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Both/And Leadership (Spanish version)
Smith, Wendy K.; Lewis, Marianne W.; Tushman, Michael L.Article HBS-R1605DStrategyManagers must pull apart the organization's goals and value each of them individually, while also finding linkages and synergies across goals.Starting at €8.20
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Publish or Protect? (Spanish version)
Shih, Willy; Chai, SenCase HBS-615S15Service and Operations ManagementShould they patent inventions coming out of their manufacturing process development work, should they keep them as trade secrets, or should they publish them so that they would go into the public domain and nobody else could patent them? They wish to preserve their freedom to practice, but they are very concerned about competitors' ability to benefit from LEGO Group's R&D investments or alternately interfere with its freedom to operate.Starting at €8.20
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Netflix (Spanish version)
Shih, Willy; Kaufman, Stephen P.; Spinola, DavidCase HBS-608S26Strategyvideo-on-demand. How should Netflix respond?Starting at €8.20
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Governance and Sustainability at Nike (B) (Spanish version)
Paine, Lynn S.; Hsieh, Nien-he; Adamsons, LaraCase HBS-316S01StrategyTwo members of Nike's executive team must decide what sustainability targets to propose to Nike's CEO and to the corporate responsibility committee of Nike's board of directors. Set in 2012, the case traces the evolution of Nike's approach to environmental and social concerns from its origins in student protests against labor conditions in the supply chain in the 1990s through the development of a board-level corporate responsibility (CR) committ...Starting at €5.74
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SMA: División de productos microelectrónicos (C)
Beer, Michael; Tushman, Michael L.Case HBS-407S08Leadership and People ManagementComplementa el caso (B). Una versión reescrita de un suplemento antes.Starting at €5.74
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Managing Corporate Social Networks (Spanish version)
Kleinbaum, Adam M.; Tushman, Michael L.Article HBS-F0807JLeadership and People ManagementIdea brokers are good at sparking cross-divisional innovation through their broad social networks. But implementation-marshaling resources and getting various stakeholders on board-requires dense webs of strong interpersonal relationships.Starting at €8.20
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The China Rules
Paine, Lynn S.Article HBS-R1006H-ETo achieve growth and profitability in the world's third-largest economy, multinationals need strong leadership-but China is tough on top executives. Pulsating with opportunity, China attracts foreigners, yet HR professionals continue to rank it as one of the most challenging destinations for expatriates. The problem, says the author, is that many executives sent to lead China operations are ill equipped to tackle the country's unique challenges....Starting at €8.20
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Does America Really Need Manufacturing
Pisano, Gary P.; Shih, WillyArticle HBS-R1203G-EService and Operations ManagementToo many U.S. companies base decisions about where to locate production largely on narrow financial criteria. They don't consider whether keeping manufacturing at home makes more sense strategically or take into account the impact it might have on their ability to innovate. The result has been an exodus of manufacturing from America, which has weakened the capabilities that domestic firms need to keep inventing high-quality, cost-competitive prod...Starting at €8.20
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Innovation Killers: How Financial Tools Destroy Your Capacity to Do New Things
Christensen, Clayton M.; Kaufman, Stephen P.; Shih, WillyArticle HBS-R0801F-EStrategyMost companies aren't half as innovative as their senior executives want them to be (or as their marketing claims suggest they are). What's stifling innovation? There are plenty of usual suspects, but the authors finger three financial tools as key accomplices. Discounted cash flow and net present value, as commonly used, underestimate the real returns and benefits of proceeding with an investment. Most executives compare the cash flows from inno...Starting at €8.20
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Both/And Leadership
Smith, Wendy K.; Lewis, Marianne W.; Tushman, Michael L.Article HBS-R1605D-EKnowledge and CommunicationLeaders face a multitude of strategic paradoxes--contradictory pressures that are too often viewed as "either/or" choices. There are "innovation paradoxes," in which the pursuit of new offerings and processes conflicts with the mandate to sustain the tried and true. There are "globalization paradoxes," which involve tensions between local imperatives and boundary-crossing integration. And there are "obligation paradoxes," when the goal of maximiz...Starting at €8.20