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Thomas M. Hout's Harvard Business Review Article, 'Are Managers Obsolete?'

that "companies that last do so because managers who run them are exceptionally good at what they do" (p. 116). Those in this ca...

Articles on Marketing and Business Reviewed

In twenty four pages articles pertaining to marketing and business are reviewed with citations for each article included....

Harvard Business Review's 1990 Article 'The Core Competence of the Corporation' Reviewed

that also has not made the effort to identify and enhance its core competencies. This is one route to losing competitive advantag...

Harvard Business Review Case Study 'The Empowerment Effort That Came Undone'

get out of the way of the departments. They could do it themselves. Clearly Harry was very stuck in his ways, he was opinionated ...

Reflections and Reviews of Articles on Information Technology

its role in the current business environment. Rather, it lies with his failure to address any possibility of an expanded role for...

Management Science Journal Articles Reviewed

In seven pages this paper reviews 7 articles on business management as they relate to the insurance industry....

FDI Interests in China

the consumer price index increased 5.3 percent year-over-year, greatly increased over the annualized rate of 1.2 percent in 2003 f...

CASE STUDY ANALYSIS: RECRUITMENT OF A STAR

and in person, was Seth Horkum. The problem here, however, is that Stephen was unable to gather any background research on him. Th...

Assessment of Beer and Nohria Article "Cracking the Code of Change"

looking at their own model of Theory E and Theory O change. The change model that was developed in these two theories reflected th...

A Review of Decisions Without Blinders

propensity for heart attack and stroke. Data revealing the potential hazards of Vioxx was by all accounts easily available to doc...

Supply Chain Management

a barrier to rapid movement in the supply chain as well as efficiency and has been a focus of some attention for more than fifteen...

Harvard Business Review Articles on Operations Management

In five pages this paper assesses 6 articles on operations management featured in the Harvard Business Review with an executive su...

Analysis of Leadership Articles Featured in the Harvard Business Review

seldom and inefficiently--it does not constitute good leadership practices. Rather then tactics of coercion or manipulation, Mintz...

E-Commerce, Physical Presence vs. On-Line Existence

This paper provides a discussion of the July/August 1999 report featured in the Harvard Business Review addressing a retailer's ph...

'Strategic Intent' and Company Operations

relentlessly targeted Southwest in demarketing efforts, Southwest not only continued to exist. Eventually, it surpassed all of th...

A Communities of Practice The Organizational Frontier Article Analysis

to customers, create new markets, rapidly develop new products and dominate emergent technologies" (p. 2). Basically, he s...

Gary Pisano's 'Partners Health Care System, Inc.,(B): Cardiac Care Improvement

All of the results of this reengineering, however, were not as positive. The process had not taken into consideration the fact th...

Robert Frey's Empowerment or Else

In five pages this paper discusses this article by Robert Frey which was featured in 1993's Harvard Business Review. There is 1 s...

Critical Success Factors

more quantitative; while strategic "planning tends to be idea driven, more qualitative" (Pacios 2004, p. 259). Whereas long-range...

Questions Raised by "Putting Leadership Back into Strategy"

forming and implementing strategy; and the successful examination of the question of what business the company is in. Effect of Co...

Thomas Jefferson by Joyce Appleby

the United States. The book begins around the time he was elected as President, which took place at the end of the 18th century. I...

A Review of Deaf Like Me

A 5 page review of the book by Thomas Spradley and James Spradley. 1 source....

An Article Review on Human Resources and the Workplace

this study is the process of acculturation. This study, then, is analytical and considers the way in which acculturation has beco...

A Workplace and Human Resource Article Reviewed as One of a Series of Eight

author outlines the specific nature of an organization and the impacts of organizational imperialism on the interactions in this o...

Case Study of Ben and Jerry's Analyzed

activism. Some see this as hypocritical as the firm has taken advantage of the marketplace. Yet, when all is said and done, its co...

Nursing: Article Reviews

some determining the study was inconclusive, others saying certain interventions should be made universal and still others stating...

Portfolio Team Management

Doyle. He asked numerous people for advice about hiring another analyst but he did not follow any of it. For instance, Jenkins tol...

Articles on ERP

process. The decision making process is dependant on two main components, the first is the input data and the second is the transf...

An Assessment of US Blame for Globalization

Globalization has changed the world as we know it. In the larger sense globalization is simply the increased relationship between...

Queuing Application and Linear Programming Articles Reviewed

In seven pages a 1997 article 'Optimization of discrete event systems via simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation' by F...