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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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The Best Advice I Ever Got: William P. Lauder (Spanish version)
Dowling, Daisy WademanArticle HBS-F0805DLeadership and People ManagementThe president and CEO of Estee Lauder Companies learned the importance of time management back when he worked under U.S. treasury secretary Donald Regan. The lesson sounds simple, but it has shaped his approach to strategy and his philosophy on motivating people.Starting at €8.20
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Why Did We Ever Go Into HR
Breitfelder, Matthew D.; Dowling, Daisy WademanArticle HBS-R0807B-ELeadership and People ManagementBreitfelder and Dowling are two recent Harvard MBAs who have worked in fields typically chosen by alumni of esteemed business schools: strategy consulting, investment banking, you know the score. Ultimately, however, these promising young professionals decided to do the unexpected and enter human resources. They switched gears not to achieve work/life balance or avoid tough challenges but to get in early on a good thing, as any smart value invest...Starting at €8.20
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The Best Advice I Ever Got: Linda Mason
Dowling, Daisy WademanArticle HBS-F0809D-ELeadership and People ManagementThe chairman and founder of Bright Horizons Family Solutions heeded the wisdom of visionary real estate developer James Rouse: Make your passions central to your life. By doing that, she has created a highly successful company with employees who are driven by its mission to give children the best possible start in life.Starting at €8.20
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The Best Advice I Ever Got: Maureen Chiquet
Dowling, Daisy WademanArticle HBS-F0811D-ELeadership and People ManagementThe CEO of Chanel recalls her days as a young merchant, when she was taken to task by a powerful executive for not listening. Twenty years later, his words still profoundly affect the way she thinks about her company's products and interacts with customers, employees, and other stakeholders.Starting at €8.20
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DineEquity Chairman and CEO Julia A. Stewart on leaders as teachers
Stewart, Julia A.; Dowling, Daisy WademanArticle HBS-F0903J-ELeadership and People ManagementThe chairman and CEO of DineEquity, the restaurant company that owns the Applebee's and IHOP brands, says the key to managing for performance across more than 3,300 sites is to turn the workplace into a classroom. "When employees feel like they're learning," she says, "they become more enthusiastic about their work, and that shows through to the customer in a hundred different ways."Starting at €8.20
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Life Stories of Recent MBAs: Motivations
Nohria, Nitin; Breitfelder, Matthew D.; Dowling, Daisy WademanCase HBS-410031-ELeadership and People ManagementStarting 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