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- The New York Twimes: Should a Newspaper Buy Twitter?
- Is Twitter the savior of the newspaper industry? According to Harvard Business Publishing blogger Umair Haque, Twitter would provide the Old Gray Lady a marriage he refers to as the Twimes with four resources it needs to survive in the 21st century: viral distribution, context, relational capital,...
- Blog posts 2009-04-24
- The Big Shift: Why U.S. Companies are Falling Behind
- American companies became bigger and more efficient over the last few decades. And why not? It was a formula that made the United States the preeminent economic force on the planet. Problem was, the ingredients for success in an increasingly global economy were changing. Size and efficiency...
- Blog posts 2009-07-14
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- Is This a Game-Changer for the Global Economy?
- There are many ways to look at the evolving financial crisis. And how you view it is going to shape your fundamental business decisions over the next few weeks, months, and years. If you believe in the basic tenants of capitalism, you've seen this all before --...
- Blog posts 2008-10-24
- The Zombieconomy | HBR IdeaCast
- What is a zombieconomy? Umair Haque of HarvardBusiness.org says it's an affliction that occurs when corporations are unable or unwilling to make decisions to address the challenges that face them. He says companies need leaders who are willing to test boundaries and make better decisions -- and wake up from...
- Blog posts 2009-04-16
- The DNA Advantage at Apple and Google
- What makes Apple and Google such dominant competitors? It's baked into their DNA, says innovation expert Umair Haque. According to Haque, here is where their genetic instructions match up: Focus on mission. "Goople" is out to change the world for the better; nothing...
- Blog posts 2008-03-14
- C K Prahalad: "Don't Try to Eat the Whole Elephant"
- Laying out how Apple outstrips Facebook, Havas Media Lab's Umair Haque argues we should start thinking of platforms as markets, like Apple. "Apple took something terminally closed -- the mobile value chain -- and pried it radically open," he writes. In doing so, Apple...
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Detroit Bailout: Compassionate or Cuckoo?
- Most of us can agree that three CEOs asking for federal bailout money in Washington D.C., cups in hands, shouldn't arrive on three huge corporate jets. But nasty public relations aside, should American automakers receive a $25 billion check from taxpayers? For two heroically divergent views on...
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- Twitter's Mess a Thing of Beauty
- If nothing else, Twitter has caught the attention of the people who are focused on how businesses have to transform themselves to remain relevant in the 21st century. There's nothing quite like the bankruptcy of General Motors, after all, to drive home the point of "innovate, or die." ...
- Blog posts 2009-06-05
- Squeeze Play
- American consumers have no recollection of life in the Great Depression. Not only are most simply too young to remember it, but for the last quarter century they've lived without extended economic hardship, becoming ever more acquisitive in a world of instant gratification and easy credit. No one knows how...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Is Cash-for-Clunkers Crackpot Economics?
- The government's cash-for-clunkers program to get old gas guzzlers off the road and people back in dealer showrooms buying new -- albeit more fuel efficient -- autos appears to be working. But some critics worry that: The $3 billion program is helping just a few people (car...
- Blog posts 2009-08-12
- HBR: Limits Needed on Business Growth
- It was almost a sin over the last decade to suggest we should accept limits on how fast our businesses could grow. Smart growth, yes. But holding back growth on purpose? Try telling that to your investors. But things have changed; we now are entering an...
- Blog posts 2009-08-21
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