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Evaluación del desempeño de alianzas estratégicas
Concha, A.; Ariño, AfricaTechnical Note DGN-613StrategyEsta nota técnica provee a los directivos de los criterios más adecuados para evaluar el desempeño de una alianza estratégica. En primer lugar, se explica en detalle qué se entiende por desempeño de una alianza estratégica, a continuación se definen los criterios (financieros, objetivos y subjetivos) que existen para evaluar si el desempeño de una alianza estratégica es correcto. Finalmente, se proponen los mejores criterios, siendo los subjetivo...Starting at €8.20
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The Decision to Terminate a Strategic Alliance
Concha, A.; Ariño, AfricaTechnical Note DGN-614-EStrategyThis technical note offers managers a discussion of some basic concepts concerning the termination of strategic alliances. An alliance should be terminated when the expected benefits are exceeded by the costs. This happens when the goals pursued through the alliance are no longer being achieved by means of the alliance, or when the alliance's management and coordination costs increase beyond an acceptable level, or when there are changes in the e...Starting at €8.20
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Strategic Alliances: Managing the Relationship with the Partners
Ariño, Africa; Montes, J. S.Technical Note DGN-562-EStrategyStarting at €8.20
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Food Versus Fuel
Freeman, R. Edward; Mead, JennyTechnical Note DARDEN-E-0302-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityAlthough biofuels had been used for many years (from 1980 to mid-2007, an estimated 2 trillion miles were driven on ethanol-blended fuels in the United States), it was not until the late 20th and early 21st centuries, with dwindling oil supplies, the threat of global warming, and unrest in the oil-rich Middle East that people began thinking of them seriously as alternatives to petroleum-based fuel. Biofuels were also considered better for the en...Starting at €8.20
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True Leadership: Leading with Meaning
Freeman, R. Edward; Mead, Jenny; Newkirk, David; Spangler, LoganTechnical Note DARDEN-E-0364-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityLeadership is an enduring subject for research, writing, and discussion. There are almost endless theoretical and fundamental explanations as to what leadership is and what makes a good leader. The research has gone through various different phases. Intended for all audiences but specifically written for an Executive Education course, this technical note identifies some of the contemporary theories and prominent thinkers in the field of leadershi...Starting at €8.20
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Using a Framework to Create Better Choices
Parmar, Bidhan L.; Freeman, R. Edward; Wicks, Andrew C.; Harris, Jared D.; Mead, JennyTechnical Note DARDEN-E-0407-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityIntuition can be a good guide for decision making when the current situation generally matches the situations in which the intuition was formed. But for novel or ambiguous situations, relying only on intuition can blind us to possible negative consequences by focusing our attention only on data that support our intuition. To reduce the likelihood of these errors and to better imagine and prepare for the outcomes of our choices, we use a decision-...Starting at €8.20
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The Book of Bad Arguments
Wicks, Andrew C.; Freeman, R. Edward; Harris, Jared; Parmar, Bidhan; Mead, Jenny; Mayo, ZacharyTechnical Note DARDEN-E-0408-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityThis note, intended to accompany the short booklet An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments, discusses the logical framework behind argumentation and presents the basic logical rules necessary to reach sound conclusions. Throughout, it refers to the philosophical foundations of logical reasoning and attempts to address these concepts in the framework of management. By the end, diligent students should be able to identify the necessary structure and c...Starting at €8.20
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Strategic Alliances: An Option to Enable Corporate Growth (DGN-648-E)
Ariño, AfricaTechnical Note DGN-648-ECorporate Governance, StrategyThis technical note presents strategic alliances as a growth option for family businesses. It discusses the advantages and disadvantages of alliances and the most important points to consider at the various stages of the life of an alliance. Together with general considerations applicable to alliances involving any kind of company, it addresses specific issues concerning family businesses in particular.Starting at €8.20
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Chinese History and the National Humiliation Narrative
Wicks, Andrew C.; Metcalf, Mark; Botha, Helet; Mead, JennyTechnical Note DARDEN-E-0461-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityThis note describes how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), founded in 1949, has attempted to create and maintain an official narrative of the country and regime that tilts toward the favorable and minimizes any negative. A key component of the historical narrative has been China's so-called Century of Humiliation, in which China suffered exploitation at the hands of various other nations. Mistreatment by foreigners resulted in China's bei...Starting at €8.20
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Google and Internet Privacy (B)
Harris, Jared D.; Denoncour, Joan; Heffernan, Edward; Koranne, Rahul; Marxen, Jake; Neu, Thomas; Sundaresan, Narayanan; Bowie, Norman E.; Mead, JennyTechnical Note DARDEN-E-0345-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityThis case begins with the resolution of the A case (disturbed by the office reaction to him, Patton resigns), and then discusses the privacy issues in the situation from a Utilitarian and a Kantian perspective.Starting at €8.20