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Creating and Nurturing your Social Network: The Art of Building Long-term Mutually Beneficial Relationships
Neill, Conor; Ferraro, FabrizioTechnical Note SMN-676-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People ManagementNetworking is the art of building long-term mutually beneficial relationships, and this note will describe what social networks can do, what networking is, and what is not. We provide seven suggestions on how to begin the process of building your network.Starting at €8.20
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Producton Torolandia, S.A.
Lopetegui G.; Parés Canalias, Francisco; Renart, Lluís G.Case M-676-EMarketingStarting at €8.20
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The Family Council
Tàpies, JosepTechnical Note SMN-662-ELeadership and People ManagementCorporate governance systems have been studied extensively in recent years; however, family business governance systems have not been thoroughly explored and have remained largely undeveloped in conceptual terms. This technical note seeks to explore some ideas about those systems using the following schematic: - Reasons for the existence of the family council. - The family council: concept and implementation. - The family council: concept and pur...Starting at €8.20
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Governance of World Association Football
Xenos, Emmanouil; Capizzani, Mario; Davila, AntonioTechnical Note SMN-682-ECorporate GovernanceSport is big business around the world. Within the sports industry, association football - commonly referred to as "football" around the world or "soccer" in North America - is considered to be the world's richest sport and is often touted as the "king of sport" or the "most popular sport in the world." The scope of this note is to provide the reader with a brief and concise overview of association football, the governing bodies, the stakehold...Starting at €8.20
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The Offshoring of High-Value Services and the Globalization of Capability Sourcing
Adegbesan, Adetunji; Ricart, Joan EnricTechnical Note SMN-670-EService and Operations ManagementOffshoring used to be synonymous with the pursuit of a low-cost strategy. In traditional or ¿first-generation¿ business process offshoring, firms would ship highly standardized or highly repetitive low-skill business processes to workers in countries with significantly lower labour costs. As such, any labour-intensive tasks that could be codified and transmitted over long distances were candidates for the offshorer¿s axe, in firms faced with incr...Starting at €8.20
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The Principles of Networking
Ferraro, FabrizioTechnical Note SMN-674-EInnovation and Change, Leadership and People ManagementThe ability to develop, nurture and leverage your social network is essential to become effective leaders. Despite the fact that we have known this simple fact for many years, we have only recently started to explore what networking really is, and what are its best practices. Much research in social psychology, sociology, and organization theory has explored how human relationships develop and much of this research can be leveraged to understand ...Starting at €8.20
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The Music Industry in the 2020s
Vroom, Govert; Deshmane, Abhishek; Sastre Boquet, IsaacTechnical Note SMN-706-EInnovation and Change, StrategySince the emergence of digital technologies in the 1990s the music industry has been in a state of constant disruption. In a world where multiple media compete for the attention of individuals through multiple channels, the ways people all over the world are now creating, distributing, and consuming music seem to be more diverse than ever. This note describes the current state of the industry, the value chain, its actors (artists, music labels, d...Starting at €8.20
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Protocol: Regulation or Framework Agreement
Tàpies, JosepTechnical Note SMN-684-ECorporate GovernanceWhen a family business begins to manage the relationship between the family and the business it owns, it must not (or should not) try to start regulating issues relating to work, money, power, or status without first making certain that all members reach a consensus on these four questions: " Why do we want to form a family business? " What family business model would we like to have in terms of the roles that family members will take within it? ...Starting at €8.20
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Strategy in the 21st Century: Business Models in Action
Ricart, Joan EnricTechnical Note SMN-685-EStrategyThis document shows the benefits of representing business models as connected choices and consequences, establishing value-creating virtuous cycles. The approach successfully addresses the variability of contexts and dynamic interactions, becoming a useful and practical tool for capturing the essence of corporate strategy in the 21st century.Starting at €8.20