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...Walter Kiechel III (Harvard Business; 347 pages...
...Kiechel, a former managing editor of FORTUNE, hails the rise of strategy, saying it has eclipsed "any other change worked in the intellectual landscape of business over the past 50 years." The "lords" are Bruce Henderson of BCG, Bill Bain of Bain & Co., Fred Gluck of McKinsey and Michael Porter of Harvard Business School. He traces their quest to understand how companies gain competitive advantage. The strategy revolution, Kiechel writes, "features a rowdy parade of ideas and analytical techniques jostling each other down the historical road...
...time. After a lunch together, which in her words “was the longest in the history of mankind,” and dinner later that evening, Jack and the future Mrs. Welch realized their relationship was a romantic one.The next day, she called her boss Walter Kiechel ’68, editorial director of Harvard Business School Publications, to tell him that he should pull the article she had written on Jack Welch. Four months later, she resigned.“I was fired,” she says now. “They would tell...
...majority of our expenses are fixed,” Kiechel said, referring to costs like rent and electricity. “So if we come up short, the only thing we can cut is our food budget or our administrative overhead budget...
...We’d have to buy less food or cheaper food which wouldn’t be as healthy,” said Kiechel, who is also a Crimson editor...