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Global Business Speaks English (Spanish version)
Neeley, TsedalArticle HBS-R1205HStrategyLike it or not, English is the global language of business. Today 1.75 billion people speak English at a useful level--that's one in four of us. Multinational companies such as Airbus, Daimler-Chrysler, SAP, Nokia, Alcatel-Lucent, and Microsoft in Beijing have mandated English as the corporate language. And any company with a global presence or global aspirations would be wise to do the same, says HBS professor Tsedal Neeley, to ensure good commu...Starting at €8.20
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Global Teams That Work (Spanish version)
Neeley, TsedalArticle HBS-R1510DStrategy(1) Structure. If a team is made up of groups with different views about their relative power, the leader should connect frequently with those who are farthest away and emphasize unity. (2) Process. Meeting processes should allow for informal interactions that build empathy. (3) Language. Everyone, regardless of language fluency, should be empowered to speak up. (4) Identity. Team members must be active cultural learners and teachers to understa...Starting at €8.20
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Greg James at Sun Microsystems, Inc. (A) (Spanish version)
Neeley, Tsedal; DeLong, Thomas J.Case HBS-415S01StrategyGreg James, a global manager at Sun Microsystems, Inc., sets out to meet with his entire 43-member customer implementation team spread across India, France, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States of America to resolve a dire customer system outage as required by a service agreement. Rather than finding a swift resolution to the rapidly escalating customer situation that motivated his trip, he finds himself facing distributed work, global...Starting at €8.20
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What Managers Need to Know About Social Tools
Leonardi, Paul; Neeley, TsedalArticle HBS-R1706J-ETo identify the value that social tools can bring to companies, the authors split employees at a large financial services firm into two groups, only one of which used an internal social platform, and observed them for six months. Those who had used the tool became 31% more likely to find coworkers with relevant expertise and 88% more likely to discover who had useful connections. Internal social tools can help employees make faster decisions, dev...Starting at €8.20
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Effective Managers Say the Same Thing Twice (or More)
Neeley, Tsedal; Leonardi, Paul; Berinato, ScottArticle HBS-F1105D-EHow do effective managers get employees to act promptly? New research suggests that it's by making their requests at least twice. Though you may think redundancy is unnecessary and even a waste of time, a new study indicates that it helps your message cut through today's information overload.Starting at €8.20
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Pi Investments
Gandhi, Vikram; He, TonyCase HBS-317039-EFinancePi was a large family office pioneering the concept of 100% portfolio impact investing. Tasked with preserving capital, generating moderate returns and advancing the family's social justice goals - Pi's Managing Directors had to identify appropriate products across asset classes. In this case, students will be required to assess an investment in HCAP Partners Fund III from the perspective of Pi and whether such an investment meets the family's co...Starting at €8.20
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State Street-The Development and Growth of SHE
Gandhi, VikramCase HBS-317040-EFinanceState Street Global Advisors was the investment arm of State Street Corporation, one of the largest custodians and asset managers in the world with over $2.3 trillion in assets under management. Inspired by demand from a large pension fund client for better gender diversity investment products, SSGA had created the first gender diversity ETF in 2015. However, despite an auspicious launch, the ETF had yet to attract the level of institutional capi...Starting at €8.20
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Environmental Technology Fund Partners and E-Leather
Gandhi, Vikram; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-318001-EFinanceIt is 2014 and Environmental Technologies Fund (ETF) Partners, a U.K.-based venture capital firm, has an opportunity to invest in a privately-held U.K. company that manufactured engineered composition leather extracted from waste leather using an environmentally-friendly process. The end product looked, smelled and felt like natural leather. Scalable marketplace adoption of E-Leather's products looked promising, but was just that-promising. And t...Starting at €8.20
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Blue Haven Initiative: The PEGAfrica Investment
Gandhi, Vikram; Reimers Brumme, Caitlin Lindsay; Migdal, AmramCase HBS-318003-EFinanceThis case examines Blue Haven Initiative (BHI), an impact investing fund and family office, and one of its investments, PEGAfrica (PEG). BHI founder Liesel Pritzker Simmons' motivations for using her family wealth to start a family office focused on impacStarting at €8.20
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The Rise Fund: TPG Bets Big on Impact
Gandhi, Vikram; Reimers Brumme, Caitlin Lindsay; Mehta, SarahCase HBS-318041-EFinanceIt is March 2017 and TPG, a global alternative investment firm with $74 billion assets under management, has recently launched its inaugural impact investing fund-the $2 billion Rise Fund. In an effort to "take the religion out of impact investing," Mike Stone, CIO of Rise, has partnered with Chris Addy at The Bridgespan Group, a nonprofit consultancy, to develop an evidence-based methodology for quantifying the impact of prospective Rise investm...Starting at €8.20