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Quest for Resilience (Spanish version)
Hamel, Gary; Valikangas, LiisaArticle HBS-R0309CStrategyIn less turbulent times, executives had the luxury of assuming that business models were more or less immortal. Companies always had to work to get better, but they seldom had to get different--not at their core, not in their essence. Today, getting different is the imperative. It's the challenge facing Coca-Cola as it struggles to raise its "share of throat" in noncarbonated beverages. It's the task that bedevils McDonald's as it tries to restar...Starting at €8.20
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First, Let's Fire All the Managers (Spanish version)
Hamel, GaryArticle HBS-R1112BStrategythe personal mission statement, and the Colleague Letter of Understanding, or CLOU. In a personal mission statement, each employee outlines how he or she will help the company achieve its goals. The CLOU, which must be hammered out every year with colleagues, is an operating plan for fulfilling it. A CLOU covers as many as 30 activity areas and spells out relevant performance metrics. The system isn't without its challenges, and it isn't for eve...Starting at €8.20
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El rol de Miles Everson en PricewaterhouseCoopers
Eccles, Robert G.; Lane, DavidCase HBS-410S23Leadership and People ManagementMiles Everson, socio de PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), es el socio del encargo Mundial (GEP) para una gran institución financiera EE.UU. y punto de asumir este papel de una institución financiera global mucho mayor. El papel GEP es crítica en PwC. GEPs tienen la responsabilidad de los clientes más grandes e importantes de la empresa. Deben gestionar una vasta red externa de los empleados y clientes de forma igualmente masiva a la red interna de lo...Starting at €8.20
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End of Management
Hamel, Gary; Breen, BillBook Chapter HBS-2509BC-EGiven how little the practice of management has changed over the past several decades, it's hardly surprising that most people have a hard time imagining how management might be reinvented. In this chapter, the author considers the evolution of modern management and the challenges managers face in the 21st century, calling for a radical reinvention of management in the years to come. This chapter was originally published as chapter 1 of "The Futu...Starting at €8.20
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Escaping the Shackles: Imagining the Future of Management
Hamel, Gary; Breen, BillBook Chapter HBS-2516BC-EWhen your company is deeply conventional and has been for decades, how do you get the ball rolling? This chapter discusses how to wage war against precedent to encourage breakthrough management thinking. This chapter was originally published as chapter 7 of "The Future of Management."Starting at €8.20
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Learning from the Fringe: Imagining the Future of Management
Hamel, Gary; Breen, BillBook Chapter HBS-2519BC-EAccording to the author, uncommon insights often come from uncommon places. This chapter suggests that in order to glimpse the future of management, you must search for "positive deviants"--organizations and social systems that defy the norms of conventional practice. This chapter was originally published as chapter 9 of "The Future of Management."Starting at €8.20
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Womenomics in Japan
Groysberg, Boris; Yamazaki, Mayuka; Sato, Nobuo; Lane, DavidCase HBS-417002-ELeadership and People Management"Womenomics in Japan" profiles Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's vigorous attempts to revive Japan's economy, specifically by advocating for a larger role for women in the economy--not as a matter of social policy or gender equity per se, but as an essential element of any solution to Japan's persistent low economic growth. Several decades of economic stagnation led Abe to spearhead a multi-faceted reform effort to shake off deflation and come to grips...Starting at €8.20
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Robert K. Steel at Wachovia (A)
Mukunda, Gautam; Hsieh, Nien-he; Lane, DavidCase HBS-418055-ELeadership and People ManagementIn September 2008, Robert Steel presided over the sale of Wachovia, a top U.S. bank, less than three months after becoming its CEO. Wachovia's exposure to risky home loans led depositors and creditors to flee the bank on Friday, September 26, after the FDIC seized and sold a smaller bank with similar exposure, whose collapse nonetheless made it the biggest bank failure in U.S. history. Faced with Wachovia's impending bankruptcy, the FDIC interven...Starting at €8.20
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Zurich Insurance, Teaching Note
Groysberg, Boris; Lane, David; Coughlin, JoniTeaching Note HBS-418071-ELeadership and People ManagementThis teaching note addresses six cases in the Zurich Insurance series, the overview case (HBS No. 417-035) and five cases focused on particular change efforts (HBS No. 417-036 through 417-040). Zurich Insurance was undergoing organizational change after implementing five new people practices focused on manager development, diversity and inclusion, job model and data analytics, recruitment, and talent pipeline. The overview case provides backgrou...Starting at €0.00
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Lincoln Financial Group (A)
Godes, David B.; Lane, DavidCase HBS-508028-EMarketingLFG reorganizes its business in order to improve customer intimacy. However, to implement the strategy, they need to effect significant changes in the skills of their salespeople. This case series straddles human resource management, corporate strategy, and sales management by exploring the link between a shift in the firm's overall strategy (customer intimacy), the structural implementation of this strategy in the form of the creation of a new d...Starting at €8.20