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Howard Schultz and Starbucks Coffee Company (Spanish version)
Koehn, Nancy F.Case HBS-803S13EntrepreneurshipInvestigates the entrepreneur's strategic initiatives to develop a mass market for specialty coffee in the 1980s and 1990s. These initiatives included the development of premium products, rapid expansion of company-owned stores--each with attractive retail environments and responsive customer service--and, especially, the creation of a strong brand. Also devotes considerable attention to how Schultz built the Starbucks organization, examining the...Starting at €8.20
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From Ladder to Lattice: The New Workforce Imperative
Benko, Cathleen; Weisberg, AnneBook Chapter HBS-3881BC-ELeadership and People ManagementScaling the corporate ladder has been the enduring gold standard for personal success since organizational hierarchy was invented at the beginning of the industrial age. However, a confluence of market and demographic forces in the past twenty years has compressed hierarchies, shortened the ladder, and reduced the qualified pool of high-potential employees available to climb it. Another set of business and societal influences has reshaped the Ame...Starting at €8.20
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The Nontraditional Is the New Traditional: Six Trends that have Created a New Workforce Imperative
Benko, Cathleen; Weisberg, AnneBook Chapter HBS-3882BC-ELeadership and People ManagementWhy is here and now the time to acknowledge and respond to the notion that corporate structures are morphing from a ladder to a lattice construct? One reason is that six key trends are converging in ways that create an unprecedented workforce challenge for business executives. This convergence is creating sweeping changes in workforce composition, attitudes, and capabilities. This chapter dissects the six trends and illustrates how each is exacer...Starting at €8.20
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The Overcommitted Organization
Mortensen, Mark; Gardner, Heidi K.Article HBS-R1705C-EBy assigning people to multiple teams at once, organizations can make more-efficient use of time and brainpower and do a better job of solving complex problems and sharing knowledge across groups. But competing priorities and other conflicts can make it hard for teams with overlapping membership to stay on track. Group cohesion often suffers, and people serving on several teams concurrently may experience burnout. Through extensive research and c...Starting at €8.20
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Back Channels in the Boardroom
Gardner, Heidi K.; Peterson, Randall S.Article HBS-R1905G-ELeadership and People ManagementThe agendas of company boards are so packed that it's hard to get to every question and concern during regular meetings. So between meetings, directors do what members of a team always do in this situation: They start having conversations on the side. Conducted properly, side discussions allow directors to work together efficiently--to trade opinions, share information, and exert influence. But conducted improperly, they encourage political maneu...Starting at €8.20
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Lattice Ways to Participate: Creating a Company Culture of Collaboration and Transparency
Benko, Cathleen; Anderson, MollyBook Chapter HBS-7012BC-EThe traditional corporate ladder is giving way to a new kind of organizational structure-the corporate lattice-in which success is no longer defined as a linear climb to the top, and rigid definitions of what work is, how it should be accomplished, and who gets to participate are being transformed. In this chapter, the authors examine how companies can enable broad-based, nonhierarchical forms of participation through the interrelated forces of c...Starting at €8.20
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Lattice Ways to Build Careers: An Operational Approach to Career Customization
Benko, Cathleen; Anderson, MollyBook Chapter HBS-7018BC-EThe changing world of work is dismantling the corporate ladder step by step. Tom Peters, the best-selling author of "In Search of Excellence," sums it up this way: "It's over. No more vertical. No more ladder. A career is now a checkerboard. Or even a maze." In this chapter, the authors explore how companies can redesign their talent practices through career enhancement and customization. They introduce the mass career customization (MCC) tool, w...Starting at €8.20
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The Individual's Guide to the Shifting Landscape: Charting Your Career Path Within the Corporate Lattice Structure
Benko, Cathleen; Anderson, MollyBook Chapter HBS-7019BC-EThe traditional corporate ladder is giving way to a new kind of organizational structure-the corporate lattice-in which success is no longer defined as a linear climb to the top, and rigid definitions of what work is, how it should be accomplished, and who gets to participate are being transformed. In this chapter, the authors explore the changing role each individual plays in directing his or her own lattice journey. Individuals need to treat th...Starting at €8.20
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Gary Hirshberg and Stonyfield Farm
Koehn, Nancy F.; Khan, Nora N.; Legris, ElizabethCase HBS-312122-EGary Hirshberg and Stonyfield Farm is the story of one entrepreneur's vision and journey to create a market-leading, environmentally responsible business founded on the principles of product quality, organizational alignment and sustainability. A former environmental activist, Hirshberg built Stonyfield Farm, (an organic yogurt maker based in New Hampshire), up from a seven cow-operation into a business that in 2010 had $360 million in annual rev...Starting at €8.20
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Gary Hirshberg and Stonyfield Farm, Teaching Note
Koehn, Nancy F.; Khan, Nora N.Teaching Note HBS-314019-ETeaching Note for 312122.Starting at €0.00