Yang Jianguo was recently promoted from country manager for China to global head of product development at a staid French perfume maker. He was chosen for his technical smarts and his knowledge of emerging markets - a critical avenue for growth‚ given that sales in the company’s core markets have stalled. Eager to succeed in his new role in Paris‚ Jianguo has lots of fresh ideas‚ but they seem to be falling on deaf ears. Members of the executive team‚ for their part‚ find Jianguo to be largely indifferent
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www.hbr.org The Threat of Global Gridlock by George Stalk‚ Jr. Reprint R0907T This article is made available to you with compliments of BCG. Further posting‚ copying or distributing is copyright infringement. The Threat of Global Gridlock COPYRIGHT © 2009 HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING CORPORATION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. by George Stalk‚ Jr. As our worldwide transportation network becomes less and less able to support the demands of a global economy‚ we’re heading straight into a crisis
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WORK-LIFE BALANCE Your Late-Night Emails Are Hurting Your Team by Maura Thomas MARCH 16‚ 2015 Around 11 p.m. one night‚ you realize there’s a key step your team needs to take on a current project. So‚ you dash off an email to the team members while you’re thinking about it. No time like the present‚ right? Wrong. As a productivity trainer specializing in attention management‚ I’ve seen over the past decade how after-hours emails speed up corporate cultures — and that‚ in turn‚ chips away at creativity
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Introduction Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY) was founded in 1971 by Warren Eisenberg and Leonard Feinstein. BBBY held its initial public offering in June 1992‚ on the NASDAQ exchange. The company utilizes the “big box” retail concept and focuses its product offerings around domestics merchandise and home furnishings. Since its IPO BBBY has been favored by equity investors and long considered one of the best performing retail companies. They have never missed an earnings estimate and have experienced
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evidence of Charlie’s failure as a leader is when he calls the group together to communicate the news about losing their major customer. The mood is somber as Charlie calls the group together to “mourn” (Sloane‚ The Chattanooga Ice Cream Division‚ HBR‚ p.1) and to figure out what needs to be done about it. As a leader he must exude a sense of “positive energy” (Jack Welch‚ Winning‚ p.84) to prepare his people to act and energize their best thinking to deal with this challenge. His style of (S) may
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the two web links shown below. In an effort to reduce costs‚ printed versions of the course materials will not be available for sale through the MBA Shop (UConn Coop) on the Hartford Campus. Articles and Case: Harvard Business Review Articles (HBR): Innovation: The Classic Traps Meeting the Challenge of Disruptive Change The Innovator’s DNA Breakthrough Thinking from Inside the Box Reverse Engineering Google’s Innovation Machine Connect and Develop: Inside Procter & Gamble’s New Model
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• Study | June 2008 | Harvard Business Review 43 HBR Case Study Why Are We Losing All Our Good People? both subdued‚ having read the memo bearing the news of... Premium • Royal Caribbean Cruises‚ Ltd: Hbr Case Study Royal Caribbean Cruises‚ LTD: A Case Study 1. Using the Information Systems Triangle as a framework‚ evaluate the alignment of RCCL’s business strategy... Premium • Hbr Case Study CASE STUDY "THAT’S THE WORST THING I’VE ever heard
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context: Responding to conflicting environmental forces Reading: Managing risk in an unstable world (HBR‚ June 2005) Reading: Managing executive attention in the global company (Sloan Management Review‚ Summer 2007) 4 Case: Global Wine War 2009: New World versus Old Culture 19-23 January 5 Reading: The end of corporate imperialism (HBR‚ August 2003) Reading: Culture clash in the boardroom (HBR‚ September 2011) 6 Intercultural Training Session Developing transnational strategies 26-30
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Course Outline: “Change is inevitable‚ except from the Vending Machine” as the saying goes! Gone are the days that we were living in a linear world. We could predict and pre-act things in an orderly fashion. Today‚ we recognize that we live in a nonlinear world. We realize that changes sweeping the nations‚ economies and corporations are far deeper and longer-lasting. Being nimble‚ fast and change-ready has become a mantra for survival‚ if not for success. Capacity for change and transformation
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CHEM 1332 SPRING 2008 – (NEW) FINAL 1. How much energy is needed to convert 180 grams of ice at -10 ºC to liquid water at 10 ºC? (The molar heat capacity of liquid water is 75.4 J/mol ºC; the molar heat capacity of ice is 40.2 J/mol ºC. The molar heat of vaporization of water is 40.7 kJ/mol. The molar heat of fusion of water is 6.02 kJ/mol.) (A) 71.8 kJ (B) 419 kJ (C) 64.2 kJ (D) 64.6 kJ (E) 11‚620 J 2. Which physical property of a liquid is NOT the result of strong intermolecular
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