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Just Trying to Help (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Kirby, Julia; Buckingham, Marcus; Bischmann, Joanne; Kolind, Lars; Blomquist, TomasArtículo HBS-R0606A-ELiderazgo y Dirección de personasEvery year, at the annual summit of Ralston Crane's marketing group, Chief Marketing Officer Ruth McViney homes in on an important organizational objective. Last year, the architecture and design firm was focused on green building initiatives. This year, Ruth says, is the year of customer loyalty. Toward the end of her keynote remarks, she introduces two kickoff projects. The goals of one, Project Holding Pattern, sound familiar to Ralston's Guy ...Desde 8,20 €
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Inventing HBR
Kirby, JuliaArtículo HBS-R1211E-EHarvard Business Review was launched in 1922 by a Harvard Business School dean who wanted to equip managers-in-training with better tools of the trade. Its initial print run was only 6,000 copies, and its initial subscription price--$5--was a point of contention between the dean and his outside publisher. For the next 25 years the magazine barely broke even. But between its founding and World War II, the HBS faculty became competent at translatin...Desde 8,20 €
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Nest Wealth Asset Management Inc. - Teaching Note
Chuck Grace; Andrew SartaNota del Instructor IVEY-8B17M114-EDirección estratégicaTeaching Note for product 9B17M114.Desde 0,00 €
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Beyond Automation
Davenport, Thomas H.; Kirby, JuliaArtículo HBS-R1506C-EPeople in all walks of life are rightly concerned about advancing automation: Unless we find as many tasks to give humans as we find to take away from them, all the social and psychological ills of joblessness will grow, from economic recession to youth unemployment to individual crises of identity. What if, the authors ask, we were to reframe the situation? What if we were to uncover new feats that people might achieve if they had better think...Desde 8,20 €
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Duckworth Asset Management Inc.
Chuck GraceCaso IVEY-9B09N021-EFinanzasIn October 2008, the manager of client services at Duckworth Asset Management Inc. (Duckworth), an investment firm headquartered in St. John's, Newfoundland, was preparing for a briefing with Duckworth's vice-president of investments. The vice-president had been fielding several phone calls in the past few weeks, all from clients concerned about the significant drop in global financial markets. Since its June 2008 peak, Canada's S&P/TSX had dropp...Desde 8,20 €
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Runaway Capitalism
Meyer, Christopher; Kirby, JuliaArtículo HBS-R1201C-EEconomíaCapitalism remains the most powerful, flexible, and robust system for driving broad-based prosperity and enhancing quality of life. But keeping capitalism on track will depend on our ability to rethink the priorities that guide everyone in the system, from entrepreneurs to regulators to investors. In particular we will need to throttle back the headlong pursuits of competition and ROE, and that process begins with recognizing them for what they a...Desde 8,20 €
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Freedom's Hedge
Chuck GraceCaso IVEY-9B09N019-EFinanzasIn September 2007, the marketing manager for London Life Insurance Company's (London Life) Freedom Funds was preoccupied by thoughts of his upcoming meeting with London Life's vice-president of Marketing, Individual Retirement and Investment Services. The vice-president was concerned with the past summer's appreciation of the Canadian dollar versus the U.S. dollar. Since March of 2007, the Canadian dollar had appreciated over 10 per cent against ...Desde 8,20 €
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Wall Street Is No Friend to Radical Innovation
Kirby, JuliaArtículo HBS-F1007D-EHow Wall Street stifles innovation.Desde 8,20 €
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Powershares Exchange-Traded Funds
Chuck Grace; Samir Haji RemtullaCaso IVEY-9B10N020-EFinanzasIn early January, 2009 the president of Invesco Trimark Ltd. (Invesco Trimark) was optimistic about the year ahead, particularly when compared to the perfect storm of 2008. That year saw global investment markets in turmoil, and Invesco Trimark's mutual fund assets had plummeted to almost half its value. The president and his team had spent nearly a year working and re-working a new product launch and by 2009 thought they had developed a unique a...Desde 8,20 €
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Connor, Clark & Lunn
Chuck GraceCaso IVEY-9B12N027-EFinanzasAt the end of 2001, the senior partners of an investment management firm were concerned. The bear market was going on two years, and, worse, the firm’s performance over that time had been less than that of the index. Clients, more than disappointed, were starting to vote with their feet. The firm, a top-10 player in Canada’s institutional investment business, had claimed client assets under management of more than $15 billion in 1998, but was now...Desde 8,20 €