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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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El vínculo emocional marca la diferencia
Tàpies Lloret, Josep; Ceja, LucíaArticle ART-2386Leadership and People Management, StrategyLos lazos emocionales pueden suponer una ventaja competitiva para las empresas. Para comprobar cómo inciden en el funcionamiento de las firmas familiares, los autores realizaron un estudio cualitativo que profundizó en los elementos que potencian o socavan el vínculo de los miembros de la siguiente generación con la empresa. Los resultados evidencian que factores como las experiencias compartidas con otros miembros de la empresa familiar, una ade...Starting at €8.20
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Tips to Foster Ownership in Your Organization
Tàpies Lloret, Josep; Ceja, LucíaArticle ART-2386-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyPsychological ownership -- strong emotional ties and a shared sense of mission and purpose that cause workers to identify closely with their business -- can give companies a competitive advantage, if they understand the roots of such feelings and how to develop them. To see how this phenomenon affects the performance of family businesses, the authors conducted a qualitative study of various family-owned firms of different sizes, stages and sector...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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Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Bill Ackman's Big Short of Herbalife
Vandebroek, Tom; Ferraro, Fabrizio; Simon, JanCase SM-1611-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Finance, StrategyThis case describes how hedge fund activist Bill Ackman took a $1 billion short position on the shares of the nutrition company Herbalife. Ackman is convinced that Herbalife's business model is essentially a pyramid scheme, rendering it unsustainable as well as illegal. The case describes his arguments and the evidence he builds on. Other hedge fund titans soon took the opposite position on Herbalife, possibly because they fundamentally disagree ...Starting at €8.20
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Digital Competition in Fashion & Luxury Goods: YNAP versus Farfetch
Ferraro, Fabrizio; Baldo, Andrea; Sastre Boquet, IsaacCase SM-1656-EInnovation and Change, Service and Operations Management, StrategyIn 2015, Federico Marchetti became CEO of the largest luxury online retailer in the world, after orchestrating the merger of Yoox Group with Net-a-Porter Group. Two years later, in 2017, the financial community was expecting him to deliver results. However, the new combined ?1.8 billion company was not growing as fast as it used to, and questions remained about the synergies that could be achieved between two companies with very different busines...Starting at €8.20
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La función y las responsabilidades del Consejo de Administración en la empresa familiar
Ceja, Lucía; Tàpies, JosepTechnical Note SMN-693Corporate Governance, Decision Analysis, StrategyLas empresas familiares requieren mecanismos de buen gobierno para conseguir sus metas y tener éxito de generación en generación. Estas estructuras de gobierno contienen los planes, declaraciones, políticas, normas y acuerdos que permiten a las empresas familiares definir su razón de ser y su identidad. En esta nota técnica nos centraremos en una de las estructuras de gobierno empresarial más importantes de la empresa familiar: el Consejo de Admi...Starting at €8.20