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Jamie's Market: Challenges Hiring and Onboarding Temporary Workers
Atul Teckchandani; Trey Alvarez; Huiling Chen; Nicole Chen; Andrew Davidas; Kevin Le; Edrees ShalemiCase IVEY-9B21C009-ELeadership and People ManagementIn 2020, the flagship location of Jamie's Market, a specialty supermarket retailer in California, struggled to hire enough temporary workers to meet the increased staffing demand resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. The new assistant manager, who had been recently transferred to the company's flagship store, was tasked with figuring out what had gone wrong and recommending changes to ensure that the store would have enough qualified workers for ...Starting at €8.20
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Andrea Jung: Empowering Avon Women (A) (Spanish Version)
George, William W.Case HBS-408S47Leadership and People ManagementEn octubre de 2005 Andrea Jung está haciendo frente a una disminución del 30% en el precio de las acciones de Avon - la mayor prueba de su liderazgo desde que se convirtió en CEO en 2000.Starting at €8.20
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Andrea Jung: Empowering Avon Women (A)
George, William W.Case HBS-408035-ELeadership and People ManagementIn October 2005 Andrea Jung is coping with a 30% decline in Avon's stock price--the biggest test of her leadership since she became CEO in 2000.Starting at €8.20
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Oprah! (Spanish version)
George, William W.; McLean, Andrew N.Case HBS-418S24Leadership and People ManagementThe Inside the Case video that accompanies this case includes teaching tips and insight from the author (available to registered educators only). Oprah Winfrey believed in sharing the experiences that shaped her development and enabled her to become the wealthiest women in the entertainment industry and first African American billionaire. Traces her childhood and entertainment career, drawing connections in Winfrey's own words between passages i...Starting at €8.20
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Philip McCrea: Once an Entrepreneur ... (B)
George, William W.Case HBS-409025-ELeadership and People ManagementPhilip McCrea is dealing with the aftermath of the move of his company and family from San Francisco to New Jersey (from the A case). Although the move goes well from a family perspective, his business runs into challenges when he merges it into a Canadian company and winds up with 30% ownership. McCrea eventually resigns and has to deal with his role in the failure of the company, and the transition to the next step in his career.Starting at €5.74
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Kent Thiry: "Mayor" of DaVita
George, William W.; Kindred, NatalieCase HBS-410065-ELeadership and People ManagementKent Thiry, CEO of dialysis provider DaVita, is considering how to integrate employees from recently acquired Gambro Healthcare without damaging DaVita's robust, unconventional internal culture. When Thiry joined DaVita in 1999, breaking an important promise to his family in order to do so, he was determined to create a differentiated company with a community-like culture. Over six years, he had engineered an impressive financial turnaround and s...Starting at €8.20