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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 New Science of Building Great Teams (Spanish version)
Pentland, Alex "Sandy"Article HBS-R1204CLeadership and People Managementenergy, engagement, and exploration. Drawing from the data, he has precisely quantified the ideal team patterns for each. Even more significant, he has seen that when teams map their own communication behavior over time and then make adjustments that move it closer to the ideal, they can dramatically improve their performance.Starting at €8.20
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Beyond the Echo Chamber
Pentland, Alex "Sandy"Article HBS-R1311E-ELeadership and People ManagementThough a few superbright people may have the almost magical ability to consistently make good decisions, the rest of us just get by--or so conventional wisdom holds. But new research contradicts that thinking. A recent study by MIT's Sandy Pentland and his colleagues shows that anyone can become a good decision maker. The key is to constantly conduct "social exploration," or seek out a wide range of new people and ideas. In 2011, Pentland's team ...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 Can Measure the Power of Charisma (Spanish version)
Pentland, Alex "Sandy"; Berinato, ScottArticle HBS-F1001FLeadership and People ManagementIt's not what you say; it's how you say it, and MIT professor Sandy Pentland has the data to prove it. He has created ingenious devices that record the social signals people send-their tone of voice, length of conversation, gesticulation, proximity to others, and the like. In short, the devices allow Pentland to measure subjects' charisma. Armed with that information, he can predict who will prevail in competitive business situations, such as bus...Starting at €8.20
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We Can Measure the Power of Charisma
Pentland, Alex "Sandy"; Berinato, ScottArticle HBS-F1001F-ELeadership and People ManagementIt's not what you say; it's how you say it, and MIT professor Sandy Pentland has the data to prove it. He has created ingenious devices that record the social signals people send-their tone of voice, length of conversation, gesticulation, proximity to others, and the like. In short, the devices allow Pentland to measure subjects' charisma. Armed with that information, he can predict who will prevail in competitive business situations, such as bus...Starting at €8.20
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The New Science of Building Great Teams
Pentland, Alex "Sandy"Article HBS-R1204C-ELeadership and People ManagementWhy do some teams consistently deliver high performance while other, seemingly identical teams struggle? Led by Sandy Pentland, researchers at MIT's Human Dynamics Laboratory set out to solve that puzzle. Hoping to decode the "It factor" that made groups click, they equipped teams from a broad variety of projects and industries (comprising 2,500 individuals in total) with wearable electronic sensors that collected data on their social behavior fo...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