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McKinsey & Co.-Protecting its Reputation (B) (Spanish version)
Lorsch, Jay W.; McTague, EmilyCase HBS-420S12Leadership and People ManagementOn Tuesday March 15, 2011, all 1,200 global Partners of McKinsey & Co. gathered at the Gaylord National Hotel & Convention Center near Washington, DC for their annual Partners' conference. The atmosphere was tense as Partners, in addition to their normal agenda, discussed the Galleon Group insider-trading trial and the recent allegations against the Firm's former Managing Director, Rajat Gupta. Three months earlier Senior Partner, Anil Kumar, ple...Starting at €5.74
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McKinsey & Co.-Protecting its Reputation (A) (Spanish version)
Lorsch, Jay W.; McTague, EmilyCase HBS-415S21Leadership and People ManagementOn Tuesday March 15, 2011, all 1,200 global Partners of McKinsey & Co. gathered at the Gaylord National Hotel & Convention Center near Washington, DC for their annual Partners' conference. The atmosphere was tense as Partners, in addition to their normal agenda, discussed the Galleon Group insider-trading trial and the recent allegations against the Firm's former Managing Director, Rajat Gupta. Three months earlier Senior Partner, Anil Kumar, ple...Starting at €8.20
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Royal Bank of Canada: Using People Strategy and Analytics to Drive Employee Performance (B)
Shaw, K; Schifrin, DCase SGSB-HR44B-EThis is the follow up case to “Royal Bank of Canada: Using People Strategy and Analytics to Drive Employee Performance (A).” This (B) case presents the results of the company’s two major people analytics projects, which are described in the (A) case. The first project used data to identify empirically the traits of great managers and subsequently identify who might or might not be a great manager. This enabled RBC to help those managers who could...Starting at €5.74
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How Stories Drive Growth: HSN
Aaker, J; Schifrin, DCase SGSB-M348B-EMarketingStories play an important role in business. They are a powerful tool for persuasion and useful in the context of understanding customers, building brands and leading teams. Set in 2014, the case explores how stories can drive the growth of a company, focusing on HSN Inc., the $3 billion interactive, multi-channel retailer. When Mindy Grossman became CEO of HSN in 2006, she had three major challenges: create a new story for a 30-year old company t...Starting at €8.20
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Relational Investors and Home Depot (B)
Lorsch, Jay W.; Simpson, KaitlynCase HBS-409082-ELeadership and People ManagementStarting at €5.74
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Hess Corporation
Lorsch, Jay W.; Durante, KathleenCase HBS-413126-ELeadership and People ManagementOn January 29, 2013, Elliott Management, a hedge fund run by Paul E. Singer that owned 4.5% of Hess Corporation stock, put forward a slate of five independent directors it wanted elected to improve the company's performance. Elliott argued that Hess lacked focus and was distracted by ventures outside its core exploration and production business. Further it argued that John Hess, CEO and son of the founder, of being more interested in "maintaining...Starting at €8.20
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How Stories Drive Growth: Skype
Aaker, J; Schifrin, DCase SGSB-M348A-EMarketingStories play an important role in business. They are a powerful tool for persuasion and useful in the context of understanding customers, building brands, and leading teams. This case explores how stories can drive the growth of a company, focusing on Skype, the voice-over-Internet-protocol (VoIP) service used by 300 million people around the world to make free or cheap video and voice calls. In 2012, Skype needed its customers to transition fro...Starting at €8.20
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Basware in 2013: Transistion to Software as a Service
Burgelman, R; Schifrin, DCase SGSB-SM219-EStrategyIn 2013 Basware, the Finland-based e-invoice operator and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software vendor, was going through a large and critical transition: moving from selling and installing licensed software to selling Software as a Service (SaaS). Basware, which sold automated Purchase-to-Pay solutions for Business-to-Business to 2,000 Nordic and global clients, was responding to a sharp decline in those sales in the previous few years; mo...Starting at €8.20
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La Cruz Roja Nacional Americana (A)
Lorsch, Jay W.; Sherman, Eliot; Chen, DavidCase HBS-410S27Leadership and People ManagementSe describen los problemas de gobernabilidad que enfrenta la Junta de Gobernadores de la Cruz Roja Americana. Después de una serie de cuestiones - FDA decreto de consentimiento en sus operaciones de sangre; la respuesta a 9/11 y el huracán Katrina - la junta de la Cruz Roja estaba bajo presión para fijar su gobierno por parte del público, los medios de comunicación y del Congreso. Describe la estructura y prácticas de gobierno de la Cruz Roja en ...Starting at €8.20
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United Rentals (A) (Spanish Version)
Lorsch, Jay W.; Durante, Kathleen; McTague, EmilyCase HBS-414S08Leadership and People ManagementEn diciembre de 1997 Estados Alquiler (URI) se hizo pública en la Bolsa de Nueva York. Diez años más tarde, durante el pico de la crisis económica, el desempeño de la empresa estaba en declive. United Rentals había experimentado su cuota de problemas en los años anteriores y todavía se lucha por salir de esta confusión. En la primavera de 2008, la recesión había diezmado a la actividad principal de la empresa, alquiler de equipos de construcción....Starting at €8.20