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Left on a Mountainside (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Kirby, Julia; Eisold, Kenneth; Soder, Dee; Kahn, Jeffrey P.; Elson, Charles M.Article HBS-R0401A-ELeadership and People ManagementEd Davidson is on top of the world, literally and figuratively, at the beginning of this fictional case study. He's in the Swiss Alps, headed for Davos and his first experience as a delegate to the World Economic Forum's annual conference. And he has reason to believe he is about to be made president of his company, Carston Waite--and, therefore, heir apparent to the CEO position. Then his phone rings. It's his mentor, Frank Maugham, the CFO and ...Starting at €8.20
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Cost Center That Paid Its Way (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Kirby, Julia; Logan, Dan; McKenney, Michael; Bennett, Jeffrey W.; Rice, MarkArticle HBS-R0204A-EKnowledge and CommunicationEric Palmer arrived at the top floor of Camden Robotics, a supplier of industrial automation tools, excited to tell CEO Tom O'Reilly about his latest win: a print ad account with a well-known local software maker. "You pulled in more business?" the boss responded. "It's really working out, then, isn't it?" Six months earlier, Palmer, the head of marketing communications at Camden, had been in a less optimistic mood as he'd walked into the executi...Starting at €8.20
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Actuar para que todos lo vean
Wagner, Chuck; Kirby, JuliaArticle HBS-R0901BLeadership and People ManagementEs difícil imaginar una imagen de liderazgo más icónica que el maestro de ceremonias. Simplemente decir la palabra, y una imagen viene a la mente de un capitán alto y gallardo que presiden, así, un circo - un mundo lleno de tanto caos y la oportunidad para deleite. Es el trabajo del director de pista de darle sentido a ese entorno, anticipar lo inesperado, y dirigir la atención de una audiencia con un máximo de 20.000 personas - una comunidad mas...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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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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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
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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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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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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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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