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...business blockbuster Competing for the Future, C.K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel argued that the first step to competitive advantage requires executives to escape their operational focus and spend serious time developing foresight about their industries. Prahalad returns to the topic early next year, this time with fellow University of Michigan Business School professor Venkat Ramaswamy. In The Future of Competition, they argue that today's consumer, overwhelmed with products, services and information, is not the passive participant of yesteryear's business-to-consumer equation. In the emerging paradigm, the consumer plays an active role, which means companies need to create...
...Having vintages of this caliber in constant supply requires some foresight: the amount of wine consumed during flights can be staggering. Cathay Pacific buys about 50,000 bottles of wine a year for economy class alone, says Grossrieder, and about 20,000 bottles for first class. For orders of this size, you can't simply pick up the phone. Even at wine auctions, the quantity for sale might only be 10 or 20 cases per lot, which is prohibitively expensive in such small volumes. Planning for the future means the airlines buy en primeur (before bottling), especially for fine wines...
Just last Friday, Mandela lauded French President Jacques Chirac for opposing the U.S. invasion of Iraq--and that was one of Mandela's tamer shots during what has been a nine-month barrage of criticism. In January, Mandela called Bush a "President who has no foresight, who cannot think properly," and accused him of "wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust." Mandela has also accused the U.S. of ignoring the U.N. because it is led by a black man, and has repeatedly called the U.S. a "threat to world peace." During a visit to Ireland last week, he told...
...successful. Despite the absence of Radcliffe funding, the class committee ran a fun senior soirée that required more work and featured more alcohol (not less, as implied by the Staff) than ever before. Furthermore, the acquisition of Red Sox-Yankees tickets was only possible because of the foresight of the class committee to purchase those tickets back in January...
State agencies must use their powers of eminent domain wisely and justly. In this case, the MBTA must act with intelligence and foresight. This property should be sold to Harvard, with full guarantee that the public interests will be preserved...