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E Ink in 2008
Yoffie, David B.; Kim, ReneeCase HBS-709443-EStrategyIn the fall of 2008, E Ink had positioned itself as a leader in electronic ink technology thanks to the launch of several eBook devices such as Amazon's Kindle. Yet E Ink still faced the question of how to turn its technology into a profitable business amid competing technologies and financial challenges.Starting at €8.20
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E Ink en 2008
Yoffie, David B.; Kim, ReneeCase HBS-710S16StrategyEn el otoño de 2008, E Ink ha posicionado como un líder en tecnología de tinta electrónica gracias a la puesta en marcha de varios dispositivos de libros electrónicos como el Kindle de Amazon. Sin embargo, E Ink aún se enfrenta a la cuestión de cómo convertir su tecnología en un negocio rentable en medio de tecnologías de la competencia y los retos financieros.Starting at €8.20
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Just Trying to Help (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Kirby, Julia; Buckingham, Marcus; Bischmann, Joanne; Kolind, Lars; Blomquist, TomasArticle HBS-R0606A-ELeadership and People ManagementEvery year, at the annual summit of Ralston Crane's marketing group, Chief Marketing Officer Ruth McViney homes in on an important organizational objective. Last year, the architecture and design firm was focused on green building initiatives. This year, Ruth says, is the year of customer loyalty. Toward the end of her keynote remarks, she introduces two kickoff projects. The goals of one, Project Holding Pattern, sound familiar to Ralston's Guy ...Starting at €8.20
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HTC Corp. in 2009 (Spanish Version)
Yoffie, David B.; Kim, ReneeCase HBS-711S12Strategycon sede en Taiwán HTC Corp. había convertido en el cuarto mayor fabricante de teléfonos inteligentes del mundo para el año 2009. CEO Peter Chou era extremadamente orgullosos de los logros notables que su compañía había hecho durante los últimos 12 años desde que comenzando como un fabricante desconocido de PDA para otras empresas. Sin embargo, Chou se enfrentó a varias decisiones con el fin de mover la compañía hacia adelante. La competencia por...Starting at €8.20
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Inventing HBR
Kirby, JuliaArticle HBS-R1211E-EHarvard Business Review was launched in 1922 by a Harvard Business School dean who wanted to equip managers-in-training with better tools of the trade. Its initial print run was only 6,000 copies, and its initial subscription price--$5--was a point of contention between the dean and his outside publisher. For the next 25 years the magazine barely broke even. But between its founding and World War II, the HBS faculty became competent at translatin...Starting at €8.20
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Beyond Automation
Davenport, Thomas H.; Kirby, JuliaArticle HBS-R1506C-EPeople in all walks of life are rightly concerned about advancing automation: Unless we find as many tasks to give humans as we find to take away from them, all the social and psychological ills of joblessness will grow, from economic recession to youth unemployment to individual crises of identity. What if, the authors ask, we were to reframe the situation? What if we were to uncover new feats that people might achieve if they had better think...Starting at €8.20
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Wall Street Is No Friend to Radical Innovation
Kirby, JuliaArticle HBS-F1007D-EHow Wall Street stifles innovation.Starting at €8.20
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Runaway Capitalism
Meyer, Christopher; Kirby, JuliaArticle HBS-R1201C-EEconomicsCapitalism remains the most powerful, flexible, and robust system for driving broad-based prosperity and enhancing quality of life. But keeping capitalism on track will depend on our ability to rethink the priorities that guide everyone in the system, from entrepreneurs to regulators to investors. In particular we will need to throttle back the headlong pursuits of competition and ROE, and that process begins with recognizing them for what they a...Starting at €8.20
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Creative That Cracks the Code
Kirby, JuliaArticle HBS-R1303F-EMarketing"What with ad-optimizing technologies and filter-defying product placement, search-based ad serves, real-time media bidding, and location-based features for mobile devices," the author writes, "it would be easy to conclude that advertising has flipped to all science and no art." But she highlights six campaigns to prove that advertising creativity will never cease: 1) Wonderful Pistachios, whose ads include memes such as YouTube's infamous Honey ...Starting at €8.20
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Leadership in the Age of Transparency
Meyer, Christopher; Kirby, JuliaArticle HBS-R1004A-EStrategyCompanies have long prospered by ignoring what economists call externalities - the various impacts that a business has on its broader milieu but is not obliged to pay for. (Pollution is the classic example.) Now, claim companies must adopt a very different stance, thanks to growing industrial scale, better sensors, and heightened sensibilities. Increasingly, business impacts are laid at companies' doorsteps. The best companies don't react defensi...Starting at €8.20