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Sense and Reliability: A Conversation with Celebrated Psychologist Karl E. Weick (Spanish version)
Weick, Karl E.; Coutu, Diane L.Article HBS-R0304FLeadership and People ManagementMost of us see the organizations we operate in--our schools or companies, for instance--as monolithic and predictable, subjecting us to deadening routines and demanding from us dehumanizing conformity. But companies are more unpredictable and more alive than we imagine, according to Karl Weick, a psychology professor at the University of Michigan and an expert on organizational behavior. Weick says executives can learn a lot about managing the un...Starting at €8.20
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Losing It (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Coutu, Diane L.; Jamison, Kay Redfield; Meen, David E.; Pearlstine, Norman; Primus, RichardArticle HBS-R0404A-ELeadership and People ManagementIt's worse than I thought....She's completely lost her mind, says Harry Beecham, the CEO of blue chip management consultancy Pierce and Co. The perplexed executive was in a hotel suite with his wife in Amsterdam, the latest stop on his regular trek to dozens of Pierce offices worldwide. In his hand was a sheaf of paper--the same message sent over and over again by his star employee and protegee Katharina Waldburg. The end of the world is coming, ...Starting at €8.20
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Intel Corp. - Bring Your Own Device
V. Joseph Compeau; Nicole R.D. Haggerty; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B13E002-EInformation Technologies, StrategySince early 2009, the information technology (IT) division of a leading manufacturer of semiconductor chips had noticed a growing trend among the company’s 80,000 employees worldwide to bring their own smartphones and storage devices to their individual workstations. Recognizing that Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) was not a passing fad but a growing phenomenon, the company decided in January 2010 to formally implement this initiative. As the compan...Starting at €8.20
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Harry Rosen: Digitizing Customer Relationships
Vania Sakelaris; Nicole R.D. HaggertyCase IVEY-W27514-EInformation Technologies, StrategyIan Rosen, the recently appointed executive vice-president of Digital and Strategy at Harry Rosen Inc. (Harry Rosen), a successful men’s retail chain founded by Ian’s grandfather in 1954, must decide on a technology solution to support the advancement of his proposed digital strategy for Harry Rosen. The decision-making challenges he is encountering in early 2020 are compounded by the onset of the global pandemic and resulting impacts on the luxu...Starting at €8.20
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Privacy Issues and Monetizing Twitter
Deborah Compeau; Nicole R.D. Haggerty; Shady FraihaCase IVEY-9B11E002-EEntrepreneurship, Information Technologies, StrategyIt was early 2010, and the Twitter Trio, the founders of Twitter, were faced with a changing market situation and pressures to make money. Twitter was a free service that had been operating without a viable business plan since 2006. In early 2010, Twitter was still not making enough money and it was time that Twitter showed a real return on investment. The Trio had to decide on a business model that was competitive. There was a data-mining projec...Starting at €8.20
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Escoger ganadores: una conversación con el director de MacArthur Fellows Program, Daniel J. Scolow
Socolow, Daniel J.; Coutu, Diane L.Article HBS-R0705HLeadership and People ManagementEn el mundo de los negocios, "creatividad" se ha convertido en la última moda. ¿Cómo atraer, nutrir y dirigir al pueblo de extraordinario talento que se van a plantear con el siguiente Lipitor, Sony Walkman, o iPod es un tema duradera entre los empresarios. A medida que el director del Programa de Becarios MacArthur, Daniel J. Socolow tiene una experiencia considerable con el proceso de erradicar a la creatividad. En esta conversación con el edit...Starting at €8.20
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Creatividad paso a paso
Tharp, Twyla; Coutu, Diane L.Article HBS-R0804BKnowledge and CommunicationLa mayoría de la gente cree que el genio creativo es un rasgo de la personalidad predeterminada reservado para sólo unos pocos regalado. Tharp - un premiado coreógrafo que ha revolucionado la danza en nuestro tiempo - rechaza firmemente esa idea. "Todo el mundo puede ser creativo," dice ella, "pero hay que prepararse para ello con la rutina." El ganador de una beca MacArthur, un premio Tony, y dos Emmys, Tharp ha sido la fuerza artística detrás d...Starting at €8.20
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Ushahidi - Teaching Note
Nicole R.D. Haggerty; Alex JepsonTeaching Note IVEY-8B14E010-EEntrepreneurshipTeaching note for product 9B14E010.Starting at €0.00
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Bella Springs - Teaching Note
Nicole R.D. Haggerty; Francis Ayensu; Jesse Brame; Chris Lau; Gerry LiTeaching Note IVEY-8B13D009-EEntrepreneurship, Service and Operations Management, StrategyTeaching note for product 9B13D009.Starting at €0.00
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Cultivating Virtual Competence
Nicole R.D. Haggerty; Zeying Wan; Yinglei WangArticle IVEY-9B20TF01-EStrategyThis article aims to help organizations invest wisely in virtual competence by first explaining how this requires the development of three capabilities: virtual self-efficacy, virtual social skill, and virtual media skill. It then highlights concrete actiStarting at €8.20