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Are You Ready for the Co-Creation Movement?
Ramaswamy, VenkatArticle ART-1535-EMarketingThe plethora of social networking tools available today, from Facebook to YouTube to blogs, attests to the new paradigm known as co-creation, which the author first described several years ago and now says is poised to take the world by storm. Co-creation is the process by which products, services and experiences are developed jointly by companies and their stakeholders, opening up a whole new world of value. Though increasingly being employed ...Starting at €8.20
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How Our Conception of Pay Has Changed
Gómez López-Egea, Sandalio; Contreras, IgnacioArticle ART-1863-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyThe enormity of the recent economic crisis has forced many companies to reassess their objectives and business strategies, including their employee and executive pay systems. Salary levels, as a whole, have remained flat, so as to help reduce costs. The most significant changes have been to variable pay models. New approaches, such as pay deferral, clawback or vesting, are increasingly common, often as a result of new regulations and better gover...Starting at €8.20
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Let the Revolution Begin!
Dutta, SoumitraArticle ART-1966-EStrategyFollowing initial foot-dragging, many Fortune 500 companies are now actively embracing Web 2.0 tools. Among the major benefits, they cite increased collaboration, a democracy of talents, a corporate culture of trust and potential productivity gains. The Enterprise 2.0 revolution, it seems, is finally happening. But revolutions can be as disruptive as they are empowering. Clearly, if the e-revolution is indeed happening, then executives urgently n...Starting at €8.20
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Multiple Stories to Career Building
Las Heras, MireiaArticle ART-2046-ELeadership and People ManagementCareer success used to be defined in terms of climbing the corporate ladder and moving up the salary scale, often sacrificing other personal aspirations along the way. Yet socioeconomic changes have altered not only the nature of competition, but also people's priorities and their conception of professional development. Rather than a steady ascent to the summit, careers are regarded as winding paths shaped according to various stages and cycles o...Starting at €8.20
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IESE Insight. Issue 13. Second Quarter 2012
IESE InsightMagazine REV-31-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Governance, Leadership and People Management, StrategyIESE's Rafael Andreu and Josep M. Rosanas make seven key recommendations to move us toward a more humanistic model of management. Claudia Peus (TUM School of Management, Technische Universität München) looks at some humanistic leadership principles underpinning successful organizations, and offers guidelines for managers on the factors that are hugely important for managing organizational change initiatives effectively. Michael Pirson (Fordham Un...Starting at €22.00
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A New Approach to Fix Broken Governance
Pirson, Michael; Turnbull, ShannArticle ART-2129-ECorporate GovernanceMany attempts are being made to improve corporate governance in the wake of the financial crisis. But few seem to be tackling the real issue: that our top-down paradigms, rooted in transactional, unitary, economistic notions, need to be completely rewritten in favor of a more humanistic model. Citing examples such as the John Lewis Partnership and Mondragón Corporation, the authors propose the adoption of network governance, which they say would ...Starting at €8.20
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An Ethical Approach to Crisis Management
Schwartz, Mark S.; Cragg, Wesley; Hoffman, W. MichaelArticle ART-2272-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityExecutives who ignore the ethical dimensions of crisis management expose themselves to serious risks that can lead to the collapse of their firms. The authors use the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as a cautionary example of what happens when a company fails to make decisions based on and directly connected to a set of core ethical values, such as trustworthiness, responsibility, caring, citizenship, respect and fairness. They outline ho...Starting at €8.20
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The Real Value of Say-on-Pay
Giné, MireiaArticle ART-2313-ECorporate Governance, FinanceIn light of the financial crisis, shareholder activism is growing around the globe, leading to Say-on-Pay policies, which give shareholders the opportunity to voice their opinions on executive pay, and put pressure on boards to justify and explain pay packages more clearly to shareholders, if not redesign them completely. In several high-profile cases, large companies have failed to obtain approval of pay packages for their CEOs due to such activ...Starting at €8.20
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Lessons From the Crisis for Corporate Finance
Campa Fernández, José ManuelArticle ART-2311-EFinanceAs a result of the crisis, many companies have seen their ability to carry out strategic plans greatly reduced due to financial pressures. This article analyzes how the finance function went off track and overstepped its legitimate bounds, leaving many companies exposed and vulnerable. The author proposes three essential attitudes and principles that finance sector professionals must adopt, and the actions to go along with them, to get corporate ...Starting at €8.20
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IESE Insight. Issue 20. First Quarter 2014
IESE InsightMagazine REV-45-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and Change, Leadership and People Management, Marketing, StrategySetting in motion a chain reaction of positive energy throughout your organization starts with you. The University of Michigan's Kim Cameron suggests five positive leadership practices to detox your workplace and spread the light even among organizations that are downsizing, facing bankruptcy, experiencing loss of mission or encountering fiscal disasters. IESE's Alberto Ribera and consultant J.L. Guillén explain how "mindfulness" and "...Starting at €22.00