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An Intern's Dilemma (Spanish version)
Sucher, Sandra J.; Preble, MatthewCase HBS-616S11Business Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityAn HBS student is asked by his employer to misrepresent himself during the course of his summer internship in order to obtain data from industry competitors.Starting at €8.20
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An Intern's Dilemma
Sucher, Sandra J.; Preble, MatthewCase HBS-611041-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityAn HBS student is asked by his employer to misrepresent himself during the course of his summer internship in order to obtain data from industry competitors.Starting at €8.20
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Generation Investment Management
Sucher, Sandra J.; Preble, MatthewCase HBS-613002-EExamines the investment process of Generation Investment Management, a "sustainable" investing firm established in 2004 by David Blood and U.S. Vice President Al Gore. Places students in the position of David Lowish, director of global industrials, who must decide whether to recommend an investment in ABB India. The decision pits economic development-supplying energy to impoverished rural areas in India, against environmental damage-caused by the...Starting at €8.20
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New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc. (Abridged)
Bowen, H. Kent; Huckman, Robert S.; Knoop, Carin-Isabel; Preble, MatthewCase HBS-613006-EService and Operations ManagementConsiders whether New Balance, one of the world's five largest manufacturers of athletic footwear, should respond to Adidas' planned acquisition of Reebok-a transaction that would join the second- and third-largest companies in the industry. Highlights the unique aspects of New Balance's strategy-focusing on fit and performance by offering long-lived shoes in a wide variety of widths and eschewing celebrity endorsement of its products-and discuss...Starting at €8.20
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Unilever: Combatting Global Food Waste
Drake, David; Hammond, Janice H.; Preble, MatthewCase HBS-615040-EService and Operations ManagementThe global consumer goods company Unilever was on pace to hit a number of aggressive targets by 2020 as part of the Unilever Sustainable Living Project, including a goal to halve the waste associated with the disposal of its products. Unilever's Chief Supply Chain Officer Pier Luigi Sigismondi and his team were working towards this goal and had chosen to first focus on three key areas-sugar, tomatoes, and tea-and had analyzed where in the 'farm t...Starting at €8.20
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Eden McCallum: A Network-Based Consulting Firm (A)
Gardner, Heidi K.; Eccles, Robert G.Case HBS-410056-ELeadership and People ManagementEden McCallum pioneered the network-based ("virtual") consulting firm model in the UK. Contracting freelance consultants on a per-project basis keeps overheads lean so that Eden McCallum's fees are a fraction of the big firms' rates. Their flexible, low-cost model has attracted top-notch corporate clients, resulting in steady double-digit annual growth in its first nine years. In January 2009, however, the global economic crisis has dramatically ...Starting at €8.20
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Eden McCallum: A Network-Based Consulting Firm (A) & (B), Teaching Note
Gardner, Heidi K.; McFee, ErinTeaching Note HBS-410116-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching Note for 410056 and 411027.Starting at €0.00
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Hiring Professionals in China: A Practitioner's Guide
Gardner, Heidi K.Case HBS-411029-ELeadership and People ManagementThis note outlines how leading professional service firms operating in China revise their standard hiring practices to fit local challenges and customs. Based on interviews with professionals in a number of established accounting, strategy consulting, and executive search firms presently operating in China, it explores best practices they use to hire exceptional professionals who will succeed in building high quality client relationships, deliver...Starting at €8.20
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Marshall & Gordon: Designing an Effective Compensation System (B)
Gardner, Heidi K.; Herman, KerryCase HBS-411099-ELeadership and People ManagementCEO Kelly Browne wrestles with the design and roll-out of a new compensation system to promote the collaboration necessary for supporting her firm's new strategy. Marshall Gordon International, a global public relations (PR) firm, has recently expanded its service offering to include Executive Positioning, which requires significantly more teamwork, higher-level client interaction and more strategically-minded consultants than their traditional P...Starting at €5.74
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China Development Bank
Jin, Li; Preble, Matthew; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-212001-EFinanceIn May 2011, Chairman Chen Yuan of the China Development Bank (CDB) was thinking back on CDB's financing of a major project between Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras), Brazil's state-owned oil and gas producer and China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec), one of China's largest oil companies. Signed two years earlier, the deal was an oil-for-loan agreement in which Petrobras committed to a 10-year oil supply to Sinopec in exchange for a $...Starting at €8.20