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Managing Innovation at Nypro, Inc. (B) (Spanish version)
Christensen, Clayton M.Case HBS-608S23Service and Operations ManagementSupplements the (A) case.Starting at €5.74
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Improving the Product Development Process at Kirkham Instruments Corp.
Christensen, Clayton M.Case HBS-697058-EService and Operations ManagementDescribes the efforts of a manufacturer of scientific instruments to implement new methods of managing new product development, which its executives had learned in a Harvard Business School seminar. The executives left the seminar excited to implement a new way of working, but, through a series of seemingly logical steps, got little accomplished.Starting at €8.20
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Borregaard Fine Chemicals - BFC
Svendsen J. E.; Nueno, PedroCase P-918-EService and Operations ManagementStarting 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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We've Got Rhythm! Medtronic Corp.'s Cardiac Pacemaker Business (Spanish version)
Christensen, Clayton M.Case HBS-605S03Service and Operations Managementclarifying strategy, aggregating project planning, accommodating the number of projects to match development capacity, and establishing a platform/derivative product architecture, and others. This case is useful in both MBA courses and executive programs.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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Lego
Jonsdottir I.; Nueno, PedroCase P-931-EService and Operations ManagementWith its patents now expired, fierce global competition and the strong penetration of electronic games, LEGO is facing a major challenge of innovation. The company's goal is to hold on to its position as industry leader and best-known brand. To achieve this it must formulate a product, design and innovation strategy.Starting at €8.20
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Perú 8thousand
Pancorvo, Jorge; Quiroga, GuillermoCase PAD-P-C-401-E-EService and Operations ManagementA group of friends, keen on mountain climbing, decide to take on a pioneer challenge: to be the first peruvian expedition to climb a snow-covered mountain, more than 8,000 meters high, in the Himalayas. However, to carry out such an ambitious challenge they must confront various aspects and ask themselves several questions; many of them are foreseeable while others emerge during the project's development. For nearly a year and a half, from t...Starting at €8.20
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An Integrated Framework to Manage Innovation
Muñoz-Najar J. A.; Vilà, JoaquimTechnical Note DGN-609-EStrategyThe note introduces a framework which integrates the factors that promote or inhibit innovation in firms (leadership, strategy, organization, people management, management of key assets such as knowledge and technology, learning, and management of the innovation process). The effect that these factors have on the results of innovation are discussed. The model is presented in the context of different types of innovation (in products/services, proc...Starting at €8.20