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Advanced Leadership in Public Education: Tools for Tackling Change from Outside the Building In
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss; Yatsko, PamelaCase HBS-315019-EEntrepreneurshipIf you want to create change in public education but are not a school principal or other traditional public education leader, what do you need to do? This long, integrated background note examines the inspiring models and stories of individuals who are improving outcomes for low-income students through innovative social ventures. It shows how small innovations that start outside the traditional public education establishment get off the ground an...Starting at €8.20
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The State of U.S. Public Health: Challenges and Trends
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss; Koh, Howard; Yatsko, PamelaCase HBS-316001-EThe World Health Organization defines health as "a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity." For many Americans, the World Health Organization's definition of true health seems unattainable, given the multitude of complex problems plaguing the U.S. health system. The United States over the last 50 years has focused most of its health resources on providing medical care for indi...Starting at €8.20
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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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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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Echoing Green
Battilana, Julie; DeLong, Thomas J.; Weber, JamesCase HBS-410013-EService and Operations ManagementThis case presents the leadership challenges that Cheryl Dorsey, the president of Echoing Green, faces in early 2009. Echoing Green is a fellowship program that seeks to improve society by identifying and supporting social entrepreneurs who launch organizations to attack some of the world's most difficult problems. After turning Echoing Green around and re-building an organization almost from scratch over the last 7 years, Dorsey feels that Echoi...Starting at €8.20
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CEMEX's Foundations for Sustainability
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss; Yatsko, Pamela; Raffaelli, Ryan L.Case HBS-308024-EStarting at €8.20
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Jay Winsten and the Designated Driver Campaign
Koh, Howard; Yatsko, PamelaCase HBS-ALI013-ECenter for Health Communication at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Director Jay Winsten spearheaded a national mass media campaign, the Harvard Alcohol Project, also known as the Designated Driver Campaign, to rapidly diffuse the "designated driver" into the American lexicon and culture. The campaign broke new ground in the process, most notably by harnessing on an unprecedented scale the Hollywood entertainment community's power to...Starting at €8.20
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Howard Koh and Public Health Campaigns, Teaching Note
Yatsko, Pamela; Malone, Ai-Ling JamilaTeaching Note HBS-ALI015-ETeaching note for case ALI012.Starting at €0.00
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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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Howard Koh and Public Health Campaigns for Tobacco Control and Organ Donation
Winsten, Jay; Yatsko, Pamela; Stine-Rowe, KelsiCase HBS-ALI012-EYears before Harvard University Professor Howard Koh was appointed by President Barack Obama as the 14th U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health (2009-2014) for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), where he went on to address a vast portfolio of health challenges, he played a leading role in two highly impactful coalition-based public health campaigns focused on tobacco control and organ donation. The tobacco tax and organ donation...Starting at €8.20