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Recupera, S.A.
Pancorvo, JorgeCase PAD-P-C-343Service and Operations ManagementDardo López-Dolz, propietario del negocio y persona emprendedora, afronta varias decisiones para conseguir que su empresa siga creciendo. Sin embargo, la naturaleza del servicio parte de una anomalía de las transacciones de compraventa: un deudor que no cumple sus obligaciones según lo convenido. La demanda tiene un comportamiento irregular, con expedientes de cobranza que varían según cada caso, y con exigencias operativas distintas por cad...Starting at €8.20
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Why Satisfaction Surveys Fail
Reichheld, FredBook Chapter HBS-8177BC-EStrategyThis chapter looks at why you cannot build an effective customer-feedback system based on the shaky foundation of current satisfaction-survey methods and practices. This chapter was originally published as Chapter 5 of "The Ultimate Question: Driving Good Profits and True Growth."Starting at €8.20
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Bad Profits, Good Profits, and the Ultimate Question
Reichheld, FredBook Chapter HBS-8185BC-EStrategyBad profits choke off a company's best opportunities for true growth, they endanger its reputation, and alienate customers and demoralize employees. This chapter shows companies how to tell the difference between good and bad profits and asks the ultimate question that will determine the future of your business. This chapter was originally published as Chapter 1 of "The Ultimate Question: Driving Good Profits and True Growth."Starting at €8.20
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From Score to System: How the Net Promoter Score (NPS) Grew from a Metric to a Management System
Reichheld, Fred; Markey, RobBook Chapter HBS-8573BC-EIn 2003, when loyalty economics expert Fred Reichheld created the Net Promoter Score (NPS) as a new way of measuring how well an organization generates customer loyalty, no one could have predicted how swiftly this easy-to-understand, open-source metric would catch on. Thousands of innovative companies--Apple, American Express, Zappos, Intuit, eBay, Southwest Airlines, and Facebook, to name just a few--adopted the Net Promoter Score as a way to t...Starting at €8.20
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The Measure of Success: How Intuit Became a "Net Promoter" Company--And Boosted Its Profits Through Increased Customer Loyalty
Reichheld, Fred; Markey, RobBook Chapter HBS-8575BC-EBack in the days when every business was a small business, proprietors knew what their customers thought of their products by the looks on their faces: they knew them all personally. But in today's world of giant corporations and big-box stores, most managers never see their customers. Instead, they are laser-focused on how much these customers are spending. If the bottom line is growing, that's good, right? Not necessarily. In this chapter, worl...Starting at €8.20
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How NPS Drives Profitable Growth: The Economic Payoff of High-Quality Customer Relationships--And the Net Promoter System
Reichheld, Fred; Markey, RobBook Chapter HBS-8576BC-EIn today's Web-savvy, customer-driven world, where negative word of mouth about your company's products and services is instantly broadcast over a global PA system, you're smart to focus more closely on your customers as you fight to stay competitive. But building up legions of enthusiastic, loyal customers requires investment. And it requires reducing your company's reliance on "bad profits"--profits earned at the expense of customer relationshi...Starting at €8.20
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The Enterprise Story--Measuring What Matters: How Enterprise Rent-A-Car Set the Industry Standard for Winning Customer Loyalty
Reichheld, Fred; Markey, RobBook Chapter HBS-8577BC-EAt its senior management retreat in 1996, Enterprise Rent-A-Car executives should have been rejoicing: the company was growing fast and had just overtaken Hertz as the number one rental-car agency in the United States. But the festive mood of the retreat was shattered by one slide in an otherwise rosy-looking presentation--customer satisfaction scores were flatlining. In this chapter, world-renowned expert on loyalty economics Fred Reichheld and ...Starting at €8.20
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KiOR: Catalyzing Clean Energy
Nanda, Ramana; Stuart, TobyCase HBS-809092-EEntrepreneurshipBiofuels start-up KiOR was developing a proprietary technology that had the potential to dramatically impact the emerging renewable energy landscape: a process that converted cellulosic biomass into "bio-crude," a hydrocarbon mixture with properties to those of crude oil. KiOR had been operating as a virtual organization, but with venture financing in place, founder and chief technology officer Paul O'Connor and the KiOR board needed to decide wh...Starting at €8.20
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Location Choice for New Ventures: Cities
Kerr, William R.; Nanda, RamanaCase HBS-811106-EEntrepreneurshipLocation choice is a critical decision for entrepreneurs. This note explores how entrepreneurs should think about different city options through a systematic framework that encompasses professional and personal issues. We use the intellectual frameworks of the cluster and industry agglomeration literatures to organize these factors. We then provide some tactical advice and worksheets for entrepreneurs to consider when selecting the location for t...Starting at €8.20
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SecondMarket - Providing Liquidity for Shareholders of Privately Held iContact
Sahlman, William A.; Nanda, Ramana; McQuade, JamesCase HBS-812072-EEntrepreneurshipIn 2011, SecondMarket was an online platform that facilitated secondary transactions of illiquid assets, including private company stock. This case explores reasons for the decline in small-cap IPOs in the United States from the 1990s to the 2000s and how the emergence of SecondMarket provided liquidity to privately held companies like iContact, an email and social marketing software-as-a-service [SaaS] company.Starting at €8.20