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A Players or "A Positions"? The Strategic Logic of Workforce Management (Spanish version)
Huselid, Mark A.; Beatty, Richard W.; Becker, Brian E.Article HBS-R0512GLeadership 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. Companies simply can't afford to have "A players" in all positions. Rather, businesses need to adopt a portfolio approach to workforce management, systematically identifying their strategically important A positions, supporting B positions and surplus C positions, ...Starting at €8.20
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Ethical Leader's Decision Tree (Spanish version)
Bagley, Constance E.Article HBS-F0302CIf you spring for optional pollution-control devices at your overseas plant, have you violated your duty to maximize shareholder value? Here's a framework that can help clarify this and other ethical dilemmas.Starting at €8.20
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Put Strategy, Not People, First: An Introduction to Differentiated Workforce Strategy
Becker, Brian E.; Huselid, Mark A.; Beatty, Richard W.Book Chapter HBS-3237BC-ELeadership and People ManagementSenior managers and readers of popular business literature are probably familiar with the mantra that people are the new source of competitive advantage. But despite all the talk about a new strategic emphasis on the workforce, most companies haven't yet capitalized on the opportunity for strategic success that effective workforce management can provide. The authors believe that a fundamental change in the entire approach to workforce strategy is...Starting at €8.20
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Establish Leadership Accountability for Workforce Success: The Line Manager's HR Role
Becker, Brian E.; Huselid, Mark A.; Beatty, Richard W.Book Chapter HBS-3246BC-ELeadership and People ManagementHow do we ensure that firms clearly understand the unique strategic capabilities required to execute their business strategies and develop a differentiated workforce strategy? The first step is to recognize that the workforce is not just HR's problem, and that line managers and HR leaders have joint responsibility for developing talent throughout the organization. Management must ensure that top talent is allocated to the strategic roles that cre...Starting at €8.20
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Design an HR Architecture for the Differentiated Workforce
Becker, Brian E.; Huselid, Mark A.; Beatty, Richard W.Book Chapter HBS-3247BC-ELeadership and People ManagementIt is important that a firm's workforce strategy--and its workforce--is as differentiated as its business strategy. In this chapter, the authors discuss the importance of developing a culture of accountability and a workforce philosophy to help drive succStarting at €8.20
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Cultivating Compliance for Strategic Strength: Mastering the Legal Aspects of Business
Bagley, Constance E.Book Chapter HBS-8153BC-ECompliance with the law is just the baseline for winning legally in business. This chapter shows how managers can practice what the author calls "strategic compliance management," which goes beyond mere compliance with the law to embrace organizational integrity and to seek out and exploit business opportunities provided by regulation and deregulation. This chapter is excerpted from "Winning Legally: How to Use the Law to Create Value, Marshal R...Starting at €8.20
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Using Contracts to Define and Strengthen Relationships: Mastering the Legal Aspects of Business
Bagley, Constance E.Book Chapter HBS-8155BC-EThis chapter identifies the web of relationships inherent in any business, and explains how managers can structure contracts to define and strengthen relationships by increasing predictability, allocating risk and reward, creating and retaining options, and aligning incentives. This chapter is excerpted from "Winning Legally: How to Use the Law to Create Value, Marshal Resources, and Manage Risk."Starting at €8.20
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Capturing the Value of Intellectual Capital: Mastering the Legal Aspects of Business
Bagley, Constance E.Book Chapter HBS-8157BC-EThe ability to use intellectual property laws to capture the value of the firm's inventions, proprietary information, and other intangible assets is a key strategic advantage. This chapter shows managers how to use patents, copyrights, trade secrets, and trademarks both offensively and defensively. This chapter is excerpted from "Winning Legally: How to Use the Law to Create Value, Marshal Resources, and Manage Risk."Starting at €8.20
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USG Corp. (A)
Bagley, Constance E.; Sherman, EliotCase HBS-807090-EStrategyDeals with CEO Bill Foote's decision of how to deal with USG's exposure to asbestos liability. USG was the largest building materials company in the United States, with 14,000 employees and gross revenues of $3.8 billion. Although USG used asbestos in a small subset of its products (and never in its SHEETROCK), as more companies that were heavy users of asbestos went bankrupt, USG was faced with shouldering the burden of the entire building mater...Starting at €8.20
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USG Corporation, (A), (B), and (C), Teaching Note
Bagley, Constance E.; Sherman, EliotTeaching Note HBS-808007-ETeaching Note for [807090], [807120], and [807121].Starting at €0.00