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The Role of the Audit Committee in Risk Oversight (Spanish Version)
Lorsch, Jay W.; Simpson, KaitlynCase HBS-419S04Leadership and People ManagementUna silla de comité de auditoría considera cómo puede ayudar a su comité de ser más eficaz, dadas las crecientes exigencias regulatorias sobre los comités de auditoría. Él también lucha con la falta de especificidad en funciones del comité de auditoría y si el comité debe asumir responsabilidades adicionales. En particular, se considera a la creciente preocupación por la supervisión del riesgo y se pregunta qué tipo de riesgos del comité de audit...Starting at €8.20
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Taran Swan at Nickelodeon Latin America (A) (Spanish version)
Hill, Linda A.; Doughty, Kristin C.Case HBS-404S02Leadership and People ManagementThe Inside the Case video that accompanies this case includes teaching tips and insight from the author (available to registered educators only). Eighteen months after launching Nickelodeon Latin America, general manager Taran Swan must leave the company's Miami headquarters for her New York home because of complications with her pregnancy. Unable to travel for at least the next six months, Swan must decide how she will continue to run the chann...Starting at €8.20
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Paula Evans and the Redesign of the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (A) (Spanish version)
Hill, Linda A.; Doughty, Kristin C.; Pruyne, EllenCase HBS-404S18Leadership and People ManagementPaula Evans is in her second year as principal of the only high school in Cambridge, MA. Her mandate when she arrived was to redesign the high school so that long-standing inequities in academic achievement rates across race and socioeconomic class were removed. In her first year, she succeeded in obtaining approval for her proposed redesign and completing the physical and administrative restructuring of the high school. Now in her second year, t...Starting at €8.20
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Taran Swan en Nickelodeon América Latina (D)
Hill, Linda A.; Doughty, Kristin C.Case HBS-406S04Leadership and People ManagementComplementa el caso (A).Starting at €5.74
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Rebranding at Oliver Wyman Group
Eccles, Robert G.; Simpson, KaitlynCase HBS-409055-ELeadership and People ManagementIn 2007, the individual consulting firms loosely held under the name Mercer Specialty Consulting came together more closely to form the $1.5 billion strategy consulting firm Oliver Wyman. CEO John Drzik hoped that this rebranding effort would create greater alignment and collaboration across the firm, resulting in greater client value. With increasingly complex needs, clients sought consultants with deep expertise to solve their most challenging ...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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One Firm One Future at Davis Langdon (A)
Eccles, Robert G.; Simpson, KaitlynCase HBS-411006-ELeadership and People ManagementThis case is accompanied by a Video Short that can be shown in class or included in a digital coursepack. Instructors should consider the timing of making the video available to students, as it may reveal key case details. Senior Partner Rob Smith just led construction consultancy firm Davis Langdon through a major organizational change in Europe and the Middle East. In the past, compensation arrangements had not incentivized partners to collabor...Starting at €8.20
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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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The Role of the Audit Committee in Risk Oversight
Lorsch, Jay W.; Simpson, KaitlynCase HBS-409016-ELeadership and People ManagementAn audit committee chair considers how he can help his committee become more effective given the increasing regulatory demands on audit committees. He also wrestles with the lack of specificity in audit committee duties and whether his committee should take on additional responsibilities. In particular, he considers the growing concern over risk oversight and wonders what kinds of risks the audit committee should consider and whether they should ...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