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Disruptive Innovation for Social Change (Spanish version)
Christensen, Clayton M.; Baumann, Heiner; Ruggles, Rudy; Sadtler, Thomas M.Article HBS-R0612EStrategyHow should executives think about corporate social responsibility? and Why is it that the billions of dollars invested in social sector institutions haven't begun to solve our basic problems? Both articles have smart, original things to say about how business leaders can make a real difference. A company that aligns its strategy with its CSR to invest in disruptive social sector innovations might change the world.Starting at €8.20
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What Are Business Models, and How Are They Built?, Module Note (Spanish version)
Christensen, Clayton M.; Johnson, Mark W.Case HBS-615S01Service and Operations ManagementStarting at €8.20
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Discovery Skill #3: Observing-How Watching Your Customers, Other Companies, and the World Around You Can Lead to Game-Changing Innovation
Dyer, Jeffrey H.; Gregersen, Hal B.; Christensen, Clayton M.Book Chapter HBS-8372BC-EKnowledge and CommunicationDelivery-driven leaders often become so consumed by the pressures of running an organization that they never pause to take a look at what's going on around them. But disruptive innovators like Ratan Tata, creator of the Nano car, whose journey of discovery is described in this chapter, are constantly on the lookout for jobs people need to get done and workarounds, or partial solutions, that can be the answers to everyday problems. In this chapter...Starting at €8.20
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Lagkagehuset: Building a Bakery Chain
Palepu, Krishna G.; Moloney, EmerCase HBS-115002-EEntrepreneurshipA Danish bakery chain that was acquired by a private equity firm in 2008, and has grown from 3 to 31 stores, plans to address reoccurring operational and organizational issues before growing further.Starting at €8.20
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Ardian: Portfolio Company Governance
Paine, Lynn Sharp; Moloney, Emer; Labruyere, ToniaCase HBS-318017-ELeaders of the mid cap buyout group at Ardian, the Paris-based private equity firm led by Dominique Senequier, have been asked to review and assess the governance model the firm uses for majority-owned companies in its portfolio. The case describes the governance model and then shows how it has worked in practice at two companies: Italy's orthopedic implant maker Lima Corporate and French chemical company Novacap. For each company, the case descr...Starting at €8.20
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Rekindling the Online Grocery Market (Spanish version)
McDonald, Rory; Christensen, Clayton M.; Yang, Robin; Hollingsworth, TyCase HBS-617S07StrategyMore than a decade after the high-profile failures of several early online grocers, grocery remains the largest single U.S. retail category and one of the few that has not yet migrated online. Amazon began testing its grocery-delivery service, AmazonFresh, in Seattle, in 2007; five years later, the company has made significant progress. The case traces the evolution of AmazonFresh's business model and describes the operating capabilities necessar...Starting at €8.20
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Transformation at ING (A): Agile
Kerr, William R.; Gabrieli, Federica; Moloney, EmerCase HBS-818077-EEntrepreneurshipIn December 2017, Vincent van den Boogert, CEO of ING in the Netherlands, was reflecting upon the company's "agile" transformation, a reorganization of work which had been critical to respond to and exceed rapidly changing customer expectations. Launched in 2015 at the head office, agile had spread to the rest of the Dutch organization, from client services to the branch network, and permeated the overall company culture. It was now time to rollo...Starting at €8.20
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The Cause and the Cure (Spanish version)
Christensen, Clayton M.; Cook, Scott; Hall, TaddyArticle HBS-R0512DMarketingThis 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. Ted Levitt used to tell his Harvard Business School students, "People don't want a quarter-inch drill--they want a quarter-inch hole." But 35 years later, marketers are still thinking in terms of products and ever-finer demographic segments. The structure of a mar...Starting at €8.20
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How Financial Tools Destroy Your Capacity to Do New Things (Spanish version)
Christensen, Clayton M.; Kaufman, Stephen P.; Shih, WillyArticle HBS-R0801FStrategyMost companies aren't half as innovative as their senior executives want them to be (or as their marketing claims suggest they are). What's stifling innovation? There are plenty of usual suspects, but the authors finger three financial tools as key accomplices. Discounted cash flow and net present value, as commonly used, underestimate the real returns and benefits of proceeding with an investment. Most executives compare the cash flows from inno...Starting at €8.20
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Continuous Casting Investments at USX Corp. (Spanish version)
Christensen, Clayton M.Case HBS-605S01StrategyFocuses on the difficulty established companies face when confronted with disruptive technological innovations. The power that their prior asset investments, their cost structures, and their customers have in constraining their investment and innovation decisions are clearly illustrated. Rewritten version of an earlier case.Starting at €8.20