harvard business publishing hbp |
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Managing Generation Y An interview with Tammy Erickson, President of The Concours Institute. Tammy has co-authored four Harvard Business Review articles and the books "Retire Retirement: Career Strategies for the Boomer Generation" and "Workforce Crisis: How to Beat the Coming Shortage of Skills and Talent." Please visit her blog at HarvardBusiness.org. Tags: managing people Erickson harvard business publishing GenY GenX Baby Boomers |
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Why Zappos Pays New Employees to Quit--And You Should Too An interview with Bill Taylor, Game Changer blogger for HarvardBusiness.org. Zappos knows that they can't deliver great customer service unless their employees are committed to the values of the company. So what do they do? They pay employees to quit! Tags: innovation Taylor Zappos customer service productivity harvard business publishing hbp |
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Where Will We Find Tomorrow's Leaders? An Interview with Linda A. Hill, Professor, Harvard Business School. We won't find new global leaders by looking in conventional places for people who act in conventional take-charge ways. Instead, look for people who can lead from behind to promote the collective genius of their teams. Tags: leadership Hill harvard business review hbr hbp organizational behavior Pixar |
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Transforming Giants An Interview with Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Professor, Harvard Business School. Some multinationals, despite their size, manage to be nimble, innovative, and connected with local communities. How? By placing greater emphasis on shared values and making a positive impact on the world. Tags: strategy innovation Kanter IBM Procter Gamble General Electric Omron Semex Banco Real Diagio Nokia harvard business review hbr hbp |
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HBR Interactive Case Study: The CEO's Private Investigation Watch Joseph Finder, case author and renowned writer of corporate thrillers, discuss the new climate for corporate investigations... then go to http://case.hbr.org/ to read or listen to the case study and submit your own comments. Tags: ethics Finder Power Play harvard business review hbr hbp |