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Developing Software through Crowdsourcing (Spanish version)
Lakhani, Karim R.; Garvin, David A.; Lonstein, EricCase HBS-610S21StrategyTopCoder's crowdsourcing-based business model, in which software is developed through online tournaments, is presented. The case highlights how TopCoder has created a unique two-sided innovation platform consisting of a global community of over 225,000 developers who compete to write software modules for its over 40 clients. Provides details of a unique innovation platform where complex software is developed through ongoing online competitions. B...Starting at €8.20
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Bringing the Cloud to Earth (Spanish version)
Iansiti, Marco; Herman, KerryCase HBS-612S01Information TechnologiesAdam Famularo, general manager, Cloud Computing business, CA Technologies, and David Dobson, WVP and group executive, Customer Solutions Group, were preparing for a presentation on communicating and positioning CA Technologies' new strategy for cloud computing. Analysts had voiced concern over several 2010 acquisitions, and highlighted CA Technologies' need to clearly state its strategy and objectives and identify a compelling way to position and...Starting at €8.20
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Prediction Markets at Google (Spanish version)
Coles, Peter A.; Lakhani, Karim R.; McAfee, AndrewCase HBS-612S12Information TechnologiesIn its eight quarters of operation, Google's internally developed prediction market has delivered accurate and decisive predictions about future events of interest to the company. Google must now determine how to increase participation in the market, and how to best use its predictions.Starting at €8.20
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Netflix: Designing the Netflix Prize (A) (Spanish version)
Lakhani, Karim R.; Cohen, Wesley M.; Ingram, Kynon; Kothalkar, Tushar; Kuzemchenko, Maxim; Malik, Santosh; Meyn, Cynthia; Friar, Greta; Pokrywa, Stephanie HealyCase HBS-615S16Service and Operations ManagementIn 2006, Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix, was looking for a way to solve Netflix's customer churn problem. Netflix used Cinematch, its proprietary movie recommendation software, to promote individually determined best-fit movies to customers. Hastings deterStarting at €8.20
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Nivea (B) (Spanish version)
Lakhani, Karim R.; Fuller, Johann; Bilgram, Volker; Friar, GretaCase HBS-615S08Service and Operations ManagementEste caso suplementaria da seguimiento a un innovador enfoque de I + D por Beiersdorf, una compañía de cuidado de la piel y cosméticos. El caso se relaciona lo que pasó con el producto lanzado por Beiersdorf, a su línea Nivea, a raíz de los acontecimientos del caso A, y cómo el éxito comercial del producto informó el pensamiento de los líderes en I + D para el futuro.Starting at €5.74
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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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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