HBSP (USA)
-
Important Accounting Concepts: The Rules that Shape Financial Statements
HBS Press; Harvard Business School PressBook Chapter HBS-5801BC-EFinanceAlthough many managers are proficient in reading financial statements, most are not yet masters of the accounting concepts and processes from which this data is derived. This chapter examines seven key accounting issues that affect your performance as a manager: GAAP, accrual vs. cash accounting, accounting for inventories, accounting for depreciation, the account treatment of leases, the principle of historic cost, and cost accounting. This cha...Starting at €8.20
-
Why Satisfaction Surveys Fail
Reichheld, FredBook Chapter HBS-8177BC-EStrategyThis chapter looks at why you cannot build an effective customer-feedback system based on the shaky foundation of current satisfaction-survey methods and practices. This chapter was originally published as Chapter 5 of "The Ultimate Question: Driving Good Profits and True Growth."Starting at €8.20
-
Bad Profits, Good Profits, and the Ultimate Question
Reichheld, FredBook Chapter HBS-8185BC-EStrategyBad profits choke off a company's best opportunities for true growth, they endanger its reputation, and alienate customers and demoralize employees. This chapter shows companies how to tell the difference between good and bad profits and asks the ultimate question that will determine the future of your business. This chapter was originally published as Chapter 1 of "The Ultimate Question: Driving Good Profits and True Growth."Starting at €8.20
-
From Score to System: How the Net Promoter Score (NPS) Grew from a Metric to a Management System
Reichheld, Fred; Markey, RobBook Chapter HBS-8573BC-EIn 2003, when loyalty economics expert Fred Reichheld created the Net Promoter Score (NPS) as a new way of measuring how well an organization generates customer loyalty, no one could have predicted how swiftly this easy-to-understand, open-source metric would catch on. Thousands of innovative companies--Apple, American Express, Zappos, Intuit, eBay, Southwest Airlines, and Facebook, to name just a few--adopted the Net Promoter Score as a way to t...Starting at €8.20
-
The Measure of Success: How Intuit Became a "Net Promoter" Company--And Boosted Its Profits Through Increased Customer Loyalty
Reichheld, Fred; Markey, RobBook Chapter HBS-8575BC-EBack in the days when every business was a small business, proprietors knew what their customers thought of their products by the looks on their faces: they knew them all personally. But in today's world of giant corporations and big-box stores, most managers never see their customers. Instead, they are laser-focused on how much these customers are spending. If the bottom line is growing, that's good, right? Not necessarily. In this chapter, worl...Starting at €8.20
-
La organización del negocio de productos para el consumidor de HP: la distribución de impresoras por Internet
Lal, Rajiv; Prescott, Edith D.; Kalyanam, KirthiCase HBS-502S32MarketingEn la primavera de 1998, Pradeep Jotwani, vicepresidente y director general de la Organización de Empresas de Productos de Consumo de Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP), estaba contemplando el éxito cada vez mayor del comercio electrónico y sus implicaciones para su división. El grupo de productos de consumo había comenzado a vender impresoras restauradas a través de un centro de venta de Internet en diciembre de 1997, pero ahora se Jotwani considerando un...Starting at €8.20
-
Omnitel Pronto Italia (Spanish Version)
Lal, Rajiv; Knoop, Carin-Isabel; Raju, SumaCase HBS-503S15MarketingDescribe la situación que enfrentan los Omnitel pronto después del lanzamiento de sus servicios de telecomunicaciones móviles en Italia en diciembre de 1995. Compitiendo contra el monopolio italiano, TIM, Omnitel había posicionado sus servicios a ser mejor en la dimensión de calidad. Sin embargo, las ventas fueron significativamente por debajo de las expectativas. Con el fin de desarrollar una nueva estrategia, Omnitel realizó una amplia investig...Starting at €8.20
-
Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. (Spanish version)
Lal, Rajiv; Carrolo, Patricia MartoneCase HBS-503S69MarketingHe wanted to know how much these marketing efforts had contributed to Harrah's overall performance and whether these marketing results were a one-shot event or could be achieved year after year, especially as the competition introduced similar programs.Starting at €8.20
-
How NPS Drives Profitable Growth: The Economic Payoff of High-Quality Customer Relationships--And the Net Promoter System
Reichheld, Fred; Markey, RobBook Chapter HBS-8576BC-EIn today's Web-savvy, customer-driven world, where negative word of mouth about your company's products and services is instantly broadcast over a global PA system, you're smart to focus more closely on your customers as you fight to stay competitive. But building up legions of enthusiastic, loyal customers requires investment. And it requires reducing your company's reliance on "bad profits"--profits earned at the expense of customer relationshi...Starting at €8.20
-
The Enterprise Story--Measuring What Matters: How Enterprise Rent-A-Car Set the Industry Standard for Winning Customer Loyalty
Reichheld, Fred; Markey, RobBook Chapter HBS-8577BC-EAt its senior management retreat in 1996, Enterprise Rent-A-Car executives should have been rejoicing: the company was growing fast and had just overtaken Hertz as the number one rental-car agency in the United States. But the festive mood of the retreat was shattered by one slide in an otherwise rosy-looking presentation--customer satisfaction scores were flatlining. In this chapter, world-renowned expert on loyalty economics Fred Reichheld and ...Starting at €8.20