founding in 1922, HBR has had a proud tradition as the world's preeminent management magazine, publishing cutting-edge, authoritative thinking on the key issues facing executives. HBR's articles cover a wide range of topics that are relevant to different industries, management functions, and geographic locations. They focus on such areas as leadership, organizational change, negotiation, strategy, operations, marketing, finance, and managing people. While the topics may vary, all HBR articles share
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Competing with IS • Does IT Matter? • IS and Competitive Advantage • The New Competitive Paradigm Does IT Matter? • Can IT provide a strategic advantage? • Is it sustainable? • Carr, Nicholas (2003), “IT doesn’t matter”, Harvard Business Review, May 2003, pp. 41-49. – “As information technology’s power and ubiquity have grown, its strategic importance has diminished. The way you approach IT investment and management will need to change dramatically” (Carr, 2003) IT Doesn’t Matter! • Information
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- CH4 is a tetrahedral shape so the difference C and H have in electronegativty does not matter because the forces cancel out making this a non-polar molecule. Only having 10 electrons, CH4 has almost no london forces attracting it together, because of these two factors CH4 ends up having a very low boiling point. - SiH4 is a tetrahedral shape so the small difference Si and H have in electronegativty does not matter because the forces cancel out making this a non-polar molecule. Only having 18 electrons
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------------------------------------------------- CHAPTER 17-AGENCY LAW TRUE/FALSE 1. Larry decided to relocate to Germany. Larry hired Happy Homes, Inc. to find a buyer and contract for the sale of his house in the U.S. The agency relationship between Larry and Happy Homes must be evidenced with a written agreement. 2. If Denise is hired to work as a cashier, she has the implied authority to do acts reasonably necessary to carry out her job. 3. Erica's supervisor
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“IT Doesn’t Matter” Management Information Systems The Idea that “IT Doesn’t Matter” as proposed by Nicholas Carr in the Harvard Business Review article that was published in 2003 raises just as many questions as it does answers to this very question as well as it has stirred up quite a bit of controversy over since its publication. What Carr is saying unlike the title of the paper he does not say there is no need for IT. The idea was to draw up controversy. Carr’s argument is to have a strategic
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Harvard Business Review Reflection Subject matter: HBR Reflection Retail Doesn’t Cross Borders -Here is why and what to do about it- Reflection The article at hand "Retail Doesn't Cross Borders- Here's why and what to do about it" written by Marcel Corstjens, the Unilever Chaired Professor of Marketing at Insead, and Rajiv Lal, the Stanley Roth Sr. Professor of Retailing at Harvard Business School, was published in the Havard Business Review of April 2012 on the pages 104-111 and deals
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kerfuffle raises a more interesting question: Does it really matter if HSBC moves its HQ from London? After all, HSBC is not proposing to close its British operations. What is so special about where a global organization headquarters itself? Well, obviously it can affect a business’s tax bill. That, though, is a largely technical issue, because your nominal headquarters need not be your operational one. What we are really talking about is whether it matters where your key decisions are made or where
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www.hbr.org BEST OF HBR 1999 Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves—their strengths, their values, and how they best perform. Managing Oneself by Peter F Drucker . • Included with this full-text Harvard Business Review article: 1 Article Summary The Idea in Brief—the core idea The Idea in Practice—putting the idea to work 2 Managing Oneself 12 Further Reading A list of related materials, with annotations to guide further exploration of the article’s ideas and
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International Business Pt-PGPM Dr. Ankur Roy Asst. Professor Strategic Management Area Email: ankur.roy@mdi.ac.in INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS The course on International Business is designed for those who intend to pursue a career in International Business and for those who believe, to be successful it is necessary to understand the globalization, its evolution, patterns, drivers and linkages as the future consists of economies that will be absolutely interdependent due to rapid dismantling
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www.hbr.org BEST OF HBR 1999 Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves—their strengths, their values, and how they best perform. Managing Oneself • DO N copying or posting is an infringement of copyright. permissions@hbsp.harvard.edu or 617.783.7860 Reprint R0501K OT C 1 Article Summary The Idea in Brief—the core idea The Idea in Practice—putting the idea to work 2 Managing Oneself 12 Further Reading A list of related materials, with annotations
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