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Are "Great" Companies Just Lucky (Spanish version)
Raynor, Michael E.; Ahmed, Mumtaz; Henderson, Andrew D.Article HBS-F0904AStrategyStudies that examine high-performing companies to unearth the secrets of their success have a critical flaw: Very few of those companies are truly remarkable. Data analysis reveals that most owe their success to luck, not smart practices. That puts the prescriptions of success studies in a whole new light.Starting at €8.20
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What Is Disruptive Innovation? (Spanish version)
Christensen, Clayton M.; Raynor, Michael E.; McDonald, RoryArticle HBS-R1512BStrategyFor the past 20 years, the theory of disruptive innovation has been enormously influential in business circles and a powerful tool for predicting which industry entrants will succeed. Unfortunately, the theory has also been widely misunderstood, and the "disruptive" label has been applied too carelessly anytime a market newcomer shakes up well-established incumbents. In this article, the architect of disruption theory, Clayton M. Christensen, and...Starting at €8.20
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Why Hard-Nosed Executives Should Care About Management Theory (Spanish version)
Christensen, Clayton M.; Raynor, Michael E.Article HBS-R0309DStrategygathering data, organizing it into categories, highlighting significant differences, then making generalizations explaining what causes what, under which circumstances. For instance, professor Ananth Raman and his colleagues collected data showing that bar code-scanning systems generated notoriously inaccurate inventory records. These observations led them to classify the types of errors the scanning systems produced and the types of shops in wh...Starting at €8.20
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What Is Disruptive Innovation
Christensen, Clayton M.; Raynor, Michael E.; McDonald, RoryArticle HBS-R1512B-EStrategyFor the past 20 years, the theory of disruptive innovation has been enormously influential in business circles and a powerful tool for predicting which industry entrants will succeed. Unfortunately, the theory has also been widely misunderstood, and the "disruptive" label has been applied too carelessly anytime a market newcomer shakes up well-established incumbents. In this article, the architect of disruption theory, Clayton M. Christensen, and...Starting at €8.20
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Three Rules for Making a Company Truly Great
Raynor, Michael E.; Ahmed, MumtazArticle HBS-R1304J-EStrategyMuch of the strategy and management advice that business leaders turn to is unreliable or impractical, say the authors, because those who would guide us underestimate the power of chance. Raynor and Ahmed undertook a statistical study of 25,000 companies--those that had traded on U.S. stock exchanges at any time from 1966 to 2010. They measured performance according to return on assets--a metric, they reasoned, that reliably reflects managerial e...Starting at €8.20
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Are "Great" Companies Just Lucky
Raynor, Michael E.; Ahmed, Mumtaz; Henderson, Andrew D.Article HBS-F0904A-EStrategyStudies that examine high-performing companies to unearth the secrets of their success have a critical flaw: Very few of those companies are truly remarkable. Data analysis reveals that most owe their success to luck, not smart practices. That puts the prescriptions of success studies in a whole new light.Starting at €8.20