Harvard Business School

HBR’s 10 Must Reads for New Managers

November 16, 2018

HBR’s 10 Must Reads for New Managers Various Contributors Harvard Business School Press (2017) “People won’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.”  Theodore Roosevelt The eleven HBR articles assembled in this volume were published…

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A Refresher on Marketing Myopia

January 26, 2018

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Amy Gallo for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive HBR email alerts, please…

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On Ted Levitt and “Marketing Myopia”

January 10, 2018

Here is an excerpt from a article written about Theodore Levitt by the editors of Harvard Business Review (July/August 2004 issue) and the HBR Blog Network. His “Marketing Myopia” is generally viewed as the single most important article in what continues to be…

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Jeffrey Bussgang on Entering StartUpLand: An interview by Bob Morris

January 5, 2018

Jeffrey Bussgang is a venture capitalist, entrepreneur and entrepreneurship professor at Harvard Business School (HBS). His venture capital firm, Flybridge Capital Partners, has over $600 million under management and made investments in over 100 technology-focused startups since inception over fifteen…

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Smart Leaders Focus on Execution First and Strategy Second

December 5, 2017

  Here is an excerpt from an article written by Rosabeth Moss Kanter for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive HBR…

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The Founder’s Dilemma

November 30, 2017

Here is an excerpt from a classic article written by Noam Wasserman for Harvard Business Review (February 2008 Issue) and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and…

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The Lords of Strategy: A book review by Bob Morris

May 26, 2017

The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World Walter Kiechel III Harvard Business Press (2010) A unique aristocracy of iconoclasts Kiechel suggests that understanding what he calls the “strategy revolution” requires getting beyond three common…

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There Is No “Invisible Hand”

April 13, 2017

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Jonathan Schlefer for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive HBR email alerts,…

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HBR Guide to Dealing with Conflict: A book review by Bob Morris

March 23, 2017

HBR Guide to Dealing with Conflict Amy Gallo Harvard Business Review Press (April 2017) Cutting-edge thinking about the common sources of conflict, how people approach it differently, and how to resolve it Most of the volumes in the “HBR Guide…

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Jeff Fox on “Small But Very Expensive Mistakes”

March 4, 2017

Jeff Fox is one of the most creative as well as one of the most practical business thinkers I know. How’s this for a background? “Grew up in a small town. Saw Mickey Mantle hit several home runs at Yankee…

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