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Is Silence Killing Your Company? (Spanish version)
Perlow, Leslie A.; Williams, StephanieArticle HBS-R0305CLeadership and People ManagementMany times, often with the best of intentions, people at work decide it's more productive to remain silent about their differences than to air them. But as new research by the authors shows, silencing doesn't smooth things over or make people more productive. It merely pushes differences beneath the surface and can set in motion powerfully destructive forces. When people stay silent about important disagreements, they can begin to fill with anxie...Starting at €8.20
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Nonprofit Sector's $100 Billion Opportunity (Spanish version)
Bradley, Bill; Jansen, Paul; Silverman, LesArticle HBS-R0305GImagine what an extra $100 billion a year could do for philanthropic and other nonprofit institutions. According to a new study, the nonprofit sector could free that amount--maybe even more--by making five changes in the way it operates. The study asked two central questions: Does the sector's money flow from its source to its ultimate use as efficiently and effectively as possible? If not, where are the big opportunities to increase social benef...Starting at €8.20
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Storytelling That Moves People (Spanish version)
McKee, Robert; Fryer, BronwynArticle HBS-R0306BStrategyWhen executives need to persuade an audience, most try to build a case with facts, statistics, and some quotes from authorities. In other words, they resort to "companyspeak," the tools of rhetoric they have been trained to use. In this conversation with HBR, Robert McKee, the world's best-known screenwriting lecturer, argues that executives can engage people in a much deeper--and ultimately more convincing--way if they toss out their PowerPoint ...Starting at €8.20
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Leadership and the Psychology of Turnarounds (Spanish version)
Kanter, Rosabeth MossArticle HBS-R0306CLeadership and People ManagementTurnaround champions--those leaders who manage to bring distressed organizations back from the brink of failure--are often acclaimed for their canny financial and strategic decision making. But having studied their work closely, Harvard Business School's Rosabeth Moss Kanter emphasizes another aspect of their achievement. These leaders reverse the cycle of corporate decline through deliberate interventions that increase the level of communication...Starting at €8.20
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Pension Roulette: Have You Bet Too Much on Equities (Spanish version)
Stewart, G. BennettArticle HBS-R0306GAccounting and ControlIn the 1990s, funding pension obligations by investing in stocks looked smart. By 1999, the bull market had poured a collective $260 billion surplus into the pension coffers of the S&P 500, permitting the companies to record the year-to-year increases as additional income. But just two years later, the bear market had obliterated those gains, replacing them with a cavernous $240 billion deficit--which had to be offset by the unlucky firms' ongoin...Starting at €8.20
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Uncovering Hidden Value in a Midsize Manufacturing Company (Spanish version)
Ashton, James E.; Cook, Frank X., Jr.; Schmitz, PaulArticle HBS-R0306HStrategyThis article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. If you run a midsize manufacturing business, you may be familiar with that anxious sense of being left behind. At every turn, someone is pushing you to jump onto the latest strategic bandwagon before it's too late. But no matter how great the hot, new strategy migh...Starting at €8.20
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Pull the Plug on Stress (Spanish version)
Cryer, Bruce; McCraty, Rollin; Childre, DocArticle HBS-R0307JLeadership and People ManagementStress is rampant, stress is growing, and stress hurts the bottom line. A 1999 study of 46,000 workers revealed that health care costs are 147% higher for those who are stressed or depressed, independent of other health issues. But what exactly is stress? It usually refers to our internal reaction to negative, threatening, or worrisome situations--a looming performance report, say, or interactions with a dismissive colleague. Accumulated over tim...Starting at €8.20
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In Search of Global Leaders (Spanish version)
Green, Stephen; Hassan, Fred; Immelt, Jeffrey; Marks, Michael; Meiland, DanielArticle HBS-R0308BEconomicsFor all the talk about global organizations and executives, there's no definitive answer to the question of what we really mean by "global." A presence in multiple countries? Cultural adaptability? A multilingual top team? We asked four CEOs and the head of an international recruiting agency--HSBC's Stephen Green, Schering-Plough's Fred Hassan, GE's Jeffrey Immelt, Flextronics' Michael Marks, and Egon Zehnder's Daniel Meiland--to tell us what the...Starting at €8.20
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Abraham Lincoln and the Global Economy (Spanish version)
Hormats, Robert D.Article HBS-R0308DEconomicsAbraham Lincoln would have well understood the challenges facing many modern emerging nations. In Lincoln's America, as in many developing nations today, sweeping economic change threatened older industries, traditional ways of living, and social and national cohesion by exposing economies and societies to new and powerful competitive forces. Yet even in the midst of the brutal and expensive American Civil war--and in part because of it--Lincoln ...Starting at €8.20
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Blogger in Their Midst (HBR Case Study and Commentary) (Spanish version)
Suitt, Halley; Weinberger, David; Samuelson, Pamela; Motameni, Erin; Ozzie, RayArticle HBS-R0309AMarketingIt was five minutes before show time, and only 15 people had wandered into the conference room to hear Lancaster-Webb CEO Will Somerset introduce the company's latest line of surgical gloves. More important, sales prospect Samuel Taylor, medical director of the Houston Clinic, had failed to show. Will walked out of the ballroom to steady his nerves and noticed a spillover crowd down the hall. He made a "What's up?" gesture to Judy Chen, Lancaster...Starting at €8.20