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2003 HBR List: Breakthrough Ideas for Tomorrow's Business Agenda (Spanish version)
Harvard Business ReviewArticle HBS-R0304GThe events of this past year have prompted intense soul-searching in many quarters and led us, in this year's list of the best business ideas, to reassess some of the most basic assumptions about strategy, organizations, and leadership. We began by reconsidering the role of the leader. Discussions of leadership focus almost exclusively on the CEO. But attention also needs to be paid to the other people who make organizations work: the followers--...Starting at €8.20
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OTISLINE (A) (Spanish version)
McFarlan, F. Warren; Stoddard, Donna B.Case HBS-102S22Information TechnologiesDescribes the company's use of information technology to strengthen its position in the elevator sales and service market. Also demonstrates how information technology can be used to better manage and control a large geographically dispersed service organization. This 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 student...Starting at €8.20
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Connor Formed Metal Products (Spanish version)
Applegate, Lynda M.; Stoddard, Donna B.; Conrad, Melinda B.Case HBS-115S09Information TechnologiesConnor Formed Metal Products was a small, privately owned manufacturer of custom metal springs and stampings. Since becoming president in 1984, Bob Sloss had implemented many changes to the company's organizational structure, management control systems, and information systems. In particular, he introduced a computer system in one plant to track product jobs through the manufacturing process. Employees at every function and level of the company c...Starting at €8.20
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Pacific Bell: la reingeniería de Centrex
Stoddard, Donna B.; Jarvenpaa, SirkkaCase HBS-117S17Information TechnologiesDescribe el rediseño y puesta en marcha del nuevo proceso de las órdenes para un producto estrella en el Pacific Bell. Pacific Bell es una de las compañías de funcionamiento regionales de Bell compone de siete unidades de negocio. En lugar de implementar el nuevo proceso, las funciones y tecnología de la información propuesto por el equipo de diseño original, cada unidad de negocio regional implementado aquellas piezas que más rápidamente se trad...Starting at €8.20
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Younger Women at the Top (Spanish version)
Harvard Business ReviewArticle HBS-F0704CLeadership and People ManagementMore women than men at Fortune 1000 firms have reached executive officer positions in their 30s, 40s, and 50s--and they've done it faster. Still, nearly half of those companies lack female executive officers altogether.Starting at €8.20
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Service With a Very Big Smile (Spanish version)
Harvard Business ReviewArticle HBS-F0705CService and Operations ManagementNew research confirms that the bigger the employees' smiles, the happier the customers.Starting at €8.20
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Halting the Exodus After a Layoff (Spanish version)
Harvard Business ReviewArticle HBS-F0805JLeadership and People ManagementA new study shows that downsizing often prompts demoralized survivors to quit, which hinders efficiency and costs companies money. To add insult to irony, career-development programs are associated with even higher turnover after the ax falls. The researchers say that certain types of HR practices may help.Starting at €8.20
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Moving Mountains (Spanish version)
Harvard Business ReviewArticle HBS-R0301BLeadership and People ManagementWhat could be more fundamental to management, or more difficult, than motivating people? After all, a manager, by definition, is someone who gets work done through others. But how? A typical recipe for motivation calls for a mixture of persuasion, encouragement, and compulsion. Yet the best leaders, we suspect, need no recipe: They get people to produce great results by appealing to their deepest drives, needs, and desires. And so we discovered w...Starting at €8.20
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What's Wrong with Executive Compensation?: A Roundtable Moderated by Charles Elson (Spanish version)
Harvard Business ReviewArticle HBS-R0301ELeadership and People ManagementWhat's wrong with executive compensation, and what can we do about it? HBR and the University of Delaware's Center for Corporate Governance convened a roundtable of compensation experts last October on the university's campus in Newark, Delaware. The 12 panelists, from CEOs to investors, from the professionals who advise them to a chief justice who rules on their disputes, provided an extraordinary diversity of viewpoints. The panelists began by ...Starting at €8.20
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The Vitality of Cities
Harvard Business ReviewArticle HBS-F1212Z-EEconomicsHow 27 cities worldwide stack up on measures of international appeal--including number of hotel rooms, number of international tourists, airport activity, and international association meetings--and on livability: cultural vibrancy, quality of life, ease of driving and efficiency of public transportation. Overall, Paris and London rank first and second respectively, with New York in fifth place. Due to the highly graphical nature of the Vision S...Starting at €8.20