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The New M&A Playbook (Spanish version)
Christensen, Clayton M.; Alton, Richard; Rising, Curtis; Waldeck, AndrewArticle HBS-R1103BStrategyCompanies spend more than $2 trillion on acquisitions every year, yet the M&A failure rate is between 70% and 90%. Executives can dramatically increase their odds of success, the authors argue, if they understand how to select targets, how much to pay for them, and whether and how to integrate them. The most common reasons for making an acquisition include holding on to a premium position or cutting costs. But to realize those benefits, the acqui...Starting at €8.20
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How Emerging Giants Are Rewriting the Rules of M&A (Spanish version)
Kumar, NirmalyaArticle HBS-R0905KStrategyThis 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. While Western companies struggle with mergers and acquisitions, emerging giants like Indian aluminum producer Hindalco are using M&A as their main globalization strategy. That's partly because developing economies grew at near double-digit rates in the past 15 year...Starting at €8.20
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How Will You Measure Your Life? (Spanish version)
Christensen, Clayton M.Article HBS-R1007BLeadership and People ManagementIf you're not guided by a clear sense of purpose, you're likely to fritter away your time and energy on obtaining the most tangible, short-term signs of achievement, not what's really important to you. And just as a focus on marginal costs can cause bad corporate decisions, it can lead people astray. The marginal cost of doing something wrong "just this once" always seems alluringly low. You don't see the end result to which that path leads. The...Starting at €8.20
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How Industries Change (Spanish version)
McGahan, Anita M.Article HBS-R0410EStrategyTo make intelligent investments within your organization, you need to understand how your whole industry is changing. But such knowledge is not always easy to come by. Companies misread clues and arrive at false conclusions all the time. To understand truly where your industry is headed, you have to take a long-term, high-level look at the context in which you do business, says Boston University professor Anita McGahan. She studied a variety of ...Starting at €8.20
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Disruptive Innovation for Social Change (Spanish version)
Christensen, Clayton M.; Baumann, Heiner; Ruggles, Rudy; Sadtler, Thomas M.Article HBS-R0612EStrategyHow should executives think about corporate social responsibility? and Why is it that the billions of dollars invested in social sector institutions haven't begun to solve our basic problems? Both articles have smart, original things to say about how business leaders can make a real difference. A company that aligns its strategy with its CSR to invest in disruptive social sector innovations might change the world.Starting at €8.20
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Why Smart People Underperform (Spanish version)
Hallowell, Edward M.Article HBS-R0501ELeadership 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. Frenzied executives who fidget through meetings, lose track of their appointments, and jab at the "door close" button on the elevator aren't crazy--just crazed. They suffer from a newly recognized neurological phenomenon that the author, a psychiatrist, calls att...Starting at €8.20
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Developing Your Leadership Pipeline (Spanish version)
Conger, Jay; Fulmer, Robert M.Article HBS-R0312FLeadership and People ManagementFocus on opportunities for development, identify linchpin positions, make the system transparent, measure progress regularly, and be flexible.Starting at €8.20
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A Chinese Approach to Management
Hout, Thomas M.; Michael, DavidArticle HBS-R1409J-EAt first glance, China, which is known for large, often inefficient state-owned enterprises, might appear an unlikely source of fresh management thinking. Yet Chinese companies have a lot to teach the world about today's business imperatives: responsiveness, improvisation, flexibility, and speed. To cope with their turbulent environment, the Chinese have developed those capabilities and learned to build everything--from skilled recruits to suppli...Starting at €8.20
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Just in Time for the Holidays (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
McNulty, Eric; Johnson, M. Eric; Brandstatter, Horst; Hausman, Warren H.; Omrod, AnneArticle HBS-R0512A-EService and Operations ManagementIt's the busiest time of year for North Pole Workshops. Production is in high gear, and the elves are on overtime in the sprint toward Christmas. But an unexpected spike in demand for one toy may leave children around the world disappointed on Christmas morning, whether they've been naughty or nice. At the same time, another toy's popularity threatens to plummet, leaving Santa and his elves faced with the prospect of millions of unloved plaything...Starting at €8.20
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China vs the World: Whose Technology Is It
Hout, Thomas M.; Ghemawat, PankajArticle HBS-R1012H-EStrategyNo longer content with being the world's factory for low-value products, China has quietly opened a new front in its campaign to become the globe's most powerful economy: It's on a quest for high-tech dominance. In pursuit of this goal, the Chinese government has ensured that it will be both buyer and seller in certain key industries by retaining ownership of customers and suppliers alike. It has consolidated manufacturers in those industries int...Starting at €8.20