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What Only the CEO Can Do (Spanish version)
Lafley, A.G.Article HBS-R0905DLeadership and People ManagementThis article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. The author combines his nine years' experience as the CEO of Procter & Gamble with the last writings of the management scholar Peter Drucker to answer the question "What is the work of the CEO?" The chief executive, Lafley says, is held singularly accountable for t...Starting at €8.20
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Termine con las guerras en la innovación
Govindarajan, Vijay; Trimble, ChrisArticle HBS-R1007FKnowledge and Communicationequipos especiales dedicados a las iniciativas de innovación, inevitablemente, se ejecutan en conflicto con el resto de la organización. Las personas responsables de las operaciones en curso ver los innovadores como advenedizos indisciplinados. Los innovadores descartan la gente de operaciones como los dinosaurios burocráticos. Es natural para separar los dos grupos en conflicto. Pero también es totalmente equivocado, por ejemplo Govindarajan y T...Starting at €8.20
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The HBR Agenda 2011 (Spanish version)
Ariely, Dan; Brown, Tim; Cappelli, Peter; Davenport, Thomas H.; Duflo, Esther; Fernández-Aráoz, Claudio; Govindarajan, Vijay; Gratton, Lynda; Hackman, J. Richard; Ibarra, Herminia; Kedrosky, Paul; Lafley, A.G.; Li, Charlene; Ma, Jack; Manzoni, Jean-Francois; Pink, Daniel H.; Porter, Michael E.; Schein, Edgar H.; Schmidt, Eric; Schwab, Klaus; Shirky, Clay; Stiglitz, Joseph E.; Sutton, Robert I.; Tyson, LaArticle HBS-R1101BKnowledge and CommunicationJoseph E. Stiglitz will be crafting a new postcrisis paradigm for macroeconomics whereby rational individuals interact with imperfect and asymmetric information. Herminia Ibarra will be looking for hard evidence of how "soft" leadership creates value. Eric Schmidt will be planning to scale mobile technology by developing fast networks and providing low-cost smartphones in the poorest parts of the world. Michael Porter will be using modern cost a...Starting at €8.20
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Stop the Innovation Wars
Govindarajan, Vijay; Trimble, ChrisArticle HBS-R1007F-ESpecial teams dedicated to innovation initiatives inevitably run into conflict with the rest of the organization. The people responsible for ongoing operations view the innovators as undisciplined upstarts. The innovators dismiss the operations people as bureaucratic dinosaurs. It's natural to separate the two warring groups. But it's also dead wrong, say Tuck Business School's Govindarajan and Trimble. Nearly all innovation initiatives build on ...Starting at €8.20
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The CEO's Role in Business Model Reinvention
Govindarajan, Vijay; Trimble, ChrisArticle HBS-R1101H-ELeadership and People ManagementMany corporations become too comfortable with their existing business models and neglect the necessary work of radically reinventing them. The authors map out an alternative in their "three boxes" framework. They argue that while a CEO manages the present (box 1), he or she must also selectively forget the past (box 2) in order to create the future (box 3). Infosys chairman N.R. Narayana Murthy mastered the three boxes to reinvigorate his compan...Starting at €8.20
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The Art and Science of Finding the Right CEO
Lafley, A.G.Article HBS-R1110C-EChoosing a new CEO is the most important job of a company's board of directors. No other decision has such a profound impact on a firm's strategy and performance. Yet the topic of succession often gets shoved aside by concerns that seem more pressing. No one pays attention until the CEO's departure is imminent-and by then it's too late to adequately vet and train a replacement. A.G. Lafley, in contrast, began pushing the directors at P&G to begin...Starting at €8.20
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Bringing Science to the Art of Strategy
Lafley, A.G.; Martin, Roger; Rivkin, Jan W.; Siggelkow, NicolajArticle HBS-R1209C-EStrategyMany managers feel doomed to trade off the futile rigor of ordinary strategic planning for the hit-or-miss creativity of the alternatives. In fact, the two can be reconciled to produce novel but realistic strategies. The key is to recognize that conventional strategic planning, for all its analysis, is not actually scientific--it lacks the careful generation and testing of hypotheses that are at the heart of the scientific method. The authors out...Starting at €8.20
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Cumulative Advantage
Lafley, A.G.; Martin, Roger; Gunther McGrath, Rita; Cook, Scott; Knudstorp, Jorgen Vig; Champion, DavidArticle HBS-R1701B-EStrategyWhy do companies routinely succumb to the lure of rebranding? Because, say A.G. Lafley and Roger L. Martin, the authors of "Customer Loyalty Is Overrated," they believe they must continually update their business models, strategies, and communications toStarting at €8.20
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Making Innovation Happen: The Importance of a Custom Organizational Model and a Dedicated Project Plan
Govindarajan, Vijay; Trimble, ChrisBook Chapter HBS-7053BC-EMost well-managed companies are adept at two basic models for innovation execution: 1) The innovation = ideas + motivation formula, which can generate thousands of small initiatives but cannot support major projects, and 2) The innovation = ideas + process formula, which can efficiently crank out innovation after innovation, as long as each one is a repeat of a prior effort. In this chapter, the authors introduce the thesis of their book, which i...Starting at €8.20
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Divide the Labor: Forming a Successful Innovation Partnership Based on Effective Cross-Functional Relationships
Govindarajan, Vijay; Trimble, ChrisBook Chapter HBS-7054BC-EJust as there is a wide variety of innovation initiatives in organizations, there is a wide variety of teams that push them forward. But all these teams have something in common: They are internal partnerships. The two entities of the partnership are the Performance Engine (the organization's ongoing operations) and a Dedicated Team. The Dedicated Team consists of people who will work on the innovation initiative full time. The subset of Performa...Starting at €8.20