企业发展应做“加法”还是“减法”

万科公司总裁王石说过：在企业经营上,他曾经是个“风流情种”,见一个爱一个;如今,他成了情圣,情感专一,只爱一个。这就是他的所谓“减法”：一改多元经营之辄而走专业化发展之路．．因此,业界称他为“减法王石”。、中国另一位著名企业家——海尔总裁张瑞敏,却开拓了一条相反的路。在万科开始做“减法”的时候,海尔却开始大做“加法”,在全国范围内尽力兼并收购、因此,他也得了个雅号,叫“加法张瑞敏”、,     

不必为李书福“紧张”

那还是2005年9月之前，当许多人听说李书福要把吉利汽车摆到有“汽车奥运会”之称的德国法兰克福车展上展出时，脑海中很容易就跳出了“行吗”之类的词句。但是李书福却很自信．他没有站出来解释。最后他却用事实让那些替他紧张的人，把“行吗”的那个“吗”字给去掉了。     

鲁冠球：长青树下的商业逻辑

很多人都知道鲁冠球，但却不一定知道他的商业逻辑。如果仅仅以为“稳健”、“专注”是他“长青”的秘诀，那你可能已经被表象欺骗了。     

天下何人不烦恼

“老韦,我最近好烦,好烦!不知原由的烦!你为什么不烦?!”不时有朋友打这样的电话给我,却很少接到“老韦,我最近好开心、好开心哟!”的电话。每接到这种“烦心”电话,我那原来很烦乱的心情却一下子平静下来,我只能问他:“你告诉我吧,有什么人不烦,我想跟他取取经。”有朋友说:我     

虚拟生存:如何实现金钱的n次方?

当 “虚拟经营”在业界仍倍受争议之时,美特斯邦威却已向他的竞争对手们证明了“虚拟经营”生存有道。     

Karl Lagerfeld黑白影像中的精彩世界

Karl Lagerfeld作为一位出生于1938年的“老人家”，人们称他为“时装界的凯撒大帝”或是“老佛爷”，不过他却有颗异乎寻常年轻的心以及一双善于捕捉世界精细的眼睛。     

奉献者是最美丽的人——记国家风光储输示范工程业主项目部主任吴涛

在国网风光储公司这家年轻的企业,他是熟悉张家口的“老人”,因为三十二年来,他早已把自己全部激情融入到“山城”的电力发展事业当中;虽然已过天命之年,却不惜放弃舒适的工作环境,义无反顾地投入到新能源建设的一线“阵地”,因为他的“心”已经与示范工程紧密融合在一起.他就是吴涛.工程建设期间,他担任风光储公司总经理助理兼工程部主...     

“80后”青工的矿山情怀——记河南煤化集团鹤煤公司二矿采煤二队采煤班长韩利果

出生于1987年的韩利果,是一个典型的“80后”。当人们为“80后”贴上“叛逆”与“自私”的标签时,他却川自己6年如一日的井下工作展示着“责任”和“奉献”：当社会给煤矿工人烙上“黑脸白牙,朝夕不保”的印记时,他则以“有知识、懂技术、重安全”,展现出新时代矿工的新形象。     

“直躬”当受诛

“直躬不受诛”系《吕氏春秋．当务》中的一则寓言。“直躬”犹言“直人”。传说楚国有个“直人”．有一次,他的父亲偷了羊,他向官府揭发了,官府抓住了他的父亲,准备惩办,这个“直人”忙请求代父受过。准备要施刑了,他却向官府申诉说：“父亲偷羊我告发,我对官府不是很忠实吗？现在我又代父受罚,不是说明我很孝顺吗？我又忠又孝,却遭到惩罚,全国上下还会有不被惩罚的人吗？”楚王知道了,就下令对他免于处罚。孔子闻知,感慨万端地说：“多么奇特呀,这直人吹嘘的所谓忠实,倒不如不忠实的好。“孔子的这一指责！一针见血,揭露了“直人”欺世盗名的虚伪面孔。 “直躬不受诛”这一事例,在当今社会生活中也许不复存在,但类似的这种现象,如今却屡见不鲜。前不久,听人讲一位个体经营户,利用各种手段偷漏税达三十余万元,可他在当地组织的希望工程中,却捐献二十万元。报纸上对他的行动作了公开的表场,称他有一股爱心。其实,纳税是爱国的表现,一个偷漏税的人？哪里谈得上 “爱心”？只不过是耍奸弄巧,沽名钓誉而已。 令人担忧的是,此类事情,偏有人不以为然,甚至明知故犯,干着“自己放毒自己治”的蠢事。报载：淮河流域有座城市,早几年为了发展地方经济,拟筹建一座化工厂,在进行...     

歪批IT之三十二 咨询“郎中”

咨询大师孔先生恐怕是咨询圈儿中唯一不穿西装、不打领带的人,他很少上台演讲,会客时总喜欢穿一袭长衫或中山装,他的办公室里见不到电脑,却陈列着大量线装书和纸墨笔砚。每次“企业诊断”后,他总爱提笔挥毫,题字一幅赠予客户。他撰写的方案书满篇“之乎者也”,常令新派经理人挠头,但也有不少客户捧他的场。今天,“孔郎中”的“诊     

Standard Oil as a Technological Innovator

A century ago, in 1911, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its path-breaking decision in the monopolization case against the Standard Oil Companies. Standard pleaded inter alia that its near-monopoly position was the result of superior innovation, citing in particular the Frasch-Burton process for refining the high-sulfur oil found around Lima, Ohio. This paper examines the role of Hermann Frasch in inventing and developing the desulfurization process, showing that Standard failed to recognize his inventive genius when he was its employee and purchased his rights and services only after he had applied it in his own Canadian company.     

