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México: crisis y competitividad
Musacchio, Aldo; Vietor, Richard H.K.; GarcÃa-Cuéllar, ReginaCase HBS-711S30EconomicsEn 2010, el bicentenario de la revolución de México contra España, el presidente de México, Felipe Calderón esperaba que pudiera orquestar varias reformas cruciales que México necesita. México no había crecido mucho a lo largo de la última década, la pérdida de competitividad de China y otros países asiáticos. Varios de sus instituciones, incluido el trabajo, educación, salud, energía y defensa de la competencia, parecía poco competitivo. Pero co...Starting at €8.20
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Angola and the Resource Curse (Spanish version)
Musacchio, Aldo; Werker, Eric; Schlefer, JonathanCase HBS-714S10Economicsimmense inequality, low life expectancy, a non-diversified economy, and constant grumblings of corruption. The global financial crisis and subsequent fall in state oil revenue drives a loan-seeking Angola towards either the IMF, who demand extensive reforms, or the Chinese, who seek to take a direct stake in the nation's recovery. The case explores the dynamics of post-conflict recovery as well as the challenges associated with a reliance on oil...Starting at €8.20
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La desigualdad en Brasil
Musacchio, AldoCase HBS-716S14EconomicsPara maximizar su eficacia, los casos de color deben imprimirse en color. Este caso se analiza la evolución de la desigualdad en Brasil en los últimos años y genera dos debates. En primer lugar, el caso se analiza la desigualdad y de si es o no un problema para las sociedades capitalistas, en este caso Brasil. En segundo lugar, el caso se analizan algunas de las políticas que el gobierno de Brasil ha utilizado para atacar la pobreza y la desigual...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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Design and Meanings: Innovating by Making Sense of Things--The Advantage of Design-Driven Innovation
Verganti, RobertoBook Chapter HBS-3680BC-EEvery product has a meaning. Yet many companies do not think about how meanings change or how to innovate meanings. They strive to understand how people currently give meaning to things--only to discover that this meaning has been suggested by a new product designed by a competitor. But like technologies, meanings may be subject to an R&D process. And the process through which a company can innovate product meanings is design. This chapter illust...Starting at €8.20
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Radical Pushes: Placing Design-Driven Innovation in the Strategy of a Firm
Verganti, RobertoBook Chapter HBS-3681BC-EMost analysts hold that the innovation strategy of firms consists of two domains: incremental and radical. According to these theories, radical innovation is the realm of technological breakthroughs. The meanings behind products are supposed to be part of the first domain: companies can understand them better only by scrutinizing user behavior and using the resulting insights to improve their products. In this chapter, however, noted innovation e...Starting at €8.20
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The Value and the Challenges: Why Companies Do or Do Not Invest in Design-Driven Innovation
Verganti, RobertoBook Chapter HBS-3683BC-EIn the current innovation race, products tend to survive for a very short time, and firms are unwilling to waste resources in constant redesign. Design-driven innovation, or radically altering the meanings of products and services, can produce innovations with a life cycle significantly longer than that of the competition. But how do you convince the right people to invest in design-driven innovation? In this chapter, noted innovation expert Robe...Starting at €8.20