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IESE Insight. Issue 1. Second quarter 2009
IESE InsightMagazine REV-1-EAccounting and Control, Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Governance, Decision Analysis, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Information Technologies, Innovation and Change, Knowledge and Communication, Leadership and People Management, Marketing, Service and Operations Management, StrategyThe launch edition of the IESE Insight review offers four visions to help managers deal with situations of uncertainty in business. Santiago Álvarez de Mon (IESE) explores the keys to embracing uncertainty, helping managers to increase their ethical capital. Rita McGrath (Columbia) presents a portfolio of opportunities that managers can employ to create conditions for internally generated growth. George Westerman (MIT) and Richard Hunter (...Starting at €22.00
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Los siete mitos de la excelencia operativa
Simchi-Levi, DavidArticle ART-1895Service and Operations ManagementMuchas de las estrategias operativas que fueron óptimas en su día el just-in-time, la producción ajustada o la deslocalización pueden no serlo en la economía global actual, caracterizada por el aumento de los costes laborales en los países en vías de desarrollo y la altísima volatilidad del precio del petróleo y otras materias primas. Por eso, las empresas corren el riesgo de perder el control de su cadena de suministro si se ciñen a las...Starting at €8.20
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Seven Myths to Beat Before They Beat You
Simchi-Levi, DavidArticle ART-1895-EService and Operations ManagementMany traditional operations strategies - such as just-in-time, lean manufacturing and offshoring - may not suffice in today's trickier global economy, marked by rising labor costs in developing countries, and huge volatility in oil and other commodity prices. Sticking to received wisdom risks doing more harm than good by imperiling a firm's control over its supply chain. In this article based on his book, Operations Rules: Delivering Customer Val...Starting at €8.20
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BandyWorks (A): Founding a New Business (Guided by the Past)
Fairchild, Gregory B.; Tucker, CharlesCase DARDEN-ENT-0173-EEntrepreneurshipNow in his mid-40s, Tom Bandy was not a novice entrepreneur. He was a veteran of the IT revolution two decades earlier. He had started a company after college that successfully exploited a market niche in database management. But by his late 30s, he had lost the business. Now he was ready to launch a new one. And guided by experience, he had some thoughts about how to finance it.Starting at €8.20
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BandyWorks (B): Tom Bandy – Growing, Letting Go
Fairchild, Gregory B.; Rourke, BradCase DARDEN-ENT-0182-EEntrepreneurshipTom Bandy was no stranger to entrepreneurship and the problems brought about by success. Having honed his programming skills in the 1980s, he had already founded a database company that had seen great success—and then had been squeezed out by investors. In 2005, he founded BandyWorks, a computing services consulting firm, self-funding and achieving great success only four years later. In 2011, however, a development crisis popped up within BandyW...Starting at €5.74
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BandyWorks (B): Tom Bandy—Growing, Letting Go
Fairchild, Gregory B.; Rourke, BradCase DARDEN-ENT-0182EntrepreneurshipTom Bandy was no stranger to entrepreneurship and the problems brought about by success. Having honed his programming skills in the 1980s, he had already founded a database company that had seen great success—and then had been squeezed out by investors. In 2005, he founded BandyWorks, a computing services consulting firm, self-funding and achieving great success only four years later. In 2011, however, a development crisis popped up within Bandy...Starting at €5.74
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iCompute: The Marsh/Jones Dilemma
Fairchild, Gregory B.; Rourke, BradCase DARDEN-ENT-0178-EEntrepreneurshipJane Ryan is founder, owner, and CEO of iCompute, a computer-services firm. Ryan founded the company in 1995 and it has grown steadily, providing computer and networking services to a variety of clients. Initial growth was fueled by large contracts with large institutions, but more recently, growth has come from middle- and smaller-sized contracts. Furthermore, the industry space has become crowded with competitors and computer services is more o...Starting at €8.20
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SAP and Cloud Computing in 2012 and Beyond
Burgelman R; Rolland JBCase SGSB-SM214-EStrategyThe objective of the case is for students recognize three established key concepts and a fourth that is open for debate: (1) Strategic inflexion point, or event that results in a significant change in the progress of a company, industry, or sector situation. An inflection point can be considered a turning point after a dramatic change, yielding either positive or negative results. Companies, industries, sectors, and economies are dynamic and co...Starting at €8.20
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eRecon Software Development at Hospital Corporation of America
Kenneth J. Klassen; Leanne RayoCase IVEY-9B16D002-EService and Operations ManagementOn July 28, 2014, the eRecon technical team at Physician Services Group in Hospital Corporation of America, gathered in the main conference room just as it did every Monday morning. The goal of the meeting was to review the project plan and update task completion for the team's two-year undertaking — a six-phase, in-house development of a custom, web-based accounting software called eRecon. As the team members worked through each task and updated...Starting at €8.20
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Lenovo: Is the Cultural Integration Template Reusable
Aijing Ran; Xiaobing Liu; Jiawei Dong; Yuekun Liu; Miao CuiCase IVEY-9B16M166-EStrategyThe number and value of Chinese enterprises’ cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are increasing, but their success rate remains very low. The failure of cultural integration is one of the most important reasons. In 2005, Lenovo Group Ltd., acquired IBM’s PC division in what was called a “snake swallows elephant” acquisition that caused a sensation worldwide. During the ten years after the M&A, Lenovo integrated IBM’s PC division’s cultur...Starting at €8.20