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Embrace
Chu, Michael; Bloom, David E.; Wagonfeld, Alison BerkleyCaso HBS-814001-EIniciativa emprendedoraDesde 8,20 €
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Plan Operations: Sales Forecasts, Resource Capacity, and Dynamic Budgets
Kaplan, Robert S.; Norton, David P.Capítulo de Libro HBS-7689BC-EDirección estratégicaThis chapter presents an integrated approach for linking the strategic plan to forecasts for spending on operating and capital resources, which accounts for the vast majority of overall corporate spending. This process ensures that resource capacity, operational plans, and budgets reflect the direction and needs of the strategy. This chapter is excerpted from "Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage."Desde 8,20 €
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Nanosolar, Inc.
Steenburgh, Thomas; Wagonfeld, Alison BerkleyCaso HBS-510037-EMarketingNanosolar is a start-up company in the clean tech sector. It expects to be one of the first manufacturers to produce thin-film solar panels using copper indium gallium (di)selenide (CIGS) technology. Although this technology is less efficient in producing electricity than polysilicone, it is much less costly too. As it is about to enter the market, Nanosolar is facing the decision on which market to enter. Should it attempt to go into the Europea...Desde 8,20 €
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Yieldex (B)
Stuart, Toby; Wagonfeld, Alison BerkleyCaso HBS-809091-EIniciativa emprendedoraYieldex CEO Tom Shields was hired by the company's technical founder, Doug Cosman, in October 2007. One of Shields' top priorities is finding a vice president of engineering to manage the company's software development efforts. Shields and Costman disagree about the ideal profile of the new hire. Shields found a candidate that he likes, and he wonders about the implications of hiring the person against Cosman's wishes.Desde 5,74 €
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Cisco in 2012
Gulati, Ranjay; Wagonfeld, Alison Berkley; Silvestri, LucianaCaso HBS-413069-ELiderazgo y Dirección de personasIn 2012, Cisco was under intense pressure to show results: growth in its core business was decelerating and a number of exploratory ventures and acquisitions had not proven as profitable as expected. CEO John Chambers vowed to restore the company's health in a way that would support the agility and entrepreneurial mindset required to be successful in emerging sectors while continuing to achieve efficiency and profitability in Cisco's core busines...Desde 8,20 €
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Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pisano, Gary P.; Wagonfeld, Alison BerkleyCaso HBS-610036-EServicios y operacionesExamines the process used by a major motion picture studio to develop and select movie projects. Warner Bros.' strategy is to focus its efforts on a small number of major "event" films (i.e., films with the potential to generate gross box-office receipts of $300 million or more). This strategy--which has worked for the past two years--entails risks. The studio is now asking how it can better manage these risks and, specifically, how it can improv...Desde 8,20 €
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Khosla Ventures: Biofuels Gain Liquidity
Lassiter, Joseph B.; Sahlman, William A.; Wagonfeld, Alison Berkley; Richardson, EvanCaso HBS-812035-EIniciativa emprendedoraSamir Kaul, a Partner at Khosla Ventures, looked out his office window. It was late June, 2011, and like almost every day in Menlo Park, the sun was shining. Kaul was reflecting on what had been a very positive 10 months in the venture capital business. Over that span, he had helped three of his portfolio companies through IPOs, and helped Khosla Ventures raise its third fund, bringing the total outside capital raised by the group to more than $2...Desde 8,20 €
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Plan Operations: Align Process Improvement Programs
Kaplan, Robert S.; Norton, David P.Capítulo de Libro HBS-7690BC-EDirección estratégicaPerformance that depends on the power of individual leaders has generally proven unsustainable over the long term. Unless an organization links its strategy to its governance and operational processes, it won't be able to sustain its successes. This chapter discusses the linkage of strategy to process improvements. This chapter is excerpted from "Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage."Desde 8,20 €
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Unconventional Wisdom in a Downturn
Kaplan, Robert S.; Norton, David P.; Friedman, Stewart D.; Krishnamurthy, BV; Erickson, Tamara J.; Stibel, Jeffrey M.; Delgrosso, PeterArtículo HBS-F0812D-EDirección estratégica"What best practice challenges the conventional wisdom about what to do in a downturn?" We put that question to our team of management bloggers at harvardbusiness.org. This article provides an edited selection of their provocative responses.Desde 8,20 €
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Khosla Ventures: Biofuels Strategy
Lassiter, Joseph B.; Sahlman, William A.; Wagonfeld, Alison BerkleyCaso HBS-809004-EFinanzasBy 2008, a number of the firm's early cleantech investments were showing promise, and the companies were starting to need significantly more money to create the massive scale required in the energy sector. As Khosla thought about the hundreds of millions of dollars required by his portfolio companies, he wondered how he should position his firm at this stage of development. Should Khosla develop a new fund that focused on later-stage investments?...Desde 8,20 €