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How Managers' Everyday Decisions Create--or Destroy--Your Company's Strategy
Bower, Joseph L.; Gilbert, ClarkArticle HBS-R0702C-EStrategyThis 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. Senior executives have long been frustrated by the disconnection between the plans and strategies they devise and the actual behavior of the managers throughout the company. This article approaches the problem from the ground up, recognizing that every time a manag...Starting at €8.20
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Solve the Succession Crisis by Growing Inside-Outside Leaders
Bower, Joseph L.Article HBS-R0711E-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. In his interviews and data analysis, Harvard Business School professor Bower found that companies performed better when they appointed insiders to the job of CEO. Other researchers, including Jim Collins in "Good to Great," have come to similar conclusions working ...Starting at €8.20
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Threats to the Global Market System: Ten Potential "Disruptors" of Global Capitalism
Bower, Joseph L.; Leonard, Herman B.; Paine, Lynn S.Book Chapter HBS-8617BC-EThe World Bank forecast for the year 2030 provides reason for optimism. The forces of global market capitalism seem to be gathering strength, and long-term prospects show reasonable economic growth. But there are also challenges. As we have already seen, the benefits of growth will not be evenly spread across countries--or even within countries--and collateral damage to the environment will be significant. Scarce resources will be consumed, and t...Starting at €8.20
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The Business Response: Five Views of the Role of Business in Ensuring a Viable Future for Market Capitalism
Bower, Joseph L.; Leonard, Herman B.; Paine, Lynn S.Book Chapter HBS-8619BC-EWhat should be done about the challenges facing market capitalism? And more specifically, what is the role of business in combating potential disruptors and ensuring the system's health and future viability? In this chapter, Harvard Business School professors Joseph Bower, Herman Leonard, and Lynn Paine examine four views that emerged from their discussion forums with prominent business leaders in Europe, East Asia, Latin America, and the United ...Starting at €8.20
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DR Corporation
Shapiro, Roy D.Case HBS-610049-EService and Operations ManagementDR Corporation is a manufacturer of major appliances. The Traffic Manager is facing a decision of selecting a carrier for the inbound movement of motors. The primary case decisions are 1) what factors are critical to the decision, 2) how to calculate the tradeoffs among transportation costs, inventory costs, and order costs, and 3) how the company's managers should coordinate to make the decision. Acts as a very effective introduction to total su...Starting at €8.20
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Vistron Inc.: The Z Glass Project
Shapiro, Roy D.; Iansiti, MarcoCase HBS-616002-EService and Operations ManagementStarting at €8.20
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Reading Rehabilitation Hospital: Implementing Patient-Focused Care (B)
Shapiro, Roy D.; Brown, MasonCase HBS-608071-EService and Operations ManagementSupplements the (A) case. An abstract is not available for this product.Starting at €5.74
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Leaders Who Make a Difference: Sam Palmisano's Smarter IBM: Day 1, Teaching Note
Bower, Joseph L.Teaching Note HBS-311097-ETeaching Note for 311030.Starting at €0.00
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The Market for Healthcare
Bower, Joseph L.; Norris, MichaelCase HBS-312040-EThis note describes the market for healthcare, primarily in the U.S., but also in other parts of the world to the extent that features of the system in particular countries are instructive. It also contains exhibits that display comparative performance of the system in terms of cost and quality. It raises the question of how health care can be delivered with higher quality at lower cost.Starting at €8.20
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Cummins, Inc.: Building a Home Community for a Global Company
Bower, Joseph L.; Norris, MichaelCase HBS-313024-EService and Operations ManagementIn 2010, Tom Linebarger, president and COO of Cummins, Inc., the Columbus, Indiana-based manufacturer of diesel engines, has to decide where to locate the company's new manufacturing line for high horsepower engines. He has three choices to decide from: Seymour, Indiana; Daventry, England; and Pune, India. The Community Education Coalition (CEC) in Columbus has had success in improving the city's schools to make the area more competitive in attra...Starting at €8.20