profitable growth for yourself. One company that manufactured resins used in exterior paints discovered this firsthand. By researching the needs of commercial painting contractors—a key customer segment—the company learned that labor constituted the lion’s share of contractors’ costs, while paint made up just 15% of costs. Armed with this insight, the resin maker emphasized that its product dried so fast that contractors could apply two coats in one day—substantially lowering labor costs
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1 Ricardo Semler The Brazilian CEO and best-selling author transformed his pump plant into a model of participative management, and launched his company on 14 straight years of double-digit growth. by Lawrence M. Fisher strategy + business issue 41 Won’t Take features the creative mind Photographs by Rogério Reis / Blackstar Control Semco Group Chief Executive Ricardo Semler at his impromptu office — a coffee shop near his company’s headquarters 2 features the creative
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communication breakdown, and a sudden shift in structure. In essence, these issues are stemming from unstable leadership that is unable to support the organizations culture and ideals. The current issues are described in a case study presented by the Harvard Business review published in 2001. Iggy's was founded by two individuals with a strong vision and ideals. Ludamilla viewed her role in leadership as an opportunity to promote her passion. As she explained, “The bakery became a stage for me, a channel
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2/20/2010 Satyam shows B-schools too need a co… Enter Keyword S ATU RD A Y , F EB RU A RY 2 0 , 2 0 1 0 1 :1 6 P M IST LOUNGE HOME | e-paper | TODA Y'S NEWSPA PER | mint CODE Travel Books Culture Style Play Slideshows Insider Parenting P os ted: M on, J an 1 2 2 0 0 9 . 2 :1 9 A M I ST Corporate News E mail del.ic io.us digg news V ine P rint Satyam shows B-schools too need a code of ethics Most of the people primarily involved in the Satyam scam have a connection
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THE LAST WORD PRASAD KAIPA NAVI RADJOU | CEO ADVISOR AND COACH | FELLOW | JUDGE BUSINESS SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE “Companies mustshut down theirCSR departments” They should instead focus on re-engineering value chains to bring sustainability in their business models, Kaipa and Radjou tell Rohit Nautiyal DALIP KUMAR away with the CSR department by rolling sustainability in the firm’s business model. New KPIs (key performance indicators) were introduced so senior managers could
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1 Ricardo Semler The Brazilian CEO and best-selling author transformed his pump plant into a model of participative management, and launched his company on 14 straight years of double-digit growth. by Lawrence M. Fisher strategy + business issue 41 Won’t Take features the creative mind Photographs by Rogério Reis / Blackstar Control Semco Group Chief Executive Ricardo Semler at his impromptu office — a coffee shop near his company’s headquarters 2 features the creative
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“Selling and marketing are antithetical rather than synonymous or even complementary. There will always be, one can assume, a need for some selling. But the aim of marketing is to make selling superfluous. The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well that the product or service fits him and sells itself.” (Drucker 1973, pp.64-65) In the early years of the ‘70s era, Drucker was one of the first educators and authors who identify marketing as a way to understand customers’
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at http://huff.to/RKZh4z. 5. I found this quote within a book called An Introduction to Property Theory by Gregory S. Alexander, Eduardo S. Peñalver on page 194; you may see this book online at http://bit.ly/RjvbzS. 6. On the Harvard Business school website they discuss much of Edison’s life and technology brokering and how Edison had mastered the idea. For more information visit http://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/3613.html. 7. http://bit.ly/WeShMF is an article about the
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Harvard Business School Publishing eLearning Many incoming students find that advanced preparation in the area of Quantitative Analysis helps the transition into a Fully-Employed MBA Program. Therefore, you have the option of using the Harvard Business School Publishing eLearning module to review concepts and further ready yourself for the start of your MBA experience. The Harvard Business School Publishing eLearning module is an online quantitative analysis package designed to help you prepare
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