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Corporate Responsibility & Community Engagement at the Tintaya Copper Mine (A) (Spanish version)
Rangan, V. KasturiCase HBS-513S02StrategyLocated in the highlands of Peru, the Tintaya copper mine has long been a source of intense conflict between local community members and mine operators. The mine, which was owned and managed first by the Peruvian state and later by BHP Billiton, stands on 2,300 hectares of land expropriated from local subsistence farmers. In 2000, to contest this loss of land, mining-related environmental degradation, and allegations of human rights abuses, a coa...Starting at €8.20
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Does Your Company's Conduct Meet World-Class Standards? (Spanish version)
Paine, Lynn Sharp; Deshpande, Rohit; Margolis, Joshua D.; Bettcher, Kim EricArticle HBS-R0512HBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityCodes of conduct have long been a feature of corporate life. Today, they are arguably a legal necessity--at least for public companies with a presence in the United States. But the issue goes beyond U.S. legal and regulatory requirements. Sparked by corruption and excess of various types, dozens of industry, government, investor, and multisector groups worldwide have proposed codes and guidelines to govern corporate behavior. These initiatives re...Starting at €8.20
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The Link Between Competitive Advantage and Corporate Social Responsibility (Spanish version)
Porter, Michael E.; Kramer, Mark R.Article HBS-R0612DStrategyHow should executives think about corporate social responsibility? and Why is it that the billions of dollars invested in social sector institutions haven't begun to solve our basic problems? Both articles have smart, original things to say about how business leaders can make a real difference. A company that aligns its strategy with its CSR to invest in disruptive social sector innovations might change the world.Starting at €8.20
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Promise-Based Management: The Essence of Execution
Sull, Donald N.; Spinosa, CharlesArticle HBS-R0704E-ELeadership and People ManagementThis article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. Critical initiatives stall for a variety of reasons--employee disengagement, a lack of coordination between functions, complex organizational structures that obscure accountability, and so on. To overcome such obstacles, managers must fundamentally rethink how wor...Starting at €8.20
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The Entrepreneurial Method: How Expert Entrepreneurs Create New Markets
Sarasvathy, Saras D.Technical Note DARDEN-ENT-0073-EEntrepreneurshipThis note reflects a new focus on "effectuation," the logic behind entrepreneurial expertise, which consists of tacit as well as learnable and teachable aspects of experience that are related to high performance in specific domains. Instead of taking either traits or circumstances as inputs and trying to explain variance in performance, the expertise lens focuses on understanding commonalties across a variety of experts in a single domain, given ...Starting at €8.20
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Room & Board
Hess, Edward D.Case DARDEN-S-0150-EStrategyA retail-furniture company that abandoned the standard retail-industry business model, disavowed debt and equity-growth financing, and embraced a unique multiple-stakeholder model that valued quality and relationships ahead of the bottom line while producing stellar financial results achieves contrarian success. Its culture supported an energized, positive growth environment for its employees that fostered high employee engagement and, in turn, ...Starting at €8.20
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Note on the Nonprofit Coherence Framework
Childress, Stacey; Grossman, Allen S.Case HBS-309035-EThis note presents the Nonprofit Coherence Framework. It helps nonprofit leaders identify the key elements that support an organizational strategy focused on attaining high performance, bring those elements into a coherent relationship with the strategy and each other, and help guide the actions of people throughout an organization in the pursuit of high levels of individual and organizational achievement. This note proposes that to attain high p...Starting at €8.20
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Live Nation Faces the Music
Bradley, Stephen P.; Cespedes, Frank V.; Herman, KerryCase HBS-709441-EStrategyIn 2008, concert producer and promoter Live Nation, faces a decision about its strategy in light of the tumultuous changes in the music industry and the increasing power of the major artists. As the music business once again recreates itself in response to new technologies and consumer needs, this major player is considering focusing on its principal business of concert booking and related revenue, or moving forward with its efforts to take advan...Starting at €8.20
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CityCenter (A): Vision and Design
Kohn, A. Eugene; Macomber, John D.; Creo, BenCase HBS-209052-EFinanceTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. CityCenter is a $9 billion project for MGM MIRAGE. The project's star architects have a major disagreement about a critical design issue. Bill Smith, head of the MGM MIRAGE Design Group, must resolve this issue to the satisfaction of all the project's stakeholders. This case explores many issues in the construction of large scale buildings: how to envision such a project, ho...Starting at €8.20
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The Tip of the Iceberg: JP Morgan and Bear Stearns (A)
Bergstresser, Daniel B.; Rose, Clayton; Lane, DavidCase HBS-309001-EFinanceBear Stearns & Co. burned through nearly all of its $18 billion in cash reserves during the week of March 10, 2008, and an unprecedented provision of liquidity support from the Federal Reserve on Friday March 13 was insufficient to reverse the decline inStarting at €8.20