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Raymond Jetson's MetroMorphosis ... Baton Rouge, Teaching Note
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss; Hamilton, Tessa Natanay; Malone, Ai-Ling JamilaTeaching Note HBS-316033-ETeaching note for case 315057. Building on his successes as a politician and preacher in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Rev. Raymond Jetson sought to empower Baton Rouge citizens to innovate solutions for their community challenges. After stepping down as the head of the Louisiana Family Recovery Corps, Jetson became interested in the Advanced Leadership Initiative (ALI) at Harvard University. When his ALI cohort expressed interest in visiting his home...Starting at €0.00
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Advanced Leadership Field Perspectives: Public Health in India
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss; Malone, Ai-Ling JamilaCase HBS-316104-EStarting at €8.20
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Joe Mandato, Pete McNerney and Empathetics
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss; Malone, Ai-Ling Jamila; Hoffstein, BrianCase HBS-ALI022-EEntrepreneurshipTwo experienced healthcare leaders that participated in the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University worked together to improve the nation's healthcare system through the early stage company Empathetics (an organization that teaches empathy to healthcare professionals and staff to improve the patient experience). With their guidance the company seems to make progress on staffing and funding, but despite Mandato's and McNerney's experi...Starting at €8.20
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IBM and the Reinvention of High School (A): Proving the P-TECH Concept, Teaching Note
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss; Malone, Ai-Ling JamilaTeaching Note HBS-314062-ETeaching Note for 314049.Starting at €0.00
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Walmart's Workforce of the Future (Spanish version)
Kerr, William R.; Bach-Lombardo, JordanCase HBS-821S03StrategyFaced with intense competition from Amazon, in 2015 Walmart began a transformation of its operations and workforce. The goal was to create an omnichannel retail experience for customers that seamlessly joined online and offline shopping. This case explores Walmart's efforts to deliver this through investments in its workforce makeup and training, digital infrastructure, and automation technology.Starting at €8.20
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AT&T, Retraining, and the Workforce of Tomorrow
Kerr, William R.; Fuller, Joseph B.; Kreitzberg, CarlCase HBS-820017-ELeadership and People ManagementBy the late 2000s, rapid changes in the telecommunications industry forced AT&T's management team to take on a task that CEO Randall Stephenson called the "biggest logistical challenge" they had ever seen: retraining 100,000 workers by 2020. In 2012, inteStarting at €8.20
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AT&T: Managing Technological Change and the Future of Telephone Operators in the 20th Century
Gross, Daniel P.; Kerr, William R.Case HBS-718486-EStrategyBy the 1930s, AT&T dominated the American phone industry, serving 10 million telephones and employing over 100,000 switchboard operators. But beginning in the mid-1910s, the company began changing from manually-operated switchboards to mechanical switching systems that were faster and more cost-effective and did not require human operators. By the 1930s, the changeover has been completed or is underway in most American cities with over 50,000 peo...Starting at €8.20
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Cherrypicks
Kerr, William R.Case HBS-807106-EEntrepreneurshipCherrypicks is a Hong Kong communications start-up approaching a large Korean mobile operator for a partnership to take the operator's products to markets outside of Korea. SK Telecom's (SKT) Ring Back Tones (RBT) product is a spectacular success in South Korea, but the partnership will require major changes in Cherrypicks' business model. Further complicating matters, SKT is also a strategic investor in Cherrypicks, a very large service provider...Starting at €8.20
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TA Energy (Turkey): A Bundle of International Partnerships, Teaching Note
Kerr, William R.Teaching Note HBS-809131-EEntrepreneurshipTeaching Note for 807175.Starting at €0.00
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Start-Up Chile: April 2012, Teaching Note
Kerr, William R.Teaching Note HBS-813167-EEntrepreneurshipTeaching Note for 812158.Starting at €0.00