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Scrap It
James A. Erskine; Michael WienerCase IVEY-9B08C017-EKnowledge and Communication, Leadership and People ManagementThe vice-president of operations at Lighting Group Corporation (LGC) was looking over some financial statements at the end of the workday. For the first time he could remember, there were no sales recorded on the daily sales statement. It appeared that the efforts of employees were diverted into a project related to the scrap metal that was a by-product of the manufacturing process. To complicate matters, the son of the company's president and ch...Starting at €8.20
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Time Is Money.com
James A. Erskine; Karen BongCase IVEY-9B01M033-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyTISM Solutions Inc. is a dot-com company that connects buyers and sellers of expert advice through the Web site Timeismoney.com. The founders of the company spent many hours turning their concept into a business plan and, with the support and funding of Vision Venture Capital (VVC), have drafted their vision statement, technology infrastructure and business model - focusing on the business-to-consumer model. However, investors wanted more stable ...Starting at €8.20
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IA Clarington: Target Click Funds
Chuck Grace; James A. Erskine; Michiel R. LeendersCase IVEY-9B09N022-EFinanceIn October 2008, the senior vice-president for product and business development at IA Clarington (IAC), a life and health insurance company, was preparing for a meeting with the president of IAC. The topic of discussion would be IAC's Target Click Fund, a mutual fund with an options-based guarantee structure targeted towards investors who were looking for growth along with capital preservation. The vice-president had been asked to render his opin...Starting at €8.20
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Tandem Brothers: The Cochrane Tree-plant (Spanish version)
James A. Erskine; Sam MoorcroftCase IVEY-9A95DS07Service and Operations ManagementUn supervisor de siembra de arboles debe decidir un plan de accion inmediato para hacer trabajar a los empleados en condiciones adversas. El supervisor ya ha gastado por gastos no presupuestados, por lo que cualquier retraso a esa altura podria ser desastroso. Para asegurarse que las obligaciones del contrato son cumplidas, el debe disenar un plan que mantendra a sus plantadores suficientemente motivados para finalizar el contrato.Starting at €8.20
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Rise of the Equity Research Department (Spanish version)
Nanda, Ashish; Groysberg, Boris; Prusiner, LaurenCase HBS-917S01Leadership and People ManagementUnder Jack Rivkin's leadership, Shearson Lehman's research department rose from relative obscurity to the highest ranking research department on Wall Street within three years. When Rivkin is promoted to head of equity, he wonders how to succeed in his new position. A rewritten version of an earlier case.Starting at €8.20
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What is Strategy
Nanda, AshishCase HBS-719453-EStrategyThis note introduces the first module of the RC Strategy course, What Is Strategy? It helps students develop their perspective on what is a strategy, what is a good strategy, and how strategy development differs across contexts.Starting at €8.20
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Corning, Inc.: una Red de Alianzas
Bartlett, Christopher A.; Nanda, AshishCase HBS-302S20StrategyDescribe las acciones de James Houghton en asumir el papel de CEO en Corning en medio de una recesión. No sólo debe girar en torno a los resultados de explotación, sino que también debe revitalizar una organización desmoralizada y establecer una nueva dirección clara, estratégica. De este modo, el caso se centra en el papel cambiante de alianzas y asociaciones en las operaciones de Corning. Cada vez más, se están pasando de un papel secundario en...Starting at €8.20
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Strategic Interactions
Nanda, AshishCase HBS-719501-EStrategyThis note provides a perspective and some tools to predict and shape interactions with other players when making strategic decisions. As a strategist, you must consider that your firm's actions evoke reactions from other players in the market and that, reciprocally, you may need to respond to their actions. The note on Strategic Interactions introduces students to the fourth module of the RC Strategy course. We look at strategic interactions in t...Starting at €8.20
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Ecolab, Inc. (B) (Spanish version)
Nanda, AshishCase HBS-819S31StrategySupplements the (A) case. A rewritten version of earlier cases.Starting at €5.74
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Robert's Center of Performing Arts
James A. Erskine; Felix GernburdCase IVEY-9B08M023-EStrategyRobert's Center of Performing Arts (RCPA), founded and owned by Robert Gernburd, was a music school. In addition to individual instrument lessons and group lessons in music theory and music history, the RCPA sold second-hand pianos. It was difficult to find a supplier of used pianos but after a great deal of research, Gernburd found a supplier in Japan. Recently, an invoice containing supplier information had been temporarily misplaced. Since the...Starting at €8.20