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- The Forgotten Strategy
- The Idea in Brief Multinationals' global operations consistently underperform their domestic operations. Why? These companies' strategies focus mostly on similarities across their markets: whenever possible, global companies standardize their business models to achieve economies of scale. They...
- Articles 2007-11-02
- Tomorrow's Global Giants? Not the Usual Suspects
- In the largest emerging markets, established multinationals and local players are battling for dominance. Conventional wisdom says MNCs rule in high-end, knowledge-intensive businesses; local companies, in low-end segments where production and logistics matter most. But...
- Articles 2009-01-06
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- How to Use Downtime to Repair Your Organization
- Want to help your company survive the recession? Use this downtime to engage in some long-term planning, says Pankaj Ghemawat, the Anselmo Rubiralta Professor of Global Strategy at IESE Business School in Barcelona. "Downturns are a good time to perform physical and organizational repair work that simply...
- Blog posts 2009-04-24
- Flat World -- or Globaloney?
- In his best-selling The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman argues that lowering trade barriers and increasing world connectivity has created a level playing field for individuals and businesses to compete on a global scale. Harvard Business School professor Pankaj Ghemawat calls that vision of the early 21st...
- Blog posts 2007-11-01
- Who Says the World is Flat?
- Thomas Friedman does, but Pankaj Ghemawat begs to differ. In fact, Ghemawat argues in a book released this month that building a global strategy based on a flat earth assumption could send your company over the edge. Ghemawat, a Harvard Business School professor, studies global strategy. So...
- Blog posts 2007-10-24
- When You Shouldn't Go Global
- Globalization promises substantial advantages like new growth and scale. For some companies, it's paid off handsomely. But global mania has also blinded many firms to a hard truth: global strategies are devilishly tough to execute. ...
- Articles 2008-12-03
- Three Strategy Books for the New Economy
- In Fast Competition and Flat Denial, Phil Rosenzweig attacks the bulk of strategy books published each year: few of them are fundamentally persuasive or insightful. Most are long on admonition and exhortation â€" Be innovative! Be bold! â€" but short on critical thought. Many suffer from a fatal flaw: They feature...
- Blog posts 2009-02-25
- How is Your Recession Planning Coming?
- The experts disagree on the matter, but increasingly the ugly "R" word is starting to be heard about the current United States economy. But whether we enter a recession or not, it seems quite clear that the business climate ahead is as uncertain as the next minute's oil price....
- Blog posts 2007-10-27
- Hot-Button Topics for Managers in 2007
- Much of success in business comes from listening to your customers, and the same is true for those of us writing for a management audience. Your insights shape the conversation, inspiring us all to question what defines strong leadership, what motivates employees to go the extra mile, and what propels...
- Blog posts 2007-12-18
- What Management Experts Predict for 2008
- The Wise Men and Women of business management are rolling the dice, gazing into crystal balls, and blogging the results. I've summarized 5 predictions made by the stable of authors at Harvard Business. Retiring Boomers. The first Baby Boomers will head into retirement in 2008,...
- Blog posts 2007-12-28
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