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Greg James at Sun Microsystems, Inc. (A) (Spanish version)
Neeley, Tsedal; DeLong, Thomas J.Case HBS-415S01StrategyGreg James, a global manager at Sun Microsystems, Inc., sets out to meet with his entire 43-member customer implementation team spread across India, France, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States of America to resolve a dire customer system outage as required by a service agreement. Rather than finding a swift resolution to the rapidly escalating customer situation that motivated his trip, he finds himself facing distributed work, global...Starting at €8.20
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Managing a Global Team: Greg James at Sun Microsystems, Inc. (A)
Neeley, Tsedal; DeLong, Thomas J.Case HBS-409003-EStrategyGreg James, a global manager at Sun Microsystems, Inc., sets out to meet with his entire 43-member customer implementation team spread across India, France, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States of America to resolve a dire customer system outage as required by a service agreement. Rather than finding a swift resolution to the rapidly escalating customer situation that motivated his trip, he finds himself facing distributed work, global...Starting at €8.20
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Echoing Green
Battilana, Julie; DeLong, Thomas J.; Weber, JamesCase HBS-410013-EService and Operations ManagementThis case presents the leadership challenges that Cheryl Dorsey, the president of Echoing Green, faces in early 2009. Echoing Green is a fellowship program that seeks to improve society by identifying and supporting social entrepreneurs who launch organizations to attack some of the world's most difficult problems. After turning Echoing Green around and re-building an organization almost from scratch over the last 7 years, Dorsey feels that Echoi...Starting at €8.20
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Los Ottawa Voyageurs
DeLong, Thomas J.; Ager, David L.; Baldwin, Scott; Strong, Chris; Feng, Andrew; Mody, ElizaCase HBS-405S01Leadership and People ManagementManuel Tertuliano, entrenador de un club de fútbol profesional, debe tomar algunas decisiones difíciles sobre la compensación de seis de sus jugadores. En concreto, debe decidir cómo asignar $ 850,000 entre estos seis jugadores de una manera que beneficie a su equipo, que tiene la segunda acaba de terminar al último en la liga y se enfrenta a ser eliminado de la liga si el rendimiento del equipo y la asistencia de juego no mejoran. Tertuliano se ...Starting at €8.20
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Assistant Professor Jo Worthington (A)
Leonard, DorothyCase HBS-911404-EA relatively inexperienced professor struggles with managing a case discussion in a class based on numeric analysis. The class is lethargic and time is tight; she considers both a number of possible reasons for their disinterest and different teaching strategies to stimulate discussion and learning.Starting at €8.20
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Assistant Professor Jo Worthington (B)
Leonard, DorothyCase HBS-911405-EA professor teaching a case discussion based on numeric analysis is pleased that a student finally "cracks" the case-but the numbers differ from her own. The instructor has to decide how to handle the discrepancy.Starting at €5.74
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Assistant Professor Jo Worthington (C)
Leonard, DorothyCase HBS-911406-EA professor has an awkward exchange with a student who has prepared numeric analysis, but whose numbers do not agree with her own.Starting at €5.74
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Assistant Professor Gyan Gupta and the Wet Noodle Class (A)
Leonard, Dorothy; Harmeling, Susan S.Case HBS-912405-EProfessor Gupta faces three major problems in teaching cases: 1) his students, accustomed to lectures, don't know how to conduct a case discussion; 2) the students are using the Internet to discover the outcome of managerial dilemmas posed in the case; 3) he wants to share the theory he learned as a doctoral student, but can't figure out the appropriate way to integrate theory into the case-based discussion. He seeks advice, particularly about th...Starting at €8.20
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Transferring Knowledge Between Projects at NASA JPL (B)
Leonard, Dorothy; Myers, ChristopherCase HBS-917405-ELeadership and People ManagementAt the conclusion of the (A) case, Jennifer Trosper needed to decide whether or not to throw her support behind the training and outreach represented by the ROV-E program to build small rovers like the ones used on the surface of Mars by NASA JPL. The (B) case describes her decision and provides further information on her subsequent efforts made after the initial decision.Starting at €5.74
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Assistant Professor Jo Worthington (A) (Spanish Version)
Leonard, DorothyCase HBS-920S01Knowledge and CommunicationUn profesor relativamente inexperto lucha con la gestión de una discusión del caso en una clase basada en análisis numérico. La clase es letárgico y el tiempo es escaso; se considera tanto una serie de posibles razones de su falta de interés y diferentes estrategias de enseñanza para estimular la discusión y el aprendizaje.Starting at €8.20