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Exeter Group, Inc. (B) (Spanish Version)
Eccles, Robert G.; Narayandas, Das; Herman, KerryCase HBS-413S09Leadership and People ManagementEste caso presenta una descripción breve de las decisiones de la empresa garantiza si o no seguir adelante con cada uno de los cuatro proyectos que son la base de la caja (A).Starting at €5.74
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Exeter Group, Inc. (A)
Eccles, Robert G.; Narayandas, Das; Herman, KerryCase HBS-409001-ELeadership and People ManagementJonathan Kutchins and Mark Cullen, managing partners of IT consulting firm Exeter Group, Inc., are considering four potential client engagements. Three of them involve prominent universities, an area of market strength for the firm, and one involves a top-tier strategy consulting firm, a new market for Exeter. Each of the projects has both attractive and unattractive attributes, with various degrees of upside and downside risk. As a relatively ne...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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Exeter Group, Inc. (B)
Eccles, Robert G.; Narayandas, Das; Herman, KerryCase HBS-412035-ELeadership and People ManagementThis case presents a brief description of the decisions the company made regarding whether or not to pursue each of the four projects that are the basis of the (A) case.Starting at €5.74
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CommonAngels (TM) (A)
Applegate, Lynda M.; Simpson, KaitlynCase HBS-810082-EEntrepreneurshipDescribes the motivations behind the founding of CommonAngels-a group of successful business owners who provide capital, connections, and expertise to entrepreneurs who are building new ventures. In 2005, the group is considering increasing its investment focus to include a broader range of technologies, including emerging technologies (for example, Mobile and RFID technologies) and non-information technologies.Starting at €8.20
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Relational Investors and Home Depot (A)
Lorsch, Jay W.; Simpson, KaitlynCase HBS-409076-ELeadership and People ManagementIn 2006, amidst shareholder upset over CEO Robert Nardelli's compensation and Home Depot's declining stock price, Relational Investors decided to further investigate the situation. As experts in turning around underperforming and undervalued companies, Relational's principals saw opportunities for Home Depot to improve its stock price through changes in strategy, corporate governance and capital allocation. In particular, Relational felt Nardelli...Starting at €8.20
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Ron Johnson: Retail at Target, Apple, and J.C. Penney
Narayandas, Das; Herman, Kerry; Mazzanti, LisaCase HBS-513103-EMarketingTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. In April 2013, Ron Johnson (HBS '84) stepped down after just 18 months as CEO of J.C. Penney. In his brief tenure, Johnson, an acclaimed retailer respected for his innovation and success in shaping the retail image at Target and Apple, introduced dramatic departures from J.C. Penney's traditional retail approach, and enacted changes quickly and simultaneously, with little ma...Starting at €8.20
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Cycle for Survival (A)
Narayandas, Das; Herman, Kerry; Fisher, NoahCase HBS-514076-EMarketingKatie Kotkins, director of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center's (MSKCC) Cycle for Survival fundraising event, had to determine the best avenue for continuing the event's success and momentum after its founder, Jennifer (Jen) Goodman Linn (HBS '99) passed away from MFH sarcoma. Jen and her husband, David Linn (HBS '00), had founded Cycle for Survival in 2007 as a way for Jen to give back to the community of doctors that had treated her since h...Starting at €8.20
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Cycle for Survival (B)
Narayandas, Das; Herman, Kerry; Fisher, NoahCase HBS-514077-EMarketingUpdate on Cycle for Survival's 2012, 2013, and 2014 events. Kotkins and Cycle for Survival continued the event's strong growth, and underwent the first phase of a two-year rebranding effort.Starting at €5.74
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Loris
Zhang, Shunyuan; Narayandas, Das; Straaberg, Stacy; Lane, DavidCase HBS-524010-EStrategyIn December 2022, Loris's executive team considered their go-to-market strategy. Loris was an artificial intelligence (AI) software startup for the customer service industry with two products on the market: 1) Agent Assist which provided customer service agents (CSAs) with empathetic, on-brand responses to text-based live chat (live chat) conversations, and 2) Insights which provided customer experience (CX) leaders with CSA performance and custo...Starting at €8.20