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Formación de un Aglomerado ("Cluster"): Electrónica e Informática en Costa Rica
Porter, Michael E.; Ketelhohn, Niels W.Case HBS-705S08StrategyDescribe las acciones de Costa Rica Presidente Figueres y su gabinete en la atracción de un procesador Intel montaje y pruebas de planta a su país. El esfuerzo fue parte de una estrategia de gobierno que buscó desarrollar aún más el grupo de Costa Rica de la electrónica y la informática.Starting at €8.20
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E+Co: The Path to Scale (B)
Oana Branzei; Kevin McKagueCase IVEY-9B07M055-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThis B case presents a conversation between E+Co's co-founders and an employee in Latin America who had raised the tough question of scale at E+Co's 2006 annual retreat. One of the co-founders' response for getting E+Co 10 times more impactful in emerging economies was to adopt what he called a "strategy of wedges." Also presented is a set of complementary strategies that together could help achieve steady local impact and rapid growth. The conve...Starting at €5.74
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E+Co: A Tipping Point for Clean Energy Entrepreneurship (A)
Oana Branzei; Kevin McKagueCase IVEY-9B07M054-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThis case describes E+Co's approach to promoting clean energy entrepreneurship in developing countries and its current strategic challenge; how to scale up its business model to reach 100 million unserved or underserved people in the developing world by 2020. In the last 12 years E+Co was successful at demonstrating and validating an "enterprise centered model" which offered reliable access and improved energy efficiency to the poor in emerging e...Starting at €8.20
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A Model of Clean Energy Entrepreneurship in Africa: E+Co's Path to Scale
Oana Branzei; Kevin McKagueCase IVEY-9B07M059-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThe founder and executive director of E+Co faces the challenge of ten-fold growth and reviews the core parts of the company's innovative business model, the changes in the energy markets around the world, and the rationale for local solutions to energy scarcity and inefficiency. Also presented is a set of entrepreneurial growth strategies that preserve the core of the model - i.e., simultaneously tackling energy poverty and energy waste, and brin...Starting at €8.20
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What Is Strategy? (Spanish version)
Porter, Michael E.Article HBS-96608StrategyToday's dynamic markets and technologies have called into question the sustainability of competitive advantage. Under pressure to improve productivity, quality, and speed, managers have embraced tools such as TQM, benchmarking, and reengineering. Dramatic operational improvements have resulted, but rarely have these gains translated into sustainable profitability. And gradually, the tools have taken the place of strategy. As managers push to impr...Starting at €8.20
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What Is Leadership: The CEO's Role in Large, Complex Organizations
Porter, Michael E.; Nohria, NitinBook Chapter HBS-6151BC-ELeadership and People ManagementThe job of CEO is one of the most important leadership positions in society, and a better understanding of the job is vital to a better functioning economy. In this chapter, Michael E. Porter and Nitin Nohria present the results of their in-depth study of the CEO's role in the most challenging setting: the large, complex organization. They identify several core functions that the CEO must fulfill in any enterprise: direction, organization, select...Starting at €8.20
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El aglomerado vitivinícola de California
Porter, Michael E.; Bond, Gregory C.Case HBS-705S13StrategyDescribe el cluster del vino de California, o el grupo de bodegas interconectadas, viticultores, proveedores, prestadores de servicios e instituciones relacionadas con el vino ubicadas en California. También describe el cluster del vino en Francia, Italia, Australia y Chile, los otros cuatro principales competidores internacionales.Starting at €8.20
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The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy
Porter, Michael E.Article HBS-R0801E-EStrategyIn 1979, a young associate professor at Harvard Business School published his first article for HBR, "How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy." In the years that followed, Michael Porter's explication of the five forces that determine the long-run profitability of any industry has shaped a generation of academic research and business practice. In this article, Porter undertakes a thorough reaffirmation and extension of his classic work of strateg...Starting at €8.20
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St. Louis y el desarrollo económico de la zona urbana marginal
Porter, Michael E.; Habiby, Anne S.; Lasala, JoannaCase HBS-706S03StrategyDescribe la historia y los retos de los centros de ciudades económicamente deprimidas de St. Louis, una importante área metropolitana de EE.UU.. Perfiles de la economía regional y del centro urbano y describe un nuevo esfuerzo por parte de los líderes de la comunidad para desarrollar e implementar una estrategia para revitalizar la economía de la ciudad interior.Starting at €8.20
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Polaroid-Kodak (B2) (Spanish Version)
Porter, Michael E.Case HBS-308S39StrategyComplementa el caso (B1).Starting at €8.20