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Reconceiving the Challenge of Change--The Importance of Individual Development
Kegan, Robert; Lahey, Lisa LaskowBook Chapter HBS-6731BC-EKnowledge and CommunicationIn the complex and ever-changing world we live in, human capability will be the critical variable in the new century. But leaders who seek to win a war for talent by conceiving of capability as a fixed resource to be found "out there" put themselves and their organizations at a serious disadvantage. Your ability to develop yourself, your people, and your teams, on the other hand, will distinguish your leadership ability. This chapter introduces a...Starting at €8.20
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Intel NBI: Intel Corporation's New Business Initiatives (B)
Shih, WillyCase HBS-609102-ELeadership and People ManagementStarting at €5.74
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GE Money Bank: The M-Budget Card Initiative, Teaching Note
Tushman, Michael L.; Raisch, Sebastian; Welling, ChristianTeaching Note HBS-410053-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching Note for [410052].Starting at €0.00
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GE Money Bank: The M-Budget Card Initiative
Tushman, Michael L.; Raisch, Sebastian; Welling, ChristianCase HBS-410052-ELeadership and People ManagementThe M-Budget Card case study is about mastering the challenges of an exploratory strategic initiative in a context marked by time pressure and frequent change. M-Budget was the first of a series of highly successful projects that established GE Money Bank as a leader in the Swiss credit card market. The business concept was to cooperate with the country's leading retailer MIGROS to develop an innovative credit card offering, the M-Budget card. Th...Starting at €8.20
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Fixing Health Care on the Front Lines
Bohmer, Richard M. J.Article HBS-R1004D-ELeadership and People ManagementIn the United States and around the world, there have been plenty of proposals for curing what ails health care. All of them-new organizational forms, alternative payment systems, and free-market competition-aim to tackle a universal challenge: improving the quality of care and reducing, or at least curbing, its cost. But the reality is that regardless of what happens to the many experiments and reform efforts, including the one in Washington, th...Starting at €8.20
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Globalization at Komatsu
Yoshino, Michael Y.Case HBS-910415-EThe case captures the challenges Komatsu, the second largest manufacturer of the earth moving equipment faced during the past five decades as it sought to globalize its operations. By 2007, it had become the second largest manufacturer of the earth moving equipment with more than 80% of its sales coming from outside of Japan. It has built a network of plants, distributors and service centers around the world. Senior management is convinced that a...Starting at €8.20
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MindTree: A Community of Communities
Garvin, David A.; Tahilyani, RachnaCase HBS-311049-EKnowledge and CommunicationMindTree is a mid-sized Indian IT services company known for its knowledge management practices, its collaborative communities, and its strong culture and values. The CEO has set a goal of becoming a $1 billion company by 2014; to reach that goal, employeStarting at €8.20
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Formalize the Experiment: How a Disciplined Learning Process Optimizes the Success of an Innovation Initiative
Govindarajan, Vijay; Trimble, ChrisBook Chapter HBS-7057BC-EInnovation initiatives require a far different approach from that of ongoing operations. Unfortunately, most companies-and their leaders-don't draw enough of a distinction between the two. In managing ongoing operations, leaders strive for performance discipline. For innovation initiatives, however, they ought to strive for disciplined experimentation. Indeed, all innovation initiatives, regardless of size, duration, or purpose, are, in essence, ...Starting at €8.20
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Reverse Engineering, Learning, and Innovation
Shih, WillyCase HBS-611039-EThis background reading looks at reverse engineering in the context of piracy and knock-offs in emerging markets like China. It first considers legal aspects of reverse engineering in strong property rights regimes like the United States as a way of unpacking the legal issues. It considers the importance of tacit or unexposed knowledge, and whether modularizing a system facilitates the recovery of design intent. Finally we look at the role of rev...Starting at €8.20
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Yum! China
Bell, David E.; Shelman, MaryCase HBS-511040-EKnowledge and CommunicationSince the first KFC opened in China in 1987, Yum--under Sam Su's leadership--had built the largest restaurant company by far in mainland China. Averaging one new restaurant opening a day for the past five years, in 2010 Yum ran over 3,600 restaurants in 650 cities and employed over 250,000 people, many of them college students in their first jobs. In the third quarter of 2010, Yum China's revenues surpassed U.S. revenues for the first time and ma...Starting at €8.20