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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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People Analytics at Teach For America (A)
Polzer, Jeffrey T.; Kelley, JuliaCase HBS-418013-ELeadership and People ManagementAs of mid-2016, national nonprofit Teach For America (TFA) had struggled with three consecutive years of declining application totals, and senior management was re-examining the organization's strategy, including recruitment and selection. A few months earlier, former TFA corps member Michael Metzger had spearheaded the launch of a predictive analytics team responsible for integrating strategy across TFA's recruitment and admissions continuum. Me...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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Henry Tam and the MGI Team (Spanish version)
Polzer, Jeffrey T.; Vargas, Ingrid; Elfenbein, Hillary AngerCase HBS-408S28Leadership and People ManagementWithin a short time frame, seven diverse team members assemble to write a business plan for a new company and struggle to define their roles, make decisions together, and resolve conflict. Henry Tam, a second-year Harvard MBA student, who joins an aspiring start-up company and a fellow classmate to enter the school's business plan contest. The founders of the company are two internationally accomplished musicians and a 1987 Harvard MBA, all Russi...Starting at €8.20
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Making Diverse Teams Click (Spanish version)
Polzer, Jeffrey T.Article HBS-F0807CLeadership and People ManagementHigh interpersonal congruence-meaning alignment between team members' self-assessments and their appraisals of one another-improves the performance of diverse teams. And 360-degree feedback can help.Starting at €8.20
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People Analytics at McKinsey
Polzer, Jeffrey T.; Hull, OliviaCase HBS-418023-ELeadership and People ManagementA private equity-backed fast food chain has hired McKinsey's new People Analytics group to help it improve performance. As the final client workshop approaches, Associate Partner Alex DiLeonardo ponders the best way to present the team's findings, especially those that conflict with the client executives' long-held intuitions. If successful, the project would help People Analytics build its reputation both internally and with clients. But to be s...Starting at €8.20
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Making Diverse Teams Click
Polzer, Jeffrey T.Article HBS-F0807C-ELeadership and People ManagementHigh interpersonal congruence-meaning alignment between team members' self-assessments and their appraisals of one another-improves the performance of diverse teams. And 360-degree feedback can help.Starting at €8.20
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Flextronics: Decisión sobre un sistema de control de planta para producir la Xbox de Microsoft
Polzer, Jeffrey T.; Wagonfeld, Alison BerkleyCase HBS-416S16Leadership and People ManagementJim McCusker debe guiar el proceso de toma de decisiones de un grupo dirigido a conseguir la entrada y aceptación por parte de las personas clave en California, México, y Austria para elegir un sistema de TI en planta para realizar Flextronics. McCusker es gerente de cuentas de Flextronics para el proyecto de Microsoft Xbox. La distancia geográfica y la presión del tiempo hacen que sea difícil para todas las partes pertinentes para montar en pers...Starting at €8.20