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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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ApproTEC Kenya: Technologies to Fight Poverty and Create Wealth (Spanish Version)
Rangan, V. KasturiCase HBS-510S15MarketingApproTEC markets a range of technologies to improve the income of subsistence farmers and other small-scale entrepreneurs in East Africa. Having achieved considerable success in its first eight years, the two founders/entrepreneurs are seeking ways to scale the impact of its operations across Eastern and Southern Africa. The question is, what should they do to accomplish this? Includes color exhibits.Starting at €8.20
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The Grameen Bank. Credit as a Human Right
Janeiro Dias, A.; Viassa Monteiro, EugénioCase AESE-DG-A-458(I)-EEntrepreneurship, Innovation and ChangeThe case contains a brief description of the Bank’;s launching, as an answer to an urgent need of the poor population which couldn’;t find a way of obtaining loans for the acquisition of raw material to be worked on and sold later. The loans informally available, that is, not from the banks, had usurers interest rates and came from rich people exploiting the financial needs of the poor. It also describes the way Grameen has been developing its pr...Starting at €8.20
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Commerce Bank (Spanish version)
Frei, Frances X.; Hajim, CoreyCase HBS-605S05Taught in the second module of a course on Managing Service Operations, which addresses the design of sustainable service models (606-031). Commerce Bank has become one of the fastest growing banks in the country, despite having defied conventional wisdom about how to grow deposits. Banks historically have grown either by competing on deposit rates or through acquisitions that expand their deposit base. Commerce has the lowest deposit rates in ea...Starting at €8.20
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Mount Auburn Hospital: Physician Order Entry
Andrew McAfee; Sarah MacGregor; Michael BenariCase HBS-603060-EService and Operations ManagementMount Auburn Hospital is preparing to introduce a physician order entry (POE) system throughout the hospital, starting with the labor and delivery ward. POE systems replace paper-based and oral medication ordering processes with an information system; the physician uses the system to enter medication orders, which are then transferred to the hospital's pharmacy. This is Mount Auburn's first experience with POE systems, and the implementation team...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
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Science Behind Six Degrees (Spanish version)
Watts, Duncan; Morse, GardinerArticle HBS-F0302BLeadership and People ManagementHow does the structure of social networks affect the way fads catch on and companies solve problems? Columbia University network scientist Duncan Watts says that this young field is on the path to answers.Starting at €8.20
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Who's Bringing You Hot Ideas (and How Are You Responding) (Spanish version)
Davenport, Thomas H.; Prusak, Laurence; Wilson, H. JamesArticle HBS-R0302DLeadership and People ManagementThis 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. There's an unsung hero in your organization. It's the person who's bringing in new ideas from the outside about how to manage better. This is the manager who, for instance, first uttered the phrase "Balanced Scorecard" in your hallways, or "real options," or "intel...Starting at €8.20
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Finding Your Innovation Sweet Spot (Spanish version)
Goldenberg, Jacob; Horowitz, Roni; Levav, Amnon; Mazursky, DavidArticle HBS-R0303JEntrepreneurshipMost new product ideas are either uninspired or impractical. So how can developers hit the innovation sweet spot--far enough from existing products to attract real interest but close enough that they are feasible to make and market? They can apply five innovation patterns that manipulate existing components of a product and its immediate environment to come up with something both ingenious and viable, say the authors. The subtraction pattern work...Starting at €8.20
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The SK-II Globalization Project (Spanish version)
Bartlett, Christopher A.Case HBS-305S03StrategyTraces changes in P&G's international strategy and structure, culminating in Organization 2005, a reorganization that places strategic emphasis on product innovation rather than geographic expansion and shifts power from local subsidiary to global business management. In the context of these changes introduced by Durk Jager, P&G's new CEO, Paolo de Cesare is transferred to Japan, where he takes over the recently turned-around beauty care business...Starting at €8.20