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Innovative Culture: Values, Principles and Practices of Senior Executives in Highly Innovative Companies
Vilà, JoaquimNota técnica SMN-681-EIniciativa emprendedora, Innovación y cambio, Liderazgo y Dirección de personasThe behavior of senior executives in the way they exercise leadership is a key driving factor for the capacity to innovate and transform a company. This chapter shows the role of top executives in highly innovative companies and their way of exercising leadership in advancing innovation. It presents a framework drawn from examples of best practices related to top management in three aspects: what drives them in their efforts to lead the transform...Desde 8,20 €
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The Person and the Manager in the New Economy
30|Álvarez de Mon, SantiagoCaso FH-681-ELiderazgo y Dirección de personasThis case provides an update of Bankinter CEO Juan Arena's concerns and beliefs about the art of management, originally presented in case FH-551 "Reflections of a CEO." After analyzing certain basic features of modern society, the case reviews the priorities and challenges facing a manager who is committed to transforming the institution he manages. It also discusses how to attain a balance between the roles of manager, father, husband, citizen, ...Desde 8,20 €
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The Family Council
Tàpies, JosepNota técnica SMN-662-ELiderazgo y Dirección de personasCorporate governance systems have been studied extensively in recent years; however, family business governance systems have not been thoroughly explored and have remained largely undeveloped in conceptual terms. This technical note seeks to explore some ideas about those systems using the following schematic: - Reasons for the existence of the family council. - The family council: concept and implementation. - The family council: concept and pur...Desde 8,20 €
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Governance of World Association Football
Xenos, Emmanouil; Capizzani, Mario; Davila, AntonioNota técnica SMN-682-EGobierno corporativoSport is big business around the world. Within the sports industry, association football - commonly referred to as "football" around the world or "soccer" in North America - is considered to be the world's richest sport and is often touted as the "king of sport" or the "most popular sport in the world." The scope of this note is to provide the reader with a brief and concise overview of association football, the governing bodies, the stakehold...Desde 8,20 €
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The Offshoring of High-Value Services and the Globalization of Capability Sourcing
Adegbesan, Adetunji; Ricart, Joan EnricNota técnica SMN-670-EServicios y operacionesOffshoring used to be synonymous with the pursuit of a low-cost strategy. In traditional or ¿first-generation¿ business process offshoring, firms would ship highly standardized or highly repetitive low-skill business processes to workers in countries with significantly lower labour costs. As such, any labour-intensive tasks that could be codified and transmitted over long distances were candidates for the offshorer¿s axe, in firms faced with incr...Desde 8,20 €
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Counterfeits and E-Commerce: Why Even Build It?
Mani, Vidya; Thomas, Doug; Maiden, Stephen E.Caso DARDEN-OM-1753-EServicios y operacionesThis public-sourced case set in early 2021 examines the role counterfeiting has come to play in e-commerce, specifically at Amazon, which represents over one-third of the US online market. The case's protagonist is Amy Vega, who, along with Jason Larson, has cofounded a humidity-detection-device company with a product called the Hygro. Vega and Larson hope to sell the Hygro on leading e-commerce sites such as Amazon. But should they? Vega's res...Desde 8,20 €
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Managing Creativity and Innovation in Organizations
Massa, Lorenzo; Rosenberg, MikeNota técnica SMN-688-EDirección estratégica, Innovación y cambioThe 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...Desde 8,20 €
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Harlequin Enterprises: Assessing e-Books
Rod E. White; Tony S. Frost; Ken MarkCaso IVEY-9B14M027-EDirección estratégicaHarlequin Enterprises is a well-known publisher of women's fiction and the global leader in series romance fiction. In 2013, e-book penetration of romance fiction has exceeded 50 per cent of unit sales. The vice-president of strategy is trying to make sense of the e-book opportunity and threat. She is wondering what impact e-books would have on Harlequin's business model: its relationship with authors, distributors and competitors.Desde 8,20 €
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The Principles of Networking
Ferraro, FabrizioNota técnica SMN-674-EInnovación y cambio, Liderazgo y Dirección de personasThe ability to develop, nurture and leverage your social network is essential to become effective leaders. Despite the fact that we have known this simple fact for many years, we have only recently started to explore what networking really is, and what are its best practices. Much research in social psychology, sociology, and organization theory has explored how human relationships develop and much of this research can be leveraged to understand ...Desde 8,20 €
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Strategy in the 21st Century: Business Models in Action
Ricart, Joan EnricNota técnica SMN-685-EDirección estratégicaThis document shows the benefits of representing business models as connected choices and consequences, establishing value-creating virtuous cycles. The approach successfully addresses the variability of contexts and dynamic interactions, becoming a useful and practical tool for capturing the essence of corporate strategy in the 21st century.Desde 8,20 €