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M&A: The One Thing You Need to Get Right
Martin, RogerArticle HBS-R1606B-EStrategyThe financial world set a record in 2015 for mergers and acquisitions. It's too soon to have data on how those deals will work out, but the signs are not promising. Last year Microsoft wrote off 96% of the value of the handset business it had acquired from Nokia in 2014 for $7.9 billion. The rule, confirmed by nearly all studies, remains true: M&A is a mug's game, in which some 70% to 90% of acquisitions are abysmal failures. The author has an ex...Starting at €8.20
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Erik Peterson at Biometra (E)
Gabarro, John J.; DeLong, Thomas J.; Soo, JevanCase HBS-411035-ELeadership and People ManagementPresents the final outcome of the events. The Richard Jenkins at SciMat case presents a description from the executive vice-president's point of view of the series of events as reported in the Erik Peterson at Biometra (A), (B), (C), and (D) cases. The Jenkins at SciMat case can be assigned with Erik Peterson at Biometra (E) to give a broader perspective on Peterson's behavior and problems. This case can be handed out during class discussion of t...Starting at €5.74
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Erik Peterson (E) (Spanish version)
Gabarro, John J.Case HBS-408S13Leadership and People ManagementPresents the final outcome of the events. The William Jurgens case presents a description from the corporation president's point of view of the series of events (as reported in the Erik Peterson (A), (B), (C), and (D) cases). The Jurgens case can be assigned with Erik Peterson (E) to give a broader perspective on Olafson's behavior and problems. This case can be handed out during class discussion of the (D) case. A redisguised version of an earli...Starting at €5.74
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Thurgood Marshall High School (Spanish Version)
Gabarro, John J.Case HBS-417S17Leadership and People ManagementPresenta el problema que enfrenta un director de instituto recién nombrado. Plantea cuestiones acerca de la conducta interpersonal y de grupo como la falta de resolución de conflictos abiertos y la necesidad de intervenir en un conflicto interpersonal. También se plantea la cuestión de los conflictos intergrupales entre los directores y presidentes de departamento, así como cuestiones de valor en relación con la necesidad de disciplina e innovaci...Starting at €8.20
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Breve Nota sobre los Motivos Sociales
Gabarro, John J.; Wormley, WallaceCase HBS-403S03Leadership and People ManagementBrevemente describe en términos de gestión de los tres motivos sociales: la necesidad de logro; la necesidad de poder; necesidad de afiliación. También se analizan brevemente las implicaciones de la obra de David McClelland, David Winters, y otros para la motivación dentro de contextos organizacionales. La fuerza motriz se describe en términos de "poder personalizado" y "poder socializado".Starting at €8.20
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The Innovation Catalysts
Martin, RogerArticle HBS-R1106E-EA few years ago the software development company Intuit realized that it needed a new approach to galvanizing customers. The company's Net Promoter Score was faltering, and customer recommendations of new products were especially disappointing. Intuit decided to hold a two-day offsite for the company's top 300 managers with a focus on the role of design in innovation. One of the days was dedicated to a program called Design for Delight. The cente...Starting at €8.20
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Design for Action
Brown, Tim; Martin, RogerArticle HBS-R1509C-ELeadership and People ManagementEver since it became clear that smart design led to the success of many products, companies have been employing it in other areas, from customer experiences, to strategy, to business ecosystems. But as design is used in increasingly complex contexts, a new hurdle has emerged: gaining acceptance of the "designed artifact" into the status quo. In fact, the more innovative a new design is, the more resistance it's likely to meet. The solution, say...Starting at €8.20
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Tim Blanchard at Jones Mendel & Co. (Abridged)
Lorsch, Jay W.; Gabarro, John J.Case HBS-913420-ELeadership and People ManagementStarting at €8.20
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The Overvaluation Trap
Martin, Roger; Kemper, AlisonArticle HBS-R1512H-ELeadership and People ManagementIn 2007, Chuck Prince, then the CEO of Citigroup, made a notorious comment about the subprime mortgage market: "As long as the music's playing, you've got to get up and dance. We're still dancing." Soon after, the financial system crashed, and that remark came to be seen as a cavalier justification for excessive risk taking by the bank. But authors Martin and Kemper raise another possibility: Prince may have been painted into a corner, because Ci...Starting at €8.20
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Rethinking the Decision Factory
Martin, RogerArticle HBS-R1310E-ECompanies everywhere compete to find the best talent in knowledge work, and often wind up with thousands of expensive employees who aren't as productive as hoped. So they lay off a huge number of them, and soon after are out recruiting again. This binge-and-purge cycle is highly destructive, writes the author: Aside from the human and social costs involved, it is an extremely inefficient way to manage any resources, let alone knowledge workers. T...Starting at €8.20