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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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How to Bounce Back from Adversity (Spanish version)
Margolis, Joshua D.; Stoltz, Paul G.Article HBS-R1001ELeadership and People Managementhow to manage corporate transformation, what we understand about personal resilience, whether the United States can reclaim its leadership role in innovation and invention, and how executives in strategy and marketing are reconceiving the work they do.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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Workplace Safety at Alcoa (A) (Spanish Version)
Clark, Kim B.; Margolis, Joshua D.Case HBS-604S19Service and Operations ManagementExamina el desafío que enfrentan los gerentes de una planta de fabricación de aluminio grande en su campaña para mejorar la seguridad en el trabajo. El CEO de la compañía ha hecho de la seguridad una prioridad. La planta ha hecho grandes progresos en la reducción de la tasa de lesiones, pero ahora se enfrenta a la necesidad de acelerar su mejora. Para ello se requiere el director de seguridad a tener en cuenta el progreso hasta la fecha y analiza...Starting at €8.20
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Data: The Prerequisite for Everything Analytical--How to Manage Your Data for More Effective General Management
Davenport, Thomas H.; Harris, Jeanne G.; Morison, RobertBook Chapter HBS-5741BC-EStrategyFor too long, managers have relied on their intuition or their "golden gut" to make decisions. Important decisions have been based not on data, but on the experience and unaided judgment of the decision maker. Sometimes intuitive and experience-based decisions work out well, but all too often they go astray, end in disaster, or result in money being left on the table. If you think that your organization ought to make more decisions based on facts...Starting at €8.20
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Leadership: The Deciding DELTA Factor--The Human Element Behind Analytical Mastery
Davenport, Thomas H.; Harris, Jeanne G.; Morison, RobertBook Chapter HBS-5745BC-EStrategyThere is no doubt that to be a full-fledged analytical competitor, you need the CEO in your corner. However, there is also no doubt that almost any employee can move an organization in a more analytical direction. In this chapter you will learn how you can make your organization more analytical, advocate for more fact-based decision making, and encourage your employees to become analytical leaders themselves, regardless of your position. By descr...Starting at €8.20
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Embed Analytics in Business Processes: A How-To Guide
Davenport, Thomas H.; Harris, Jeanne G.; Morison, RobertBook Chapter HBS-5751BC-EStrategyIf you really want to put analytics to work in your organization, you need to make them an integral part of everyday business decisions and business processes. A cross-functional process perspective enables you to appreciate how different parts of the business work together (or fail miserably in doing so) and to identify all the ways analytics might be used to create a better outcome for the enterprise. In this chapter, the authors of Competing o...Starting at €8.20
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Keeping Up with the Quants 7. Working with Quants
Davenport, Thomas H.; Kim, JinhoBook Chapter HBS-7700BC-EKeeping Up with the Quants is a seven-chapter book published in 2013 by the Harvard Business Review Press and written by Thomas Davenport, Professor of IT and Management at Babson College, and Jinho Kim, Professor of Business and Statistics at Korea National Defense University. Written for non-analysts and "non-quants," this book is a guide to summarizing data, interpreting its meaning, and using it in decision-making. The authors explain that a ...Starting at €8.20
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Avi Kremer (Spanish Version)
Margolis, Joshua D.; Wetzel, MarkCase HBS-417S12Leadership and People ManagementSi usted fue diagnosticado con una enfermedad terminal, ¿cómo respondería y qué haría usted con su tiempo restante? Avi Kremer contempla cuatro opciones para dedicarse por 18 meses después de ser diagnosticado con ELA. Su experiencia hasta ahora y las elecciones que se enfrenta a una visión de crianza en la construcción de la resiliencia y la búsqueda de propósito. Los documentos del caso la historia personal de Kremer, antes y después del diagnó...Starting at €8.20