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Let Me Take You Down (Spanish version)
Kersten, E. L.; Buchanan, Leigh; Morse, GardinerArticle HBS-F0403CLeadership and People ManagementE. Lawrence Kersten thinks corporate America could use a good dose of demotivation. Carrying products that promise to "unleash the power of mediocrity," Kersten's company, Despair Inc., has just the ticket.Starting at €8.20
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Lehigh Steel (Spanish version)
Narayanan, V.G.; Donohue, Laura E.Case HBS-107S10Accounting and ControlLehigh Steel is a specialty steel manufacturer that plummeted from record profits to record losses in less than three years, driven by an inability to distinguish between profitable and unprofitable business. The scale and growth of service activities and overhead costs in an increasingly customized product line suggests that activity-based costing (ABC) could unlock the secrets of profitability. However, the high fixed-cost structure suggests th...Starting at €8.20
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A Manager's Guide to Augmented Reality
Porter, Michael E.; Heppelmann, James; Harvard Business Review; Jouret, Guido; Morse, GardinerArticle HBS-R1706B-EInformation TechnologiesWhile the physical world is 3-D, most data is trapped on 2-D pages and screens. This gulf between the real and digital worlds limits our ability to exploit the volumes of information available to us. Augmented reality, a set of technologies that superimposes digital data and images on physical objects, is closing this gap. By putting information directly into the context in which we'll apply it, AR increases our ability to absorb and act on it. A...Starting at €8.20
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Whose Money Is It Anyway (C)
Narayanan, V.G.; Hamermesh, Richard G.; Gordon, RachelCase HBS-810031-EAccounting and ControlThe case describes how the Brigham and Women's Physicians Organization and its corporate parent resolved the issue of how the disputed funds would be distributed and used.Starting at €5.74
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Historian Geoffrey Jones on why knowledge stays put
Jones, Geoffrey G.; Morse, GardinerArticle HBS-F0807H-EStrategyA business historian reminds us that since the nineteenth century, predictions about globalization have been reliably wrong. Despite technology for the fast diffusion of knowledge, information-like wealth-seems to be concentrating even further.Starting at €8.20
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Celebrity Fashions Limited (A)
Narayanan, V.G.; Deshpande, Tanvi; Ramachandran, ShreyaCase HBS-120053-EAccounting and ControlIn May 2017 in Chennai, India, the chairman of Celebrity Fashions doubted whether the company could last until the end of the year. Venkatesh Rajagopal had found that the company, a readymade garment manufacturing and exporter he founded in 1989, was hitting hard times financially. It had been dealing with declining revenues for the past five years, and its losses had tripled between 2014-16. A slowdown in factory plant processes in 2006 and the ...Starting at €8.20
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Celebrity Fashions: Moving Ahead (B)
Narayanan, V.G.; Deshpande, Tanvi; Ramachandran, ShreyaCase HBS-120054-EAccounting and ControlIn May 2017 in Chennai, India, the chairman of Celebrity Fashions doubted whether the company could last until the end of the year. Venkatesh Rajagopal had found that the company, a readymade garment manufacturing and exporter he founded in 1989, was hitting hard times financially. It had been dealing with declining revenues for the past five years, and its losses had tripled between 2014-16. A slowdown in factory plant processes in 2006 and the ...Starting at €5.74
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The Power of Unwitting Workers
Morse, GardinerArticle HBS-F0910C-EInformation TechnologiesOrganizations are tapping people's mental and physical energy on the sly and using it to power lights, digitize books, and do other work. Are they simply putting "wasted" energy to good use or extracting value they should be paying for?Starting at €8.20
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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales on making the most of company wikis
Wales, Jimmy; Morse, GardinerArticle HBS-F0804G-ELeadership and People ManagementThe founder of Wikipedia analyzes why wikis are becoming popular tools for sharing knowledge in the workplace. He encourages managers to provide institutional support for these highly practical forums but to be judicious about direct participation.Starting at €8.20
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Whose Money Is It Anyway (A)
Narayanan, V.G.; Hamermesh, Richard G.; Gordon, RachelCase HBS-810008-EAccounting and ControlThe Brigham and Women's Physician's Organization (BWPO) and its corporate parent disagree over who has jurisdiction over significant legacy funds. Are they controlled by the BWPO or do they belong to BWPO's corporate parent? The BWPO and its corporate parent must negotiate who has control of the funds which impacts how the funds may be used.Starting at €8.20