Strategy & Management

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Knowledge@Wharton October 8, 2003	Does Sun, Burned by Competition, Need a New Business Model? The clouds over Sun Microsystems are thickening as the company continues to struggle against competition from cheap, open systems offered by Dell, and from IBM and Hewlett-Packard in high-end business systems.
Knowledge@Wharton October 8, 2003	How Pepsi Got its Fizz Back In the last six years, PepsiCo has undergone a transformation, keeping its storied name but re-carbonating a business that had gone flat. Like a runner in training, the company has come away from a tough regimen slimmer but fitter.
Knowledge@Wharton October 8, 2003	Banking on Breadth: Why CEOs Value Cross-Functional Perspectives Managers traditionally have built their careers by concentrating on specific disciplines like finance or marketing. Such specialization, however, pales in comparison to the value executives can generate when they fuse together insights from various fields into a cohesive whole.
HBS Working Knowledge October 6, 2003 Carla Tishler	The Growth of the Social Enterprise To branch or affiliate? Different organizational structures have different strategic implications for nonprofit expansion, say Harvard's Jane Wei-Skillern and Duke-based colleague Beth Battle Anderson.
HBS Working Knowledge October 6, 2003 Nick Morgan	Speechwriting Under the Gun It doesn't matter to your audience if you have ten days or ten minutes to write a speech. You still must deliver. Here are tips for speeding your speech prep.
HBS Working Knowledge October 6, 2003 Jim Heskett	Is "the Innovator's Solution" to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act? Long-term growth and profitability are elusive targets for many organizations. The former often is more difficult to achieve than the latter, especially for companies competing in "mature" markets. This presents a problem for today's manager to the degree that investors reward growth more than profitability.
HBS Working Knowledge October 6, 2003 Jonathan Byrnes	Managing Profitability: One Year Later The most important issue facing managers in this difficult economy is making more money from the existing business without costly new initiatives. The author revisits this assertion from a year ago.
BusinessWeek October 13, 2003 Diane Brady	Will Jeff Immelt's New Push Pay Off for GE? The giant is gambling that helping customers beyond the call of duty will reboot growth.
BusinessWeek October 13, 2003 Andy Reinhardt	Nokia's Big Leap It's challenging Nintendo and Sony with a handset that plays games. Can a phonemaker score in the entertainment biz?
BusinessWeek October 13, 2003 Louis Lavelle	Show and Tell In The Naked Corporation: How the Age of Transparency Will Revolutionize Business, the authors suggest that stakeholders' demands for information give companies a new way to differentiate themselves -- as honest, responsive, and sensitive to specific issues. This is a compelling thesis.
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