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The HBR List: Breakthrough Ideas for 2010
Amabile, Teresa M.; Kramer, Steven J.; Dixon, Ronald , M.D.; Candell, Lawrence M.; Bonabeau, Eric; Bingham, Alpheus; Schacht, Aaron; Hidary, Jack D.; Litan, Robert E.; Mitchell, Lesa; Jensen, Bill; Klein, Josh; Mullainathan, Sendhil; Romer, Paul; Ross, CarneArticle HBS-R1001AHBR's annual ideas collection, compiled in cooperation with the World Economic Forum, offers 10 fresh solutions with the potential for a huge positive impact on business and the world. Teresa M. Amabile and Steven J. Kramer reveal what their research shows is the true key to employee motivation-and it's not what most managers focus on providing. Ronald Dixon proposes that the real performance breakthrough in health care will come when the medical...Starting at €6.75
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Breakthrough Ideas for 2004: The HBR List
Khurana, Rakesh; Florida, Richard; Slywotzky, Adrian; Nadler, David; Coutu, Diane L.; Christensen, Clayton M.; Kurtzman, Joel; Simester, Duncan; Pink, Daniel H.; Fryer, Bronwyn; Meyer, Christopher; Ibarra, Herminia; Morse, Gardiner; Quadir, Iqbal; Peebles, Ellen; Shirky, Clay; Stewart, Thomas A.; Buchanan, Leigh; Kurzweil, Ray; Sutton, Robert I.; Fuller, JosephArticle HBS-R0402AHBR's editors searched for the best new ideas related to the practice of management and came up with a collection that is as diverse as it is provocative. The 2004 HBR List includes emergent concepts from biology, network science, management theory, and more. A few highlights: Richard Florida wonders why U.S. society doesn't seem to be thinking about the flow of people as the key to America's advantage in the "creative age." Diane L. Coutu descri...Starting at €6.75
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Mibanco: Meeting the Mainstreaming of Microfinance
Chu, Michael; Herrero, Gustavo A.Case HBS-312S01To maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. Mibanco, Peru's leading microfinance bank, faces intense competition as the banking industry rushes into low income segments. Companion video clips bring into the classroom the contemporary reality of a world-class microfinance institution, where the unpaved streets and cluttered markets of the loan officer coexist with the sophistication of technical financial analysis and ...Starting at €6.75
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How Local Companies Keep Multinationals at Bay
Bhattacharya, Arindam K.; Michael, David C.Article HBS-R0803FStrategyThis article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. A substantial number of local companies in emerging markets have managed to hold their own--or better--in the face of competition from global Goliaths. Bhattacharya and Michael of the Boston Consulting Group show how these domestic Davids have achieved that impress...Starting at €6.75
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How Emerging Giants Are Rewriting the Rules of M&A
Kumar, NirmalyaArticle HBS-R0905KStrategyThis article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. While Western companies struggle with mergers and acquisitions, emerging giants like Indian aluminum producer Hindalco are using M&A as their main globalization strategy. That's partly because developing economies grew at near double-digit rates in the past 15 year...Starting at €6.75
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IKEA's Global Sourcing Challenge: Indian Rugs and Child Labor (A)
Bartlett, Christopher A.; Dessain, Vincent; Sjoman, AndersCase HBS-909S02Traces the history of IKEA's response to a TV report that its Indian carpet suppliers were using child labor. Describes IKEA's growth, including the importance of a sourcing strategy based on its close relationships with suppliers in developing countries. Details the development of IKEA's strong culture and values that include a commitment "to create a better everyday life for many people." Describes how, in response to regulatory and public pres...Starting at €6.75
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Strategies That Fit Emerging Markets
Khanna, Tarun; Palepu, Krishna G.; Sinha, JayantArticle HBS-R0506CEconomicsThis article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. It's no easy task to identify strategies for entering new international markets or to decide which countries to do business with. Many firms simply go with what they know--and fall far short of their goals. Part of the problem is that emerging markets have "institu...Starting at €6.75
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Smarter Offshoring
Farrell, DianaArticle HBS-R0606EService and Operations ManagementDuring the past 15 years, companies have flocked to a handful of cities in India and Eastern Europe for offshore service functions. As a result, the most popular sites are now overheating: Demand for young professionals is outstripping supply, wages and turnover are soaring, and overburdened infrastructure systems are struggling to serve the explosive growth. The happy news is that the tight labor markets in the well-known hot spots are the excep...Starting at €6.75
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VidaGas: VillageReach - The Mozambican Foundation for Community Development Joint Venture
Watson, Noel; Kraiselburd, SantiagoCase HBS-611S09Service and Operations ManagementSubjects Covered: Healthcare, Supply Chain, Developing Countries, Venture Capital This case describes the evolution of a liquid petroleum gas (LPG) distributor start-up, incubated by two not-for-profit NGOs to help improve the vaccine cold chain in Northern Mozambique. These NGOs must face the decision whether and how to sell their participation in the start-up. VillageReach and the Mozambican Foundation for Community Development (FDC), both NGOs...Starting at €6.75
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Innovation's Holy Grail
Prahalad, C.K.; Mashelkar, R.A.Article HBS-R1007NStrategyAffordability and sustainability, not premium pricing and abundance, are the new tenets of effective innovation. Westerners are struggling with the shift in mind-set, but a few emerging-market pioneers are showing the way: They're designing inexpensive products and manufacturing them with so little capital and on a scale so vast that their prices-1 cent for a one-minute telephone call, $2,000 for a car-are the lowest in the world. Nowhere is this...Starting at €6.75