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Netflix: Designing the Netflix Prize (A) (Spanish version)
Lakhani, Karim R.; Cohen, Wesley M.; Ingram, Kynon; Kothalkar, Tushar; Kuzemchenko, Maxim; Malik, Santosh; Meyn, Cynthia; Friar, Greta; Pokrywa, Stephanie HealyCase HBS-615S16Service and Operations ManagementIn 2006, Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix, was looking for a way to solve Netflix's customer churn problem. Netflix used Cinematch, its proprietary movie recommendation software, to promote individually determined best-fit movies to customers. Hastings deterStarting at €8.20
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The Art of Commerce
Harvard Business ReviewArticle HBS-F1403Z-EAn elaborately engraved Spanish stock certificate issued in 1758 could almost be a template for modern stock certificates. Here's the story that its iconography reveals about the royal trading company it came from. Due to the highly graphical nature of the Vision Statement, we offer this reprint in color, PDF format only. We recommend printing it out in color to maximize its effectiveness.Starting at €8.20
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How Companies Can Profit from a "Growth Mindset"
Harvard Business ReviewArticle HBS-F1411A-EStrategyPsychologist Carol Dweck's work on "mindset" has been hugely influential in fields such as education and sports training, and her 2006 book Mindset was a bestseller. Some people, Dweck has argued, view talent as a quality they either possess or lack, and thus have a "fixed mindset"; others, with a "growth mindset," consistently see potential to develop new skills. Now she is extending her work on mindset to organizations. This article describes h...Starting at €8.20
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Leadership Across Cultures
Harvard Business ReviewArticle HBS-F1505Z-EKnowledge and CommunicationBridging cultural differences demands exceptional emotional intelligence. This chart shows the percentage of leaders in each of seven global regions--the U.S., the Middle East, India, Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, and China--who demonstrated strength in a range of hard and soft skills, according to a study by YSC, a corporate psychology consultancy. Due to the highly graphical nature of the Vision Statement, we offer this reprint in...Starting at €8.20
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Market Indicators
Harvard Business ReviewArticle HBS-F1507Z-EHand signals from a 16th-century mathematics textbook and exchange-rate "currents" from 18th-century Italian ports were just two of the innovations that lubricated the gears of preindustrial European commerce. Due to the highly graphical nature of the Vision Statement, we offer this reprint in color, PDF format only. We recommend printing it out in color to maximize its effectiveness.Starting at €8.20
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How to Make the Most of Omnichannel Retailing
Harvard Business ReviewArticle HBS-F1607A-EMarketingOne of the biggest challenges for brick-and-mortar retailers is competing with online-only sellers such as Amazon. The conventional "omnichannel" strategy is to encourage consumers to shop across channels. But few retailers have closely examined the profitability of such efforts, and they typically pay little attention to how far a customer lives from the store. New research led by Temple University's Xueming Luo shows that distance is a crucial ...Starting at €8.20
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How Venture Capitalists Really Assess A Pitch
Harvard Business ReviewArticle HBS-F1703A-EEntrepreneurshipHaving worked for two VC firms before entering academia, Lakshmi Balachandra was mystified: Why did a proposal that looked so promising on paper become a nonstarter when it was actually pitched? She spent almost 10 years capturing what happens in pitch meetings and quantifying the results, and drew four broad conclusions: (1) Passion is overrated--VCs prefer a calm demeanor, which they equate with leadership strength. (2) Trust beats competence. ...Starting at €8.20
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Myelin Repair Foundation: Accelerating Drug Discovery Through Collaboration
Lakhani, Karim R.; Carlile, Paul RCase HBS-610074-EService and Operations ManagementTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. This case presents the Myelin Repair Foundation's accelerated research collaboration model for drug discovery. It highlights the challenges of building a multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional research collaboration that is attempting to create a treatment for multiple sclerosis based on a novel scientific approach. The case provides details on how norms of academic rese...Starting at €8.20
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InnoCentive.com (A), Teaching Note
Lakhani, Karim R.Teaching Note HBS-611072-ETeaching Note for 608170.Starting at €0.00
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Myelin Repair Foundation: Accelerating Drug Discovery Through Collaboration, Teaching Note
Lakhani, Karim R.Teaching Note HBS-611073-EService and Operations ManagementTeaching Note for 610074.Starting at €0.00