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Forming Ties That Will Free Your Firm
Eisenhardt, K.M.; Ozcan, PinarArticle ART-1533-EStrategyStrategic alliances provide opportunities to strengthen your market position, gain new capabilities and resources, and enable you to grow and expand during difficult times. Many large, highly resourced companies already know this and are leveraging it to their advantage. But how can a small firm with fewer resources obtain and manage a high-performing alliance portfolio? Getting the alliance portfolio you dreamed of, and then managing it well ove...Starting at €8.20
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Get on Top of Your Game
Ricart Costa, Joan EnricArticle ART-1644-EStrategyIndustries come into being and are transformed under the influence of changes in technology, demography, regulation and so on. But there can be no actual transformation unless companies or entrepreneurs discover new models that allow them to exploit those changes and turn them into business opportunities. The history of the home video-game industry is a perfect example of how the interaction between competitors gives birth to an industry and dete...Starting at €8.20
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Shaping an Industry in Your Favor
Ferraro, FabrizioArticle ART-1646-EInnovation and Change, StrategyIn 1939, at the age of 26, Lew Wasserman arrived in Los Angeles with the talent agency MCA. Over the next three decades, he took MCA from a peripheral player to becoming the dominant studio in Hollywood. How did an outsider manage to change the competitive landscape of the entire moviemaking industry so completely? A study of this fascinating historical account reveals the process by which a firm can achieve architectural advantage. Managers ma...Starting at €8.20
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Working Together Effectively Before It All Goes Downhill
O'Leary, Michael; Mortensen, Mark; Woolley, AnitaArticle ART-1819-ELeadership and People Management, Service and Operations ManagementMultiple team membership (MTM) is a reality in todays workplace, with high-value employees lending their expertise to a variety of project teams. An estimated 65 percent of knowledge workers in the United States and Europe, for example, engage in MTM to some degree. But what is the effect of MTM on productivity and learning for individuals, teams and, ultimately, organizations? According to the authors, three mediators context switching, tempo...Starting at €8.20
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How Our Conception of Pay Has Changed
Gómez López-Egea, Sandalio; Contreras, IgnacioArticle ART-1863-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyThe enormity of the recent economic crisis has forced many companies to reassess their objectives and business strategies, including their employee and executive pay systems. Salary levels, as a whole, have remained flat, so as to help reduce costs. The most significant changes have been to variable pay models. New approaches, such as pay deferral, clawback or vesting, are increasingly common, often as a result of new regulations and better gover...Starting at €8.20
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Getting to Grips With Take-Back Laws
Atasu, Atalay; Van Wassenhove, LukArticle ART-1892-EService and Operations ManagementAs diverse environmental legislation is being formulated around the world, companies may find themselves in a ¿gray zone,¿ as the authors explain in a new paper on the subject. This presents challenges but also opportunities for companies to clarify operations in four areas: forming a network, rethinking product design, setting up a closed-loop supply chain, and adopting new technologies and business models. The authors believe that individual pr...Starting at €8.20
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A Service Model for Cultural Excellence
Muñoz-Seca Fernández-Cuesta, BeatrizArticle ART-2080-EKnowledge and Communication, Service and Operations ManagementCulture, that intrinsic expression of humankind, has somehow grown remote from the general public. Arts and cultural institutions, just like their business counterparts, urgently need to find new audiences, meet changing demands and consider their business models afresh. The whole sector needs to reinvent itself, says the author. But how? Beatriz Muñoz-Seca recommends that arts and cultural institutions focus not so much on their products as on c...Starting at €8.20
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Writing a Manifesto for Better Management
Andreu Civit, Rafael; Rosanas Martí, Josep MariaArticle ART-2127-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, StrategyThe litany of institutional, market and leadership failures that precipitated one of the worst economic crises in modern history is staggering. Yet efforts by policy makers and business leaders to improve matters have so far fallen short of whats truly needed, and do little but tinker at the very edges of the economic system. This article makes seven key recommendations to move us toward a more humanistic model of management, placing human value...Starting at €8.20
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The Route to Olympic Gold
IESE InsightArticle ART-2133-ELeadership and People Management, Service and Operations ManagementDavid McNeill of Transport for London has his work cut out planning how to move the millions of people descending upon the British capital for the London 2012 Summer Games. If he does his job well, no one will notice him which is exactly how he likes it.Starting at €8.20
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Picking Up the Signals That Trigger Crises
Rerup, ClausArticle ART-2269-EStrategyDrawing on extensive research on the rare crises faced by Novo Nordisk and the Roskilde Festival in Denmark, this article presents a framework for thinking about attention. It identifies several steps that companies can take to improve their attention quality. Attentional triangulation encompasses three dimensions: stability, vividness and coherence. Managerial decision-making to prevent rare crises lies at the intersection of these dimensions. B...Starting at €8.20