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Regional Strategies for Global Leadership (Spanish version)
Ghemawat, PankajArticle HBS-R0512FStrategyhome base, portfolio, hub, platform, and mandate. Some companies adopt the strategies in sequence, but the most nimble switch from one to another and combine approaches as their markets and businesses evolve. At Toyota, for example, exports from the home base continue to be substantial even as the company builds up an international manufacturing presence. And as Toyota achieves economies of scale and scope with a strong network of hubs, the comp...Starting at €8.20
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How Local Companies Keep Multinationals at Bay (Spanish version)
Bhattacharya, Arindam K.; Michael, David C.Article HBS-R0803FStrategyThis article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. A substantial number of local companies in emerging markets have managed to hold their own--or better--in the face of competition from global Goliaths. Bhattacharya and Michael of the Boston Consulting Group show how these domestic Davids have achieved that impress...Starting at €8.20
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Cocreating Business's New Social Compact
Brugmann, Jeb; Prahalad, C.K.Article HBS-R0702D-EEconomicsThis article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. Moving beyond decades of mutual distrust and animosity, corporations and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are learning to cooperate with each other. Realizing that their interests are converging, the two sides are working together to create innovative business ...Starting at €8.20
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How Local Companies Keep Multinationals at Bay
Bhattacharya, Arindam K.; Michael, David C.Article HBS-R0803F-EStrategyThis article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. A substantial number of local companies in emerging markets have managed to hold their own--or better--in the face of competition from global Goliaths. Bhattacharya and Michael of the Boston Consulting Group show how these domestic Davids have achieved that impress...Starting at €8.20
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We Actively Avoid Information That Can Help Us
Ho, Emily; Stackpole, ThomasArticle HBS-F2005B-EKnowledge and CommunicationWhy do people often resist knowledge that might benefit them? A new study suggests that they do so to protect their self-esteem.Starting at €8.20
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Playing the Whole Game (Spanish version)
Lax, David A.; Sebenius, James K.Article HBS-R0311DStrategy1-D negotiators focus on improving their interpersonal skills at the negotiating table, and 2-D negotiators focus on diagnosing underlying sources of value in a deal and then recrafting the terms to satisfy all parties. In this article, the authors explore the often-neglected third dimension. Instead of just playing the game at the bargaining table, 3-D negotiators reshape the scope and sequence of the game itself to achieve the desired outcome....Starting at €8.20
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Why Transformation Efforts Fail (Spanish version)
Kotter, John P.Article HBS-R0701JLeadership and People Managementgenerating a sense of urgency, establishing a powerful guiding coalition, developing a vision, communicating the vision clearly and often, removing obstacles, planning for and creating short-term wins, avoiding premature declarations of victory, and embedding changes in the corporate culture. Realizing that change usually takes a long time, says Kotter, can improve the chances of success.Starting at €8.20
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Cocrear un nuevo pacto social para las empresas
Brugmann, Jeb; Prahalad, C.K.Article HBS-R0702DEconomicsEste artículo incluye una vista previa de una página que resume rápidamente las ideas clave y proporciona una visión general de cómo los conceptos funcionan en la práctica, junto con sugerencias para la lectura adicional. Yendo más allá de décadas de mutua desconfianza y animosidad, corporaciones y organizaciones no gubernamentales (ONG) están aprendiendo a cooperar entre sí. Al darse cuenta de que sus intereses están convergiendo, las dos partes...Starting at €8.20
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Why Did We Ever Go Into HR? (Spanish version)
Breitfelder, Matthew D.; Dowling, Daisy WademanArticle HBS-R0807BLeadership and People ManagementIt, like a business school, promotes active learning; it serves as an engine for both savings and revenue; it hatches and harvests ideas across organizational boundaries; it makes big places smaller by connecting people intimately and often; and it focuses on the positive, moving beyond fixing problems and enforcing rules to enhancing employee engagement and capitalizing on people's strengths. If that's what HR is becoming, why wouldn't you go i...Starting at €8.20
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What's a Business For? (Spanish version)
Handy, CharlesArticle HBS-R0212CBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityWhom and what is a business for? And are traditional ownership and governance structures suited to the knowledge economy? According to corporate law, a company's financiers are its owners, and employees are treated as property and recorded as costs. But whereas that might have been true in the early days of industry, it does not reflect today's reality. Now a company's assets are increasingly found in the employees who contribute their time and ...Starting at €8.20