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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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Rock Star or Shooting Star? (B)
Isabella, Lynn A.; Maiden, Stephen E.Case DARDEN-OB-1199-ELeadership and People ManagementSet in an investment firm, the A case presents the president going through a review process with the firm’s portfolio managers. By all accounts, Fred Silverton’s financial savvy and skills had had helped the staggering mutual fund company reach success. The case runs through issues and actions directly involving Silverton. Despite Silverton’s success, there were some who were alarmed over his approach to human capital. Nonetheless, the president ...Starting at €5.74
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Progressive Insurance: Making Pay As You Drive a Snap for Consumers - Teaching Note
Farris, Paul W.; Steenburgh, Thomas J.; Maiden, Stephen E.Teaching Note DARDEN-M-0873TN-EMarketingTeaching note for product M-0873Starting at €0.00
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Creativity and the Role of the Leader (Spanish version)
Amabile, Teresa M.; Khaire, MuktiArticle HBS-R0810GStrategyThe leader's job is not to be the source of ideas but to encourage and champion ideas. Leaders must tap the imagination of employees at all ranks and ask inspiring questions. They also need to help their organizations incorporate diverse perspectives, which spur creative insights, and facilitate creative collaboration by, for instance, harnessing new technologies. The participants shared tactics for enabling discoveries, as well as thoughts on h...Starting at €8.20
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How to Design Smart Business Experiments (Spanish version)
Davenport, Thomas H.Article HBS-R0902EStrategyManagers regularly implement new ideas without evidence to back them up. They act on hunches and often learn very little along the way. That doesn't have to be the case. With the help of broadly available software and some basic investments in building capabilities, managers don't need a PhD in statistics to base consequential decisions on scientifically sound experiments. Some companies with rich consumer-transaction data - Toronto-Dominion, CKE...Starting at €8.20
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Competing on Talent Analytics (Spanish version)
Davenport, Thomas H.; Harris, Jeanne; Shapiro, JeremyArticle HBS-R1010BStrategyDo investments in your employees actually affect workforce performance? Who are your top performers? How can you empower and motivate other employees to excel? Leading edge companies such as Google, Best Buy, P&G, and Sysco use sophisticated data-collection technology and analysis to answer these questions, leveraging a range of analytics to improve the way they attract and retain talent, connect their employee data to business performance, diffe...Starting at €8.20
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The HBR Agenda 2011 (Spanish version)
Ariely, Dan; Brown, Tim; Cappelli, Peter; Davenport, Thomas H.; Duflo, Esther; Fernández-Aráoz, Claudio; Govindarajan, Vijay; Gratton, Lynda; Hackman, J. Richard; Ibarra, Herminia; Kedrosky, Paul; Lafley, A.G.; Li, Charlene; Ma, Jack; Manzoni, Jean-Francois; Pink, Daniel H.; Porter, Michael E.; Schein, Edgar H.; Schmidt, Eric; Schwab, Klaus; Shirky, Clay; Stiglitz, Joseph E.; Sutton, Robert I.; Tyson, LaArticle HBS-R1101BKnowledge and CommunicationJoseph E. Stiglitz will be crafting a new postcrisis paradigm for macroeconomics whereby rational individuals interact with imperfect and asymmetric information. Herminia Ibarra will be looking for hard evidence of how "soft" leadership creates value. Eric Schmidt will be planning to scale mobile technology by developing fast networks and providing low-cost smartphones in the poorest parts of the world. Michael Porter will be using modern cost a...Starting at €8.20
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SEWA Trade Facilitation Center: Changing the Spool (Spanish Version)
Khaire, Mukti; McGinn, Kathleen L.Case HBS-814S09EntrepreneurshipEl caso es sobre la decisión de convertir una organización sin fines de lucro en una empresa con fines de lucro. STFC, que es parte de una organización sin ánimo de lucro más grande - la Asociación de Trabajadores Autónomos (SEWA) - trabaja para mejorar las condiciones de vida de las mujeres rurales y urbanas muy pobres en la India. Lo hace mediante la traducción de las habilidades de bordado tradicionales de la India en los muebles y ropa de cas...Starting at €8.20
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Nature of Analytical Competition: Using Analytics to Build a Distinctive Capability
Davenport, Thomas H.; Harris, Jeanne G.Book Chapter HBS-2193BC-EWhat does it mean to compete on analytics and how can companies move in that direction? This chapter lays out the general ideas around analytical competition, providing a few examples from the worlds of business and sports. This chapter was originally published as Chapter 1 of "Competing on Analytics."Starting at €8.20
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Analytics and Business Performance: Transforming the Ability to Compete on Analytics into a Lasting Competitive Advantage
Davenport, Thomas H.; Harris, Jeanne G.Book Chapter HBS-2197BC-EThis chapter explores the links between the extensive use of analytics and business performance, describing how several highly successful companies have transformed their ability to compete analytically into a key point of differentiation and long-term competitive advantage. This chapter was originally published as Chapter 3 of "Competing on Analytics."Starting at €8.20