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Social selling: la influencia de la redes sociales en la venta
Chiesa de Negri, Cosimo; Morales, LaiaTechnical Note MN-395Innovation and Change, Leadership and People Management, StrategyEn estos últimos años, estamos viviendo una acelerada transformación en muchos aspectos de nuestra vida profesional y personal. Esto se debe, en gran parte, a la incorporación de las nuevas tecnologías en nuestra rutina diaria. Vivimos en un entorno de cambio constante en el que hemos modificado nuestra manera de comunicarnos, de comportarnos, de relacionarnos, de interactuar o de informarnos, y todo ello, a un ritmo vertiginoso. Aun así, según ...Starting at €8.20
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When Does Leadership Matter: A Contingent Opportunities View of CEO Leadership
Wasserman, Noam; Anand, Bharat N.; Nohria, NitinBook Chapter HBS-6122BC-ELeadership and People ManagementTo what extent does leadership influence organizational performance? In this chapter, Noam Wasserman, Bharat Anand, and Nitin Nohria try to provide a balanced answer to this question. Replicating the variance partitioning method used by Stanley Lieberson and James O'Connor in their 1972 study on leadership and organizational performance, they analyze the performance of more than 500 publicly held U.S. companies (across 42 industries) over a 20-ye...Starting at €8.20
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Capital One Financial Corp. (Spanish version)
Anand, Bharat N.; Rukstad, Michael G.; Paige, Christopher H.Case HBS-702S01StrategyDesigned to explore the structure, implementation, and sustainability of an information-based strategy (IBS) undertaken by Capital One during the 1990s. Particular issues of interest are the impact of mass customization on industry structure, the ability to transfer IBS skills to new sectors, and the impact of the Internet on industry structure and competitor strategies.Starting at €8.20
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Market Failures (Spanish version)
Anand, Bharat N.; Khanna, Tarun; Rivkin, Jan W.Case HBS-704S07StrategyExamines the role of transaction costs in impeding the functioning of markets and shows how the concept of transaction costs sheds light on a broad range of issues in strategy.Starting at €8.20
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Tata Nano - The People's Car (Spanish version)
Palepu, Krishna G.; Anand, Bharat N.; Tahilyani, RachnaCase HBS-711S33StrategyThe case explores how Tata Motors, India's largest automobile company, developed the Nano, the world's cheapest car. The case focuses on the translation of Ratan Tata's (Chairman of Tata Motors) vision of a safe affordable car for the masses by Ravi Kant, Managing Director of Tata Motors into the Nano Project. The case raises questions around breaking the price - quality barrier and changing existing internal processes to accommodate revolutionar...Starting at €8.20
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Infusion's Greenfield Subsidiary in Poland
Christopher Williams; Wendelien van Eerde; Danielle TheCase IVEY-9B12M076-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThe president of Infusion Development Corporation was reviewing the progress of the new subsidiary the company had set up 15 months earlier in Krakow, Poland. The purpose of the subsidiary was to work with other Infusion offices around the world to provide innovative software development services to global clients. The investment, a big success, had grown in size from eight to forty staff in one year, and there were plans to double that by the en...Starting at €8.20
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St Helena: Landing a Future for a South Atlantic Island
Kirsty Joshua; Christopher WilliamsCase IVEY-9B18M034-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn October 2017, the first ever commercial flight landed on St Helena, one of the world's remotest islands. There had been delays building,certifying, and opening the airport due to unforeseen wind conditions. Now that weekly commercial flights had finally begun, how should the island's Economic Development Board approach the next phase of the long-term strategy to boost St Helena's economy through tourism?Starting at €8.20
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Xerox Innovation Group - From Products to Services
Christopher Williams; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B14M034-EStrategyThe world's leading documents company is in a transformation mode. From being a provider of cutting-edge technology products for decades, it is moving towards providing product-service combinations. As a person driving this enterprise-wide change, the head of Xerox Innovation Group (XIG) is facing two specific issues. How should XIG become more customer-centric? How should the company build new competencies to provide consistent services across d...Starting at €8.20
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Developing an International Growth Strategy at New York Fries
W. Glenn Rowe; Christopher Williams; Sharda PrashadCase IVEY-9B11M082-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyNew York Fries’ president and executive vice president were preparing for the next biannual meeting of domestic and international franchisees. They planned to provide an update on all aspect of corporate strategy and planning for the year ahead, but they only had a few days to formulate a new international growth strategy. The president and executive vice president were hesitant to expand into new territories partly due to poor experiences in Aus...Starting at €8.20
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Shelby Division 2012
Christopher Williams; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B14M126-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThe vice-president and general manager for Michigan Plastic Inc.’s Shelby Division (Shelby) is faced with various options. Shelby specializes in thermoforming plastic gasoline tanks for global automotive companies such as General Motors, Ford and Toyota. The vice-president is looking at ways to restart growth at Shelby, a division that has been the subject of a turnaround effort from 2007 to 2010. In fact, the vice-president has committed to his ...Starting at €8.20