王祯《农书》中锡活字排版技艺新释

元代王祯在《农书》中记载了一种锡活字印刷。前人根据其记载推测锡活字中间有一个可供穿铁丝用的小孔。本文通过研究得出与前人不同的观点：元代的锡活字中不应该有小孔,其排版技艺可能与后世所见的金属活字基本相同。     

Coercion and the Trade Unions: a Reconsideration of Hayek

Friedrich Hayek was an influential critic of trade unions, especially critical of their presumed ability to act 'coercively'. Without coercive power unions could be benign; with coercive power they were seen to be a force for profound loss and danger. The paper examines Hayek's understanding of the general concept of coercion, and discusses how he applied it to the analysis of trade unions. It also looks at his more speculative treatment of trade unions in a 'non-coercive' world to see what that suggests about his analysis of trade unions. I conclude that Hayek's notion of coercion was unsatisfactory, that he was seriously inconsistent in his use of the term, and that he was hopelessly confused in his analysis of unions.     

机械“医生”彭兴礼的“另类”生意

彭兴礼年轻时走过一段隧道,一条几公里长的铁路隧道：刚进隧道时,还能看到身后的光亮,渐渐地,身后的光亮成了一个点,然后是无边的黑暗。那时候他喜欢武术,包里有副二节棍,为了不撞到墙,他把棍拿出来,划着墙壁往前走。没有人,什么都没有。他就这样一直走着,走出隧道时,棍已经被磨平了半面。     

沃斯对现代服装业的启示

沃斯(Charles Frederick Worth)作为高级女装的创始人,把高级女装理想化、制度化,使其更适合男性的审美观、艺术观、价值观。沃斯的成功不仅仅是因为他在设计上的天分,更重要的是他清楚地认识并顺应了他生活的那个年代。沃斯对时装业的影响不仅在于开创了高级时装,更可贵的是他伟大的想象力和独特的设计理念,这些都为后世产生了深远影响。他的创新精神在今天仍有其借鉴意义。     

Alfred E. Kahn: Regulator and Language Maven

Alfred Kahn’s enduring legacy will be his influence on how economists think about the regulation of natural monopoly. But although the substance of his ideas mattered far more than their style, his influence would not have been nearly as great had it not been for his almost slavish devotion to clear language. His career supports the proposition that most of the heavy lifting in economics relies on just a few basic principles that can be stated in plain English. In this essay, I describe how Kahn’s mastery of those principles made him such an effective regulator, but I also note that events since the 1978 deregulation of the airline industry suggest that he and others at the Civil Aeronautics Board failed to appreciate the extent of unexploited economies of scale in the industry.     

Alfred E. Kahn, 1917–2010

Our introduction to this compendium reviews Alfred Kahn’s academic and policy interests, his activities as a regulator and advisor to governments and companies, and the interactions between these aspects of his life as an economist. Although best known for his research on the economics of regulation and his application of microeconomic principles in his role as a regulator and advisor, Kahn’s academic research portfolio was much more diverse. He wrote about patent policy, economic development, antitrust policy, and other topics, in addition to his work on regulation and deregulation. Even before becoming a regulator he was actively involved in applying economic principles to regulatory problems as an advisor and consultant. In all of his work Kahn recognized that markets were imperfect, but that policies aimed at improving market performance often made things worse. His experience as a regulator and consultant strengthened his recognition that the costs of imperfect regulation had to be carefully balanced against the costs of imperfect markets. One had to search for the best that could be done in an imperfect world. Kahn was particularly fascinated by the challenges of designing and implementing policies to govern the transition from regulated monopoly or oligopoly to an industry that would ultimately rely primarily on competitive markets to govern firm behavior and performance. Fred Kahn was an extraordinary man who is missed greatly by his many friends and colleagues representing a wide range of political orientations and approaches to economic and public policy analysis.     

简单快乐，李兴浩

李兴浩的商业逻辑看起来很简单，他相信低成本战略，可以说是中国制造价值观的忠实执行者。李兴浩的办公室很大,一边是铺了实本地板的会客区；一边是办公区，敦实的老板椅后面挂着一幅字：“志存高远”。屋子南边窗子旁放着一个地球仪，正对着大门的书柜上摆着两张他和美国国务卿希拉里的合影。李兴浩给人的第一感觉就是有些张扬，     

Product Development Strategy: An Integration of Technology and Marketing

Although it seems obvious that a new product development strategy must bring together marketing and R&D strategies, the conceptual development of marketing and R&D strategies has taken place in relative isolation. More than ten years ago, when Professor Harry Nyström began his research program on product development in Swedish firms, he realized that the isolation wasn't an appropriate point of view. He began to construct a conceptual framework for analyzing product development strategies that incorporated many more variables than had traditionally been considered. The latest set of firms in the research program are four pulp and paper companies. They are in mature, process industries, quite unlike the earlier study firms. Yet many of the same propositions from the earlier research still hold. In this article, Professor Nyström presents the most recent version of his framework to help managers develop an integrated product development strategy.     

One man's tough choices on prostate cancer

It's the No. 2 cancer killer in men--and it will strike almost every male who lives long enough to get it. But when a seasoned science journalist was diagnosed with it, doctors gave him confusing and contradictory advice. In his painful journey through the maze, he learned that where doctors disagree--as they do over how to treat many life-threatening diseases--an educated patient can help educate them.