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Leadership in Work Teams (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Cardona Soriano, Pablo; Miller, PaddyTechnical Note FHN-325-PBLeadership and People ManagementThis technical note offers a guide that may help the process of learning the secrets of winning teams. First, it defines what a team is, distinguishing it from other types of working groups. Second, it shows what characteristics the team members need to have to form a winning team. Then it goes through the stages of team development and reviews the basic processes teams need to master in each stage. Finally, it explains how to build team commitme...Starting at €8.20
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Leadership in Work Teams (French Version)
Cardona Soriano, Pablo; Miller, PaddyTechnical Note FHN-325-FRLeadership and People ManagementThis technical note offers a guide that may help the process of learning the secrets of winning teams. First, it defines what a team is, distinguishing it from other types of working groups. Second, it shows what characteristics the team members need to have to form a winning team. Then it goes through the stages of team development and reviews the basic processes teams need to master in each stage. Finally, it explains how to build team commitme...Starting at €8.20
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The Atchison Corporation (A) (Spanish version)
Bower, Joseph L.Case HBS-309S24StrategyA new general manager uses a profit-center-based system to shake up an old line company. He then faces the task of placating a board member upset by the human consequences. A rewritten version of an earlier case.Starting at €8.20
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The EVA Decision (Spanish version)
Simons, Robert L.; Reinbergs, Indra A.Case HBS-103S09Accounting and ControlEVA centers (business units), EVA drivers (operational practices that improve EVA results), and an EVA-based incentive program for bonus-eligible managers. Over the next two years, the implementation of the program runs into several stumbling blocks, including resistance from regional managers, who push for "line of sight" EVA drivers; the difficulty of managing a large number of EVA centers; and unexpected bonus adjustments due to poor EVA perf...Starting at €8.20
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Cooper Industries, Inc. (Spanish version)
Piper, Thomas R.Case HBS-202S02FinanceThe executive president of a major industrial company must decide 1) whether to acquire a small hand tool company and, if so, 2) the value and form that the acquisition package should take.Starting at €8.20
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Mobil USM&R (A1) (Spanish version)
Kaplan, Robert S.Case HBS-103S01Accounting and ControlFirst of a two-part case on the development and use of a Balanced Scorecard (BSC) at Mobil's US Marketing and Refining Division. Split from the original (A) case to give students an opportunity to suggest objectives and measures for the division's initial BSC, without seeing the actual choices made by Mobil's managers. Describes how the CEO of the marketing and refining division of a major oil company is in the midst of implementing a profit turn...Starting at €8.20
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Inventory Management - Safety Stock
Grasas, Alex; Ribera, JaumeTechnical Note PN-428-EService and Operations ManagementThis note presents the concept of safety stock as a way of protecting the company against uncertainty in stock behavior. It contains a number of examples and a spreadsheet that calculates the size of the safety stock, taking into account the parameters that affect it. It continues with a discussion of advanced aspects related with safety stocks.Starting at €8.20
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Fast Fashion (Spanish version)
Ghemawat, Pankaj; Nueno Iniesta, Jose LuisCase HBS-704S02StrategyFocuses on Inditex, an apparel retailer from Spain, which has set up an extremely quick response system for its ZARA chain. Instead of predicting months before a season starts what women will want to wear, ZARA observes what's selling and what's not and continuously adjusts what it produces and merchandises on that basis. Powered by ZARA's success, Inditex has expanded into 39 countries, making it one of the most global retailers in the world. Bu...Starting at €8.20
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ZARA: Fast Fashion
Ghemawat, Pankaj; Nueno Iniesta, Jose LuisCase HBS-703497-EStrategyFocuses on Inditex, an apparel retailer from Spain, which has set up an extremely quick response system for its ZARA chain. Instead of predicting months before a season starts what women will want to wear, ZARA observes what's selling and what's not and continuously adjusts what it produces and merchandises on that basis. Powered by ZARA's success, Inditex has expanded into 39 countries, making it one of the most global retailers in the world. Bu...Starting at €8.20
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The Brand: Form, Content, and Management (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
de Toro Martín, Juan Manuel; Pérez Castro, CarlosTechnical Note MN-347-PBMarketingIt is about giving a definition of the brand asset that has become one of the main assets of any company today. The components that add value to said asset are also defined, such as the name, symbol, slogan, colors, packaging, people and characters, songs, etc.Starting at €8.20