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Cómo redefinir un sector en beneficio propio
Ferraro, FabrizioArticle ART-1646Innovation and Change, StrategyEn 1939, a los 26 años, Lew Wasserman llegó a Los Ángeles con la agencia de artistas MCA. Durante los siguientes treinta años convirtió esta firma periférica en el estudio más importante de Hollywood. ¿Cómo se las apañó un intruso como él para cambiar totalmente el panorama competitivo de la industria cinematográfica? El análisis de su fascinante trayectoria revela el proceso por el que una empresa puede alcanzar la llamada ventaja arquitectónic...Starting at €8.20
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Shaping an Industry in Your Favor
Ferraro, FabrizioArticle ART-1646-EInnovation and Change, StrategyIn 1939, at the age of 26, Lew Wasserman arrived in Los Angeles with the talent agency MCA. Over the next three decades, he took MCA from a peripheral player to becoming the dominant studio in Hollywood. How did an outsider manage to change the competitive landscape of the entire moviemaking industry so completely? A study of this fascinating historical account reveals the process by which a firm can achieve architectural advantage. Managers ma...Starting at €8.20
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Responsible Investing Takes Root
Ferraro, FabrizioArticle ART-2314-EFinance, StrategyResponsible investment is moving from being a niche in the asset management universe to increasingly becoming mainstream. In Europe, especially, it appears to be taking off. This article identifies some of the key drivers and the challenges that responsible investment poses to investors and managers as they try to take this novel field and embed it into their institutional practices. Looking to the future, the author highlights three areas that h...Starting at €8.20
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Three Trends That Will Change How You Manage
Ferraro, Fabrizio; Cassiman, BrunoArticle ART-2640-EInnovation and Change, Leadership and People Management, StrategyBuilding on research in the field of strategic management, this article develops a framework to think about three emerging challenges: Globalization, Digitization and Politicization. How can corporate leaders confront this 21st century brand of "GDP"? CEOs will have to change how they allocate resources by becoming Arbitrageurs; adopt the mind-set of strategic Experimenters; and become Orchestrators of Hybrid Organizations, h...Starting at €8.20
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Hoja de ruta para ejecutar con éxito la estrategia
Ferraro, Fabrizio; Argüelles, José Miguel; Maoret, MassimoArticle ART-3127Strategy¿Cómo ejecutar la estrategia eficazmente? Según concluyen los autores tras analizar la literatura académica, cientos de casos empresariales y entrevistas a altos directivos, no basta con tomar decisiones económicas bien razonadas. Este artículo define el concepto de "liderazgo estratégico" tal y como lo entienden los profesores del departamento de Dirección estratégica del IESE. También presentan una hoja de ruta para ejecutar con éxito la estrat...Starting at €8.20
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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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JUST Capital - Teaching Note
Frank, Mary Margaret; Matos, PedroTeaching Note DARDEN-F-1844TN-EFinanceTeaching note for product F-1844TNStarting at €0.00
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Betting on Gold Using a Futures-Based Gold ETF
Matos, PedroCase DARDEN-F-1690-EFinanceIn an environment of high macroeconomic uncertainty in the fall of 2012, Tom Michelson was looking at his next trading opportunity. Michelson wanted to build a position in gold with a trading horizon of around a year and was wondering how he should go about investing in gold. Gold futures-based exchange-traded funds (ETFs) seemed like a good alternative, but he needed to understand better how gold futures worked. He was aware that futures-based E...Starting at €8.20
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2012 Fuel Hedging at JetBlue Airways
Matos, PedroCase DARDEN-F-1697-EFinanceIn early 2012, an equity analyst, was examining the jet fuel hedging strategy of JetBlue Airways for the coming year. Because airlines cross-hedged their jet fuel price risk using derivatives contracts on other oil products such as WTI and Brent crude oil, they were exposed to basis risk. In 2011, dislocations in the oil market led to a Brent-WTI premium wherein jet fuel started to move with Brent instead of WTI, as it traditionally did. Faced wi...Starting at €8.20
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Hedge Fund Due Diligence at Leman Alternative Asset Management Company
Matos, PedroCase DARDEN-F-1698-EFinanceIn early January 2008, a senior VP with LAAMCO, a fund of hedge funds known for alternative investments, was conducting due diligence on an equity market-neutral hedge fund. The hedge fund used an option strategy known as a collar (also known as a bull spread or split-strike conversion). The track record of the hedge fund had been stellar. The fund’s performance had not only beaten that of the S&P 500 Index over the same period but had done so wi...Starting at €8.20