Kim Warren on Strategy

Strategy insights and living business models

· Strategy

Better than HBR?

Harvard Business Review may be seen as the gold-standard for leading edge management thinking. But I am increasingly impressed by the quality of other journals. McKinsey Quarterly, of course,…

Kim Warren

harvard business review, Mckinsey Quarterly, sloan management review, strategy+business

· Strategy

Strategy + falsehood = error

An otherwise great column in HBR It’s Time for the 3-D MBA about improving MBA programs starts well by urging more breadth and depth, then calling for more…

Kim Warren

harvard business review, HBR, innovation, MBA, strategy implementation

· Strategy

How good leaders make bad decisions

… and right after the McKinsey survey, HBR has an article by Andrew Campbell, Jo Whitehead (Ashridge) and Sydney Finkelstein (Dartmouth) on neuroscience revelations about how leaders’ judgment…

Kim Warren

analysis, Andrew Campbell, Ashridge, business benefits, Dartmouth, decision-making, harvard business review, HBR, Jo Whitehead, mckinsey, neuroscience, strategic decisions, Sydney Finkelstein

· Strategy

Seize Advantage in a Downturn

More (mostly) helpful advice re the downturn from HBR is Seize the advantage in a downturn in which David Rhodes and Daniel Stelter of BCG offer thoughts to…

Kim Warren

BCG, Boston Consulting Group, business model, competitive advantage, competitive strategy, cost cutting, Daniel Stelter, David Rhodes, down-turn, harvard business review, HBR, organizational memory, rivals

· Strategy

Anyone using game theory?

Though I have heard of game theory being used in a few particular and special cases (e.g. the auctioning of 3G cellphone licenses) I have not seen anything…

Kim Warren

12manage, business planning, game theory, harvard business review, Mckinsey Quarterly, Nalebuff, strategic management, strategy+business

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