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Los archivos compartidos “Peer-to-Peer” y el mercado de productos de información digital
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon; Hervas, Andres; Mitchell, JordanCase HBS-707S17StrategyPara maximizar su eficacia, los casos de color deben imprimirse en color. A partir de 2005, más de 10 millones de personas estaban usando peer-to-peer (P2P) para compartir archivos de música a las redes de intercambio, películas y software de forma gratuita. programas de software P2P como Kazaa, Limewire y eDonkey recibieron una gran cantidad de atención de los medios. organizaciones de la industria de música y películas con derechos de autor cre...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
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La Fageda
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon; Ricart Costa, Joan Enric; Mitchell, JordanCase HBS-711452-EStrategyLa Fageda is a manufacturer of high-quality, naturally-made yogurts in northern Catalonia, Spain. La Fageda is substantially different from its main competitors such as multinational Danone in that it is a 270-person workers' cooperative with 60 percent of its membership made up of mentally disabled individuals. Since its establishment in 1982, the organization has aimed to integrate the mentally disabled by providing meaningful jobs and dignifie...Starting at €8.20
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McArthur/Glen Realty Corp. (Spanish Version)
Poorvu, William J.; Vogel, John H., Jr.Case HBS-308S12FinanceJonathan Potter está considerando una inversión en el recién formado McArthur / Glen de Inversión Inmobiliaria. El caso da algunos antecedentes sobre fondos de inversión inmobiliaria y su historia. También se analizan los centros de tiendas de venta directa del fabricante, el tipo de bienes inmuebles que McArthur / Glen Realty posee y desarrolla. La industria REIT está experimentando un crecimiento explosivo, y es importante para evaluar su funci...Starting at €8.20
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Change with Your Customers - and Win Big (Spanish version)
MacMillan, Ian C.; Selden, LarryArticle HBS-F0812BService and Operations ManagementDownturns naturally reshape customers' needs. While competitors mindlessly cut costs, you should divide your customer base into new segments, whose emerging needs you can serve - and invest in - profitably. You'll increase market share and market capitalization.Starting at €8.20
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How to Get Unstuck (Spanish version)
McGrath, Rita Gunther; MacMillan, Ian C.Article HBS-F0905ALeadership and People ManagementTwo professors who have studied how leaders regain momentum in uncertain times suggest four ways to get your employees to face their fear, outrun hesitant competitors, and seize advantage.Starting at €8.20
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Making Social Ventures Work
Thompson, James D.; MacMillan, Ian C.Article HBS-R1009D-EEntrepreneurshipEntrepreneurs can play a central role in finding solutions to the world's toughest social problems. The failure rate for start-ups, however, is high. And new ventures in emerging economies face such challenges as uncertain prices and costs, nonexistent or unreliable infrastructure, and unpredictable competitive responses. The authors offer guidelines for launching successful businesses in uncertain markets. One of those guidelines, discovery-driv...Starting at €8.20