Dave Ulrich, professor at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, argues today's companies need to replace old hierarchical models with he calls a “market-oriented ecosystem.” From research at Alibaba, Google, Huawei, Supercell, and others, he shows the impressive results of orienting teams and processes toward market opportunities. Ulrich is the ... Show More
Sep 2023
How to Thrive in Fast-Moving Markets
What can we learn from fast-moving companies—like Amazon, Google, and Alibaba—about how to organize to promote strategic growth? University of Michigan business professor Dave Ulrich went inside these companies to study how their internal structure keeps them nimble, innovative, ... Show More
21m 50s
Nov 2022
Prof G Markets: Upheaval at Twitter, Airbnb and Uber Earnings, and the Chinese Markets
This week on Prof G Markets, Scott shares his thoughts on Elon’s proposed changes to Twitter so far and explains why enabling paywalled videos like OnlyFans is a good idea. He then makes the argument for why Airbnb is one of the best-performing companies in the world, and how Ube ... Show More
27m 16s
Sep 2022
How Two Ex-Uber Engineers Built a Unicorn in Less Than 3 Years with Martin Mao
Martin Mao is the co-founder and CEO of Chronosphere, the provider of the leading observability platform for cloud-native. He previously held roles at leading tech companies including Uber, Microsoft, Google and Amazon. Top 3 Value Bombs: 1. Luck and timing play a significant rol ... Show More
23m 17s
May 2023
How Small Companies Compete with — and Beat — Big Ones
In an era driven by network effects, smaller players struggle to compete against bigger platforms. The trick to gaining ground on a much larger rival, says Harvard Business School professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee, is choosing a strategy that can’t easily be imitated. A good example ... Show More
34m 14s