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Roaring Out of Recession (Spanish version)
Gulati, Ranjay; Nohria, Nitin; Wohlgezogen, FranzArticle HBS-R1003CStrategya combination of cutting costs, mainly by improving operational efficiency (rather than by slashing the number of employees relative to peers), and developing new business opportunities by making significantly greater investments than rivals do in R&D and marketing while also investing in plants and machinery.Starting at €8.20
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Liberar el poder del marketing
Comstock, Beth; Gulati, Ranjay; Liguori, StephenArticle HBS-R1010HMarketingHasta hace pocos años, General Electric cree que sus productos podrían prácticamente promocionarse. Los vendedores se habían limitado a empujar información de forma pasiva a los responsables en el centro para la innovación típicamente en I + D o de ingeniería, con el resultado de que las mentes brillantes se consumen en trabajos sin futuro. Cuando se trataba de discusiones acerca de la estrategia corporativa, el marketing no estaba en la mesa. Pe...Starting at €8.20
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GE's Global Growth Experiment (Spanish Version)
Gulati, RanjayArticle HBS-S17052Knowledge and CommunicationDurante sus 16 años como CEO, Jeffrey Immelt diseñado un cambio de imagen radical de GE, el reposicionamiento de la empresa como una empresa industrial digitales mirando para definir el futuro de la Internet de las cosas. En el artículo principal de Spotlight, que comparte lo que aprendió sobre dirigir una organización gigante a través de cambios masivos. Hay varias clases: (1) Ser disciplinado. Este medio de anidación iniciativas dentro de la ot...Starting at €8.20
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Transitioning to a Marketplace Model (Spanish version)
Narayandas, Das; Gupta, Sunil; Tahilyani, RachnaCase HBS-518S12MarketingSachin Bansal and Binny Bansal, co-founders of India's largest e-commerce company, Flipkart, were reviewing the foregoing Facebook post, which had gone viral and received more than 20,000 likes. A third-party seller listed a pair of women's sandals on Flipkart's website at 799 Indian rupees and offered it on promotion at 399. However, upon close examination of the product's display photo, consumers noticed a 399 price tag printed on the strap. Co...Starting at €8.20
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Tata Nano - The People's Car (Spanish version)
Palepu, Krishna G.; Anand, Bharat N.; Tahilyani, RachnaCase HBS-711S33StrategyThe case explores how Tata Motors, India's largest automobile company, developed the Nano, the world's cheapest car. The case focuses on the translation of Ratan Tata's (Chairman of Tata Motors) vision of a safe affordable car for the masses by Ravi Kant, Managing Director of Tata Motors into the Nano Project. The case raises questions around breaking the price - quality barrier and changing existing internal processes to accommodate revolutionar...Starting at €8.20
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How the Other Fukushima Plant Survived
Gulati, Ranjay; Casto, Charles; Krontiris, CharlotteArticle HBS-R1407K-EIn March 2011 Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was devastated by three reactor explosions and three core meltdowns in the days following a 9.0 earthquake and a tsunami that produced waves as high as 17 meters. The world is familiar with Daiichi's fate; less well known is the crisis at its sister plant, Daini, about 10 kilometers to the south. As a result of the storm, three of Daini's four reactors lacked sufficient power to achieve ...Starting at €8.20
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Structure That's Not Stifling
Gulati, RanjayArticle HBS-R1803D-EMost leaders view employee freedoms and operational controls as antagonists in a tug-of-war. They tend to focus on regulating workers' behavior, often putting a damper on commitment, innovation, and performance without realizing it. But freedom and control aren't zero-sum, argues the author. By giving people a clear sense of their organization's purpose, priorities, and principles--that is, by providing freedom within a galvanizing framework--lea...Starting at €8.20
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The Soul of a Start-up
Gulati, RanjayArticle HBS-R1904E-EEntrepreneurshipThere's an essential, intangible "something" in start-ups--an energy, a soul. It inspires enthusiasm and fosters a sense of deep connection and mutual purpose. While this spirit persists, engagement is high and businesses keep their edge. But all too often, companies lose their souls as they mature. Firms add new systems and structures and bring in experienced professionals--and in the process somehow crush their original energizing spirit. In re...Starting at €8.20
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Important Accounting Concepts: The Rules that Shape Financial Statements
HBS Press; Harvard Business School PressBook Chapter HBS-5801BC-EFinanceAlthough many managers are proficient in reading financial statements, most are not yet masters of the accounting concepts and processes from which this data is derived. This chapter examines seven key accounting issues that affect your performance as a manager: GAAP, accrual vs. cash accounting, accounting for inventories, accounting for depreciation, the account treatment of leases, the principle of historic cost, and cost accounting. This cha...Starting at €8.20
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Pratham - Every Child in School and Learning Well
Datar, Srikant M.; Childress, Stacey; Tahilyani, Rachna; Raina, AnjaliCase HBS-110001-EThe case focuses on how Pratham, a non-governmental organization, provided quality education to underprivileged children in India by collaborating with the government. It focuses on the problem Madhav Chavan, the founder, is trying to solve, the contributStarting at €8.20