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Cuántos subordinados directos
Neilson, Gary L.; Wulf, Julie M.Article HBS-R1204HKnowledge and CommunicationSi los altos ejecutivos se sienten cada vez más presionados por el tiempo, por qué iban a agregar más a sus platos? Puede sonar contradictorio, pero la investigación de Booz & Company Gary L. Neilson y Harvard Business School profesor Julie Wulf muestra que en los últimos 20 años esperanza media del CEO de control, medida por el número de informes directos, se ha duplicado. Se encuentra en casi el 10 por hoy. Esto le da relevancia fresca a una pr...Starting at €8.20
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Alibaba Group (Spanish version)
Wulf, Julie M.Case HBS-710S18StrategyDiscusses how Alibaba Group successfully managed new business ventures to become a leader in China's online marketplaces. Students follow Alibaba Group's transition from a startup to a multibusiness firm with over 15,000 employees in just over a decade. They analyze the evolving dynamics of internal competition and cooperation among Alibaba Group's subsidiaries. Students are also asked to address Alibaba Group's strategy, the role of its corporat...Starting at €8.20
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Designing Specific Growth Initiatives: A Discovery-Driven Approach
McGrath, Rita Gunther; MacMillan, Ian C.Book Chapter HBS-3070BC-EOnce corporate leadership has defined what success should look like for the whole portfolio of new initiatives it will be pursuing, the next step is to flesh out discovery-driven plans for each of the major initiatives. This chapter shows you how to connect your growth strategy and internal processes to your specific strategic initiatives and provides an example of how to start a discovery-driven plan. This chapter is excerpted from "Discovery-Dr...Starting at €8.20
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Designing the Business Model Architecture: Executing Specific Growth Opportunities Using Discovery-Driven Planning
McGrath, Rita Gunther; MacMillan, Ian C.Book Chapter HBS-3071BC-EIn reality, your strategy is what projects you are working on and how you run them, not what's printed on an annual report or posted on your website. Thus, whether you are a CEO or someone else in the organization, you must have the right practices in place to manage strategic growth initiatives effectively. This chapter addresses how to design the fundamental business that will generate growth, including establishing the viability of a business,...Starting at €8.20
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Actively Managing and Redirecting Projects: Executing Specific Growth Opportunities Using Discovery-Driven Planning
McGrath, Rita Gunther; MacMillan, Ian C.Book Chapter HBS-3073BC-EIn an emerging business, you will learn a lot from situations that reveal how close your assumptions are to what is actually unfolding. Sometimes, these situations or events occur naturally as you work on developing a business. Other times, you'll have to deliberately create a management intervention to get at the information. Either way, these events can be used as checkpoints in the discovery-driven plan to deliberately structure the systematic...Starting at €8.20
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Implementing Discovery-Driven Growth: What Other Firms Have Done and How You Can Make It Work for You
McGrath, Rita Gunther; MacMillan, Ian C.Book Chapter HBS-3074BC-EIt is axiomatic that before change can take place in an organization, there has to be some reason for it. In the case of discovery-driven growth (DDG), the impetus is almost always someone who recognizes problems in the organization's current tools and approaches to growth or innovation or who is frustrated with the poor track record of growth programs. This chapter provides real-world examples of why some companies decided to adopt discovery-dri...Starting at €8.20
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Change with Your Customers - and Win Big (Spanish version)
MacMillan, Ian C.; Selden, LarryArticle HBS-F0812BService and Operations ManagementDownturns naturally reshape customers' needs. While competitors mindlessly cut costs, you should divide your customer base into new segments, whose emerging needs you can serve - and invest in - profitably. You'll increase market share and market capitalization.Starting at €8.20
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How to Get Unstuck (Spanish version)
McGrath, Rita Gunther; MacMillan, Ian C.Article HBS-F0905ALeadership and People ManagementTwo professors who have studied how leaders regain momentum in uncertain times suggest four ways to get your employees to face their fear, outrun hesitant competitors, and seize advantage.Starting at €8.20
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Making Social Ventures Work
Thompson, James D.; MacMillan, Ian C.Article HBS-R1009D-EEntrepreneurshipEntrepreneurs can play a central role in finding solutions to the world's toughest social problems. The failure rate for start-ups, however, is high. And new ventures in emerging economies face such challenges as uncertain prices and costs, nonexistent or unreliable infrastructure, and unpredictable competitive responses. The authors offer guidelines for launching successful businesses in uncertain markets. One of those guidelines, discovery-driv...Starting at €8.20
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How Many Direct Reports
Neilson, Gary L.; Wulf, Julie M.Article HBS-R1204H-EIf senior executives are feeling ever more pressed for time, why would they add more to their plates? It might sound counterintuitive, but research by Booz & Company's Gary L. Neilson and Harvard Business School professor Julie Wulf shows that over the past 20 years the CEO's average span of control, measured by the number of direct reports, has doubled. It stands at almost 10 today. This gives fresh relevance to a perennial question for senior l...Starting at €8.20