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A Powerful New Model (Spanish version)
Nohria, Nitin; Groysberg, Boris; Lee, Linda-ElingArticle HBS-R0807GLeadership and People ManagementMotivating employees begins with recognizing that to do their best work, people must be in an environment that meets their basic emotional drives to acquire, bond, comprehend, and defend. So say Nohria and Groysberg, of Harvard Business School, and Lee, of the Center for Research on Corporate Performance. Using the results of surveys they conducted with employees at a wide range of Fortune 500 and other companies, they developed a model for how t...Starting at €8.20
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Celebrate Innovation, No Matter Where It Occurs
Nohria, NitinArticle HBS-F1204E-EStrategyInnovation capabilities have long been central to U.S. competitive advantage, but the rate of innovative activity is increasing sharply in other countries. Some people see this as the greatest threat to America's economic leadership. The author is unconvinced.Starting at €8.20
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When Does Leadership Matter: A Contingent Opportunities View of CEO Leadership
Wasserman, Noam; Anand, Bharat N.; Nohria, NitinBook Chapter HBS-6122BC-ELeadership and People ManagementTo what extent does leadership influence organizational performance? In this chapter, Noam Wasserman, Bharat Anand, and Nitin Nohria try to provide a balanced answer to this question. Replicating the variance partitioning method used by Stanley Lieberson and James O'Connor in their 1972 study on leadership and organizational performance, they analyze the performance of more than 500 publicly held U.S. companies (across 42 industries) over a 20-ye...Starting at €8.20
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Michael Fernandes at Nicholas Piramal
Anteby, Michel; Nohria, NitinCase HBS-408001-ELeadership and People ManagementMichael Fernandes, the Director of Custom Manufacturing Operations at the pharmaceutical company Nicholas Piramal India Limited (NPIL), schedules a meeting with three of his reports, whose interpersonal conflicts with one another are causing his business development function to falter. He struggles to know how to handle these conflicts and bring the three into a productive working collaboration. Fernandes is in charge of incorporating NPIL's new ...Starting at €8.20
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Malden Mills (A) (Abridged)
Nohria, Nitin; Piper, Thomas R.Case HBS-410083-ELeadership and People ManagementCEO Aaron Feuerstein of Malden Mills decided to pay idled workers after a massive fire at his mill in 1995. Focuses on the decisions made post-fire and the rebuilding process and eventual bankruptcy of the company. Also outlines creditors' struggle to decide whether to lend Feuerstein additional funds to enable him to regain control of the company after emerging from bankruptcy.Starting at €8.20
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Tascot Ties: Going Neck-and-Neck with Tradition
Tripsas, Mary; Silverman, Brian S.Case HBS-808082-EEntrepreneurshipTo maximize effectiveness, color cases should be printed on color. An abstract is not available for this product.Starting at €8.20
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TOTO: The Bottom Line
Tripsas, Mary; Egawa, Masako; Fukuyoshi, JunCase HBS-809064-EKnowledge and CommunicationTOTO, the leading manufacturer of toilets in Japan, is struggling to penetrate the US market with its premier bidet-toilets, which are present in 63% of homes in Japan. The case examines the behavioral, cultural, and institutional barriers that TOTO faces in gaining adoption of an innovation. It also explores the role of product categorization in driving consumer behavior - in contrast to the US, toilets in Japan are considered a high-tech consum...Starting at €8.20
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Driving Profitable Growth at US Auto Parts
Tripsas, Mary; Bhatia, Amit; McGahan, Anita M.Case HBS-812032-EEntrepreneurshipUSAP faces extraordinary opportunities to change the way that automobiles are serviced in the US by selling parts at fair prices though online channels.Starting at €8.20
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Leading Change in the General Surgery Unit (Spanish version)
Groysberg, Boris; Nohria, Nitin; Bell, DeborahCase HBS-411S22Leadership and People ManagementBarbara Norris struggles to address the many problems facing her as a recently promoted nurse manager in the General Surgery Unit (GSU) at Eastern Massachusetts University Hospital (EMU). She has inherited a unit with the lowest employee satisfaction scores and highest employee turnover rate among all of the departments at EMU. Furthermore, her new unit was infamous for its culture of confrontation, blaming and favoritism. The staff that has rema...Starting at €8.20
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Preparing for a Pandemic (Spanish version)
Staples, Jeffrey; Dowell, Scott F.; Bresee, Joseph S.; Nohria, Nitin; Bennis, Warren G.; Fischhoff, Baruch; MacGowan, William; Brilliant, Larry; Susser, Peter; Cooper, Sherry; Dobson, Wendy; Golden, Brian R.Article HBS-F0605AThis month, all of Harvard Business Review's Forethought contributions address avian influenza, its potential to become a pandemic, and the red flags this possibility raises for businesses. Jeffrey Staples warns that the H5N1 strain of the avian flu represents a new class of global threat and urges companies to plan accordingly. Scott F. Dowell and Joseph S. Bresee show how mutations of the virus could boost its ability to spread from person to p...Starting at €8.20