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Wilderness Safaris: Ecotourism Entrepreneurship
Austin, James E.; Epler Wood, Megan; Leonard, Herman B.Case HBS-318040-EStrategyWilderness Safaris sees itself as a conservation company that is built on a business model of providing high-end, premium-priced wildlife safaris in various locations in Africa. Dependent on functioning, healthy ecosystems for its long-term survivability as a business, it invests heavily in conservation efforts, both directly, with communities and governments, and with partners and competitors. It may be reaching saturation of the high-cost, high...Starting at €8.20
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Accelerate! (Spanish version)
Kotter, John P.Article HBS-R1211BLeadership and People ManagementThe old ways of setting and implementing strategy are failing us, writes the author of Leading Change, in part because we can no longer keep up with the pace of change. Organizational leaders are torn between trying to stay ahead of increasingly fierce competition and needing to deliver this year's results. Although traditional hierarchies and managerial processes--the components of a company's "operating system"--can meet the daily demands of ru...Starting at €8.20
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Threats to the Global Market System: Ten Potential "Disruptors" of Global Capitalism
Bower, Joseph L.; Leonard, Herman B.; Paine, Lynn S.Book Chapter HBS-8617BC-EThe World Bank forecast for the year 2030 provides reason for optimism. The forces of global market capitalism seem to be gathering strength, and long-term prospects show reasonable economic growth. But there are also challenges. As we have already seen, the benefits of growth will not be evenly spread across countries--or even within countries--and collateral damage to the environment will be significant. Scarce resources will be consumed, and t...Starting at €8.20
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The Business Response: Five Views of the Role of Business in Ensuring a Viable Future for Market Capitalism
Bower, Joseph L.; Leonard, Herman B.; Paine, Lynn S.Book Chapter HBS-8619BC-EWhat should be done about the challenges facing market capitalism? And more specifically, what is the role of business in combating potential disruptors and ensuring the system's health and future viability? In this chapter, Harvard Business School professors Joseph Bower, Herman Leonard, and Lynn Paine examine four views that emerged from their discussion forums with prominent business leaders in Europe, East Asia, Latin America, and the United ...Starting at €8.20
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Bring the Outside In: Increasing True Urgency by Winning Hearts and Minds
Kotter, John P.Book Chapter HBS-4888BC-ELeadership and People ManagementOrganizations of any size or age tend to be too internally oriented. The disconnect between what insiders see, feel, and think, on the one hand, and external opportunities and hazards, on the other, can be astonishing. This inside-outside gap always reduces an organization's sense of urgency, and must be diminished if organizations hope to implement change successfully. This chapter is excerpted from "A Sense of Urgency."Starting at €8.20
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Deal with NoNos: Increasing True Urgency and Managing People Who Resist Change
Kotter, John P.Book Chapter HBS-4891BC-ELeadership and People ManagementA NoNo is more than a skeptic-he is, in essence, an urgency killer. He's always ready with ten reasons why the current situation is fine, why the problems and challenges others see don't exist, or why you need more data before acting. This chapter describes methods for preventing difficult people from derailing change. This chapter is excerpted from "A Sense of Urgency."Starting at €8.20
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Keep Urgency Up: Creating a Culture that is Conducive to Continuous Change
Kotter, John P.Book Chapter HBS-4892BC-ELeadership and People ManagementAn organization that can sustain a high sense of urgency over time has the potential to become a high-performance machine, where results go from good to great and beyond. But sustaining urgency over time requires that it not only be created, and created well, but that it be re-created again and again, becoming firmly ingrained in an organization's culture. This chapter is excerpted from "A Sense of Urgency."Starting at €8.20
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Leadership Lessons from the Chilean Mine Rescue
Rashid, Faaiza; Edmondson, Amy C.; Leonard, Herman B.Article HBS-R1307K-EThree years ago, when a cave-in at the San Jose mine in Chile trapped 33 men under 700,000 metric tons of rock, experts estimated the probability of getting them out alive at less than 1%. Yet, after spending a record 69 days underground, all 33 were hoisted up to safety. The inspiring story of their rescue is a case study in how to lead in situations where the stakes, risk, and uncertainty are incredibly high and time pressure is intense. Today ...Starting at €8.20
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Absolute Return for Kids
Leonard, Herman B.; Epstein, Marc J.; Tritter, MelissaCase HBS-309036-EAbsolute Return for Kids [ARK] is a charity with strong financial support--what are the constraints on its growth and impact? ARK seeks to transform the lives of children who are victims of abuse, disability, illness and poverty. As one of the 50 largest fundraising charities in the United Kingdom, the organization's trustees wrestle with how to meet the needs of this vast and most vulnerable population through program expansion and delivery in E...Starting at €8.20
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The Home Depot: Leadership in Crisis Management
Leonard, Herman B.; Epstein, Marc J.; Tritter, MelissaCase HBS-309055-EExamines the challenges The Home Depot faced in the aftermath of natural disasters such as Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Andrew. By providing 40,000-50,000 items sold by knowledgeable associates, The Home Depot became a destination place for customers in need of anything from shovels to a new kitchen sink or supplies to use in recovering from a hurricane or flood. Disasters are thus both a source of disruption to the company's operations and a sou...Starting at €8.20