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Barcelona: A Roman Village Becoming a Smart City (Abridged)
Carrasco, Carlos; Ricart, Joan Enric; Berrone, PascualCase SM-1646-EInformation Technologies, Innovation and Change, StrategyOn July 2, 2014, Josep Ramon Ferrer, director of the ICT and smart city strategy at Barcelona City Council, finished the second round of meetings with the companies selected to participate in the competitive dialogue to create City OS, Barcelona's operating system. City OS was one of the key milestones in Barcelona's smart city strategy. It aimed to enable the council to acquire and process data from urban operations in a rapid, efficient, effect...Starting at €8.20
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OTISLINE (A) (Spanish version)
McFarlan, F. Warren; Stoddard, Donna B.Case HBS-102S22Information TechnologiesDescribes the company's use of information technology to strengthen its position in the elevator sales and service market. Also demonstrates how information technology can be used to better manage and control a large geographically dispersed service organization. This case is accompanied by a Video Short that can be shown in class or included in a digital coursepack. Instructors should consider the timing of making the video available to student...Starting at €8.20
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Televigilancia en el Visiting Nurse Health System
McFarlan, F. Warren; Keil, Mark; Kaul, MalaCase HBS-117S07Information TechnologiesLos esfuerzos de la televigilancia en Visiting Nurse Health System caso presenta una casa de organización de atención médica para usar televigilancia para mejorar la calidad de la atención prestada a los pacientes en situación de riesgo que fueron dados de alta de hospitales y necesitan cuidados en el hogar. Después de dos años de usar el sistema de salud de amigos para la televigilancia de pacientes en situación de riesgo, Mark Oshnock, Presiden...Starting at €8.20
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Or Why the Spirit of King George III Is Alive and Well (Spanish version)
McFarlan, F. WarrenCase HBS-310S02Information TechnologiesIntroduces issues of new service standards in an information-intensive world.Starting at €8.20
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Before You Split that CEO/Chair (Spanish version)
Pozen, Robert C.Article HBS-F0604JLeadership and People ManagementWhat's the rationale for dividing the roles of chairman and CEO? Studies show that, usually, doing so has no effect on the company's performance.Starting at €8.20
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Arm Yourself for the Coming Battle over Social Security (Spanish version)
Pozen, Robert C.Article HBS-R0211CEconomicsThe U.S. Social Security system is in deep trouble--and that's not just bad news for your friends and family. It's also bad news for your company. Unless the Social Security system is changed, by 2041 the system will be utterly insolvent. In the next decade, the very prospect of the rising deficit will mean serious pressure on recent tax cuts, higher long-term interest rates, increased pension-funding costs, and other punishing conditions for U.S...Starting at €8.20
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Is It Fair to Blame Fair Value Accounting for the Financial Crisis
Pozen, Robert C.Article HBS-R0911G-EFinanceWhen the credit markets seized up in 2008, many heaped blame on "mark to market" accounting rules, which require banks to write down their troubled assets to the prices they'd fetch if sold on the open market - at the time, next to nothing. Recording those assets below their "true" value, critics argued, drove financial institutions toward insolvency. Proponents of marking to market, on the other hand, said it exposed executives' bad decisions. I...Starting at €8.20
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The Case for Professional Boards
Pozen, Robert C.Article HBS-R1012B-ELeadership and People ManagementWhen the world's largest financial institutions had to be rescued from insolvency in 2008, many experts laid the blame at the feet of corporate boards. But insufficient board oversight is a problem that had supposedly been solved in 2002. As the United States reeled from the blatant failures of corporate governance at Enron and WorldCom, Congress passed the famous Sarbanes-Oxley Act to prevent such failures from happening again. The new rules loo...Starting at €8.20
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Decoding CEO Pay*
Pozen, Robert C.; Kothari, S.P.Article HBS-R1704E-ELeadership and People ManagementEach year most public companies issue reports describing the pay packages of their CEOs. In them compensation committees attempt to explain the rationale behind the pay figures to the shareholders, who often must vote to approve them. The issue is, in their reports many committees adjust performance numbers in obscure and inappropriate ways that lead to overly generous CEO pay. And they do so using nonstandard criteria that are difficult for even...Starting at €8.20
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Restating Revenues and Earnings at INVESTools, Inc. (A)
Kimbrough, Michael D.; McFarlan, F. WarrenCase HBS-106009-EAccounting and ControlRelates the events leading up to the announcement in February 2005 that INVESTools, a Utah-based provider of investor education services, would be restating prior-year financial statements due to inappropriate revenue recognition.Starting at €8.20