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Glaxo 1993: The Turning Point for Business Strategy
Clark N.; Vilà, JoaquimCase DG-1251-EStrategyThe case is designed to provide the necessary internal information about Glaxo and raise some key business stategy issues. It does not provide any external information. Students use the case as a support basis to guide their external data search and analysis. At the beginning of 1993, Glaxo's top management was trying to decide whether the company's future continued to lay exclusively in the prescription medicines market or whether an opportunity...Starting at €8.20
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Arthur D. Little - Addendum to strategy consulting in Europe, 1997
Rodríguez-Llauder, María Dolores; Gallo Ll.; Vilà, JoaquimCase DG-1272-EStrategyBrief description of the profile of this strategy consulting company, covering the following aspects: historical developments, current position in the industry, basic strategic choices, basic organizational design, performance measures and current company challenges. Intended to be used as a complementary material to the industry case DG-1194-E Strategy consulting in Europe - 1997.Starting at €8.20
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McKinsey & Company - Addendum to strategy consulting in Europe, 1997
Bølset, N.; Rodríguez-Llauder, María Dolores; Vilà, JoaquimCase DG-1267-EStrategyBrief description of the profile of this strategy consulting company, covering the following aspects: historical developments, current position in the industry, basic strategic choices, basic organizational design, performance measures and current company challenges. Intended to be used as a complementary material to the industry case DG-1194-E Strategy consulting in Europe - 1997.Starting at €8.20
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Pay Television in Europe -1996
McDonough M.; Vilà, JoaquimCase DG-1166-EStrategyStarting at €8.20
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Supply Chain Challenges: Building Relationships (Spanish version)
Beth, Scott; Burt, David N.; Copacino, William; Gopal, Chris; Lee, Hau; Lynch, Robert Porter; Morris, Sandra; Kirby, JuliaArticle HBS-R0307EService and Operations ManagementSupply chain management is all about software and systems, right? Put in the best technology, sit back, and watch as your processes run smoothly and the savings roll in? Apparently not. When HBR convened a panel of leading thinkers in the field of supply chain management, technology was not top of mind. People and relationships were the dominant issues of the day. The opportunities and problems created by globalization, for example, are requiring...Starting at €8.20
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Actuar para que todos lo vean
Wagner, Chuck; Kirby, JuliaArticle HBS-R0901BLeadership and People ManagementEs difícil imaginar una imagen de liderazgo más icónica que el maestro de ceremonias. Simplemente decir la palabra, y una imagen viene a la mente de un capitán alto y gallardo que presiden, así, un circo - un mundo lleno de tanto caos y la oportunidad para deleite. Es el trabajo del director de pista de darle sentido a ese entorno, anticipar lo inesperado, y dirigir la atención de una audiencia con un máximo de 20.000 personas - una comunidad mas...Starting at €8.20
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Innovative Culture: Values, Principles and Practices of Senior Executives in Highly Innovative Companies
Vilà, JoaquimTechnical Note SMN-681-EEntrepreneurship, Innovation and Change, Leadership and People ManagementThe behavior of senior executives in the way they exercise leadership is a key driving factor for the capacity to innovate and transform a company. This chapter shows the role of top executives in highly innovative companies and their way of exercising leadership in advancing innovation. It presents a framework drawn from examples of best practices related to top management in three aspects: what drives them in their efforts to lead the transform...Starting at €8.20
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Estrategia y niveles de estrategia
Ricart, Joan Enric; Vilà, JoaquimTechnical Note DGN-434StrategyEsta nota introduce el concepto de estrategia, así como las motivaciones que hacen conveniente que la empresa desarrolle una estrategia explícita. Seguidamente presenta y desarrolla los tres niveles de estrategia: el corporativo, el de negocio y el funcional.Starting at €8.20
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Beyond Automation
Davenport, Thomas H.; Kirby, JuliaArticle HBS-R1506C-EPeople in all walks of life are rightly concerned about advancing automation: Unless we find as many tasks to give humans as we find to take away from them, all the social and psychological ills of joblessness will grow, from economic recession to youth unemployment to individual crises of identity. What if, the authors ask, we were to reframe the situation? What if we were to uncover new feats that people might achieve if they had better think...Starting at €8.20
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Leadership in the Age of Transparency
Meyer, Christopher; Kirby, JuliaArticle HBS-R1004A-EStrategyCompanies have long prospered by ignoring what economists call externalities - the various impacts that a business has on its broader milieu but is not obliged to pay for. (Pollution is the classic example.) Now, claim companies must adopt a very different stance, thanks to growing industrial scale, better sensors, and heightened sensibilities. Increasingly, business impacts are laid at companies' doorsteps. The best companies don't react defensi...Starting at €8.20