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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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Life's Work: Oliver Sacks
Sacks, Oliver; Burrell, LisaArticle HBS-R1011P-ELeadership and People ManagementThe neurologist and best-selling author talks about career crossroads and gaining people's trust through empathy.Starting at €8.20
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CEO Who Couldn't Keep His Foot out of His Mouth (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Burrell, Lisa; Heifetz, Ronald; Biggs, John H.; Clarke, Torie; Brown, RogerArticle HBS-R0612A-ELeadership and People ManagementIn the four years since Rob Miranda became CEO of Growing Places, a provider of on-site child care for companies in the Midwestern United States, he has been a font of ideas. For instance, he set up rooms where moms can breastfeed their babies during breaks in the workday and put Webcams in classrooms so that parents can "visit" their children from their desks. As a result of Rob's entrepreneurial vision and operational savvy, the company has ach...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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We Just Can't Handle Diversity
Burrell, LisaArticle HBS-R1607E-ELeadership and People ManagementDecades' worth of studies show that a diverse workforce measurably improves decision making, problem solving, creativity, innovation, and flexibility. But most of us also believe that hiring, development, and compensation decisions should come down to merit. Although the two ideas don't seem contradictory, they're tough to reconcile in practice. Cognitive roadblocks keep getting in the way. The author looks at recent books and research studies on...Starting at €8.20
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Larger Language for Business: David Whyte on Conversational Leadership
Whyte, David; Burrell, LisaArticle HBS-F0705F-ELeadership and People ManagementDavid Whyte talks about how poetry begets courageous conversation and, in turn, better leadership.Starting at €8.20
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Larger Language for Business: David Whyte on Conversational Leadership (Spanish version)
Whyte, David; Burrell, LisaArticle HBS-F0705FLeadership and People ManagementDavid Whyte talks about how poetry begets courageous conversation and, in turn, better leadership.Starting at €8.20
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Mantenimiento de la ventaja competitiva: Estrategia competitiva
Ly, Bryan S.; Vroom, GovertTechnical Note SMN-679Innovation and Change, Leadership and People ManagementEn la nota "Creación y captura de valor", se comentó cómo las empresas ganan ventaja competitiva y crean valor a través de la toma de decisiones y de la búsqueda de soluciones intermedias, lo que les permite capturar más valor que sus rivales y, así, generar unos mayores beneficios. Esta nota se centra en el análisis interno de una empresa, especialmente en cómo ésta puede luchar contra la imitación a través de sus competencias básicas, capacidad...Starting at €8.20