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Perder el cargo de CEO y recuperarlo
Beard, AlisonArticle HBS-R1010NLeadership and People ManagementMichael Mack fue un éxito prototípica historia después de conseguir su MBA de Harvard, trabajó para un primer nivel de la firma de consultoría y al lado hizo un movimiento en la actividad empresarial como el dueño de una cadena de restaurantes de crecimiento. Entonces, para su sorpresa, su tablero lo despidió. Ese contratiempo le envió en un viaje personal que lo más prudente un líder mucho más hizo.Starting at €8.20
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Surviving Twin Challenges-at Home and Work (Spanish version)
Beard, AlisonArticle HBS-R1101QLeadership and People ManagementWithin a period of 23 months, Lois Quam found herself with a dizzying level of responsibility, both at work-as research director at UnitedHealthcare and head of the company's public-sector services division-and at home, with newborn twins and a toddler. But rather than bend under the weight of either pressure, Quam found ways to thrive in both areas of her life. Namely, she focused on big-picture goals, doing what was required to be the kind of m...Starting at €8.20
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It's Hard to Be Good (Spanish version)
Beard, Alison; Hornik, RichardArticle HBS-R1111EStrategyExcellence in community engagement, labor relations, environmental protection, corporate governance, and supply chain accountability isn't easy to achieve. But in the long run, top performance in those areas strengthens an organization, as the five companies profiled in this article demonstrate. They prove that doing the right thing isn't at odds at all with building the bottom line, and in fact it can be integral to a firm's economic logic. Dutc...Starting at €8.20
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Trabajo de vida: Kenneth Cole
Cole, Kenneth; Beard, AlisonArticle HBS-R1112MKnowledge and CommunicationHBR diseñador de moda Kenneth Cole entrevistas en una carrera que ha combinado el trabajo, la familia y el activismo comunitario.Starting at €8.20
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Trabajo de vida: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem; Beard, AlisonArticle HBS-R1201QKnowledge and CommunicationKareem Abdul-Jabbar, uno de los centros de la mayoría de los célebres de la historia del baloncesto, se ha convertido en un exitoso escritor, historiador y cineasta.Starting at €8.20
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The New Science of Team Chemistry (Spanish version)
Johnson Vickberg, Suzanne M.; Christfort, Kim; Fisher, Helen; Beard, Alison; Harrell, EbenArticle HBS-R1702BStrategyThis Spotlight package focuses on the personality types that make up a team--and how to get the best from any combination. In "Pioneers, Drivers, Integrators, and Guardians," Suzanne Johnson Vickberg and Kim Christfort of Deloitte discuss strategies for making the most of cognitive diversity on teams. When teams fall short of their potential, it's often because leaders don't know how to spot and manage the differences in how people approach their...Starting at €8.20
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Cherrypicks (Spanish version)
Kerr, William R.Case HBS-816S13EntrepreneurshipCherrypicks is a Hong Kong communications start-up approaching a large Korean mobile operator for a partnership to take the operator's products to markets outside of Korea. SK Telecom's (SKT) Ring Back Tones (RBT) product is a spectacular success in South Korea, but the partnership will require major changes in Cherrypicks' business model. Further complicating matters, SKT is also a strategic investor in Cherrypicks, a very large service provider...Starting at €8.20
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The Secret to Job Growth: Think Small
Glaeser, Edward L.; Kerr, William R.Article HBS-F1007C-EStrategyWith job growth lagging, local communities will be tempted to use tax breaks to attract big employers, but new research by Harvard economist Edward L. Glaeser and William R. Kerr of Harvard Business School indicates that's a misguided approach-growth is highly correlated with an abundance of small firms, not the presence of a few big ones.Starting at €8.20
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AT&T: Managing Technological Change and the Future of Telephone Operators in the 20th Century
Gross, Daniel P.; Kerr, William R.Case HBS-718486-EStrategyBy the 1930s, AT&T dominated the American phone industry, serving 10 million telephones and employing over 100,000 switchboard operators. But beginning in the mid-1910s, the company began changing from manually-operated switchboards to mechanical switching systems that were faster and more cost-effective and did not require human operators. By the 1930s, the changeover has been completed or is underway in most American cities with over 50,000 peo...Starting at €8.20
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Cherrypicks
Kerr, William R.Case HBS-807106-EEntrepreneurshipCherrypicks is a Hong Kong communications start-up approaching a large Korean mobile operator for a partnership to take the operator's products to markets outside of Korea. SK Telecom's (SKT) Ring Back Tones (RBT) product is a spectacular success in South Korea, but the partnership will require major changes in Cherrypicks' business model. Further complicating matters, SKT is also a strategic investor in Cherrypicks, a very large service provider...Starting at €8.20