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Change Through Persuasion (Spanish version)
Garvin, David A.; Roberto, Michael A.Article HBS-R0502FLeadership and People ManagementThis 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. Faced with the need for a massive change, most managers respond predictably. They revamp the organization's strategy, shift around staff, and root out inefficiencies. They then wait patiently for performance to improve--only to be bitterly disappointed because they...Starting at €8.20
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Can a Strong Culture Be Too Strong (HBR Case Study)
Garvin, David A.Article HBS-R1401X-ELeadership and People ManagementParivar, an IT services firm with a long history of attracting talented people with its family-like culture suddenly faces a spate of resignations among rank-and-file employees. As the vice president of HR tries to figure out what's behind the exodus, the CEO wants to create a brand-new function charged with reinforcing the company's culture. As Parivar prepares for global expansion, is emphasizing the family-like atmosphere the key to retaining ...Starting at €8.20
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Google's Project Oxygen: Do Managers Matter
Garvin, David A.; Wagonfeld, Alison Berkley; Kind, LizCase HBS-313110-ELeadership and People ManagementGoogle's Project Oxygen started with a fundamental question raised by executives in the early 2000s: do managers matter? The topic generated a multi-year research project that ultimately led to a comprehensive program, built around eight key management atStarting at €8.20
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A Note on Seeking, Receiving, and Giving Advice
Garvin, David A.; Margolis, Joshua D.Case HBS-314071-ELeadership and People Managementadvising, counseling, coaching and mentoring. Next, it describes the primary stages or steps in the advising process; each stage is examined from the perspective of both advice-seekers and advice-givers. The note concludes with recommendations for practice, listing a number of pitfalls to avoid when seeking, receiving, and giving advice as well as several guidelines and best practices.Starting at €8.20
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Sustaining Competitive Advantage: Competitive Strategy
Ly, Bryan S.; Vroom, GovertTechnical Note SMN-679-EInnovation and Change, Leadership and People ManagementIn "Value Creation & Capture", we discussed how firms gain competitive advantage and create value by making choices and trade-offs, allowing them to capture more value than rivals, and hence, generate greater profit. This note focuses on the internal analysis of a firm, concentrating on how a firm can combat imitation by utilizing its unique resources, capabilities, and core competencies. This resource-based approach emphasizes that the key to pr...Starting at €8.20
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Competitive dynamics: Competitive Strategy
Ly, Bryan S.; Vroom, GovertTechnical Note SMN-680-EInnovation and Change, Leadership and People ManagementThis technical note will discuss some of the main strategies firms employ in close competition with other firms and how game theory can be used to help shape a firm's competitive strategy.Starting at €8.20
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Competitive dynamics
Ly, Bryan S.; Vroom, GovertTechnical Note SMN-680Innovation and Change, Leadership and People ManagementEn la presente nota técnica se comentarán algunas de las principales estrategias que emplean las compañías con una gran rivalidad con otras empresas y cómo la teoría de juegos se puede utilizar para dar forma a la estrategia competitiva de las organizaciones.Starting at €8.20
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Value Creation and Capture: Competitive Strategy
Ly, Bryan S.; Vroom, GovertTechnical Note SMN-678-EInnovation and Change, Leadership and People ManagementThis note introduces the basic concepts of value creation and value capture, which are used as the building blocks for many other concepts, tools, and frameworks in Competitive Strategy. Defining these concepts allows us to think and talk more precisely about Competitive Strategy. They also allow us to make progress in our understanding of what strategies might actually work, and which are doomed to fail. In this note, we will also define some ot...Starting at €8.20
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Implementing Self-Directed Teams (Spanish version)
Garvin, David A.; Collins, ElizabethCase HBS-414S11Leadership and People ManagementDesigning Teams, Implementing Change, Self-Directed Teams, Workforce Management, General Management, Managing Teams, High Performance Workforce, Employee Empowerment, Motivation and Mid-size Plastic Pipe Manufacturing.Starting at €8.20
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Do Managers Matter? (Spanish version)
Garvin, David A.; Wagonfeld, Alison Berkley; Kind, LizCase HBS-317S03Leadership and People Managementhow could Google build on the success of this project, extending it to senior leaders, teams, and other constituencies while striving to create truly amazing managers?Starting at €8.20