HBSP (USA)
-
Turnaround to Growth (Spanish version)
Applegate, Lynda M.; Collins, ElizabethCase HBS-810S22Leadership and People ManagementDescribes IBM's decade of transformation. Provides background on the company's history and the factors that led to its near death in the early 1990s and to its remarkable turnaround during Lou Gerstner's reign as CEO. A rewritten version of an earlier case.Starting at €8.20
-
IBM's Decade of Transformation: Uniting Vision and Values (Spanish Version)
Applegate, Lynda M.; Austin, Robert D.; Heckscher, Charles C.; Michael, Boniface; Collins, ElizabethCase HBS-811S18Leadership and People ManagementComplementa el caso (A). Un resumen no está disponible para este producto.Starting at €8.20
-
Finding Your Next Core Business
Zook, ChrisArticle HBS-R0704D-EStrategyThis 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. How do you know when your core needs to change? And how do you determine what should replace it? From an in-depth study of 25 companies, the author, a strategy consultant, has discovered that it's possible to measure the vitality of a business's core. If it needs r...Starting at €8.20
-
Stick to the Core--Or Go for More? (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Waite, Thomas J.; McCallum, Gordon; Whitney, John O.; Rust, Roland T.; Zook, ChrisArticle HBS-R0202A-EStrategyGeorge Caldwell, cofounder of Advaark, a cutting-edge ad agency, was listening hard to his biggest client, John McWilliams, CEO of GlobalBev. McWilliams ran a multibillion-dollar holding company for an assortment of food and beverage brands but was giving credit to Advaark for his latest product line. "We were completely blindsided by this whole 'energy drink' craze," McWilliams was saying, clearly delighted that Advaark had steered his company i...Starting at €8.20
-
Finding Your Next Core Business (Spanish version)
Zook, ChrisArticle HBS-R0704DStrategyits understanding of, and access to, customers in the RV market. The company took advantage of a boom in that market to refocus on complete systems for live-in vehicles. The Danish company Novozymes, which produced relatively low-tech commodity enzymes such as those used in detergents, realized that its underutilized biochemical capability in genetic and protein engineering was a hidden asset and successfully refocused on creating bioengineered ...Starting at €8.20
-
The Great Repeatable Business Model (Spanish version)
Zook, Chris; Allen, JamesArticle HBS-R1111GStrategyThe growth it generates creates complexity, and complex companies tend to forget what they're good at. Often they respond by trying to reimagine their entire business models quickly and dramatically. That's rarely the answer, the authors write. Really successful companies relentlessly build on their fundamental differentiation, going from strength to strength. They learn to deliver it to the front line, creating an organization that lives and br...Starting at €8.20
-
Motivating in Good Times and Bad (Spanish version)
Beer, Michael; Collins, ElizabethCase HBS-214S08Leadership and People ManagementWhen students have the English-language PDF of this Brief Case in a coursepack, they will also have the option to purchase an audio version. In May 2007, the Engstrom Auto Mirrors plant, a relatively small supplier based in Indiana, faces a crisis. The business was in the second year of a downturn. Sales had started to decline in 2005; a year later, plant manager Ron Bent had been forced to lay off more than 20 percent of the work force. Plant pr...Starting at €8.20
-
Implementing Self-Directed Teams (Spanish version)
Garvin, David A.; Collins, ElizabethCase HBS-414S11Leadership and People ManagementDesigning Teams, Implementing Change, Self-Directed Teams, Workforce Management, General Management, Managing Teams, High Performance Workforce, Employee Empowerment, Motivation and Mid-size Plastic Pipe Manufacturing.Starting at €8.20
-
The Great Repeatable Business Model
Zook, Chris; Allen, JamesArticle HBS-R1111G-EStrategyThe sharper a company's differentiation, the greater its competitive advantage. In studying companies that sustained a high level of performance over many years, the authors, both partners at Bain, have found that more than 80% of them had a well-defined and easily understood differentiation at the center of strategy. But differentiation can wear with age: The growth it generates creates complexity, and complex companies tend to forget what they'...Starting at €8.20
-
LeapFrog Enterprises
Applegate, Lynda M.; Collins, ElizabethCase HBS-808109-EEntrepreneurshipExplores the success factors leading to the company's rise to the number three ranking in the aggressively competitive toy industry. LeapFrog has made the strategic decision to expand beyond the toy industry and enter the educational technology and services industry. While leveraging core capabilities and product platforms, this new industry requires that executives define a new business model. Senior executives face a number of challenges in imp...Starting at €8.20