Strategy & Management

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BusinessWeek August 1, 2005	Replenishing Gains with New Ideas Fidelity Contrafund's Will Danoff says he looks to "the vanguard of the entrepreneurial spirit" for fresh, promising investment leads.
HBS Working Knowledge July 25, 2005 Robert Simons	An Organization Your Customers Understand Addressing the most obvious -- and most vexing -- problem of organization design: grouping work units according to specific criteria.
HBS Working Knowledge July 25, 2005 Harrop & Hamilton	Are You Ready to Fight a Giant? That a David can defeat a Goliath is no myth. Even when lacking long-standing relationships, pervasive brands, and advantages of scale, upstarts often find a way to prevail against their "bigger" incumbents.
HBS Working Knowledge July 25, 2005 Casciaro & Lobo	Fool vs. Jerk: Whom Would You Hire? In most cases, people choose their workers or work partners according to two criteria: competence and likability. Obviously, both are important. But what's less obvious is how, and how much, they matter.
The Motley Fool July 25, 2005 Rich Smith	Fleetwood Getting Fleeter Spurred by losses, this maker of RVs and manufactured homes is proceeding with reorganization. Fleetwood is not out of the tunnel yet. But under Smith's leadership, investors in this company are finally starting to see some daylight.
The Motley Fool July 25, 2005 Steven Mallas	JAKKS Gets the Lead Out Who could have guessed that altering the DNA of the common pencil could drive a company's sales and shareholder value? The Ultra Sharp might do just that for JAKKS.
The Motley Fool July 25, 2005 Charly Travers	Transkaryotic Therapies: What's It Worth? U.K.-based Shire Pharmaceuticals has offered to buy Transkaryotic Therapies for $37 a share. Will shareholders be shortchanged?
The Motley Fool July 25, 2005 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Boards Don't Know Best Whirlpool needlessly raises its bid to acquire a troubled rival. This is an insult to Maytag investors. It's an affront to Whirlpool.
The Motley Fool July 25, 2005 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Cashing Out the Register Register.com's pricing model is holding it back. The domain name company doesn't stand a chance marketing to the naive. It may hurt results in the near term, but if Register.com wants to fetch a higher asking price, it's going to have to learn to get aggressively affordable right now.
Fast Company August 2005 Keith H. Hammonds	Why We Hate HR In a knowledge economy, companies with the best talent win. And finding, nurturing, and developing that talent should be one of the most important tasks in a corporation. So why does human resources do such a bad job -- and how can we fix it?
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