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One Company's Experience with AR (Spanish version)
Jouret, Guido; Morse, GardinerArticle HBS-S17064Information TechnologiesWhile the physical world is 3-D, most data is trapped on 2-D pages and screens. This gulf between the real and digital worlds limits our ability to exploit the volumes of information available to us. Augmented reality, a set of technologies that superimposes digital data and images on physical objects, is closing this gap. By putting information directly into the context in which we'll apply it, AR increases our ability to absorb and act on it. A...Starting at €8.20
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How Presidents Persuade (Spanish version)
Gergen, David; Morse, GardinerArticle HBS-F0301DLeadership and People ManagementDavid Gergen, adviser to presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Clinton, knows a thing or two about how leaders get their messages across. In this edited e-mail interview with HBR's Gardiner Morse, Gergen discusses the power of persuasion and the theatrics of communicating well.Starting at €8.20
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Filling Big Shoes at Adobe (Spanish version)
Chizen, Bruce; Morse, GardinerArticle HBS-F0303CLeadership and People ManagementWhen Bruce Chizen took over as president and CEO from Adobe's legendary founders in 2000, he knew he had to confront the skeptics who doubted he had the technological grounding to lead the company. In this interview, Chizen describes how he won converts by acknowledging his shortcomings and discusses the leadership lessons he learned along the way.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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Set Up to Fail: Economist Paul Ormerod on Strategy and Extinction
Ormerod, Paul; Morse, GardinerArticle HBS-F0706G-EStrategyMost organizations bend over backward to avoid failure. They shouldn't, says economist Paul Ormerod. History shows that failure and success are inherently random, so firms should innovate and adapt.Starting at €8.20
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Historian Geoffrey Jones on why knowledge stays put
Jones, Geoffrey G.; Morse, GardinerArticle HBS-F0807H-EStrategyA business historian reminds us that since the nineteenth century, predictions about globalization have been reliably wrong. Despite technology for the fast diffusion of knowledge, information-like wealth-seems to be concentrating even further.Starting at €8.20
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Change with Your Customers - and Win Big
MacMillan, Ian C.; Selden, LarryArticle HBS-F0812B-EService 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