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How Presidents Persuade (Spanish version)
Gergen, David; Morse, GardinerArticle HBS-F0301DLeadership and People ManagementDavid Gergen, adviser to presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Clinton, knows a thing or two about how leaders get their messages across. In this edited e-mail interview with HBR's Gardiner Morse, Gergen discusses the power of persuasion and the theatrics of communicating well.Starting at €8.20
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Filling Big Shoes at Adobe (Spanish version)
Chizen, Bruce; Morse, GardinerArticle HBS-F0303CLeadership and People ManagementWhen Bruce Chizen took over as president and CEO from Adobe's legendary founders in 2000, he knew he had to confront the skeptics who doubted he had the technological grounding to lead the company. In this interview, Chizen describes how he won converts by acknowledging his shortcomings and discusses the leadership lessons he learned along the way.Starting at €8.20
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Innovating a Classic at Airstream (Spanish version)
Riegel, Dicky; Morse, GardinerArticle HBS-F0310CStrategyAirstream's ability to innovate and grow depends on balancing longtime owners' expectations with new buyers' desires. In this conversation, president and CEO Dicky Riegel speaks about making sure that the more the iconic, egg-shaped aluminum trailers change, the more they remain the same.Starting at €8.20
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Multiple linear regression
Ariño, Miguel Angel; Agell, PereTechnical Note ADN-246-EDecision Analysis, EconomicsThis note explains the multiple linear regression model. It also explains how to use this model to determine a region's GDP according to the characteristics of the region.Starting at €8.20
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Real Club Deportivo Espanyol de Barcelona: Football Under the Shadow of the Pandemic
García Pont, Carlos; Rosenberg, MikeCase ASN-85-EDecision Analysis, MarketingDue to the outbreak of Sars-CoV-2, Spain's professional football teams were barred from playing and even training in the Spring of 2020. The Management of one of the clubs, El Espanyol, needs to decide if it should lower the player's salaries using a government-sponsored mechanism during the emergency.Starting at €8.20
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The 91-92 Phone Card: Launch and Reassessment
Agell, Pere; Segarra, José AntonioCase M-1023-EMarketingIn the early nineties, Telefónica of Spain foresees the imminent liberalization of the market and decides to promote public telephony with the launch of a calling card as a new means of payment in phone booths. The product was successful in neighboring countries, but it failed to take off in Spain. Coins are still preferred for 95% of calls. The reasons are unclear: bad segmentation, an unattractive product, excessive face value, low distribution...Starting at €8.20
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Set Up to Fail: Economist Paul Ormerod on Strategy and Extinction
Ormerod, Paul; Morse, GardinerArticle HBS-F0706G-EStrategyMost organizations bend over backward to avoid failure. They shouldn't, says economist Paul Ormerod. History shows that failure and success are inherently random, so firms should innovate and adapt.Starting at €8.20
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Historian Geoffrey Jones on why knowledge stays put
Jones, Geoffrey G.; Morse, GardinerArticle HBS-F0807H-EStrategyA business historian reminds us that since the nineteenth century, predictions about globalization have been reliably wrong. Despite technology for the fast diffusion of knowledge, information-like wealth-seems to be concentrating even further.Starting at €8.20
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Executive Psychopaths (Spanish version)
Morse, GardinerArticle HBS-F0410DLeadership and People ManagementThey're in your organization--and they're easy to mistake for high potentials. But psychologists Robert Hare and Paul Babiak are readying a test to flush them out.Starting at €8.20
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When Stability Breeds Instability (Spanish version)
Morse, GardinerArticle HBS-F0512KLeadership and People ManagementLow turnover--typically a sign of organizational health--seems to increase a company's vulnerability to the effects of losing social capital.Starting at €8.20