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Selection Bias and the Perils of Benchmarking (Spanish version)
Denrell, JerkerArticle HBS-R0504HStrategyThey persist, often despite initial failures, and they are able to persuade others to join them. But those traits are also the hallmarks of spectacularly unsuccessful entrepreneurs. To discover what makes a business successful, then, managers should look at both successes and failures. Otherwise, they will overvalue risky business practices, seeing only those companies that won big and not the ones that lost dismally. They will not be able to te...Starting at €8.20
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Building Smart Neighborhoods at Bouygues
Edmondson, Amy C.; Moingeon, Bertrand; Bai, Guo; Harvey, Jean-FrancoisCase HBS-617007-EEconomicsCan a consortium of 16 organizations, including multinational corporations, local government agencies, and startups, turn a run-down Paris suburb into a "smart" (ecologically viable, high-tech, livable) neighborhood? This case explores how Bouygues Immobilier led such a project involving Alstom, Bouygues Energies & Services, Bouygues Telecom, EDF (Electricity of France), ERDF (Electricity Distribution Grid of France), Microsoft, Schneider Electri...Starting at €8.20