Harvard Business Article Reviews Samples For Students

Executive Summary

Talent management in any institution is a key concept that should be totally differentiated from human resource management. This is because proper talent management leads to increased productivity and loyalty among the employees. The article “Strategic Talent Management: A review and research agenda”, Human Resource Management Review, 19: 4, 304–313” by Collings, D.G. and Mellahi, K. (2009) helps to shed light on the issue of talent management and human resource management.
The following report analyses the views and issues raised by the authors by looking at the validity and reliability of the research methods used by the authors, ...

International business refers to cross-border trade between different political jurisdictions. International business can either be carried out by private businesses or the private companies. Since the dawn of the western civilization, nations have been trading with each other to supplement the commodities that were missing in their jurisdictions. The works of neoliberal economist influenced the nature of economic trade between nations. Globalization added to liberalization of the economy. Private business enterprises were allowed to enter the market. International business posed many risks to businesses that were quick to enter the global market without taking the risks into considerations. Cross ...

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Introduction: The article “Is Silence Killing Your Company?” has interesting information about creating healthy communications in a company. The purpose of this memo is to share and discuss the main points in the article because they are helpful to company management. Both of the articles referred to in this memo can be found in the Harvard Business Review which is a peer-reviewed journal.

Silence is Unhealthy: Unfortunately people that speak out are famous as being whistleblowers who lose their jobs. They may even become ostracized from their profession. Speaking out is not thought of ...

ARTICLE REVIEW

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Global v/s Multinational

Article Review
Introduction
There is no doubt that today’s business environment has changed. Over the past few decades, the rise of transportation, communication, technology and cross cultural integration across the world has seen the rapid rise of consumerism and increasing wants and needs on a global scale. In the article named ‘Globalization of Markets’, (Levitt, 1983), sees the demise of the quintessential multinational corporation and proposes the emergence and ...

Employees are one of the most valuable resources that any organization has and focuses on enhancing their development. Managing the workers of an entity is also another issue whose dimensions keep changing along with other industry developments in the markets of participation. However, the environment has changed, and people have acquired more skills that require sound management practices. Managing talent in an organization is a consideration that each entity should make, but there have been many challenges in achieving that objective. One author from the Harvard Business Review indicates that talent management is a series of failures and success ...

Article review.

Shoemaker, P.J.H., Krupp, S., Howland, S. “Strategic leadership the essential skills”. Harvard Business Review. 02-03 (2013): 1-5.Print.

Thesis statement

The article is dedicated to researching essential skills a strategic leader has to possess. While the scope of the notion ‘strategic leadership’ remains not sufficiently researched (Morill 2), the description of essential skills of a strategic leader can be used to address strategic leadership from conceptual standpoint. Relying on the findings of empirical research in several corporations, the authors of the article distinguish six skills, essential for a strategic leader. They include anticipating, challenging the status quo, interpreting data, deciding, aligning ...

Analysis of Two Articles

Analysis of Two Articles
Interestingly, in his conclusions Kay (2006) outlined challenges for strong brands stating that following the logic of strong brands is the wrong way for decision makers because this is an easy way to be misled. The main conclusion drawn by the author was that a strong brand should be built according to certain brand logic that it tight to the meaning assigned to this brand. Porter (2008) did not draw any conclusions, but he ended his article with a concluding paragraph emphasizing the importance of careful analysis of industry structure and competition and stating that these are two the ...

1) Information technology particularly the internet has transformed the way organizations conduct business. The continued use of the internet by the society will have significant implications on the future of e-business. The use of internet by the society will change how companies conduct marketing and advertisement. According to a research conducted by Pew Research Center’s Internet & America Life Project, young adults form the majority of users of social media (http://www.pewinternet.org/). This implies that business targeting this group will introduce marketing strategies based on social media platform. Businesses will increasingly conduct market research using social media. Additionally, more companies will ...

Summary

In the article M&A Needn’t be a Loser’s Game, which was published in the June, 2003 issue of the Harvard Business Review, the authors Larry Selden and Geoffrey Colvin (2003) described the results of their study where they identified some of the reasons behind the failure of most mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Based on their findings, they also provided recommendations on how to ensure the success of these endeavors.
Selden and Colvin (2003) cited that 70 to 80 percent of acquisitions failed, which meant that these acquisitions failed to create wealth for the acquiring company’s shareholders. ...

An Article Review

Summary and Conclusion
“Why Business Models Matter” is a very good management article on why business models exist and what significant roles do they play in successful business management and performance. According to the author, Joan Magretta, every practical, business organization is founded on a business model, whether or not its founders or managers are cognizant that what they do fit into the components of a business model.
According to the author, the term business model has been cannibalized at the height of the dot.com businesses during the Internet boom, where business models were defined to differentiate the Internet companies ...

Michael Porter tries to explain the real business meaning of the term strategy in his article. He explains several things known to many to be connected with the success and failure of businesses. The article majorly concentrates on the distinguishing factors between operational effectiveness and managerial strategic acting and thinking. With these two aspects, he shows what strategy means. Strategy is the creation of exclusive and valued position, involving a diverse set of activities, which means if there existed only a single ideal position, strategy would be nonexistent.
According to Porter (1996, p. 61), operational effectiveness should not be considered a ...

Ignoring trends, Elie Ofek and Luc Wathieu

A reflection by Tamim Alruqayb

The authors of ignoring trends are sending a very crucial message to the reader. They begin by saying that the ignored trends could shake up a business. This very strong statement leaves everybody wanting to discover what the mentioned trends are. The authors go ahead and give the surprising new things that can affect the product strategy. The authors concentrate more on the digital products and services and say that the products play a big role in every day life of the consumer. The authors do not forget to mention that the great recession has made consumers more ...

This article from the Harvard Business Review looks at how the “ single-minded pursuit of wealth often leads smart people to do incredibly stupid things—things that destroy what money can't buy.” . It provides a list of poor decisions, unethical conduct, booms, busts bubbles and the documentary that chronicles some of these events. After that, it explores some of the concepts from book entitled “money and the Meaning of Life” which Jacob Needleman wrote about twenty years ago. In that book Needleman points out that an individual’s personality is basically the same with or without money. He then goes on ...

Article 2 Summary: Duncan, J. W. 2011. Everything is Obvious, Once You Know You Know the Answer: How Common Sense Fails Us. New York: Crown Business. Retrieved on September 09, 2011 from http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6785.html
It is imperative for leaders to exercise common sense especially in modern day leadership which requires decisions to be made fast.
Modern day decisions making is rapid and often done without much research or application of any theories and the expectation is to have below average risk exposure.
The decision making can be improved through wisdom and experience, failure or absence of these ...