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Cambio cultural en Nissan Motors
Kotter, John P.; Rothbard, NancyCase HBS-418S20Leadership and People ManagementRepresenta la reforma de la cultura corporativa de Nissan Motor Co. y la posterior respuesta de la empresa en participación de mercado y beneficios. En 1985, Yutaka Kume se convirtió en presidente de Nissan y después, se hizo hincapié continuamente la necesidad de un cambio interno en toda la organización. A pesar de la dificultad de efectuar un cambio generalizado en una organización tan grande, directivos y empleados de Nissan se puso detrás de...Starting at €8.20
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IESE Insight. Issue 16. First Quarter 2013
IESE InsightMagazine REV-37-ECorporate Governance, Finance, Information Technologies, Innovation and Change, Knowledge and Communication, Leadership and People Management, StrategyJosé M. Campa proposes the essential attitudes and principles that finance sector professionals must adopt, and the actions to go along with them, to get corporate finance back on track. Juan Almandoz draws out several lessons for creating a new community bank, which serve as useful reminders for any business seeking to reconcile its mission with the needs of customers, while also reconnecting with communities in vital and lasting ways. Mireia Gi...Starting at €22.00
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NEC Corporation in 2020: Innovating for the Future
Schaede, Ulrike; Ceia, Vanessa; O’Reilly, CharlesCase SGSB-OB106-ELeadership and People ManagementIn 2020, NEC focused on providing advanced IT, network, and data solutions, including cloud computing, AI and machine learning, Internet-of-Things platforms, and 5G networks as well as communication equipment installations. An award-winning company, NEC ranked fifth in the world in AI-related patents. The case study describes NEC’s pathway towards accelerating in-house innovation, and commercializing what its global labs had invented. In 2013, ...Starting at €8.20
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Atrae: Human Resources with Humanity
Joel Goh; Shoichi Sakatani; Nami NishimuraCase IVEY-9B21D005-ELeadership and People Management, Service and Operations ManagementAtrae Inc. was a Japanese software firm providing platform matching services for job recruitment in the software engineering industry. As compared to traditional Japanese firms, Atrae adopted a unique approach to managing its employees. Instead of the rigid hierarchy and top-down management approach that typified a Japanese firm, Atrae had a flat organizational structure and heavily relied on decentralized decision-making and individual motivatio...Starting at €8.20
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Pioneering entrepreneur Yoshiko Shinohara on turning temporary work into big business in Japan
Mayo, Anthony J.; Yamazaki, MayukaArticle HBS-F0910E-ELeadership and People ManagementTempstaff's founder, a pioneering Japanese entrepreneur, wondered whether she would go to jail for launching her business.Starting at €8.20
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Womenomics in Japan, Teaching Note
Groysberg, Boris; Lane, DavidTeaching Note HBS-418051-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching note for case 417002.Starting at €0.00
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Hironobu Tsujiguchi and His Sweet Revolution
Groysberg, Boris; Jinjo, NaokoCase HBS-419011-ELeadership and People ManagementHironobu Tsujiguchi, a Japanese chocolatier, had chosen an unusual path to success as a pastry chef. Instead of spending most of his time in his kitchen and focusing on one or two confectionery categories like most pastry chefs, he chose to work on diverse projects and leverage his reputation as a winning competitive chef to experiment with tastes and achieve business success. While Tsujiguchi enjoyed popularity and success in a broad array of pr...Starting at €8.20
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Yoshiko Shinohara and Tempstaff
Mayo, Anthony J.; Egawa, Masako; Yamazaki, MayukaCase HBS-409049-ELeadership and People ManagementThe case presents a biographical portrait of Yoshiko Shinohara who founded Tempstaff in 1973, one of the largest temporary staffing agencies in Japan. In addition to chronicling Shinohara's entrepreneurial activities, the case provides contextual background about the role of women in business in Japan in the last few decades of the 20th century.Starting at €8.20
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Lawson: Becoming the Community Store of 9,000 Japanese Communities
Hill, Linda A.; Martinez-Jerez, F. Asis; Egawa, Masako; Stecker, Emily; Yamazaki, MayukaCase HBS-409112-ELeadership and People ManagementStarting at €8.20
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Integrating Beam Suntory (B)
Fubini, David G.; Abdelal, Rawi; Lane, DavidCase HBS-421004-ELeadership and People ManagementSupplements (A) case: The spring 2014 acquisition of U.S. alcoholic spirits maker Beam Inc. by Japan's Suntory Holdings vaulted Suntory from 15th to third-largest international spirits company in the world. Yet Suntory had borrowed nearly the entire $16 bStarting at €5.74