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Chocolates El Rey (Spanish Version)
Deshpande, Rohit; Herrero, Gustavo A.; Cuellar, Regina GarciaCase HBS-512S09MarketingA finales de noviembre de 2006, Jorge Redmond, presidente de Chocolates El Rey, convocó a una reunión con la alta dirección para discutir la estrategia de crecimiento de la compañía. Una parte relativamente pequeña firma con ventas de alrededor de $ 14 millones, El Rey produce el chocolate de alta calidad hecha con granos de cacao venezolano de origen único. La firma vendió sus chocolates en cuatro segmentos diferentes - servicios de alimentación...Starting at €8.20
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Cerveza Corona (A)
Deshpande, RohitCase HBS-503S01MarketingPara maximizar su eficacia, los casos de color deben imprimirse en color. A principios de junio de 1997, el presidente y vice CEO de Grupo Modelo se revisa el desempeño de cerveza Corona en el mercado de EE.UU.. A pesar de una tasa de crecimiento mucho mayor volumen de ventas, Corona todavía arrastraba Heineken, la marca de cerveza importada # 1 en el mercado de EE.UU.. Podría superar a Heineken y, si es así, ¿qué cambios necesarios estrategia de...Starting at €8.20
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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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Lehman Brothers
Nicholas, Tom; Chen, DavidCase HBS-810106-EEntrepreneurshipIn 2008, the U.S. financial system was in a state of crisis and Lehman Brothers went from a major Wall Street investment bank to an insolvent institution. It was a swift end for a firm that had its beginnings over 150 years prior. What would be the firm's legacy? And how, if at all, had its activities changed the course of American history?Starting at €8.20
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PlayStation 2 de Sony (A)
Deshpande, Rohit; Schulman, Seth M.Case HBS-110S27MarketingA principios de 1999, el presidente de Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc., tuvo que determinar la estrategia apropiada de lanzamiento EE.UU. para el jugador de videojuegos de próxima generación, PlayStation 2 de Sony. A pesar del éxito de la Playstation1 original, nuevos competidores y un entorno de consumo incierto que el lanzamiento difícil. Un reescrito versión de un caso anterior.Starting at €8.20
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A Global Leader's Guide to Managing Business Conduct
Paine, Lynn S.; Deshpande, Rohit; Margolis, Joshua D.Article HBS-W1109A-EAn extensive global survey by three Harvard Business School professors finds that employees agree on core standards of corporate behavior. But meeting those standards will require new approaches to managing business conduct. The compliance and ethics programs of most companies today fall short of addressing multinationals' basic responsibilities, let alone such vexing issues as how to stay competitive in markets where rivals follow different rule...Starting at €8.20