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You Need an Innovation Strategy (Spanish version)
Pisano, Gary P.Article HBS-R1506BStrategyWhy is it so hard to build and maintain the capacity to innovate? The reason is not simply a failure to execute but a failure to articulate an innovation strategy that aligns innovation efforts with the overall business strategy. Without such a strategy, companies will have a hard time weighing the trade-offs of various practices--such as crowdsourcing and customer co-creation--and so may end up with a grab bag of approaches. They will have troub...Starting at €8.20
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The Jaguar Project (Spanish version)
Gino, Francesca; Pisano, Gary P.Case HBS-610S17Service and Operations ManagementTeradyne, a leading manufacturer of semiconductor test equipment, embarked on a multiyear effort to improve its product development capabilities and to implement more formalized project management approaches. Examines the development of a new-generation tester that involved significant hardware and software design. For this, the company decided to implement new approaches to project management and project teams. Invites discussion of the effectiv...Starting at €8.20
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Managing Growth (Spanish version)
Huckman, Robert S.; Pisano, Gary P.Case HBS-611S08Service and Operations ManagementConsiders the situation facing David Barger, President and CEO of JetBlue Airways, in May 2007 as he addresses the airline's need to slow its growth rate in the response to increasing fuel costs and the effects of major operational crisis for the airline in February 2007. In 2005, JetBlue-typically viewed as a low-cost carrier (LCC)-made a move that is often considered antithetical to the LCC model. Specifically, JetBlue moved from a single aircr...Starting at €8.20
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American Connector Co. (A) (Spanish version)
Pisano, Gary P.; Rossi, SharonCase HBS-604S12Service and Operations ManagementAmerican Connector Co. is forced to reexamine operations at its Sunnyvale plant when a Japanese competitor announces plans to build an "ultimate" plant in the United States. Case examines issues related to benchmarking a competitor's manufacturing capabilities and productivity. Allows students to compare two companies' manufacturing strategies and their implications for productivity and flexibility.Starting at €8.20
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Basel II: Operational Risk in Financial Institutions
Soley, Jorge; Rahnema Alavi, AhmadTechnical Note FN-537-EFinance, Service and Operations ManagementThis note explains the concept of operational risk in financial entities. This new concept has been introduced by Basel II as a new requirement in the calculation of the own funds required by financial entities in order to achieve a more solvent financial system. Operational risk is understood to mean "The risk of losses resulting from inadequate and/or erroneous internal processes, personnel, systems or external events." Companies' results, and ...Starting at €8.20
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State Finance Agencies
Soley, JorgeTechnical Note FN-400-EFinanceIn many countries; in practically all of Europe, most of Latin America, and even in the U.S., there are financial agencies, which normally act as credit agencies, and which are used to finance: Medium to long-term credit operations in strategic projects in the country, and as development banks, supporting the formation of fixed capital and the intermediation of companies, especially SMEs.Starting at €8.20
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Corporate Governance of Credit Institutions
Soley, Jorge; Liechtenstein, HeinrichTechnical Note FN-544-EFinanceThe note reviews the main corporate governance rules worldwide for listed banks: the OECD Principles, the IOSCO (International Organization of Securities Commissions) Principles, the Financial Services Action Plan in the EU, and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in the US. It continues with a discussion of the Basel Committee recommendations on corporate governance in banks. The application of the general rules to the particular circumstances of the banking...Starting at €8.20
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Value at Risk (VaR) as a Risk Measure in the Treasury and Capital Markets Area
Soley, JorgeTechnical Note FN-433-EFinanceThis note analyzes the VaR (Value at Risk) method used to evaluate risks incurred by credit institutions' financial and capital market activities. It explains the different methods used for calculating VaR, and the contributions of VaR to compliance with the regulatory framework, the measurement of market risks, the evaluation of the management and of the limits on negotiation portfolios.Starting at €8.20
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Private Equity
Soley, JorgeTechnical Note FN-301-EFinanceThis note explains the characteristics of the risk capital sector in Spain and other countries. It discusses the different ways in which risk capital is managed, and the legal and fiscal framework of risk capital in Spain, depending on its form: risk capital funds and companies. The case also presents a broad outline of the different types of risk capital players: private capital companies and funds, regional industrial development societies, and...Starting at €8.20
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Operating Leases
Soley, JorgeTechnical Note FN-428-EFinanceThe note refers to the operating leases regulated in IAS 17, as an alternative to financial leasing (full pay-out lease). Commercial features are analyzed (we need to bear in mind that operating leases are known in Spain as "renting" and, in France, as a "location longue durée"), focusing especially on the automobile and technology sectors. It also factors in the accounting aspect, from the standpoint of both lessor and lessee.Starting at €8.20