HBSP (USA)
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Allentown Materials Corporation: División de productos electrónicos (A)
Beer, MichaelCase HBS-403S14Leadership and People ManagementUna división de Allentown Materials Corp. tiene problemas financieros y de organización. Conflicto y falta de coordinación existen entre los grupos funcionales. Los empleados no tienen un sentido de dirección, y la moral es baja. La causa de estos problemas se encuentra en un cambio en el entorno empresarial, seguido de cambios en la organización y gestión. Un reescrito versión de un caso anterior.Starting at €8.20
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Diversity As Strategy (Spanish version)
Thomas, David A.Article HBS-R0409GLeadership and People Managementstrong support from company leaders, an employee base that is fully engaged with the initiative, management practices that are integrated and aligned with the effort, and a strong and well-articulated business case for action. All four elements have helped IBM make diversity a key corporate strategy tied to real growth.Starting at €8.20
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Cross-Functional Challenges in the Mobile Division (Spanish version)
Beer, Michael; Shelton, RachelCase HBS-415S03Leadership and People ManagementRoger Cahill has spent less than a year as head of the Mobile Division of BoldFlash, a flash memory component maker. On the corporate level, BoldFlash has adapted to an evolving and difficult marketplace, but the Mobile Division is struggling. The four groups within the unit refuse to work together, and the unit recently failed to capitalize on an important new product opportunity. To address the problems, Cahill has made a number of organization...Starting at €8.20
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The Electronic Products Division (A) (Spanish version)
Beer, MichaelCase HBS-411S19Leadership and People ManagementDescribes a division of Corning Glass Works that finds itself with deep financial and organizational problems. Severe conflict and lack of coordination exist between functional groups. Employees do not have a sense of direction and morale is low. Provides sufficient data to determine that the cause of these problems is a change in business environment that had been followed by change in organization and management. Can be used for analysis of org...Starting at €8.20
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The Hybrid Model (Spanish version)
Groysberg, Boris; Thomas, David A.; Reavis, CateCase HBS-413S04Leadership and People ManagementSupplements the (A) case.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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Colonial Food Services Co. (Spanish Version)
Beer, Michael; Clawson, James G.Case HBS-402S07Leadership and People ManagementEl primer caso en una serie de casos de cuatro partes que describe los acontecimientos que condujeron a una entrevista de evaluación del desempeño. Describe los antecedentes de la empresa.Starting at €8.20