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Robert K. Steel at Wachovia (A)
Mukunda, Gautam; Hsieh, Nien-he; Lane, DavidCase HBS-418055-ELeadership and People ManagementIn September 2008, Robert Steel presided over the sale of Wachovia, a top U.S. bank, less than three months after becoming its CEO. Wachovia's exposure to risky home loans led depositors and creditors to flee the bank on Friday, September 26, after the FDIC seized and sold a smaller bank with similar exposure, whose collapse nonetheless made it the biggest bank failure in U.S. history. Faced with Wachovia's impending bankruptcy, the FDIC interven...Starting at €8.20
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Fresh to Table
Mukunda, Gautam; Holtom, Brooks C.Case HBS-917541-ELeadership and People ManagementAfter the contentious firing of an office manager, the leadership at Fresh to Table, a software-as-a-service provider for luxury hotels and restaurants, make an unpleasant discovery. While reviewing the office manager's internal electronic communications, company leaders discover that several key employees, including two that were recently promoted, had been spending substantial time on internal social media channels disparaging other employees, ...Starting at €8.20
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Protecting the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999, Epilogue
Howitt, Arnold; Leonard, Herman B.; Tannenwald, DavidCase HBS-HKS455-EStrategyOn one side, a loose network of protesters made arrangements for dramatizing their opposition to the WTO and international trade practices. At the same time, public safety officials from local, state, and federal agencies developed security plans for the public areas near the locus of the ministerial meetings. Their aim was to ensure that the talks proceeded smoothly while preserving the activists' rights to peaceful protest. Throughout the plann...Starting at €8.20
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Protecting the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999, Teaching Note
Leonard, Herman B.; Giles, DavidTeaching Note HBS-HKS566-EStrategyTeaching Note for HKS456 and HKS455.Starting at €0.00
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Ready in Advance: The City of Tuscaloosa's Response to the 4/27/11 Tornado
Leonard, Herman B.; Tannenwald, DavidCase HBS-KS1157-EIn a matter of minutes on the afternoon of April 27, 2011, a massive and powerful tornado leveled 1/8 of the area of Tuscaloosa, AL, a city of approximately 90,000 people and home to the University of Alabama. Doctrine called for the County Emergency Management Agency (EMA) to take the lead in organizing the response to the disaster - but one of the first buildings destroyed during the event housed the County EMA offices, leaving the agency compl...Starting at €8.20
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What Are You Doing About It? (Spanish version)
Bower, Joseph L.; Leonard, Herman B.; Paine, Lynn S.Article HBS-R1109HStrategyMarket capitalism, a system that has proven to be a remarkable engine of wealth creation, is poised for a breakdown. That sounds dire, and it is. Increasing income inequality, migration, weaknesses in the global financial system, environmental degradation, and inadequate government and international institutions are just a few of the forces that threaten to disrupt global market capitalism in the decades ahead. In conversations with business lead...Starting at €8.20
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Fresh to Table (Spanish version)
Mukunda, Gautam; Holtom, Brooks C.Case HBS-918S13Leadership and People ManagementAfter the contentious firing of an office manager, the leadership at Fresh to Table, a software-as-a-service provider for luxury hotels and restaurants, make an unpleasant discovery. While reviewing the office manager's internal electronic communications, company leaders discover that several key employees, including two that were recently promoted, had been spending substantial time on internal social media channels disparaging other employees, ...Starting at €8.20
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Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp: Redefining Success in the U.S. (B)
Mukunda, Gautam; DeLong, Thomas J.; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-415049-ELeadership and People ManagementThis (B) case describes the actions Andre Wyss, President of Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp., took in early 2012 to transform the company's General Medicines group and build its speciality medications marketing the selling capabilities in the face of falling revenues and an imminent workforce reduction. Rather than downsize the organization quickly to save costs, Wyss and his team took a different approach. They told the organization's employees t...Starting at €5.74
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SOFWERX: Innovation at U.S. Special Operations Command (Abridged)
Leonard, Herman B.; Weiss, Mitchell B.; Hyun Paik, Jin; Herman, KerryCase HBS-820047-EEntrepreneurshipJames "Hondo" Geurts, the Acquisition Executive for U.S. Special Operations Command was in the middle of his Senate confirmation hearing in 2017 to become Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition. Overseeing acquisitions in one of the most secretive parts of the U.S. military, Geurts had founded SOFWERX, an open platform to diversify and speed the rate of new ideas into Navy SEALs, Army Special Forces, and the lik...Starting at €8.20
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Gerry Pasciucco at AIG Financial Products (A)
Mukunda, Gautam; DeLong, Thomas J.Case HBS-413059-EGerry Pasciucco was appointed to lead American International Group's Financial Products (AIGFP) group after the government bailout of AIG in 2008 and charged with the task of shutting down the division while minimizing the government's losses. AIGFP's failed trades had threatened to bring down the entire company, and the government had responded by loaning AIG $182 billion in exchange for 79.9% of the company, because it feared that AIG's failure...Starting at €8.20