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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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Bradley Márquez: reducción de personal (A)
DeLong, Thomas J.; Vijayaraghavan, VineetaCase HBS-415S10Leadership and People ManagementLa agencia de publicidad Bradley Márquez había creado un nicho exitoso entrega de los mercados étnicos a sus clientes, los gigantes corporativos como Compaq, Sprint, Texaco y British Airways. La empresa estaba operando en el modo de crecimiento agresivo cuando, en 2000, la burbuja bursátil de la década de 1990 estalló. Ahora, Andrew Lauder, director de operaciones, se enfrenta a la posibilidad de una segunda ronda de despidos y reducción de perso...Starting at €8.20
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Bradley Márquez: reducción de personal (B)
DeLong, Thomas J.; Vijayaraghavan, VineetaCase HBS-415S11Leadership and People ManagementComplementa el caso (A).Starting at €5.74
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Taj Hotel Group (Spanish version)
DeLong, Thomas J.; Vijayaraghavan, VineetaCase HBS-415S12Leadership and People ManagementR.K. Krishna Kumar, managing director and head of Taj Hotel Group, has to decide whether to reexamine a promotion decision. In an attempt to deliver a level of service quality that met global standards at the Indian hotel chain, Kumar had introduced new personnel management systems at the company. As a result, a committee was now responsible for deciding which managers should be promoted to senior positions at the company. Taj's COO, one of the m...Starting at €8.20
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Cirque du Soleil (Spanish version)
DeLong, Thomas J.; Vijayaraghavan, VineetaCase HBS-404S08Leadership and People ManagementRetaining talent is an issue for any company whose success relies on the creativity and excellence of its employees. This is especially true for Cirque du Soleil, the spectacularly successful "circus without animals," whose 2,100 employees include 500 artists--mimes, clowns, acrobats, gymnasts, musicians, and production professionals. Managing a company full of creative people is a juggling act in itself, between keeping its artists happy and pur...Starting at €8.20
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Rewarding Our People (Spanish version)
DeLong, Thomas J.; Vijayaraghavan, VineetaCase HBS-409S08Leadership and People ManagementMarilyn Winn, head of human resources at Harrah's Entertainment, must make a recommendation to the company's president and CEO about whether the existing bonus payout program is effective at motivating employees or whether it should be revised and/or replaced. A recent downturn in economic conditions led Winn to wonder whether customer service payouts were the most efficient way to make Harrah's a service-driven and customer-driven company.Starting at €8.20
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Let's Hear It for B Players (Spanish version)
DeLong, Thomas J.; Vijayaraghavan, VineetaArticle HBS-R0306FLeadership and People ManagementIn the much-heralded war for talent, it's hardly surprising that companies have invested a lot of time, money, and energy in hiring and retaining star performers. For most CEOs, recruiting stars is simply more fun; for one thing, the young A players they interview often remind them of themselves at the same age. For another, A players' brilliance and drive is infectious; you simply want to be in their company. Besides, in these troubled times, wh...Starting at €8.20