Posts Tagged ‘clipcacheondisk’

“If You Understand How the Brain Works, You Can Reach Anyone”

May 13, 2023

https://hbr.org/2017/03/if-you-understand-how-the-brain-works-you-can-reach-anyone

Beard, Alison. (2017). If You Understand How the Brain Works, You Can Reach Anybody. Harvard Business Review, Mar/Apr 2017, Vol. 95 Issue 2, p 60‐62.

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People who express certain genes in the dopamine system tend to be curious, creative, spontaneous, energetic, and mentally flexible. They are risk-takers and seek novelty. People who have high serotonin activity (or who take SSRI antidepressants) are more sociable, more eager to belong. They’re quite traditional in their values and less inclined toward exploration. People expressive of the testosterone system are tough-minded, direct, decisive, skeptical, and assertive. They tend to be good at what we called rule-based systems—engineering, computers, mechanics, math, and music. And people who are expressive of the estrogen/oxytocin system tend to be intuitive, imaginative, trusting, empathetic, and contextual long-term thinkers. They are sensitive to people’s feelings, too, and typically have good verbal and social skills.
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Wal-Mart Update, 2017

March 26, 2023

https://store.hbr.org/product/wal-mart-update-2017/717468?sku=717468-PDF-ENG

Wal-Mart Update, 2017

by David B. Yoffie and Eric Baldwin

Publication Date: April 04, 2017
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In 2017 Wal-Mart was still the world’s largest company, with over $480 billion in annual revenue and operations in 28 countries. Although it had mostly vanquished its rival discount retailers in the U.S., it was struggling to find the right growth strategy. Facing a mature U.S. market, it had looked to international sales as an engine of growth in the early 2010s, but international sales had also stagnated over the past few years. Wal-Mart’s leadership had targeted the rapidly-growing e-commerce arena as strategic priority, but there it faced intense competition from dominant online retailer Amazon. In such a
competitive environment, how should Wal-Mart respond to the reality that its traditional strengths no longer guaranteed robust growth?

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Wal-Mart Update, 2017

March 26, 2023

Wal-Mart Update, 2017

by David B. Yoffie and Eric Baldwin

Publication Date: April 04, 2017
….
In 2017 Wal-Mart was still the world’s largest company, with over $480 billion in annual revenue and operations in 28 countries. Although it had mostly vanquished its rival discount retailers in the U.S., it was struggling to find the right growth strategy. Facing a mature U.S. market, it had looked to international sales as an engine of growth in the early 2010s, but international sales had also stagnated over the past few years. Wal-Mart’s leadership had targeted the rapidly-growing e-commerce arena as strategic priority, but there it faced intense competition from dominant online retailer Amazon. In such a
competitive environment, how should Wal-Mart respond to the reality that its traditional strengths no longer guaranteed robust growth?

Product #: 717468-PDF-ENG

Your Strategy Needs a Strategy

March 26, 2023

https://hbr.org/2012/09/your-strategy-needs-a-strategy

Your Strategy Needs a Strategy
by Martin Reeves, Claire Love, and Philipp Tillmanns
HBR (September 2012)

Globalization of CEMEX

March 26, 2023

https://store.hbr.org/product/globalization-of-cemex/701017

Globalization of CEMEX
by Pankaj Ghemawat and Jamie L. Matthews
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CEMEX is a Mexican company that has become a major international competitor in cement while maintaining a higher level of profitability than other, longer-established majors. CEMEX’s superior profitability supplies a basis for discussing the sources of superior performance in a global context. In addition, the wide array of benefits that CEMEX derives from its operations in different countries broadens
conventional notions of why firms globalize.

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What Is Strategy?

March 26, 2023

https://hbr.org/1996/11/what-is-strategy

What Is Strategy?
For starters, it’s not the same as operational effectiveness. by Michael E. Porter
From the Magazine (November–December 1996)

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. – Case – Faculty & Research – Harvard Business School

March 26, 2023

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=23386

CITATION
Bradley, Stephen P., and Pankaj Ghemawat. “Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.” Harvard Business School Case 794-024, January 1994. (Revised November 2002.)

Maneuver Warfare: Can Modern Military Strategy Lead You to Victory?

March 26, 2023

https://hbr.org/2002/04/maneuver-warfare-can-modern-military-strategy-lead-you-to-victory

Maneuver Warfare: Can Modern Military Strategy Lead You to Victory?

by Eric K. Clemons and Jason A. Santamaria
From the Magazine (April 2002)

Blue Ocean Strategy

March 26, 2023

https://hbr.org/2004/10/blue-ocean-strategy

Blue Ocean Strategy

Competing in overcrowded industries is no way to sustain high performance. The real opportunity is to create blue oceans of uncontested market space.

by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne
Harvard Bus. Review (October 2004)

Also:
Red Ocean Traps
The mental models that undermine market-creating strategies by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne
From the Magazine (March 2015)
https://hbr.org/2015/03/red-ocean-traps

The Marvels—And Mistakes—Of Supertall Skyscrapers – The Atlantic

January 1, 2023

Great article. Thought the very intentional “wind shaping” was fascinating (e.g. the “blow through” floors at 432 Park). Maybe we’ll see fins next.

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This didn’t seem unrelated to a lawsuit that 432 Park’s condo board has filed against the building’s developer. The plaintiffs claim that the building is riddled with more than 1,500 defects that have led to leaks, cracks, electrical explosions, and elevator shutdowns that trapped people for hours—as well as “horrible and obtrusive noise and vibrations,” including clicks, creaks, and a trash chute that thunders “like a bomb.”
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diffusing the suction-filled whirlpools that sway a building as wind whips around its sides. You could notch the corners, like on Taipei 101, which resembles a towering stack of gifts. You could twist the building, like the Twizzler-esque Shanghai Tower. You could taper it to look like the tip of a paintbrush, like the Lakhta Center, or cut out sections to let wind blow through it, like the Shanghai World Financial Center, which is nicknamed “The Bottle Opener.” 432 Park’s designers decided to make it more porous: Every 12 stories, there are two “blow through” floors with cutouts for windows, but no glass. “}}

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/01/supertall-mega-skyscraper-building-nyc/672228

steinway tower
https://www.dropbox.com/s/soza3usm060fzya/steinway-tower-view.docx?dl=0