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Archive for the ‘Planning’ Category

Pricing power and substitution

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

I just finished reading an updated version of Michael Porter's classic paper The Five Competitive Forces that Shape Strategy. (Unfortunately at the end of last month, HBR moved it to behind their paywall. They did, however, retain public access to a video of Professor ...

The perfect is not the enemy of the good

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

I was just listening to a CFR Podcast on Preventing Nuclear Terrorism in which the speaker said that one of the problems with our current strategy is that it focuses on very expensive exhaustive test measures (100% inspection of all cargo ships), rather than smaller measures across a broader spectrum ...