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Visualizing Your Social Network
Ferraro, Fabrizio; Tortoriello, MarcoTechnical Note SMN-687-EStrategyThe technical note provides different options for visualizing one's social network. Drawing a picture of your social network, and of the broader social network in your company, might help you go beyond a simplistic view of what your contacts are (Who do you know?) and think about how the people in your company are connected to each other (your indirect contacts).Starting at €8.20
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A Class of Their Own: A Brief History of Fashion and Luxury Goods
Baldo, Andrea; Ferraro, FabrizioTechnical Note SMN-689-EStrategyThe technical note provides a short history of fashion to help students understand the importance of fashion trends in the apparel industry. The focus is on understanding the relationship between social changes, fashion consumption and the fashion and luxury goods industry.Starting at €8.20
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The Responsible Investing Landscape: From SRI Through ESG to IMPACT
Ferraro, Fabrizio; Pathak, RichaTechnical Note SMN-704-EFinance, StrategyThis note offers a concise overview of the responsible investing landscape, starting from its historical roots in socially responsible investing, and the recent explosive growth of ESG and Impact Investing. The note provides an introduction to this field, identifying the key actors and the role they are playing, but also explaining the core ESG investment strategies, their advantages and shortcomings.Starting at €8.20
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Strategic Leadership: A Roadmap for the General Manager's Journey
Ferraro, Fabrizio; Argüelles, José MiguelTechnical Note SMN-701-EStrategyStrategic leadership is the core responsibility of general managers. By strategic leadership, the authors refer to the responsibility of identifying the key challenges for the company, outlining a coherent set of actions to respond to these, and guiding the organization in implementing those actions. This technical note provides a framework to organize this process and suggests a way of combining diverse tools that can help general managers to ca...Starting at €8.20
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The Principles of Networking
Ferraro, FabrizioTechnical Note SMN-674-EInnovation and Change, Leadership and People ManagementThe ability to develop, nurture and leverage your social network is essential to become effective leaders. Despite the fact that we have known this simple fact for many years, we have only recently started to explore what networking really is, and what are its best practices. Much research in social psychology, sociology, and organization theory has explored how human relationships develop and much of this research can be leveraged to understand ...Starting at €8.20
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Introduction to Corporate Governance
Cheng, Yo-JudTechnical Note DARDEN-S-0356-EStrategyThis note provides an introduction to corporate governance from a managerial perspective, covering key aspects of board responsibilities and board composition, the regulatory environment and legal duties of directors, and changes in governance systems over time, with a focus on publicly traded firms in the United States.Starting at €8.20
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Creating and Nurturing your Social Network: The Art of Building Long-term Mutually Beneficial Relationships
Neill, Conor; Ferraro, FabrizioTechnical Note SMN-676-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People ManagementNetworking is the art of building long-term mutually beneficial relationships, and this note will describe what social networks can do, what networking is, and what is not. We provide seven suggestions on how to begin the process of building your network.Starting at €8.20
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Internationalization Analysis
Harris, Jared D.; Lenox, Michael; Cheng, Yo-JudTechnical Note DARDEN-S-0398-EStrategyHow do firms decide where to compete internationally? What challenges arise when competing across borders? What are different ways to enter a new foreign market? How should the firm compete in that new market? What factors make a foreign market “flat” versus “lumpy”? This technical note follows the format of The Strategist’s Toolkit in laying out a framework for analyzing the “where” and “how” of international strategy. Thinking carefully about b...Starting at €8.20