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Ready in Advance: The City of Tuscaloosa's Response to the 4/27/11 Tornado
Leonard, Herman B.; Tannenwald, DavidCaso HBS-KS1157-EIn a matter of minutes on the afternoon of April 27, 2011, a massive and powerful tornado leveled 1/8 of the area of Tuscaloosa, AL, a city of approximately 90,000 people and home to the University of Alabama. Doctrine called for the County Emergency Management Agency (EMA) to take the lead in organizing the response to the disaster - but one of the first buildings destroyed during the event housed the County EMA offices, leaving the agency compl...Desde 8,20 €
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The Choice to Cofound and Initial Control and Ownership Splits in Startups
Leschly, StigCaso HBS-820095-EIniciativa emprendedoraIn 2010, the European Union faces the challenges of the global financial crisis. With 27 member states, each facing different challenges, can new EU institutions respond effectively? Will its new currency, the euro, survive?Desde 8,20 €
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Europe: An Ever Closer Union
Trumbull, Gunnar; Schlefer, Jonathan; Choi, DianeCaso HBS-713085-EEconomíaIn 2010, the European Union faces the challenges of the global financial crisis. With 27 member states, each facing different challenges, can new EU institutions respond effectively? Will its new currency, the euro, survive?Desde 8,20 €
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Jamie Dimon and Bank One (A) (Spanish Version)
Marshall, Paul W.; Thedinga, ToddCaso HBS-810S21Iniciativa emprendedoraEl 27 de marzo de 2000, Jamie Dimon fue contratado como CEO de dar la vuelta banco uno. Se describen los problemas que enfrenta, mientras se prepara para presentar un plan de acción a la junta.Desde 8,20 €
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Homing In on Cash Conversion
Berman, Karen; Knight, JoeCapítulo de Libro HBS-3842BC-EThe cash conversion cycle, introduced in this chapter, measures how effective a company is at collecting its cash. The cycle can be shortened by the techniques discussed: decreasing days of sales outstanding (DSO), decreasing inventory, and increasing days payable outstanding (DPO). This chapter is excerpted from "Financial Intelligence for Entrepreneurs: What You Really Need to Know About the Numbers."Desde 8,20 €
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Advertising Makes Us Unhappy
Oswald, Andrew J; Torres, NicoleArtículo HBS-F2001B-EMarketingAds tell us about attractive new offerings we might want to try. But it could be they also make us feel discontent with what we currently have--and diminish our sense of well-being in the process. When researchers looked at survey data on the life satisfaction of nearly a million people in 27 European countries and compared it with the annual ad spending in those nations, they found an inverse relationship between the two. When ad spending went u...Desde 8,20 €
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The Vitality of Cities
Harvard Business ReviewArtículo HBS-F1212Z-EEconomíaHow 27 cities worldwide stack up on measures of international appeal--including number of hotel rooms, number of international tourists, airport activity, and international association meetings--and on livability: cultural vibrancy, quality of life, ease of driving and efficiency of public transportation. Overall, Paris and London rank first and second respectively, with New York in fifth place. Due to the highly graphical nature of the Vision S...Desde 8,20 €
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When Hiring Execs, Context Matters Most
Harvard Business ReviewArtículo HBS-F1705A-EIniciativa emprendedoraWhen choosing a CEO, boards typically take into account the particular circumstances the company faces: Is it in need of a turnaround, say, or will it be scaling for growth? But firms don't usually pay much attention to contextual challenges when hiring for and promoting people into lower-level leadership roles, instead preferring jack-of-all-trades candidates. A new study from CEB suggests that they will be more successful if they consider the s...Desde 8,20 €
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Keeping Up with the Quants 7. Working with Quants
Davenport, Thomas H.; Kim, JinhoCapítulo de Libro HBS-7700BC-EKeeping Up with the Quants is a seven-chapter book published in 2013 by the Harvard Business Review Press and written by Thomas Davenport, Professor of IT and Management at Babson College, and Jinho Kim, Professor of Business and Statistics at Korea National Defense University. Written for non-analysts and "non-quants," this book is a guide to summarizing data, interpreting its meaning, and using it in decision-making. The authors explain that a ...Desde 8,20 €
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The Amsterdam World Trade Center
Kohn, A. Eugene; Kazan, Brent; Lane, David; Nguyen, Nhat; van Tartwijk, HansCaso HBS-208078-EFinanzasLate in September 2001, Hans van Tartwijk, president of Trimp & van Tartwijk Property Development (TvT) of Amsterdam, Holland, was deeply worried about the status of his largest ongoing project; the Amsterdam World Trade Center (WTC). As the discretionary developer, van Tartwijk needed to present his firm's recommendations to WTC owners and municipal stakeholders on how best to manage problems in the renovation of the 27-floor, 60,000 square mete...Desde 8,20 €