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Grupo Aramón: turismo de nieve y de montaña
Sanders, Karen; Paniagua Granados, Francisco JavierCase M-1268Knowledge and Communication, Leadership and People ManagementEl Grupo Aramón es una sociedad anónima de titularidad pública dedicada al mundo del turismo de nieve. El Grupo se fundó en el año 2002 con el fin de "impulsar el desarrollo económico social de las comarcas en las que opera, mediante la creación de una oferta de turismo de esquí y montaña moderna e innovadora". El Grupo Aramón está compuesto por cinco estaciones de esquí de la comunidad autónoma de Aragón y se define como "el primer grupo español...Starting at €8.20
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Ron Johnson: A Career in Retail
Narayandas, Das; Margolis, Joshua D.; Raffaelli, Ryan L.Case HBS-516016-ELeadership and People ManagementThe Inside the Case video that accompanies this case includes teaching tips and insight from the author (available to registered educators only). 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 retai...Starting at €8.20
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Wendell Weeks at Corning Inc. (B): Valor Glass and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Raffaelli, Ryan L.; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-421078-ELeadership and People ManagementThe (B) case offers a detailed account of Wendell Weeks's innovation strategy at Corning, and how his approach played a critical role in the COVID-19 pandemic. It illustrates the company's philosophy of making long-term investments in promising new technologies and products well before others believed their time was ripe.Starting at €5.74
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Jean-Claude Biver (A): The Reemergence of the Swiss Watch Industry
Raffaelli, Ryan L.Case HBS-415031-ELeadership and People ManagementIn the early 1980s, the Swiss watch industry was near collapse after failing to adapt to Japanese competition from battery-powered quartz technology. In 1982, Jean-Claude Biver purchased Blancpain, a watch company that had been out of business since 1961 but had once made mechanical watches, for $16,000. After successfully reviving Blancpain, Biver sold the company to Nicolas G. Hayek (Chairman of the Swatch Group) for $43 million a decade later....Starting at €8.20
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Leading and Managing Change
Raffaelli, Ryan L.Case HBS-415040-ELeadership and People ManagementManaging change is consistently ranked as one of the most critical and difficult tasks that leaders face. This note outlines the key choices that leaders must make when engineering change. It is organized into four sections, offering guidance on how to: 1) diagnose the need for change; 2) determine what sort of change is called for (e.g., radical or incremental); 3) develop a delivery strategy that fosters stakeholder buy-in; and, 4) evaluate imp...Starting at €8.20
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Faber-Castell (B)
Raffaelli, Ryan L.; Snively, ChristineCase HBS-417030-ELeadership and People ManagementSupplement to case 417010.Starting at €5.74
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Wendell Weeks at Corning Inc.: Extending a History of Life-Changing Innovations
Raffaelli, Ryan L.; Fubini, David G.; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-419003-ELeadership and People ManagementThis case examines the leadership challenges associated with maintaining a culture of innovation in established organizations. It asks students to step into the shoes of a leader faced with making several tough decisions about when to invest (or to stop investing) in radical innovation projects. Corning CEO Wendell Weeks, who nearly bankrupted the company in the early 2000s when he overinvested in fiber optics, must initially decide if the compan...Starting at €8.20
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Alignment (Spanish version)
Bernstein, Ethan S.; Raffaelli, Ryan L.; Margolis, Joshua D.Case HBS-421S01Leadership and People ManagementPart of a leader's job is to equip the organization to transform inputs into outputs by defining organizational strategy, shaping organizational identity, and then managing four organizational components-formal organizational structure, culture, people, and critical tasks-such that each component, and their interaction, aligns to produce performance. Substantial research has demonstrated that well-aligned organizations will be more capable of (1)...Starting at €8.20
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Moleskine (A)
Raffaelli, Ryan L.; Sadun, Raffaella; Qu, KathyCase HBS-716407-ELeadership and People ManagementDescribes the founding and growth challenges facing Moleskine, an Italian-based consumer products company known for its oilcloth-covered notebooks once used by Ernest Hemingway and Vincent van Gogh. CEO Arrigo Berni and co-founder Maria Sebregondi aim to transform the company from a founder-led company to a professionally managed firm by expanding into new geographies, product categories, and distribution channels. They have also recently develop...Starting at €8.20
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Moleskine (B)
Raffaelli, Ryan L.; Sadun, Raffaella; Qu, KathyCase HBS-716464-ELeadership and People ManagementThis case discusses the decisions and outcomes of CEO Arrigo Berni and founder Maria Sebregondi that the Moleskine (A) case laid out.Starting at €5.74