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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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Marshall & Gordon: Designing an Effective Compensation System (A) and (B), Teaching Note
Gardner, Heidi K.; McFee, ErinTeaching Note HBS-412077-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching Note for 411-038 and 411-099.Starting at €0.00
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Riverview Law: Applying Business Sense to the Legal Market
Gardner, Heidi K.; Hodges Silverstein, SilviaCase HBS-414079-ELeadership and People ManagementRiverview Law, run like a business rather than a traditional law firm, wants to expand its unconventional concept from the UK to the US. The firm's approach includes performing all legal work for annual fixed-price contracts, using data and analytics to advise clients on ways to reduce their legal problems (and spending), and evaluating lawyers' performance based on client satisfaction surveys rather than typical metrics like billed revenues. Wit...Starting at €8.20
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Eric Hawkins Leading Agile Teams @ Digitally-Born AppFolio (A)
Neeley, Tsedal; Leonardi, Paul; Norris, MichaelCase HBS-419066-ELeadership and People ManagementThis case describes a business decision on whether or not to build a technology solution requested by customers. It offers students an opportunity to analyze how such a decision can impact product development teams, company culture, and business growth prospects. Eric Hawkins, director of engineering at AppFolio-a digital technology firm that offered cloud-based business software to small and medium sized companies-was shocked by an unusual requ...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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Marshall & Gordon: Designing an Effective Compensation System (B)
Gardner, Heidi K.; Herman, KerryCase HBS-411099-ELeadership and People ManagementCEO Kelly Browne wrestles with the design and roll-out of a new compensation system to promote the collaboration necessary for supporting her firm's new strategy. Marshall Gordon International, a global public relations (PR) firm, has recently expanded its service offering to include Executive Positioning, which requires significantly more teamwork, higher-level client interaction and more strategically-minded consultants than their traditional P...Starting at €5.74
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Collaborating for Growth: Duane Morris in a Turbulent Legal Sector
Gardner, Heidi K.; Lobb, AnnelenaCase HBS-414022-ELeadership and People ManagementBy the late 2000s, the law firm Duane Morris had transformed itself from a growing U.S. law firm to a significant global player. The firm's uniquely collaborative organizational culture, which featured a transparent, data-driven compensation system, practice-group integration across multiple offices, and rewards for attorneys who shared responsibility, had contributed to the firm's success as it had expanded into new U.S. and international office...Starting at €8.20
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Collaborating for Growth: Duane Morris in a Turbulent Legal Sector, Teaching Note
Gardner, Heidi K.; Thornley, NicoTeaching Note HBS-414041-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching Note for 414022.Starting at €0.00
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Eric Hawkins Leading Agile Teams @ Digitally-Born AppFolio (B)
Neeley, Tsedal; Leonardi, Paul; Norris, MichaelCase HBS-419088-ELeadership and People ManagementThis (B) case supplements the (A) case, 419-066, and provides information about what happened after the (A) case ends.Starting at €5.74
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Managing a Global Team: Greg James at Sun Microsystems, Inc. (A) & (B), Teaching Note
Neeley, TsedalTeaching Note HBS-410014-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching Note for [409003].Starting at €0.00