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Breakthrough Thinking from Inside the Box (Spanish version)
Coyne, Kevin P.; Clifford, Patricia Gorman; Dye, ReneeArticle HBS-R0712EStrategyEach is something that adults loved as children and that was reproduced in an expensive form for grown-ups. Asking brainstorming participants to ponder how their childhood passions could be recast as adult offerings might generate some fabulous ideas for new products or services.Starting at €8.20
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Ethical Leader's Decision Tree (Spanish version)
Bagley, Constance E.Article HBS-F0302CIf you spring for optional pollution-control devices at your overseas plant, have you violated your duty to maximize shareholder value? Here's a framework that can help clarify this and other ethical dilemmas.Starting at €8.20
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A Moving Target: Real World Strategies for Applying 5 Forces, Selecting and Using Appropriate Tools, and Reacting to Feedback
Barney, Jay; Clifford, Patricia GormanBook Chapter HBS-7135BC-E"What I Didn't Learn in Business School" follows new consultant Justin Campbell as he joins an elite team hired by a chemical firm to assess the potential of a newly developed technology. Read along as Justin meets with a vice president, the second-in-command at the chemical firm. Throughout the interview, Justin learns that a particular mode of analysis is not applicable to every situation. Like any newcomer, he tries to match a case study to a ...Starting at €8.20
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A Lone Ranger: Real World Strategies for Applying Growth Opportunity Scans, Assessing Product Extensions, and Realizing the Potential of Radical Innovations
Barney, Jay; Clifford, Patricia GormanBook Chapter HBS-7147BC-E"What I Didn't Learn in Business School" is a fictional account that follows new consultant Justin Campbell as he joins an elite team hired by a chemical firm to assess the potential of a newly developed technology. This chapter finds Justin struggling to get a handle on several different applications for this technology in order to determine the growth opportunity and lay the groundwork for choosing the highest-potential innovations. Learn from ...Starting at €8.20
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A Team Effort: Real World Strategies for Justifying Vertical Integration, Considering Joint Ventures, and Understanding Organizational Dynamics
Barney, Jay; Clifford, Patricia GormanBook Chapter HBS-7148BC-E"What I Didn't Learn in Business School" is a fictional account that follows new consultant Justin Campbell as he joins an elite team hired by a chemical firm to assess the potential of a newly developed technology. At the opening of this chapter, Justin realizes that the work he has been doing alone on the new project overlaps significantly with the work that his colleagues have done. While attempting to crack the strategy case on his own, he ha...Starting at €8.20
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A Constructive Meeting: Real World Strategies for Synthesizing Complex Information, Managing Projects under Tight Timelines, and Mitigating Strategic Risks
Barney, Jay; Clifford, Patricia GormanBook Chapter HBS-7151BC-E"What I Didn't Learn in Business School" is a fictional account that follows new consultant Justin Campbell as he joins an elite team hired by a chemical firm to assess the potential of a newly developed technology. Authors Jay Barney and Trish Gorman Clifford use Justin's story to examine the challenges a recent MBA graduate faces in applying his education on the job-in a way a traditional business book about strategy never could. In this chapte...Starting at €8.20
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Cultivating Compliance for Strategic Strength: Mastering the Legal Aspects of Business
Bagley, Constance E.Book Chapter HBS-8153BC-ECompliance with the law is just the baseline for winning legally in business. This chapter shows how managers can practice what the author calls "strategic compliance management," which goes beyond mere compliance with the law to embrace organizational integrity and to seek out and exploit business opportunities provided by regulation and deregulation. This chapter is excerpted from "Winning Legally: How to Use the Law to Create Value, Marshal R...Starting at €8.20
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Using Contracts to Define and Strengthen Relationships: Mastering the Legal Aspects of Business
Bagley, Constance E.Book Chapter HBS-8155BC-EThis chapter identifies the web of relationships inherent in any business, and explains how managers can structure contracts to define and strengthen relationships by increasing predictability, allocating risk and reward, creating and retaining options, and aligning incentives. This chapter is excerpted from "Winning Legally: How to Use the Law to Create Value, Marshal Resources, and Manage Risk."Starting at €8.20
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Capturing the Value of Intellectual Capital: Mastering the Legal Aspects of Business
Bagley, Constance E.Book Chapter HBS-8157BC-EThe ability to use intellectual property laws to capture the value of the firm's inventions, proprietary information, and other intangible assets is a key strategic advantage. This chapter shows managers how to use patents, copyrights, trade secrets, and trademarks both offensively and defensively. This chapter is excerpted from "Winning Legally: How to Use the Law to Create Value, Marshal Resources, and Manage Risk."Starting at €8.20
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USG Corp. (A)
Bagley, Constance E.; Sherman, EliotCase HBS-807090-EStrategyDeals with CEO Bill Foote's decision of how to deal with USG's exposure to asbestos liability. USG was the largest building materials company in the United States, with 14,000 employees and gross revenues of $3.8 billion. Although USG used asbestos in a small subset of its products (and never in its SHEETROCK), as more companies that were heavy users of asbestos went bankrupt, USG was faced with shouldering the burden of the entire building mater...Starting at €8.20