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The Big Lie of Strategic Planning
Martin, RogerArticle HBS-R1401F-EStrategyStrategy making forces executives to confront a future they can only guess at. It's not surprising, then, that they try to make the task less daunting by preparing a comprehensive plan for how the company will achieve its goal. But good strategy is not the product of endless research and modeling; it's the result of a simple process of thinking through how to hit a target and whether it's realistic to try. Discomfort is part of the process. If yo...Starting at €8.20
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M&A: The One Thing You Need to Get Right
Martin, RogerArticle HBS-R1606B-EStrategyThe financial world set a record in 2015 for mergers and acquisitions. It's too soon to have data on how those deals will work out, but the signs are not promising. Last year Microsoft wrote off 96% of the value of the handset business it had acquired from Nokia in 2014 for $7.9 billion. The rule, confirmed by nearly all studies, remains true: M&A is a mug's game, in which some 70% to 90% of acquisitions are abysmal failures. The author has an ex...Starting at €8.20
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The Execution Trap
Martin, RogerArticle HBS-R1007D-ELeadership and People ManagementThe realization of a strategy depends on countless employees. So it's no surprise that when a strategy fails, the reason cited is usually poor execution. But this view of strategy and execution relies on a false metaphor in which senior management is a choosing brain while those in the rest of the company are choiceless arms and legs that merely carry out the brain's bidding. The approach does damage to the corporation because it alienates the pe...Starting at €8.20
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Playing to Win: 5. Play to Your Strengths
Lafley, A.G.; Martin, RogerBook Chapter HBS-7114BC-EStrategywhere-to-play and how-to-win. The authors discuss this step in the context of P&G's acquisition of Gillette and the overall choice cascade for this strategy. They present an adaptation of Michael Porter's "activity system" as a guide for identifying an organization's most important activities and ensuring that they are feasible, distinctive, and defensible. The authors also apply this concept in organizations with more than one product line and ...Starting at €8.20
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Unique - Yanbal (A)
Pancorvo, Jorge; Cuneo, SergioCase PAD-P-C-406Service and Operations ManagementUna empresa peruana acometiendo retos de su cadena de suministros regional dentro de la industria de cosmeticos puerta a puertaStarting at €8.20
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Confecciones Sadat SRL
Pancorvo, JorgeCase PAD-P-C-270Service and Operations ManagementNorita Sadat, propietaria del negocio y persona emprendedora, se encuentra súbitamente ante una encrucijada que puede decidir, de buena manera, el futuro de su empresa. Deberá tomar decisiones de coyuntura, pero en especial plantearse la orientación y competencias futuras que requerirá su negocio de prendas de vestir para empleadas. Se da la dicotomía producto-servicio: el éxito no depende estrictamente de la confección y calidad de la vestim...Starting at €8.20
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Bembos Burger Grill
Campos, Carla; Pancorvo, JorgeCase PAD-P-C-377Service and Operations ManagementLos directivos de esta pujante cadena peruana, constituida en 1988, se encuentran ante varias disyuntivas de desarrollo que no sólo pueden afectar la calidad del servicio - atributo muy reconocido en el medio limeño - sino que ponen seriamente en juego el futuro de toda la organización. Decisiones de alcance local e internacional, teniendo como contendientes a los grandes McDonalds y Burger King. El caso abarca temas estratégicos y operativo...Starting at €8.20
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Perú 8thousand
Pancorvo, Jorge; Quiroga, GuillermoCase PAD-P-C-401-E-EService and Operations ManagementA group of friends, keen on mountain climbing, decide to take on a pioneer challenge: to be the first peruvian expedition to climb a snow-covered mountain, more than 8,000 meters high, in the Himalayas. However, to carry out such an ambitious challenge they must confront various aspects and ask themselves several questions; many of them are foreseeable while others emerge during the project's development. For nearly a year and a half, from t...Starting at €8.20
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Credisur
Belsuzarri, Óscar; Pancorvo, JorgeCase PAD-P-C-402Service and Operations ManagementAspectos como la calidad y el nivel del servicio otorgado al cliente comienzan a tomar importancia en el sector de la banca de consumo como factores determinantes para lograr la preferencia del usuario. La rapidez en la aprobación del crédito pasa a ser un atributo relevante y lamentablemente Credisur "cojea" bastante en este tema. Los ejecutivos funcionales buscan una solución, con coincidencias y discrepancias para cambiar el estado de cosas. ¿...Starting at €8.20
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The Big Lie of Strategic Planning (Spanish version)
Martin, RogerArticle HBS-R1401FStrategyStrategy making forces executives to confront a future they can only guess at. It's not surprising, then, that they try to make the task less daunting by preparing a comprehensive plan for how the company will achieve its goal. But good strategy is not the product of endless research and modeling; it's the result of a simple process of thinking through how to hit a target and whether it's realistic to try. Discomfort is part of the process. If yo...Starting at €8.20