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LA LISTA HBR: Ideas innovadoras para 2009
Warren, Elizabeth; Tyagi, Amelia; Collier, Paul; Warnholz, Jean-Louis; Cuddy, Amy J.C.; Sviokla, John; Goldstein, Noah J.; Fisman, Raymond; Saffo, Paul; Pall, Gurdeep Singh; McGrath, Rita Gunther; Benyus, Janine M.; Pauli, Gunter A.M.; Norton, Michael I.; Schwartz, Peter; Christakis, Nicholas A.; Suarez-Orozco, Marcelo; Bremmer, Ian; Pujadas, Juan; Jurvetson, Steve; McCreary, Lew; Ilube, Tom; Pentland, Alex "Article HBS-R0902AKnowledge and CommunicationNuestro estudio anual de las ideas y tendencias que harán un impacto en el negocio: Elizabeth Warren y Amelia Tyagi creen crédito al consumo debe hacerse tan seguro como cualquier otro producto. Paul Collier y Jean-Louis Warnholz revelan un clima cada vez más favorable a la inversión en el África subsahariana. Amy J. C. Cuddy afirma que el calor y la competencia no son mutuamente excluyentes. John Sviokla predice un aumento de los préstamos peer-...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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Living on the Razor's Edge (Spanish version)
Wasserman, NoamCase HBS-813S11EntrepreneurshipDescribes the issues facing a founder-CEO regarding building a board of directors, assembling an executive team, managing tension between co-founders, and outsourcing system development work.Starting at €8.20
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From Blogger to Odeo (B) (Spanish version)
Wasserman, Noam; Maurice, LPCase HBS-814S07EntrepreneurshipThis case is accompanied by a Video Short that can be shown in class or included in a digital coursepack. Instructors should consider the timing of making the video available to students, as it may reveal key case details. For several months, founder-CEO Evan Williams has felt trapped, unable to control Odeo and its strategic direction. He longs for the "simple" days of Blogger, the previous venture he had co-founded. Although his Blogger experie...Starting at €5.74
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Ockham Technologies (B): Building the Board (Spanish Version)
Wasserman, NoamCase HBS-814S11EntrepreneurshipDescribe los problemas que enfrenta el fundador-director general en relación con la construcción de un tablero, el montaje de un equipo ejecutivo, la gestión de tensión entre los co-fundadores, y la externalización de trabajo de desarrollo.Starting at €5.74
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Founder-CEO Succession at Wily Technology (Spanish version)
Wasserman, Noam; McCance, HenryCase HBS-815S03EntrepreneurshipBefore he accepts the new CEO position, Dick Williams wants founder Lew Cirne to step down as chairman. While considering Williams' incredible demand, Cirne reflects on everything he has already given up to get Wily Technology to this point. He agreed to step down as CEO and take what could be a largely symbolic CTO title. He also agreed to give Williams roughly as much equity as he himself owned and far more in salary. As the founder, CEO, and c...Starting at €8.20
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Designing Specific Growth Initiatives: A Discovery-Driven Approach
McGrath, Rita Gunther; MacMillan, Ian C.Book Chapter HBS-3070BC-EOnce corporate leadership has defined what success should look like for the whole portfolio of new initiatives it will be pursuing, the next step is to flesh out discovery-driven plans for each of the major initiatives. This chapter shows you how to connect your growth strategy and internal processes to your specific strategic initiatives and provides an example of how to start a discovery-driven plan. This chapter is excerpted from "Discovery-Dr...Starting at €8.20
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Designing the Business Model Architecture: Executing Specific Growth Opportunities Using Discovery-Driven Planning
McGrath, Rita Gunther; MacMillan, Ian C.Book Chapter HBS-3071BC-EIn reality, your strategy is what projects you are working on and how you run them, not what's printed on an annual report or posted on your website. Thus, whether you are a CEO or someone else in the organization, you must have the right practices in place to manage strategic growth initiatives effectively. This chapter addresses how to design the fundamental business that will generate growth, including establishing the viability of a business,...Starting at €8.20
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Actively Managing and Redirecting Projects: Executing Specific Growth Opportunities Using Discovery-Driven Planning
McGrath, Rita Gunther; MacMillan, Ian C.Book Chapter HBS-3073BC-EIn an emerging business, you will learn a lot from situations that reveal how close your assumptions are to what is actually unfolding. Sometimes, these situations or events occur naturally as you work on developing a business. Other times, you'll have to deliberately create a management intervention to get at the information. Either way, these events can be used as checkpoints in the discovery-driven plan to deliberately structure the systematic...Starting at €8.20
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Implementing Discovery-Driven Growth: What Other Firms Have Done and How You Can Make It Work for You
McGrath, Rita Gunther; MacMillan, Ian C.Book Chapter HBS-3074BC-EIt is axiomatic that before change can take place in an organization, there has to be some reason for it. In the case of discovery-driven growth (DDG), the impetus is almost always someone who recognizes problems in the organization's current tools and approaches to growth or innovation or who is frustrated with the poor track record of growth programs. This chapter provides real-world examples of why some companies decided to adopt discovery-dri...Starting at €8.20