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Turnaround to Growth (Spanish version)
Applegate, Lynda M.; Collins, ElizabethCase HBS-810S22Leadership and People ManagementDescribes IBM's decade of transformation. Provides background on the company's history and the factors that led to its near death in the early 1990s and to its remarkable turnaround during Lou Gerstner's reign as CEO. A rewritten version of an earlier case.Starting at €8.20
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Paramount Equipment (Spanish version)
Baldwin, Carliss Y.; Wang, WeiCase HBS-916S14FinanceParamount Equipment, Inc., based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, is a large manufacturer of cranes and compact construction equipment, aerial work platforms, and food service equipment. Founded in 1987, Paramount now had manufacturing operations in 24 countries. However, it lost its competitive position because it took on too much debt in the form of bank borrowings relative to the risk level of its business. Now the company must seek funding and guarant...Starting at €8.20
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PepsiCo's Bid for Quaker Oats (B)
Baldwin, Carliss Y.; Soudakov, LeonidCase HBS-209078-EFinanceSecond in a series on PepsiCo's bid for Quaker Oats. Describes the negotiations between PepsiCo and Quaker including due diligence process, first bid and counteroffer. Quaker's counteroffer included a collar on equity consideration, and thus the case offers an opportunity to discuss and value these contractual devices.Starting at €5.74
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Implementing Self-Directed Teams (Spanish version)
Garvin, David A.; Collins, ElizabethCase HBS-414S11Leadership and People ManagementDesigning Teams, Implementing Change, Self-Directed Teams, Workforce Management, General Management, Managing Teams, High Performance Workforce, Employee Empowerment, Motivation and Mid-size Plastic Pipe Manufacturing.Starting at €8.20
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A Day in the Life of Alex Sander: Driving in the Fast Lane at Landon Care Products, Teaching Note
Collins, Elizabeth; Greiner, Larry E.Teaching Note HBS-2180-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching Note for 2177Starting at €0.00
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Stone Finch, Inc.: Young Division, Old Division, Teaching Note
Hamermesh, Richard G.; Collins, ElizabethTeaching Note HBS-3211-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching Note for 3214Starting at €0.00
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Paramount Equipment, Teaching Note
Baldwin, Carliss Y.; Wang, WeiTeaching Note HBS-914558-EFinanceTeaching Note for Product #914557Starting at €0.00
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RL Wolfe: Implementing Self-Directed Teams
Garvin, David A.; Collins, ElizabethCase HBS-4063-ELeadership and People ManagementWhen students have the English-language PDF of this Brief Case in a coursepack, they will also have the option to purchase an audio version. Key topics include team design, team management, job design, employee empowerment, implementing change, and high performance workforces. In 2004, John Amasi, the director of production for a manufacturer of plastic pipe, introduced the concept of self-directed teams into a newly rehabbed plant in Corpus Chri...Starting at €8.20
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Driving in the Fast Lane at Landon Care Products (Spanish version)
Collins, Elizabeth; Greiner, Larry E.Case HBS-208S30StrategyTeach this case online with new suggestions added to the Teaching Note. When students have the English-language PDF of this Brief Case in a coursepack, they will also have the option to purchase an audio version. Alex Sander is a new product manager whose drive and talents are attractive to management, but whose intolerant style has alienated employees. This tension is presented against the backdrop of a 360 performance review process. Sander ...Starting at €8.20
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Young Division, Old Division (Spanish version)
Hamermesh, Richard G.; Collins, ElizabethCase HBS-310S13Leadership and People ManagementWhen students have the English-language PDF of this Brief Case in a coursepack, they will also have the option to purchase an audio version. CEO Jim Billings wants to attract energetic, entrepreneurial talent to Stone Finch, Inc., which comprises an older division that fabricates products like piping and tanks for water and wastewater processing plants, and a much newer division that develops biochemical solutions associated with water purificati...Starting at €8.20