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2003 HBR List: Breakthrough Ideas for Tomorrow's Business Agenda (Spanish version)
Harvard Business ReviewArticle HBS-R0304GThe events of this past year have prompted intense soul-searching in many quarters and led us, in this year's list of the best business ideas, to reassess some of the most basic assumptions about strategy, organizations, and leadership. We began by reconsidering the role of the leader. Discussions of leadership focus almost exclusively on the CEO. But attention also needs to be paid to the other people who make organizations work: the followers--...Starting at €8.20
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The Transit Point Experiment (Spanish version)
Hammond, Janice H.; Kelly, MauraCase HBS-615S09Service and Operations ManagementMerloni Elettrodomestici is a leading Italian manufacturer of domestic appliances. In 1986, an exposition for Merloni customers is scheduled at its Milano regional warehouse. During the two-month period preceding the event, when the warehouse must be free of inventory, the company conducts a "transit point" experiment. Each day, a truckload of products from the company's central warehouse is sent to Milano, where it is immediately transferred to ...Starting at €8.20
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ChemBright, Inc. (Spanish Version)
Hammond, Janice H.Case HBS-604S11Service and Operations ManagementChemBright es una pequeña empresa de nueva creación dedicada a la fabricación de productos químicos de uso doméstico de marca privada. La compañía vende sus productos a cadenas de supermercados en el área de Nueva Inglaterra. Su estrategia se basa en una ventaja de costos basado en la logística significativos. Las decisiones de los casos primarios son: 1) cómo la empresa debe responder a una guerra de precios iniciada por un fuerte competidor, y ...Starting at €8.20
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Younger Women at the Top
Harvard Business ReviewArticle HBS-F0704C-ELeadership and People ManagementMore women than men at Fortune 1000 firms have reached executive officer positions in their 30s, 40s, and 50s--and they've done it faster. Still, nearly half of those companies lack female executive officers altogether.Starting at €8.20
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How to Teach Pride in "Dirty Work"
Harvard Business ReviewArticle HBS-F0709B-ELeadership and People ManagementEmployees in stigmatized occupations can be helped with an array of techniques to cope with or even feel proud of their jobs, including developing an occupational ideology to confer a more positive image on the work; creating social buffers such as professional associations; and avoiding specifics in conversation with outsiders.Starting at €8.20
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Younger Women at the Top (Spanish version)
Harvard Business ReviewArticle HBS-F0704CLeadership and People ManagementMore women than men at Fortune 1000 firms have reached executive officer positions in their 30s, 40s, and 50s--and they've done it faster. Still, nearly half of those companies lack female executive officers altogether.Starting at €8.20
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Service With a Very Big Smile (Spanish version)
Harvard Business ReviewArticle HBS-F0705CService and Operations ManagementNew research confirms that the bigger the employees' smiles, the happier the customers.Starting at €8.20
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Halting the Exodus After a Layoff (Spanish version)
Harvard Business ReviewArticle HBS-F0805JLeadership and People ManagementA new study shows that downsizing often prompts demoralized survivors to quit, which hinders efficiency and costs companies money. To add insult to irony, career-development programs are associated with even higher turnover after the ax falls. The researchers say that certain types of HR practices may help.Starting at €8.20
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Moving Mountains (Spanish version)
Harvard Business ReviewArticle HBS-R0301BLeadership and People ManagementWhat could be more fundamental to management, or more difficult, than motivating people? After all, a manager, by definition, is someone who gets work done through others. But how? A typical recipe for motivation calls for a mixture of persuasion, encouragement, and compulsion. Yet the best leaders, we suspect, need no recipe: They get people to produce great results by appealing to their deepest drives, needs, and desires. And so we discovered w...Starting at €8.20
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What's Wrong with Executive Compensation?: A Roundtable Moderated by Charles Elson (Spanish version)
Harvard Business ReviewArticle HBS-R0301ELeadership and People ManagementWhat's wrong with executive compensation, and what can we do about it? HBR and the University of Delaware's Center for Corporate Governance convened a roundtable of compensation experts last October on the university's campus in Newark, Delaware. The 12 panelists, from CEOs to investors, from the professionals who advise them to a chief justice who rules on their disputes, provided an extraordinary diversity of viewpoints. The panelists began by ...Starting at €8.20