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Kola Real: La expansión internacional
Ferré, Miguel; Natividad, GabrielCase PAD-DG-C-406EntrepreneurshipDescribe el caso de la internacionalización de una empresa peruana en varios países de la región, partiendo de unos modestos inicios en Ayacucho (1988). Se puede discutir la similitud o diferencias en la forma de nacer según el contexto de cada país.Starting at €8.20
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For the Last Time: Stock Options Are an Expense (Spanish version)
Bodie, Zvi; Kaplan, Robert S.; Merton, Robert C.Article HBS-R0303DAccounting and ControlShould stock options be recorded as an expense on a company's income statement and balance sheet, or should they remain where they are, relegated to footnotes? The authors believe the case for expensing options is overwhelming. In this article, Nobel laureate Robert Merton, one of the inventors of the Black-Scholes option-pricing model; his co-author on the classic textbook Finance, Zvi Bodie; and Robert Kaplan, creator of the Balanced Scorecard,...Starting at €8.20
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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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Introduction: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage
Kaplan, Robert S.; Norton, David P.Book Chapter HBS-7678BC-EStrategyIn spite of increased adoption of strategy execution systems in recent years, strategy development and the links between strategy and operations remain ad hoc, varied, and fragmented. Having a comprehensive and integrated management system-with the Balanced Scorecard at its core-can help companies overcome the difficulties and frustration that most of them experience when attempting to implement their strategies. This chapter is excerpted from "...Starting at €8.20
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Plan the Strategy: Aligning the Organization for Effective Strategy Execution
Kaplan, Robert S.; Norton, David P.Book Chapter HBS-7686BC-EStrategyThe process of planning an organization's strategy converts statements of strategic direction into specific objectives, measures, targets, initiatives, and budgets that guide action and align the organization for effective strategy execution. This chapter addresses the translation of the strategy into a strategy map, built around strategic themes, and an associated Balanced Scorecard of measures and targets for each of the map's strategic objecti...Starting at €8.20
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Aligning Organizational Units and Employees: A Critical Step in the Strategy Execution Process
Kaplan, Robert S.; Norton, David P.Book Chapter HBS-7688BC-EStrategyA truly effective management system for aligning business unit strategy with operations must address how strategy is integrated across diverse organizational units, and how to align employees with the strategy. This chapter describes the best practices companies use to align business units, support units, and employees to strategy. This chapter is excerpted from "Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage."Starting at €8.20
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Plan Operations: Align Process Improvement Programs
Kaplan, Robert S.; Norton, David P.Book Chapter HBS-7690BC-EStrategyPerformance that depends on the power of individual leaders has generally proven unsustainable over the long term. Unless an organization links its strategy to its governance and operational processes, it won't be able to sustain its successes. This chapter discusses the linkage of strategy to process improvements. This chapter is excerpted from "Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage."Starting at €8.20
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Operational and Strategy Review Meetings: Keeping the Organization on a Strategic Trajectory for Breakthrough Performance
Kaplan, Robert S.; Norton, David P.Book Chapter HBS-7691BC-EStrategyWith strategy and operational plans in place, the enterprise embarks on executing the strategy: producing and delivering products and services to customers, implementing initiatives, and improving processes. However, like mission control after a spaceship has been launched, the enterprise needs to continually monitor and adjust its performance to achieve strategic objectives. Managers guide the enterprise by holding a structured set of meetings t...Starting at €8.20
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The Indego Africa Project (Spanish Version)
McGinn, Kathleen L.; Gordon, RachelCase HBS-914S10Dos abogados jóvenes que se encuentran y comienzan a construir el Proyecto África Indego, una asociación de ONG con cooperativas de mujeres en Ruanda. Indego conecta las cooperativas en el mercado minorista internacional de productos artesanales hechos a mano, ayuda a las cooperativas construyen su capacidad de negocio, y desarrolla y ofrece formación en el aula en la vida y habilidades de negocio para los miembros de la cooperativa. En el moment...Starting at €8.20
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Storming into the U.S. Market (Spanish version)
Bartlett, Christopher A.; Gordon, Rachel; Lafkas, JohnCase HBS-918S10StrategyThe RoboTech case describes the challenges facing the CEO of a small, Singapore-based industrial robotics company that decides to diversify away from its core industrial robot business by leveraging its expertise into the medical-devices industry. It launches an innovative product (a specialized surgical robot) in an unfamiliar market segment (spinal surgery) and decides to enter the unfamiliar, distant U.S. healthcare market, which is characteri...Starting at €8.20