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Visualizing Your Social Network
Ferraro, Fabrizio; Tortoriello, MarcoTechnical Note SMN-687-EStrategyThe technical note provides different options for visualizing one's social network. Drawing a picture of your social network, and of the broader social network in your company, might help you go beyond a simplistic view of what your contacts are (Who do you know?) and think about how the people in your company are connected to each other (your indirect contacts).Starting at €8.20
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Estrategia en el siglo XXI. Modelos de negocio en acción
Ricart, Joan EnricTechnical Note SMN-685StrategyEn este documento veremos cómo, para dar respuesta a la variabilidad de contextos y a su interacción dinámica, la representación de los modelos de negocio como elecciones y consecuencias conectadas para establecer círculos virtuosos creadores de valor se transforma en una herramienta útil y práctica, la cual captura la esencia de la estrategia para las empresas del siglo XXI.Starting at €8.20
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Reaching Effective and Healthy Family Meetings: Some Reflections
Ceja, Lucía; Tàpies, JosepTechnical Note SMN-690-EStrategyThe shared values, mission and vision nurtured by the owner family are a potentially powerful source of strength and energy for a family business. A healthy owner family, with shared values and a mutual sense of purpose, may be the greatest resource that a family business can have.Starting at €8.20
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Cultura innovadora: valores, principios y prácticas de primeros ejecutivos en empresas altamente innovadoras
Vilà, JoaquimTechnical Note SMN-681Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Change, Leadership and People ManagementEl comportamiento de los altos ejecutivos en la forma de ejercer el liderazgo es un factor propulsor clave de la capacidad de innovación y transformación de una empresa. Este capítulo muestra el papel de primeros ejecutivos en empresas altamente innovadoras y su forma de ejercer el liderazgo en el avance de la innovación. Presenta un esquema extraído de ejemplos de buenas prácticas de la alta dirección en tres aspectos: qué les impulsa en sus esf...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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A Class of Their Own: A Brief History of Fashion and Luxury Goods
Baldo, Andrea; Ferraro, FabrizioTechnical Note SMN-689-EStrategyThe technical note provides a short history of fashion to help students understand the importance of fashion trends in the apparel industry. The focus is on understanding the relationship between social changes, fashion consumption and the fashion and luxury goods industry.Starting at €8.20
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Family Business Ownership Training
Tàpies, Josep; Rus, SalvadorTechnical Note SMN-668-ELeadership and People ManagementAs the shareholder base in a family business becomes more fragmented, there will be differences of all kinds among shareholders. Some will have university degrees, others will have only a high school education, and some may not meet even minimum training requirements. These particular circumstances should not be a source of disagreements or discrepancies among family members, because they all have one thing in common: they share partial ownership...Starting at €8.20
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Managing Creativity and Innovation in Organizations
Massa, Lorenzo; Rosenberg, MikeTechnical Note SMN-688-EInnovation and Change, StrategyThe technical note explores the tensions between organizational structures and innovation. Building on Teresa Amabile's work on creativity, the note explains how management systems and structures have the potential to enhance innovation. After presenting the personality traits of creative individuals and distinguishing the types of innovation processes (radical vs. incremental), it then identifies how informal organization and semi-structures can...Starting at €8.20
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El aprendizaje espontáneo en la empresa: Valor, responsabilidad social corporativa y ética en la profesión de dirigir
Andreu i Civit, RafaelTechnical Note SMN-692Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Leadership and People Management, StrategyEn las interacciones entre personas que son necesarias para el funcionamiento normal de cualquier empresa, todas ellas aprenden algo aun sin querer, de forma espontánea. Estos aprendizajes, que llamamos "huellas", pueden entorpecer o favorecer el buen funcionamiento futuro de la empresa y forman parte de los "resultados" de la misma, más allá de los resultados económicos que, normalmente, se toman en consideración. Tener esas huellas en cuenta e...Starting at €8.20
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Guía para reflexionar sobre la entrada en la empresa familiar
Tàpies, Josep; Ceja, LucíaTechnical Note SMN-691Corporate Governance, StrategyEl marco de una empresa familiar puede servir de fuente de bienestar para las futuras generaciones, ya que ofrece un entorno seguro con multitud de recursos para encontrar el equilibro entre los distintos papeles en la vida (por ejemplo, el trabajo y la familia) y entre los desafíos y las habilidades. Los miembros de las generaciones venideras citan, entre otros, los siguientes motivos para incorporarse a sus respectivas empresas familiares: hora...Starting at €8.20