Last week, the news of a major Hewlett-Packard write-down of $8.8 billion due to problems with its acquisition of Autonomy, is of course, nothing new. According to the Wall Street Journal, H-P’s problems are cited as follows, “that Autonomy made “outright misrepresentations” to inflate … Continue reading
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A window of opportunity is a magic moment, as it were, in the time span of opportunity for a product, service, or nowadays, your personal brand. It could be argued that the winner in the race for opportunity does not … Continue reading
A History of Entrepreneurship As someone who grew up with entrepreneurial parents, I can say without hesitation that there is no job experience that can completely compare with the rewards and perils of such a career path. Although many would … Continue reading
Reputation matters. Bad reputations can hurt, and even damage a name, brand, business or organization for decades. Think of some California cities and their struggles in recent years ranging from a dereliction of duty all the way to outright fraud. … Continue reading
Way back in the early 1990s during my undergraduate business studies, we began learning about various predicted changes that were going to occur in the structure of leadership throughout corporate America, and all organizations. Sixteen years later in graduate school, … Continue reading
In my undergraduate studies (about a hundred years ago), in addition to logic, I also took a course on ethics that I found terribly interesting. I found many of the topics readily applicable to the world around us in a … Continue reading
Earnings Too Good To Be True? Financial news, blogs, tweets, feeds and our own experiences all inform us that earnings are not all equal. Anthony and Breitner, in their small overview of accounting fundamentals highlight the limitations of financial statement … Continue reading
Recently I have found myself running virtually every business topic I consider though the grid of the social era. This is particularly interesting to me since there are a number of principles in business that are timeless in nature, but … Continue reading
In our present time, where social is the model and connected is the norm, where is the disconnect between good ideas within the firm, and the application of innovation to make those ideas happen? In my MBA program, we were … Continue reading
The activities of the firm are summed up in the creation, expansion, management, preservation and delivery of value. The sine qua non of the delivery of value is distinctive, and distinctive is at the heart of competitive advantage. Otherwise, a … Continue reading
Two recent articles caught my eye, both dealing with a certain negative side of innovation: change management. David Burkus posted an article on 99U where he begins with the [rhetorical] question, “Have you ever debuted an exciting new idea to … Continue reading
Brian Leavy suggests two overarching models to “explain how sustainable competitive advantage can be created and maintained…these two contrasting perspectives…are core competence and market position” (2003). In the examination of two running shoe companies, you see market position (Nike), and … Continue reading