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Tilt, 11. Tilting Your Strategy and Organization
Dawar, NirajBook Chapter HBS-0012BC-EMarketingIn Chapter 11, Tilting Your Strategy and Organization (14 pages), the author explains three underlying principles of creating downstream competitive advantage. First, opportunities for new strategies lie downstream with the marketplace and customer, not within the company. Second, strategy can create both sustainable and accumulative competitive advantage. Third, while some capabilities can be outsourced, such manufacturing and delivery, the cust...Starting at €8.20
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Sizmek Chapter 11: Surviving Walled Gardens in Their Ad Tech Empire
Israeli, Ayelet; Tauro, Danilo; Gulick, SarahCase HBS-520087-EMarketingThis case provides a post-mortem of the advertising technology (adtech) company Sizmek. Sizmek grew via multiple acquisitions, with the vision of becoming an integrated adtech company that could leverage AI to buy digital media, while creating and serving display and video content. At its peak, one of its acquisitions had an IPO valuation of almost 1 billion dollars. However, Sizmek struggled with an integration that was taking longer than expect...Starting at €8.20
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Chapter 11: Writing about Problem-Diagnosis Scenarios
Ellet, WilliamBook Chapter HBS-1031BC-EThis chapter describes the four elements necessary to organize a problem-diagnosis scenario essay, the most important of which is providing a clear definition of the problem. Chapter 6 of this book, which introduces how to analyse a problem-diagnosis scenario, is complementary and should be used along with this chapter.Starting at €8.20
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Strategy Execution Module 11: Using Diagnostic and Interactive Control Systems
Simons, Robert L.Case HBS-117111-EStrategyThis module reading introduces diagnostic and interactive control systems. Diagnostic control systems are the management-by-exception systems that managers use to monitor the achievement of their business strategy. Interactive control systems are the systems that top managers use to focus the organization on strategic uncertainties. Diagnostic control systems and interactive control systems work together to ensure the implementation of today's st...Starting at €8.20
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Lessons from 9/11 (Spanish version)
Argenti, PaulArticle HBS-R0212HLeadership and People ManagementMaintain high levels of visibility so that employees are certain of top management's command of the situation and concern; establish contingency communication channels and work sites; strive to keep employees focused on the business itself, because a sense of usefulness enhances morale and good morale enhances usefulness; and ensure that employees have absorbed the firm's values, which will guide them as they cope with the unpredictable.Starting at €8.20
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New Peril, Old Adversary: George W. Bush, 9/11, & Iraq (B): The Road to War, September 2002 to March 2003
Westad, Arne; Varley, PamelaCase HBS-KS1268-EEconomicsSupplement to case KS1267. The U.S. choice to go to war with Iraq, beginning in March 2003, was enormously consequential. This two-part case, developed for an HKS course called "Power Shifts: Understanding Global Change Through History," goes back in time to trace the evolution of American policy toward Iraq prior to 9/11, and the shift in thinking that led to war with Iraq during the administration of George W. Bush. The two parts of the case co...Starting at €5.74
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New Peril, Old Adversary: George W. Bush, 9/11, & Iraq (A): The United States & Iraq, 1980 to 2002
Varley, Pamela; Westad, ArneCase HBS-KS1267-EEconomicsThe U.S. choice to go to war with Iraq, beginning in March 2003, was enormously consequential. This two-part case, developed for an HKS course called "Power Shifts: Understanding Global Change Through History," goes back in time to trace the evolution of American policy toward Iraq prior to 9/11, and the shift in thinking that led to war with Iraq during the administration of George W. Bush. The two parts of the case cover different parts of the ...Starting at €8.20
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Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant, 11. Avoid Red Ocean Traps
Kim, W. Chan; Mauborgne, Renee A.Book Chapter HBS-0031BC-EStrategyThe global phenomenon that has sold 3.5 million copies is published in a record-breaking 43 languages and is a bestseller across five continents--now updated and expanded with new content. This global bestseller, embraced by organizations and industries worldwide, challenges everything you thought you knew about the requirements for strategic success. Now updated with fresh content from the authors, "Blue Ocean Strategy" argues that cutthroat com...Starting at €8.20
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Ready in Advance: The City of Tuscaloosa's Response to the 4/27/11 Tornado
Leonard, Herman B.; Tannenwald, DavidCase HBS-KS1157-EIn a matter of minutes on the afternoon of April 27, 2011, a massive and powerful tornado leveled 1/8 of the area of Tuscaloosa, AL, a city of approximately 90,000 people and home to the University of Alabama. Doctrine called for the County Emergency Management Agency (EMA) to take the lead in organizing the response to the disaster - but one of the first buildings destroyed during the event housed the County EMA offices, leaving the agency compl...Starting at €8.20
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The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, 11. The Dilemmas of Innovation: A Summary
Christensen, Clayton M.Book Chapter HBS-1115BC-EEntrepreneurshipIn this classic bestseller--one of the most influential business books of all time--innovation expert Clayton Christensen shows how even the most outstanding companies can do everything right--yet still lose market leadership. Christensen explains why mosStarting at €8.20