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A New Framework (Spanish version)
Kaplan, Robert S.; Mikes, AnetteArticle HBS-R1206BStrategyRisk management is too often treated as a compliance issue that can be solved by drawing up lots of rules and making sure that all employees follow them. Many such rules, of course, are sensible and do reduce some risks that could severely damage a company. But rules-based risk management will not diminish either the likelihood or the impact of a disaster such as Deepwater Horizon, just as it did not prevent the failure of many financial institut...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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The World Food Programme during the Global Food Crisis (B)
Mikes, Anette; Tufano, Peter; Werker, Eric; de Neve, Jan-EmmanuelCase HBS-709052-EEconomicsStarting at €5.74
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Managing Risks: A New Framework
Kaplan, Robert S.; Mikes, AnetteArticle HBS-R1206B-EStrategyRisk management is too often treated as a compliance issue that can be solved by drawing up lots of rules and making sure that all employees follow them. Many such rules, of course, are sensible and do reduce some risks that could severely damage a company. But rules-based risk management will not diminish either the likelihood or the impact of a disaster such as Deepwater Horizon, just as it did not prevent the failure of many financial institut...Starting at €8.20
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Managing Risk in the New World
Kaplan, Robert S.; Mikes, Anette; Simons, Robert L.; Tufano, Peter; Hofmann, Michael; Champion, DavidArticle HBS-R0910E-EFive experts gathered recently to discuss the future of enterprise risk management: Kaplan, the Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School, who with his colleague David Norton developed the balanced scorecard; Mikes, an assistant professor at HBS who studies the evolution of risk management and the role of the chief risk officer; Simons, the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration at HBS; Tufano, the Sylvan C . Coleman...Starting at €8.20