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How a Social Logic Can Transform Your Business
Santos, FilipeArticle ART-2594-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Entrepreneurship, StrategyThough social entrepreneurship and traditional, commercial entrepreneurship have many things in common, there are some fundamental differences. The author, an expert in the field of social entrepreneurship and social innovation, believes social entrepreneurship offers a transformative grassroots alternative to the usual way of doing business. This article highlights four crucial ways in which social entrepreneurs differ from their traditional cou...Starting at €8.20
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El CEO de Genpact cuenta cómo desarrolló un sector en India desde cero
Bhasin, PramodArticle HBS-R1106AEntrepreneurshipBhasin era el jefe de GE Capital en la India cuando, a finales de 1990, tuvo una visión para el futuro de una pequeña división que estaba proporcionando servicios de back-office, como procesamiento de préstamos para automóviles y transacciones de tarjetas de crédito para el mercado local. GE Capital fue la primera compañía de servicios financieros de propiedad extranjera que habían sido admitidos en la India, y como un experimento por el gobierno...Starting at €8.20
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Using Gifts and Trees to Make Recyclers of Indian Consumers
Bakaya, Ambrish; O'Connell, AndrewArticle HBS-R0909G-EService and Operations ManagementRapid advances in technology and enormously increased numbers of cell phones in use in emerging markets give urgency to Nokia's newly launched effort to expand its worldwide phone-recycling initiatives. Ambrish Bakaya explains, in this interview with HBR associate editor Andrew O'Connell. This HBR Spotlight article offers a framework for determining your company's green opportunities and an overview of what other organizations are doing with cle...Starting at €8.20
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Mumbai's Models of Service Excellence
Thomke, StefanArticle HBS-R1211K-EService and Operations ManagementThink you need exceptional employees, advanced IT, or rigid controls to build a high-performance organization? The dabbawalas of Mumbai prove otherwise. Six days a week, these 5,000 self-managed, semiliterate workers deliver upwards of 130,000 lunches from customers' homes to their offices with astonishing precision--negotiating the crowded city by train, bicycle, and handcart, without the aid of any technology or even cell phones. The 100-year-o...Starting at €8.20
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When Failure Looks Like Success
Zolli, Andrew; Healy, Ann MarieArticle HBS-F1104Z-EService and Operations ManagementEfforts to bring clean water to Bangladesh by installing tube wells appeared to be a huge success, but over time they led to epic failures: widespread arsenic poisoning, a rise in crime and prostitution, a projected increase in diarrheal diseases as villagers resume using groundwater. Due to the highly graphical nature of the Vision Statement, we offer this reprint in color, PDF format only. We recommend printing it out in color to maximize its ...Starting at €8.20
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It May Be Cheaper to Manufacture at Home
de Treville, Suzanne; Trigeorgis, LenosArticle HBS-R1010F-EService and Operations ManagementConventional financial tools can lead to supply chain mistakes. Most managers use the discounted cash flow (DCF) model to help them make decisions such as where to locate a new manufacturing plant or whether to use a foreign or domestic supplier. But DCF typically undervalues flexibility-and as a result, companies may end up with supply chains that are low cost as long as everything proceeds according to plan but extremely expensive if problems a...Starting at €8.20
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Tal vez sea más barato fabricar en casa
de Treville, Suzanne; Trigeorgis, LenosArticle HBS-R1010FService and Operations Managementherramientas financieras convencionales pueden conducir a errores suministrar cadena. La mayoría de los gerentes utilizan el modelo de flujo de caja descontado (DCF) para ayudarles a tomar decisiones como dónde ubicar una nueva planta de fabricación o si desea utilizar un proveedor nacional o extranjero. Pero DCF generalmente subestima la flexibilidad, y como resultado, las empresas pueden terminar con las cadenas de suministro que son de bajo co...Starting at €8.20
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Genpact's CEO on Building an Industry in India from Scratch
Bhasin, PramodArticle HBS-R1106A-EEntrepreneurshipBhasin was the head of GE Capital in India when, in the late 1990s, he had a vision for the future of a small division that was providing back-office services such as processing car loans and credit card transactions for the local market. GE Capital was the first foreign-owned financial services company that had been allowed into India, and as an experiment by the government, it was hypervulnerable to changes in policy and philosophy. Bhasin want...Starting at €8.20
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Why Entrepreneurship is Entrepreneurship
Neil SeemanArticle IVEY-W34634-EEntrepreneurshipMost business founders deserve respect, but not all of them have what it takes to be considered an entrepreneurStarting at €8.20
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Cómo puede transformar su negocio la lógica social
Santos, FilipeArticle ART-2594Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Entrepreneurship, Strategy¿Qué es el emprendimiento social y en qué difiere del comercial? Según el autor, experto en el campo emergente de la innovación social, ofrece una alternativa de base y transformadora al modo habitual de hacer negocios. En este artículo, destaca cuatro diferencias que emanan de la distinción fundamental entre creación y captación de valor. Asimismo, propone que las teorías económicas y los modelos de negocio establecidos reconozcan, más allá del ...Starting at €8.20