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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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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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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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Uber in 2017: One Bumpy Ride
Srinivasan, Suraj; Lorsch, Jay W.; Pitcher, QuinnCase HBS-117070-EAccounting and ControlUber Technologies Inc., the popular ride-hailing company, entered 2017 having doubled its bookings in 2016 and achieving a valuation of nearly $70 billion, making it the largest venture capital-backed company in the world. Co-founder and CEO Travis Kalanick embodied the company, with a hard-charging attitude embedded in the company's workplace culture that allowed it to successfully take on the entrenched taxi industry. Uber looked to enjoy anoth...Starting at €8.20
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Signet Jewelers: Assessing Customer Financing Risk, Teaching Note
Perez Cavazos, Gerardo; Srinivasan, Suraj; Pitcher, QuinnTeaching Note HBS-118067-EAccounting and ControlTeaching note for case 117038.Starting at €0.00
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Data Breach at Equifax (Spanish version)
Srinivasan, Suraj; Pitcher, Quinn; Goldberg, Jonah S.Case HBS-120S13StrategyThe case discusses the events leading up to the massive data breach at Equifax, one of the three U.S. credit reporting companies, the organizational and governance issues that contributed to the breach, and the consequences of the breach. The case supplement provides details of how Equifax recovered from the breach and changes the company made. On September 7, 2017, Equifax announced that the personal information of over 140 million consumers had...Starting at €8.20
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Blue Harbour's Activism at Babcock & Wilcox
Srinivasan, Suraj; Pitcher, QuinnCase HBS-118045-EFinanceExploring Blue Harbour Group's investment in Babcock & Wilcox and its transformation into BWX Technologies.Starting at €8.20
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Blue Harbour's Activism at Babcock & Wilcox (B)
Srinivasan, Suraj; Pitcher, QuinnCase HBS-118046-EFinanceFollow-up case detailing the changes at BWX Technologies after hedge fund Blue Harbour Group's investment.Starting at €5.74