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Lakeside Automotive Ltd.: Digital Employee Recognition Amid Organizational Change
Kun Huo; Ann PengCase IVEY-9B19C020-ELeadership and People ManagementIn 2018, a dealership facilitator needed to decide whether to continue implementing the Thumbs Up application (app) at Lakeside Automotive Ltd., a family-owned car dealership in the Greater Toronto Area. The Thumbs Up app was a digital tool that enabled eStarting at €8.20
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Grand River University Water Buffalos: Activity-Based Costing of University Sports
Kun Huo; Ian BurtCase IVEY-9B18B022-EAccounting and ControlOn April 30, 2018, the athletic director of Grand River University was drafting a plan for his department to be reviewed by the school’s board of trustees. Grand River University was a small university supporting several varsity sports teams that competed regionally and nationally. The men’s hockey, men’s basketball, and women’s basketball programs had struggled in recent years. In fact, the women’s hockey program had been cut several years earli...Starting at €8.20
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EOS Imaging: Revenue Recognition
Kun Huo; Matthew Sooy; Zoe ZhouCase IVEY-W24571-EAccounting and ControlJane Zhou, an equity analyst at a large asset management firm, was preparing a report on EOS Imaging (EOS), a French medical device company that her firm had invested in. EOS’s drastic fall in First Quarter (Q1) 2019 revenue caught Zhou’s attention, as thStarting at €8.20
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Storming into the U.S. Market (Spanish version)
Bartlett, Christopher A.; Gordon, Rachel; Lafkas, JohnCase HBS-918S10StrategyThe RoboTech case describes the challenges facing the CEO of a small, Singapore-based industrial robotics company that decides to diversify away from its core industrial robot business by leveraging its expertise into the medical-devices industry. It launches an innovative product (a specialized surgical robot) in an unfamiliar market segment (spinal surgery) and decides to enter the unfamiliar, distant U.S. healthcare market, which is characteri...Starting at €8.20
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Intrapreneurship within FLG, Inc. (Spanish version)
Garvin, David A.; Gordon, RachelCase HBS-918S11EntrepreneurshipThis case follows Jenica Fletcher as she rebuilds her company's guitar strings division from the ground up. Convinced that she could turn the division around if given complete independence from corporate headquarters, Fletcher relocated the group, rebranded it as Malenti Strings, repositioned the guitar strings as high-performance products, and transformed Malenti into a fast-growing, profitable business. The case traces Fletcher's key steps in...Starting at €8.20
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Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center: Spine Care
Huckman, Robert S.; Porter, Michael E.; Gordon, Rachel; Kindred, NatalieCase HBS-609016-EStrategyDescribes the Spine Center at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, a multidisciplinary unit that offers patients suffering from spinal problems "one-stop" access to a range of providers including orthopedic surgeons, neurosurgeons, neurologists, medical specialists in physical medicine and pain management, mental health providers, and occupational and physical therapists. The Center was created to address what its founder, James Weinstein, M.D., s...Starting at €8.20
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Intangible Asset Valuation at Liberty Media and Formula One
Kun Huo; Andre SanchezCase IVEY-W31821-EAccounting and Control, FinanceA business school student was preparing for a stock pitch competition. He had developed an interest in stock held by investor Warren Buffet in Liberty Media Corp.’s Series C Liberty Formula One common shares. His research revealed that a substantial part of Formula One’s valuation was accounted for as intangible assets and comprised, in particular, what was known as the 100-year agreement with the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile, the sp...Starting at €8.20
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Bajo la conducción de Weldon: retiros de productos de Johnson & Johnson del mercado de 2009 a 2010
Rose, Clayton; Sucher, Sandra J.; Gordon, Rachel; Preble, MatthewCase HBS-317S05Knowledge and CommunicationEn octubre de 2010, Johnson & Johnson (J & J) fue incapaz de liberarse de una crisis a largo retiro años que se había sometido a la empresa a las críticas del Congreso y los reguladores, dio lugar a la renuncia de uno de los oficiales de más alto rango de la firma, y cientos de costos de millones de dólares de pérdidas de ventas de J & J marcas. Este caso examina la serie de retiros, y los cambios estratégicos y culturales a la empresa que pued...Starting at €8.20
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First Financial Group: Designing Short-Term Employee Incentive Programs
Kun Huo; Jenny JiangCase IVEY-9B20B011-EAccounting and ControlIn 2019, the director of strategy at US-based First Financial Group (FFG) needed to decide which alternative incentive program the mid-sized bank should use to replace its current short-term incentive plan (STIP) for branch employees. The scorecard-drivenStarting at €8.20
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Differences at Work: Alex (A)
Sucher, Sandra J.; Gordon, RachelCase HBS-408011-ELeadership and People ManagementIn Differences at Work: Alex (A), HBS Case No. 9-408-011 Alex has been asked an inappropriate question by the interviewer at an interview for his dream job. How will Alex handle the situation? Should he accept the position is offered?Starting at €8.20