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Asea Brown Boveri (Abreviado)
Simons, Robert L.Case HBS-116S06Accounting and ControlLa fusión de Asea AB y BBC Brown Boveri requiere una reestructuración de las operaciones y un cambio en las culturas organizacionales. El éxito competitivo también requirió los beneficios de escala sin dejar de ser "local" por razones políticas y el cliente de respuesta. El caso describe estas presiones competitivas, lo que resultó en la decisión de adoptar una organización matriz. Para ser utilizado con Asea Brown Boveri: El Sistema ábaco....Starting at €8.20
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Making the Numbers (Spanish version)
Simons, Robert L.; Packard, JenniferCase HBS-118S02Strategy1) founding, 2) growth, 3) push to profitability, 4) relocation process, and 5) takeover by new management. At each stage, students must confront tensions in balancing profit, growth and control. Difficulties encountered in the business are due to management's attempts to design and use formal control systems to achieve profit and performance goals.Starting at €8.20
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ATH Technologies (A): cumpliendo los objetivos
Simons, Robert L.; Packard, JenniferCase HBS-118S03StrategyUn ejercicio que lleva a los estudiantes a través de cinco etapas de crecimiento empresarial en una puesta en marcha en la industria de dispositivos médicos: 1) fundación, 2) el crecimiento, 3) empuje a la rentabilidad, el proceso de reorientación 4) y 5) toma de control por la nueva administración. En cada etapa, los estudiantes deben hacer frente a las tensiones en el equilibrio de beneficios, el crecimiento y el control. Las dificultades encon...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
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Stop the Innovation Wars
Govindarajan, Vijay; Trimble, ChrisArticle HBS-R1007F-ESpecial teams dedicated to innovation initiatives inevitably run into conflict with the rest of the organization. The people responsible for ongoing operations view the innovators as undisciplined upstarts. The innovators dismiss the operations people as bureaucratic dinosaurs. It's natural to separate the two warring groups. But it's also dead wrong, say Tuck Business School's Govindarajan and Trimble. Nearly all innovation initiatives build on ...Starting at €8.20
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The CEO's Role in Business Model Reinvention
Govindarajan, Vijay; Trimble, ChrisArticle HBS-R1101H-ELeadership and People ManagementMany corporations become too comfortable with their existing business models and neglect the necessary work of radically reinventing them. The authors map out an alternative in their "three boxes" framework. They argue that while a CEO manages the present (box 1), he or she must also selectively forget the past (box 2) in order to create the future (box 3). Infosys chairman N.R. Narayana Murthy mastered the three boxes to reinvigorate his compan...Starting at €8.20
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A Reverse-Innovation Playbook
Govindarajan, VijayArticle HBS-R1204J-EStrategyReverse innovation--developing ideas in an emerging market and coaxing them to flow uphill to Western markets--poses immense challenges, because it requires a company to overcome the institutionalized thinking that guides its actions. That's why the experience of the automobile-infotainment division of Harman International is so impressive. The U.S.-based business, known for ultrasophisticated dashboard audiovisual systems designed by German engi...Starting at €8.20
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Becoming a Better Corporate Citizen
Nooyi, Indra; Govindarajan, VijayArticle HBS-R2002G-EKnowledge and Communicationdelivering superior financial returns (financial sustainability); transforming the product portfolio by making more-healthful, more-nutritious foods and beverages while reducing the sugar, salt, and fat in PepsiCo products (human sustainability); limiting environmental impact by conserving water and reducing the company's carbon footprint and plastic waste (environmental sustainability); and lifting people up by offering new types of support to ...Starting at €8.20
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Merck: Managing Vioxx (A)
Simons, Robert L.; Rosenberg, Kathryn; Kindred, NatalieCase HBS-109080-EKnowledge and CommunicationThis two-class case series allows students to stand in the shoes of CEO Ray Gilmartin during the unfolding stages of a reputational crisis. Merck's mission statement claims to "put patients first," but the company is widely criticized for putting profit bStarting at €8.20
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