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Do Your Commitments Match Your Convictions? (Spanish version)
Sull, Donald N.; Houlder, DominicArticle HBS-R0501HLeadership and People Management"I'm too busy to do anything about it now." Unfortunately, unless a personal or professional crisis strikes, very few of us step back, take stock of our day-to-day actions, and make a change. In this article, London Business School strategy professors Donald Sull and Dominic Houlder examine the reasons why a gap often exists between the things we value most and the ways we actually spend our time, money, and attention. They also suggest a practi...Starting at €8.20
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Living on the Razor's Edge (Spanish version)
Wasserman, NoamCase HBS-813S11EntrepreneurshipDescribes the issues facing a founder-CEO regarding building a board of directors, assembling an executive team, managing tension between co-founders, and outsourcing system development work.Starting at €8.20
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From Blogger to Odeo (B) (Spanish version)
Wasserman, Noam; Maurice, LPCase HBS-814S07EntrepreneurshipThis case is accompanied by a Video Short that can be shown in class or included in a digital coursepack. Instructors should consider the timing of making the video available to students, as it may reveal key case details. For several months, founder-CEO Evan Williams has felt trapped, unable to control Odeo and its strategic direction. He longs for the "simple" days of Blogger, the previous venture he had co-founded. Although his Blogger experie...Starting at €5.74
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Ockham Technologies (B): Building the Board (Spanish Version)
Wasserman, NoamCase HBS-814S11EntrepreneurshipDescribe los problemas que enfrenta el fundador-director general en relación con la construcción de un tablero, el montaje de un equipo ejecutivo, la gestión de tensión entre los co-fundadores, y la externalización de trabajo de desarrollo.Starting at €5.74
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Founder-CEO Succession at Wily Technology (Spanish version)
Wasserman, Noam; McCance, HenryCase HBS-815S03EntrepreneurshipBefore he accepts the new CEO position, Dick Williams wants founder Lew Cirne to step down as chairman. While considering Williams' incredible demand, Cirne reflects on everything he has already given up to get Wily Technology to this point. He agreed to step down as CEO and take what could be a largely symbolic CTO title. He also agreed to give Williams roughly as much equity as he himself owned and far more in salary. As the founder, CEO, and c...Starting at €8.20
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Inside Intel Inside (Spanish version)
Moon, Youngme; Darwall, ChristinaCase HBS-504S03MarketingIn early 2002, Pamela Pollace, vice president and director of Intel's worldwide marketing operations, is debating whether the company should extend its "Intel Inside" branding campaign to non-PC product categories, such as cell phones and PDAs. The "Intel Inside" campaign has been one of the most successful branding campaigns in history. However, the campaign is more than ten years old, and growth in the PC market appears to be stagnating. In con...Starting at €8.20
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Promise-Based Management: The Essence of Execution
Sull, Donald N.; Spinosa, CharlesArticle HBS-R0704E-ELeadership and People ManagementThis article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. Critical initiatives stall for a variety of reasons--employee disengagement, a lack of coordination between functions, complex organizational structures that obscure accountability, and so on. To overcome such obstacles, managers must fundamentally rethink how wor...Starting at €8.20
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When Does Leadership Matter: A Contingent Opportunities View of CEO Leadership
Wasserman, Noam; Anand, Bharat N.; Nohria, NitinBook Chapter HBS-6122BC-ELeadership and People ManagementTo what extent does leadership influence organizational performance? In this chapter, Noam Wasserman, Bharat Anand, and Nitin Nohria try to provide a balanced answer to this question. Replicating the variance partitioning method used by Stanley Lieberson and James O'Connor in their 1972 study on leadership and organizational performance, they analyze the performance of more than 500 publicly held U.S. companies (across 42 industries) over a 20-ye...Starting at €8.20
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Planning a Start-Up Seize the Day...Then Expect to Work All Night
Wasserman, NoamArticle HBS-F0901H-EEntrepreneurshipIf you dream of starting your own business, it's better to leave the corporate nest sooner than later, before you get too comfortable with the big-company amenities every start-up lacks. Get going before you're 40 - or even earlier, if you want to make entrepreneurship your career.Starting at €8.20
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Rubbish Boys
Wasserman, Noam; Galper, RachelCase HBS-808101-EEntrepreneurshipIt looked like founder-CEO Brian Scudamore might not be able to pursue franchising as a growth option for his junk-removal business after all. Over the years, he had overcome many hurdles, including buying out his "too-fiery" co-founder, firing all of his employees so he could start all over again when he became disillusioned with the company's developing culture, and failing at experimenting with student franchising to increase the rate of growt...Starting at €8.20