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Amelia Rogers at Tassani Communications (A) (Spanish version)
Hill, Linda A.; Conrad, Melinda B.Case HBS-418S18Leadership and People ManagementDescribes a conflict that has arisen between an account manager and a creative director at Tassani Communications, a Chicago-based advertising agency which is making the transition from entrepreneurial to professional management. The client, the marketing director of a muffler repair chain, has called the account manager to complain about the creative director's behavior. The account manager must figure out what to do. The object is to provide st...Starting at €8.20
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Business Teams at Rubbermaid, Inc. (Spanish version)
Amabile, Teresa M.; Whitney, DeanCase HBS-808S08Entrepreneurshipoptions for staffing, structuring, and managing cross-functional business teams; the difficulty of implementing cross-functional teams in a company with a strong functional structure; the difficulty of balancing accountability and empowerment in "entrepreneurial" teams within established firms; and the impact of different management approaches on the functioning of business teams.Starting at €8.20
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Putting Your Company's Whole Brain to Work (Spanish version)
Leonard, Dorothy; Straus, SusaanArticle HBS-97407StrategyThe competitive imperative for virtually all businesses today is that simple. Responding to that command is difficult, however, because innovation takes place when different ideas, perceptions, and ways of processing and judging information collide. And it often requires collaboration among players who see the world differently. As a result, the conflict that should take place constructively among ideas all too often ends up taking place unprodu...Starting at €8.20
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When Your Star Performer Can't Manage (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Adler, Gordon; Vroom, Victor; Rokoff, June; Olsen, David; Burnham, David H.Article HBS-97401-ELeadership and People ManagementVic, the CEO of a sporting goods company in this fictional case study, is pleased with the numbers. For several years now, they've gone steadily in one direction: up. But there's trouble in paradise. Hidden from the public's view of industry-dominating winners--from the coolest snowboards to the hottest in-line skates--lies a product-development department that may be ready to shatter like cheap fiberglass. Carver, the company's chief of product ...Starting at €8.20
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What's Stifling the Creativity at CoolBurst? (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Wetlaufer, Suzy; Barker, Paul; Kets de Vries, Manfred F.R.; Jones, Gareth; McFadzean, Elspeth; Amabile, Teresa M.Article HBS-97511-ELeadership and People ManagementThis fictitious case study explores the challenges facing CoolBurst, a Miami-based fruit-juice company. For over a decade, CoolBurst had ruled the market in the Southeast. Why, then, are its annual revenues stuck at $30 million, and why have profits been stagnant for four years straight? CoolBurst's new CEO, Luisa Reboredo, knows that the company's survival--and her own--depend on the answers. Reboredo has succeeded former utilitarian CEO Garth L...Starting at €8.20
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The Almodóvar Brothers' Film Factory: Unbinding Art Through Tight Relationships
Svejenova, Silviya; Álvarez Alvarez, José LuisCase DG-1331-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThe case describes the creation/development of film director Pedro Almodóvar's independent production company. It can be used to discuss the circumstances in which a creative person needs the support of his own company, which in this case is managed by a member of his own family and brings together external collaborators whom the director himself acknowledges as his second family.Starting at €8.20
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Selecting New Creative (Spanish version)
Holt, Douglas B.Case HBS-505S19MarketingHighlights the key role of selecting creative in brand communications, the challenges of building a brand in a turbulent cultural environment, the challenges of extending an advertising campaign, and the interpretation of ads as a crucial senior management skill. Includes color exhibits.Starting at €8.20
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The Entertainment King (Spanish version)
Rukstad, Michael G.; Collis, David J.; Levine, TyrrellCase HBS-702S10Strategymanaging synergy, managing the brand, and managing creativity. Students are asked to think about the keys to Disney's mid-1980s turnaround, about the proper boundaries of the firm, and about what Disney's strategy should be beyond 2001.Starting at €8.20
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World Bank's Innovation Market (Spanish version)
Wood, Robert Chapman; Hamel, GaryArticle HBS-R0211HEntrepreneurshipLarge, tradition-bound organizations can make space for radical, low-cost (and therefore low-risk) innovations. Just ask executives at the World Bank. The story of this best practice begins in 1998, when a young new-products group at the international funding agency proposed holding an Innovation Marketplace to capture novel ideas within the bank for alleviating poverty. The forum, which eventually was opened to external participants, let people ...Starting at €8.20
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Managing in the Knowledge Economy (HBR Classic) (Spanish version)
Kim, W. Chan; Mauborgne, Renee A.Article HBS-R0301KLeadership and People ManagementEngage people in decisions that directly affect them, explain why decisions are made the way they are, and clarify what will be expected of them after the changes are made.Starting at €8.20