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The Robin Hood Foundation (Spanish version)
Ebrahim, Alnoor; Ross, CatherineCase HBS-315S07Business Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityCreated by hedge fund and financial managers, the Robin Hood Foundation fights poverty through grants to nonprofit organizations. As the global financial crisis continues to impact the poor disproportionately, the Foundation needs to ensure that its funds are being spent on the most effective poverty-fighting programs. The organization's senior vice president, Michael Weinstein, has developed a benefit-cost (BC) approach to analyze the performanc...Starting at €8.20
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Joke's on Me (Spanish version)
Buchanan, LeighArticle HBS-F0410KLeadership and People ManagementHumorist and Clinton speechwriter Mark Katz reveals the awesome power of self-deprecation.Starting at €8.20
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Herb Baum on Innovation: Leapfrogging R&D (Spanish version)
Baum, Herb; Buchanan, LeighArticle HBS-F0410LCEO Herb Baum thinks R&D is not the same as innovation, and he thinks innovation should be everyone's business at Dial.Starting at €8.20
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Things They Do for Love (Spanish version)
Buchanan, LeighArticle HBS-F0412DLeadership and People ManagementEmployee engagement may influence performance and retention more than any other factor.Starting at €8.20
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Those Fertile HR Fields (Spanish version)
Buchanan, LeighArticle HBS-F0504BLeadership and People ManagementIn the United States, HR management is perceived as a narrow specialty. In Japan, it's a place to go to get ahead.Starting at €8.20
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Pirates Inside (Spanish version)
Buchanan, LeighArticle HBS-F0603JCorporations that talk tough about cracking down on intellectual property theft need to look closely at their own organizations.Starting at €8.20
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Target: Responding to the Recession
Gulati, Ranjay; Lal, Rajiv; Ross, CatherineCase HBS-510016-EMarketingWithin 10 months of Gregg Steinhafel's taking over as CEO at Target, the U.S. was mired in the most significant economic downturn in 50 years. Top competitor Wal-Mart had positioned itself well for the crisis, while Target's same store sales began to slide. While Steinhafel believed that Target's long-term strategy and positioning were right, he pondered a set of strategic and operational challenges. Did Target have the right mix of offensive and...Starting at €8.20
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The Bridgespan Group: Chapter 2
Grossman, Allen S.; Greckol-Herlich, Naomi; Ross, CatherineCase HBS-309020-EThe Bridgespan Group was launched in 2000 by management consulting group Bain & Company as a nonprofit focused on strategy consulting for nonprofits and philanthropists. Over the next eight years, Bridgespan expanded its services to include executive search, knowledge sharing, and a web-based job matching service. While its growth was welcome, Bridgespan's leaders and board wanted to strengthen Bridgespan's positive impact on the nonprofit sector...Starting at €8.20
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Civics and Civility (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Buchanan, Leigh; Flynn, Brian; Furedi, Frank; Brantner, Paula; Rogers, James E.Article HBS-R0410A-ELeadership and People ManagementThe Denver office of Clarion Co., a $30 million, full-service marketing firm, has always been a politics-free zone. Nonwork conversations revolve around families, romances, and the state of the powder at Aspen. If the office sometimes seems detached from the wider world, no one cares. But that all changes with the arrival of Marcus Lippman. A senior project manager hired away from a rival firm in Chicago, Marcus is both charming and aggressive ab...Starting at €8.20
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Who Needs Budgets (Spanish version)
Hope, Jeremy; Fraser, RobinArticle HBS-R0302JAccounting and ControlBudgeting, as most corporations practice it, should be abolished. Most other building blocks are in place, but companies continue to restrict themselves by relying on inflexible budget processes and the command-and-control culture that budgeting entails. A number of companies have rejected the foregone conclusions embedded in budgets, and they've given up the self-interested wrangling over what the data indicate. In the absence of budgets, altern...Starting at €8.20