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LinkedIn: The Business Antidote to Facebook?

Expanding on yesterday's blog on the diminishing ROI for business users of Facebook, Harvard Business Online blogger John Sviokla  checks in with a positive look at its main competitor for business users, LinkedIn. His take: LinkedIn delivers tremendous reach to business professionals for a relatively small investment....

Tags: Sean Silverthorne, Human Resources, Internet, Finance, Facebook, LinkedIn, John Sviokla, Roi/Tco, Blogging, Strategic Planning, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Management, Managerial Accounting, Strategy

Blog posts 2008-07-25

3 Question Quiz: Is Your Company Ready to Innovate?

Although every company needs to create new growth products and services to prosper, not all firms are on sound enough footing to boldly go where no company has gone before. Judge the situation at your own company by answering these three questions, advises innovation expert Scott Anthony...

Tags: Question, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Strategy, Finance, Management, Sean Silverthorne

Blog posts 2008-06-24

Where Did Japan Go Wrong?

Twenty years ago, with George Bush Sr. in command of the country, the US was gripped with almost a national hysteria about Japan. The hottest read in business and government circles was Trading Places: How We Are Giving Our Future to Japan and How to Reclaim It,...

Tags: Management, Financing Startups, Finance, Channel Management, Strategy, Business Structures, Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital, Hagiu, Japan, Marketing, Sean Silverthorne

Blog posts 2008-05-20

Raise Your Prices

"Management must raise prices, raise them a lot, and raise them frequently." Business writer George Stalk writes this eye-catching sentence in a recent blog on Harvard Business. He believes the 12-month run-up we've seen in commodity prices (ethanol +47 percent, wheat +40 percent) will continue to rise in the...

Tags: Sean Silverthorne, Management, Finance, Strategy, Operational Accounting, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Price

Blog posts 2008-05-20

Learning From Business History

A quick note today on the arrival of The Oxford Handbook of Business History, an intriguing and opinionated survey of business management theory and research weighted mostly to the post-1950 era. The collection of essays around major business themes (approaches and debates; forms of business organization; functions...

Tags: Globalization, Sean Silverthorne, Management, Finance, Strategy, Business History, Financial Services, Operational Accounting, Theory, Accounting

Blog posts 2008-03-19

Why Yahoo Should Just Say No to Microsoft

For starters, the Microsoft-Yahoo marriage can't work because the resulting mash-up name would be all wrong: MicroHoo. I'm sorry, but that just won't pass regulatory muster. Scott D. Anthony has a far more substantiative argument against the deal, however. Combining two also-rans won't create a viable competitor...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Innovation, Sean Silverthorne, Finance, Management, Business Structures, Strategy, Leadership, Anthony, Microsoft Corp.

Blog posts 2008-02-05

Stop the Meeting Madness! Tools for Simplifying Your Company

Is more than half your time soaked up in company meetings? How many layers of management sit between your CEO and front-line workers? Do you understand how to get a capital expense approved? The answer to these questions and 7 others in a new Harvard Business diagnostic...

Tags: Sean Silverthorne, Policies And Procedures, Human Resources, Finance, Financial Accounting, Government, Management, Strategy, Regulations, Organizational Structure, Regulatory Compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley, Productivity, Globalization, Manager, Accountability, Tool, Complexity

Blog posts 2007-12-11