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Liderar desde el consejo de administración
Lorsch, Jay W.; Clark, Robert C.Article HBS-R0804GLeadership and People ManagementEn estos días, las juntas están trabajando horas extras para cumplir con otros requisitos de gobierno destinados a los accionistas protegen de la maldad ejecutivo Sarbanes-Oxley y. Pero a medida que los directores se han vuelto más práctica con el cumplimiento, se han vuelto más manos libres con planificación a largo plazo. Que expone las corporaciones y sus accionistas a otra - tal vez incluso mayor - riesgo, dicen los profesores Lorsch, de la H...Starting at €8.20
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How to Design Smart Business Experiments (Spanish version)
Davenport, Thomas H.Article HBS-R0902EStrategyManagers regularly implement new ideas without evidence to back them up. They act on hunches and often learn very little along the way. That doesn't have to be the case. With the help of broadly available software and some basic investments in building capabilities, managers don't need a PhD in statistics to base consequential decisions on scientifically sound experiments. Some companies with rich consumer-transaction data - Toronto-Dominion, CKE...Starting at €8.20
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Competing on Talent Analytics (Spanish version)
Davenport, Thomas H.; Harris, Jeanne; Shapiro, JeremyArticle HBS-R1010BStrategyDo investments in your employees actually affect workforce performance? Who are your top performers? How can you empower and motivate other employees to excel? Leading edge companies such as Google, Best Buy, P&G, and Sysco use sophisticated data-collection technology and analysis to answer these questions, leveraging a range of analytics to improve the way they attract and retain talent, connect their employee data to business performance, diffe...Starting at €8.20
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The HBR Agenda 2011 (Spanish version)
Ariely, Dan; Brown, Tim; Cappelli, Peter; Davenport, Thomas H.; Duflo, Esther; Fernández-Aráoz, Claudio; Govindarajan, Vijay; Gratton, Lynda; Hackman, J. Richard; Ibarra, Herminia; Kedrosky, Paul; Lafley, A.G.; Li, Charlene; Ma, Jack; Manzoni, Jean-Francois; Pink, Daniel H.; Porter, Michael E.; Schein, Edgar H.; Schmidt, Eric; Schwab, Klaus; Shirky, Clay; Stiglitz, Joseph E.; Sutton, Robert I.; Tyson, LaArticle HBS-R1101BKnowledge and CommunicationJoseph E. Stiglitz will be crafting a new postcrisis paradigm for macroeconomics whereby rational individuals interact with imperfect and asymmetric information. Herminia Ibarra will be looking for hard evidence of how "soft" leadership creates value. Eric Schmidt will be planning to scale mobile technology by developing fast networks and providing low-cost smartphones in the poorest parts of the world. Michael Porter will be using modern cost a...Starting at €8.20
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Procter & Gamble (Spanish version)
Lorsch, Jay W.; Durante, KathleenCase HBS-419S24Leadership and People ManagementOn July 12, 2012, Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management announced publicly that it had purchased about $2 billion of Procter and Gamble (P&G) stock. Shares in the company closed up 3.75% the day the disclosure was made public. Ackman told the New York Times that Pershing would be a major P&G shareholder. ""We think it's an underrated stock,"" he said. ""We think there is a lot of great opportunity there."" During the next several mont...Starting at €8.20
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A Contingency Theory of Leadership
Lorsch, Jay W.Book Chapter HBS-6145BC-ELeadership and People ManagementThe idea of a contingency theory of leadership is not new. In the 1960s several scholars, most notably Frederick Fiedler, argued that effective leadership style depended on situational contingencies, such as the nature of the task-specifically, how certain or uncertain it was. But agreement ended there, as researchers and scholars failed to reach a consensus on what leaders' primary tasks were or on which contingency factors influenced them most....Starting at €8.20
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Keeping Up with the Quants 7. Working with Quants
Davenport, Thomas H.; Kim, JinhoBook Chapter HBS-7700BC-EKeeping Up with the Quants is a seven-chapter book published in 2013 by the Harvard Business Review Press and written by Thomas Davenport, Professor of IT and Management at Babson College, and Jinho Kim, Professor of Business and Statistics at Korea National Defense University. Written for non-analysts and "non-quants," this book is a guide to summarizing data, interpreting its meaning, and using it in decision-making. The authors explain that a ...Starting at €8.20
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The Role of the Audit Committee in Risk Oversight (Spanish Version)
Lorsch, Jay W.; Simpson, KaitlynCase HBS-419S04Leadership and People ManagementUna silla de comité de auditoría considera cómo puede ayudar a su comité de ser más eficaz, dadas las crecientes exigencias regulatorias sobre los comités de auditoría. Él también lucha con la falta de especificidad en funciones del comité de auditoría y si el comité debe asumir responsabilidades adicionales. En particular, se considera a la creciente preocupación por la supervisión del riesgo y se pregunta qué tipo de riesgos del comité de audit...Starting at €8.20
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The Board of Directors at Market Basket (Spanish Version)
Lorsch, Jay W.; McTague, EmilyCase HBS-419S28Leadership and People ManagementEl lanzamiento de Market Basket CEO Arthur T. Demoulas por su primo, Arthur S. Demoulas, y los directores afiliados a Arthur levantó protestas de los empleados a lo largo de la cadena de tiendas de comestibles. especialistas de la industria estiman que el Market Basket estaba perdiendo cerca de $ 10 millones cada uno día en el negocio perdido y el inventario, debido a las protestas. Una larga historia de batallas legales había destruido la relaci...Starting at €8.20
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First Federal Savings (A) (Spanish version)
Lorsch, Jay W.; Doyle, Stephen X.Case HBS-420S03Leadership and People ManagementRaises questions about basing a reward system on profit and changing MBO indicators through time.Starting at €8.20