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- Facing Ambiguous Threats
- The Idea in Brief Are you dismissing small signals that may portend danger to your business? Ignore these ambiguous threats, and you could imperil your company. Pharmaceutical giant Merck discovered this firsthand when it downplayed early unclear...
- Articles 2008-03-10
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- Break Your CEO Out Of His Gated Community
- The corporate and personal lifestyles of top execs often lead them on a path of isolation. Eventually they lose touch with employees, customers, and market trends. As Bryant University professor Michael Roberto puts it: Far too many senior executives at large companies become isolated in...
- Blog posts 2008-03-17
- Michael Levine: Gift Wrapping Your Business
- Michael Levine has been called "the Michael Jordan of entertainment P.R." And it's not just because he's tall. Over the years, his Levine Communications Office client list has included Nike, Sharp, Pizza Hut and Michael Jackson. Here, Levine outlines the four rules for success when dealing with a crisis, the...
- Videos 2007-11-27
- High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest
- On May 10, 1996, five mountaineers from two teams perished while climbing Mount Everest. Is there anything business leaders can learn from the tragedy? HBS professor Michael A. Roberto used the tools of management to find out. This multi-lens analysis of the Everest case provides a framework for...
- Case studies 2002-08-26
- Courier Business Picks Up New Business And Delivers Profits In Pompano Beach, FL
- As an IBM executive specializing in world trade and domestic distribution, Michael Moyer never imagined that he would one day own a courier service. Michael stayed in Delray Beach and began working as a consultant to a courier service. Michael saw great potential for this type of business and pursued...
- Case studies
- Questions for Michael Vick - Really?
- Saturday Night Live showed a hilarious two minute skit with some tough questions for quarterback Michael Vick about his supposed attempt to bring marijuana on an airplane (he was later cleared, it wasn't weed). You'll laugh -- really.(Hat tip: Andrew Sullivan)
- Blog posts 2007-02-12
- Michael Tucker: Entertainment Entrepreneur
- Michael Tucker is President of Zia Entertainment, a company that manages and develops various talent in the production industry. Tucker talks about how he found his career and the importance of staying flexible in a diverse and competitive business climate.
- Videos 2008-04-29
- Michael Jones: From Start-Up to Success
- Michael Jones is founder and President of Userplane, which offers a communication platform for community messaging that enables a broad range of Web sites to run branded communication applications. Jones talks about the diversity of Userplane and its evolution.
- Videos 2008-03-24
- Michael Mothner : Targeted Online Marketing
- Michael Mothner is CEO of Wpromote, a top search marketing firm, which employs integrated search solutions for businesses ranging from start-ups to global corporations. Mothner talks about the value of starting early and diversifying his company.
- Videos 2008-03-28
- 2005 Supply & Demand Chain 100 Case Study - Michael Foods / Iasta
- Michael Foods, Inc., a 75-year-old $1 billion diversified food processor and distributor, initiated a project to achieve cost reduction goals through the use of reverse auctions. The company was looking to achieve better competition for its business while increasing efficiency and obtaining better reporting/data analysis by using e-RFx and project...
- Case studies
- Finding The Next Starbucks by Michael Moe |Book Brief
- Author Michael Moe, who successfully predicted the rise of Starbucks, Google, and other superstars, gives a glance into his book, “Finding The Next Starbucks” and explains how to use the Four P’s (people, product, potential, and predictability) to spot the next big stock market winners.
- Videos 2007-10-16
- Free Slice of Connection
- Change This recently posted The Connection Culture: A New Source of Competitive Advantage. It's a semi-excerpt of Michael Stallard's book "Fired Up or Burned Out," reviewed on Big Think in October 2007 as The Importance of Connecting with Colleagues. It also has posts by Richard Florida and...
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
- So I Was Off by a Few Trillion
- Did you ever make a mistake that was so large and so public that it made you want to crawl under your bed? If so, you can imagine how Michael Boskin, the author, feels these days. Economist Michael Boskin's miscalculation on tax revenues muddles the economic debate. In this article,...
- White papers 2003-11-08
- Updating Michael Porter's Classic 'Five Forces'
- Updating Michael Porter's Classic 'Five Forces'Porter is #1 Business Strategic ThinkerThank you for the excellent article. Michael Porter's article is fabulous, as are his books. For practitioners, the most important part of this article is porter's sidebar for defining an industry.In my 22 years experience using Porter's ideas, including...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-08
- Five Questions For Michael Eisner
- During Michael Eisner's reign as CEO of Disney between 1984 and 2005, the company's annual income grew from $1.7billion to $30billion, helping establish Eisner as one of the most important figures in American business. He presided over box office hits including The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, The Lion...
- Case studies 2007-09-24
- Michael Porter’s Five Forces Model
- The focus of this presentation is upon Michael porter’s five forces model. By using a framework rather than a formal statistical model, porter identified the relevant variables and the questions that the user must answer in order to develop conclusions tailored to a particular industry and company. These forces are...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Fr. Michael McGivney Senior High School, Markham, Ontario
- The Father Michael McGivney Senior High School in Markham, Ontario, Canada, where the GeoExchange system was installed, uses almost half the energy of Holy Cross School in nearby Toronto, and pays about $10,000 less in annual energy costs. The system at Father McGivney provided other benefits as well. Because heat...
- Case studies
- Take Advantage of Recession
- An economic downturn is a great time to go after competitors, who likely will be retrenching rather than advancing. But you need two things before loading up. First, your financials must be in order, including a healthy balance sheet, cash, and little debt. Second, pick the right...
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- Following the Links: 10 Ways to Make it Great
- There was a new link to Big Think this a.m., and I followed it and found a new review of 10 Ways to Make It Great by Phil Gerbyshak, who also writes a couple of blogs (on Slacker Manager this morning, the message is welcome to February -- have you...
- Blog posts 2008-02-01
- Ignore Operations At Your Peril
- "Need to boost performance? Just innovate the way your organization handles operations. That's right, operations. Companies that create new ways of doing work--think Dell with its direct business model--can trounce competitors and even change their whole industry. That's because time, cost, and customer satisfaction all get major boosts from operational...
- Case studies 2004-05-01
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