Business Horizons articles from July 2001

Business Horizons archives from July 2001

Managers For All Seasons?(Joe Torre)(Walter Alston)(Tom Lasorda)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... A recent Fortune cover story (April 30, 2001) touted Yankee manager Joe Torre as a "manager for all seasons," one who "may be the model for today's corporate manager." Writer Jerry Useem credits Torre with a rare level of "emotional...

Strategic Innovation: A Conceptual Road Map.(competitive advantage)
July 1, 2001... Competitive advantage is not just a function of how well a company plays by the existing rules of the game. More important, it depends on the firm's ability to radically change those rules. This is as true of a newcomer like eBay as it is of an...

What Makes a Strategy Brilliant?
July 1, 2001... "The art of war is simple; everything is a matter of execution." -Napoleon Bonaparte "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" -Anonymous Is strategy a joke? Does Napoleon's observation apply to business as well as war? Is...

Man, I'm Smart About How Stupid I Am!(overconfident predictions)
July 1, 2001... Executives who make inaccurate predictions will surely encounter difficulties. Being absolutely certain that one's erroneous predictions are right, however, is where the real danger lies. It can turn what would have been a minor problem into a...

The Essentials of Scenario Writing.
July 1, 2001... Scenarios offer an attractive alternative to the false precision promised by point-estimate forecasts. You can write a scenario rather than calculate it to four significant decimal places. Advocates believe that this softer, qualitative...

Marketing on the Web: How Executives Feel, What Businesses Do.(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2001... The last decade of the twentieth century will be remembered as a watershed for global communication and commerce. The Internet entered the lexicon of daily conversation and, almost overnight, became a dominating and ubiquitous presence on the...

Pricing as Entrepreneurial Behavior.
July 1, 2001... Conventional pricing is being turned on its head. Netscape makes its browser source code available for free. Glaxo takes over a pharmaceutical market by charging more than the competition for a comparable product. Bally Total Fitness Centers...

Maximizing the Financial and Product Market Values of the IPO Opportunity.(initial public offerings)
July 1, 2001... An initial public offering, the first selling of a company's stock to the public, is a major milestone for a business. It provides equity capital from a broad segment of the public, as well as an opportunity to disseminate information on the...

The Missing Link: Why Stock Markets Have Been Ineffective in Chinese SOE Reform.(state-owned enterprises)
July 1, 2001... In the drive to achieve a "modern enterprise system," China introduced two stock markets into its centrally planned economy in the early 1990s, one in Shanghai and the other in Shenzhen. [1] The aim was to revitalize the ailing state-owned...

WFOEs: The Most Popular Entry Mode into China.(wholly foreign-owned enterprises)(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2001... Since its "open-door" policy was first initiated in 1979, China has experienced a foreign direct investment boom. For seven years in a row, it has been the world's second largest FDI recipient behind the United States. By the end of May 2000,...

Online Grocery Retailing: Success Factors and Potential Pitfalls.
July 1, 2001... Like the rest of e-commerce, the new format of selling groceries online has grown at a phenomenal pace and stirred up considerable hype. Born and bred on the Internet, pure-play online retailers such as Peapod and Webvan are already household...

One-third of tested job applicants flunked in basic literacy and math, American Management Association Survey finds.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... 34.1 %failure rate improves slightly from previous year; other forms of testing in decline NEW YORK--More than a third of job applicants tested in reading and math in 2000 lacked the basic skills necessary to perform the jobs they sought,...