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Defining Your Operating Model: Make IT a Strategic Asset by Developing a Clear Vision of the Role of IT
Weill, Peter; Ross, Jeanne W.Book Chapter HBS-3592BC-EService and Operations ManagementMany firms have not addressed the key question of how they want to profit and grow, and how IT can help create their platform. IT savvy firms, on the other hand, clarify what they are trying to do with IT by defining an operating model. In this chapter, Weil and Ross look at IT systems as tools for integration and standardization of business processes rather than an end solution. Using examples of companies like P&G, PepsiAmericas, and ING Direct...Starting at €8.20
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Revamping Your IT Funding Model: Extract More Value from Your IT Investments
Weill, Peter; Ross, Jeanne W.Book Chapter HBS-3593BC-EService and Operations ManagementWith the average firm spending over two thirds of its IT budget just on maintaining operating systems, it's vital that companies begin rethinking how they track and manage their IT funds. In this chapter, Weil and Ross provide extensive guidelines on how companies can compose an effective IT funding model. They stress the importance of establishing IT priorities and monitoring the risks and rewards of current and past investments. This chapter wa...Starting at €8.20
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Building a Digitized Platform: A Journey to Increased Value from IT
Weill, Peter; Ross, Jeanne W.Book Chapter HBS-3594BC-EService and Operations ManagementAs your company begins to expand, whether domestically or internationally, it is important that standardized systems are organized for all branches to maintain efficiency. To do this, your company has to build a digitized platform which focuses on three main areas: a shared IT infrastructure, consolidated data centers, and enhanced IT governance. In this chapter, Weil and Ross outline four stages of organizational learning that must take place in...Starting at €8.20
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Allocating Decision Rights & Accountability: Elements of Effective IT Governance
Weill, Peter; Ross, Jeanne W.Book Chapter HBS-3595BC-EService and Operations ManagementEvery firm, at some level, needs a digitized platform, or integrated set of electronic business processes, to operate effectively. The only way to deliver a digitized platform--and superior business value from IT--is to design IT decision rights and accountabilities so that daily decisions about IT support the firm's strategic goals. In this chapter, the authors explain the importance of transparency in IT governance and describe how a firm's gov...Starting at €8.20
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Whole of Enterprise: An Atomic E-Business Model
Weill, Peter; Vitale, Michael R.Book Chapter HBS-4949BC-EInformation TechnologiesThe use of multiple business models across an organization can create confusion among customers, who may be required to navigate not just different computer systems, but also different ways of doing business. This chapter describes the benefits of adopting an integrated whole-of-enterprise e-business model. This chapter is excerpted from "Place to Space: Migrating to eBusiness Models."Starting at €8.20
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AQR's Momentum Funds (B)
Bergstresser, Daniel B.; Malloy, Christopher J.; Cohen, Lauren H.; Cohen, Randolph B.Case HBS-211075-EFinanceThis is a (B) case for AQR's Momentum Funds. It follows the first year of performance of the funds after launching, and gives students a critical inflection point for analyzing the nascent stages of a new product launch and the potential path dependence of the product depending on initial returns. It allows students to wrestle with the way forward given these conditions, and how (if at all) it changes their views, pitch, and perspective on the st...Starting at €5.74
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AQR's DELTA Strategy, Teaching Note
Bergstresser, Daniel B.; Cohen, Lauren H.; Malloy, Christopher J.; Cohen, Randolph B.; Gray, TimothyTeaching Note HBS-212084-EFinanceTeaching Note for 212038.Starting at €0.00
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Dice-K: The Hundred (Plus) Million Dollar Man
Cohen, Randolph B.; Barry, Michael; D'Annolfo, F. MarkCase HBS-208043-EStrategyDescribes the efforts made by the Boston Red Sox to sign superstar Japanese pitcher Daisuke (Dice-K) Matsuzaka within the context of the team's attempts to keep pace with longtime rival, the New York Yankees. In late 2006, Dice-K is viewed as the prize of the free agent pitching market. However, negotiations between the Red Sox and Dice-K's camp have broken down with the signing deadline less than 24 hours away (if Dice-K is not signed by the dea...Starting at €8.20
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Protégé Partners: El reto de la capacidad
Cohen, Randolph B.; Delacey, Brian J.Case HBS-209S07FinanceEn febrero de 2005, Jeffrey Tarrant (HBS '85) y Ted Seides (HBS '99) consideraron que su estrategia para Protégé Partners, fundada en julio de 2002 como fondo de fondos de cobertura (FoHF) especializada en fondos de cobertura pequeños. Los activos de Protege bajo gestión habían crecido a $ 1,1 mil millones, y el desarrollo de Protege reflejado casi exactamente las expectativas de los fundadores de 2001. A pesar de los fundadores vieron beneficios...Starting at €8.20
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AQR's Momentum Funds (A) (Spanish version)
Bergstresser, Daniel B.; Cohen, Lauren H.; Cohen, Randolph B.; Malloy, Christopher J.Case HBS-218S14FinanceAQR is a hedge fund based in Greenwich, Connecticut, that is considering offering a wholly new line of product to retail investors, namely the ability to invest in the price phenomenon known as momentum. There is a large body of empirical evidence supporting momentum across many different asset classes and countries. However, up until this point, momentum was a strategy employed nearly exclusively by hedge funds, and thus not an available investm...Starting at €8.20