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How Managers' Everyday Decisions Create--or Destroy--Your Company's Strategy
Bower, Joseph L.; Gilbert, ClarkArticle HBS-R0702C-EStrategyThis article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. Senior executives have long been frustrated by the disconnection between the plans and strategies they devise and the actual behavior of the managers throughout the company. This article approaches the problem from the ground up, recognizing that every time a manag...Starting at €8.20
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Bundesautobahnen Group
de Santiago, Rafael; García Centenera, Iñigo; Izquierdo, DavidCase AD-367-EDecision AnalysisBundesautobahnen Group, a German construction company, has won a public tender to build (the first stretch of) a freewayan expressway between Berlin and Bremen, with a budget of 170 million of euros. The company neededs to optimize the costs, matching the estimates offered in the tender and improving the project's margin. One of the most important stages was the optimization of the earthwork along the route.Starting at €8.20
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GetYourGuide: Managing a Sudden Shock to Business Growth
Sabrina Goestl; Vanessa C. HasseCase IVEY-W32660-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People ManagementIn March 2020, the German online travel experience platform GetYourGuide faced an abrupt drop in revenues in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to the drop, the company had been thriving, grown from a simple idea thought up by a group of friends in a student dormitory into a market-leading company in the travel experience industry with a valuation of over US$1 billion (a “unicorn” start-up) and more than 600 employees across fifteen global ...Starting at €8.20
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Thomas J. Watson, IBM and Nazi Germany, Teaching Plan
Jones, Geoffrey G.; Ballor, GraceTeaching Note HBS-821066-EEconomicsTeaching plan for case 807133.Starting at €0.00
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In a World of Pay (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Fryer, Bronwyn; Milkovich, George T.; Thinnes, Jeffrey A.; Yaffe, Joseph; Kokott, DietmarArticle HBS-R0311A-ELeadership and People ManagementJurgen Mehr, the European head of marketing for German software giant Typware, is irate about the salary demands of the American executive he wants to hire. Anne Prevost, the executive in question, is the marketing director at a U.S. software company that has been making forays into Typware's markets. She engineered a huge uptick in sales for her company, and now she is ready to jump ship--provided Typware makes her a good offer. She would be a b...Starting at €8.20
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Discovering What Makes Your Employees Tick
Sanchez-Runde, Carlos J.; Steers, Richard M.Article ART-1786-ELeadership and People ManagementThe temptation to employ managerial best practices in global organizations tends to disregard a vital component of sound management and outstanding employee productivity: the influence of culture. Research on work motivation, personal work values and job attitudes rarely takes cultural differences into account. Yet evidence exists to show that culture does play a substantial role in understanding worker behavior and satisfaction, not to mention c...Starting at €8.20
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Wir Schaffen Das: Angela Merkel and Germany's Response to the Refugee Crisis in Europe
Rosenbach, Eric Brien; Winig, LauraCase HBS-KS1340-EKnowledge and CommunicationOn August 24, 2015, Angela Merkel, chancellor of Germany, and Francois Hollande, president of France, met in Berlin to discuss solutions to what had become known as the European refugee crisis. The vast influx of refugees was the result of thousands fromStarting at €8.20
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Cane Mutiny: Managing a Graying Workforce (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Geissler, Cornelia; Herrmann, Norbert; Kamerick, Eileen A.; Martina, Dietmar; Bovbjerg, Barbara D.Article HBS-R0510A-ELeadership and People ManagementFrank Heberer, a human resources manager at Medignostics, has proposed a long-term HR strategy for the German midsize pharmaceutical company. All his research points to trouble on the horizon: In just 25 years, more than a quarter of the country's population will be over age 65. What will happen to the firm when workers start retiring in droves? How will it attract smart new hires from a much smaller talent pool? But the executive team is focused...Starting at €8.20
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Goldwind: Merger and Acquisition Integration of Emerging Market Multinational Enterprises in Developed Markets
Yang Cheng, Yiqin Wang, Haibo Hu, William Wei, Etayankara MuralidharanCase IVEY-W34322-EStrategyIn 2008, Goldwind bought 70 per cent of Vensys’ shares through its German subsidiary to obtain a range of strategic assets, including a professional research and development team and associated design capabilities, intellectual property rights of permanent magnet direct drive (PMDD) technology, and corresponding wind turbine designs. Over the years, the post-merger integration (PMI) process of an emerging market multinational enterprise (EMNE) an...Starting at €8.20
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Innovation Flow: Managing Innovation Scouting at Bayer CS
Wim VanhaverbekeCase IVEY-W34822-EStrategyBayer Crop Science AG (Bayer CS) was grappling with the critical issue of how to navigate the landscape of relevant technologies for innovation partnerships. The organization's structure was fragmented, with each business unit operating its own tech screening and sourcing processes. To tackle this, the Innovation Sourcing Team introduced InnovationFlow, a digital platform. This platform formed the core of Bayer CS' scouting network, enabling thei...Starting at €8.20