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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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Automating Morality: Ethics for Intelligent Machines
Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr.; Quinn, TomCase HBS-324007-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityAs autonomy became a more significant part of modern life - most notably in autonomous vehicles (AVs), such as Teslas - ethical debates about whether and how to impart ethics to machines heated up. Utilitarians pointed out that autonomous vehicles crashed much less often than human-driven cars, making their adoption a net positive in terms of lives saved; deontologists worried about the implications of programming a car to swerve to kill its pass...Starting at €8.20
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Este caso apesta: Beavis, Butt-head y el contenido de la TV (A)
Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr.; Useem, JerryCase HBS-309S42A partir de 1992, "Beavis y Butt-head", una serie animada de MTV sobre dos inadaptados adolescentes no civilizados, se convirtieron tanto una sensación muy popular fuera de control y el símbolo de un debate nacional acerca de la programación violenta e inapropiada en la televisión. Especialmente después de la feria fue culpado por inspirar a un niño de cinco años para establecer un incendio que mató a su hermana menor, la controversia planteada d...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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La Estrategia Petrolífera “Ecologista” De Conoco (A)
Salter, Malcolm S.; Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr.; Hall, Susan E.A.Case HBS-302S08Conoco se enfrenta a retos en la formulación de una estrategia ambiental proactiva para su desarrollo aceite propuesto en la región de la selva virgen tropical de Ecuador. El caso se describe el proceso innovador en el que Conoco colaboró con una amplia gama de grupos de constituyentes menudo en conflicto para definir y aplicar sus políticas, junto con los éxitos y los fracasos de Conoco en llegar a un consenso electoral.Starting at €8.20
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Conversaciones cruciales
DeLong, Thomas J.; Vijayaraghavan, VineetaCase HBS-417S14Leadership and People ManagementTodd McKenna, un asociado de tercer año en una firma de banca de inversión, se enfrenta a su jefe. Su jefe le había dicho que sería la parte superior asociado pagó en la firma, y McKenna se entera de que esto no es cierto. Se acerca a su jefe para averiguar qué estaba mentido.Starting at €8.20
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LGBT Issues at Exxon Mobil Corporation
Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr.; Preble, MatthewCase HBS-314116-EIn late September 2013, Exxon Mobil Corporation announced that it would begin offering benefits to the spouses of its employees in same-sex marriages. This short supplement touches upon what led Exxon Mobil to this decision, some insights into its previous relationship with the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community, and its standing on LGBT issues relative to its peers in the oil and gas sector and the Fortune 500.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