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Left on a Mountainside (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Kirby, Julia; Eisold, Kenneth; Soder, Dee; Kahn, Jeffrey P.; Elson, Charles M.Artículo HBS-R0401A-ELiderazgo y Dirección de personasEd Davidson is on top of the world, literally and figuratively, at the beginning of this fictional case study. He's in the Swiss Alps, headed for Davos and his first experience as a delegate to the World Economic Forum's annual conference. And he has reason to believe he is about to be made president of his company, Carston Waite--and, therefore, heir apparent to the CEO position. Then his phone rings. It's his mentor, Frank Maugham, the CFO and ...Desde 8,20 €
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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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Wall Street Is No Friend to Radical Innovation
Kirby, JuliaArtículo HBS-F1007D-EHow Wall Street stifles innovation.Desde 8,20 €
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Leadership in the Age of Transparency
Meyer, Christopher; Kirby, JuliaArtículo HBS-R1004A-EDirección estratégicaCompanies have long prospered by ignoring what economists call externalities - the various impacts that a business has on its broader milieu but is not obliged to pay for. (Pollution is the classic example.) Now, claim companies must adopt a very different stance, thanks to growing industrial scale, better sensors, and heightened sensibilities. Increasingly, business impacts are laid at companies' doorsteps. The best companies don't react defensi...Desde 8,20 €
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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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Creative That Cracks the Code
Kirby, JuliaArtículo HBS-R1303F-EMarketing"What with ad-optimizing technologies and filter-defying product placement, search-based ad serves, real-time media bidding, and location-based features for mobile devices," the author writes, "it would be easy to conclude that advertising has flipped to all science and no art." But she highlights six campaigns to prove that advertising creativity will never cease: 1) Wonderful Pistachios, whose ads include memes such as YouTube's infamous Honey ...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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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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Stay on the Q&A Offensive: Michael Sheehan on the Art and Science of the Q&A
Sheehan, Michael; Kirby, JuliaArtículo HBS-F0704G-ELiderazgo y Dirección de personasThe Q&A should be more than just an afterthought, says communications consultant Michael Sheehan. It may be the only part of your speech people actually listen to.Desde 8,20 €
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Fat Chance (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Fryer, Bronwyn; Kirby, Julia; Weyers, Howard; Solovay, Sondra; Roehling, Mark V.; Wilensky, AmyArtículo HBS-R0505A-ELiderazgo y Dirección de personasSid Shawn is a 10-year veteran of NMO Financial Services and a mainstay of the pensions marketing group. He's been a good, consistent worker and an invaluable resource for the salespeople and consultant relations managers. Sid also weighs 400 pounds. So when he is the only internal candidate for the customer-facing position of consultant relations manager, sales and marketing VP Bill Houglan feels that he has a tough hiring decision to make. Sid ...Desde 8,20 €