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Reaching Your Potential (Spanish version)
Kaplan, Robert StevenArticle HBS-R0807CLeadership and People Managementseeking frank feedback about your strengths and weaknesses from colleagues above and below you, and figuring out what you truly enjoy doing. That understanding-not other people's definition of success-should guide your career choices and goals. Next, it's critical to identify the three or four tasks central to your business and make sure you excel at them; otherwise, success is likely to elude you. Once you've chosen the right enterprise, you mu...Starting at €8.20
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Mitch Daniels and the State of Indiana
Kaplan, Robert Steven; Winer, Wendy K.Case HBS-414049-ELeadership and People ManagementMitch Daniels, Governor of the State of Indiana, knew he had to make a difficult choice as he sat in his office in December 2010. Should he aggressively push the state legislature to pass comprehensive education reform-a major priority of his administration-or, instead, push for a new "right-to-work" law that he believed might be critical to improving his state's competitiveness? He was concerned that he wouldn't be able to do both during his sec...Starting at €8.20
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Abby Falik at Global Citizen Year
Kaplan, Robert Steven; Barley, LaurenCase HBS-415052-ELeadership and People ManagementAbby Falik, founder and CEO of Global Citizen Year (GCY), quickly read through the most recent news updates regarding the Ebola crisis in West Africa as she prepared for her board call on July 31, 2014. Based in Oakland, California, GCY was a five-year-old not-for-profit with a fiscal year (FY) 2015 budget of $3.5 million. Its mission was to make it much more the norm for graduating high school students in the U.S. to choose a "bridge year." GCY ...Starting at €8.20
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Robert E. Rubin (B)
Kaplan, Robert Steven; Nohria, Nitin; Davison, NicoleCase HBS-407068-ELeadership and People ManagementSupplements the (A) case. An abstract is not available for this product.Starting at €5.74
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Leslie Brinkman at Versutia Capital
Battilana, Julie; Kaplan, Robert StevenCase HBS-407089-ELeadership and People ManagementLeslie Brinkman is the founder and CEO of a hedge fund, Versutia Capital. Leslie spent late 2002 and early 2003 assembling her team and launched the fund in early 2003. While the firm performed well during 2003 and 2004 (both in terms of returns and new assets), in 2005 the results began to suffer. Describes the process of designing the firm, the resulting team dynamics, the strains on the staff and the impact of Leslie's management style on the ...Starting at €8.20
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Robert E. Rubin (A) and (B), Teaching Note
Kaplan, Robert Steven; Nohria, NitinTeaching Note HBS-407107-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching note to (407-064) and (407-068). An abstract is not available for this product.Starting at €0.00
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The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis
Kaplan, Robert Steven; Marquis, Christopher; Kazan, BrentCase HBS-408003-ELeadership and People ManagementMarc Buoniconti is the co-founder of the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, a nonprofit medical research organization. The project was founded in 1985 by Marc and his father Nick, a former Hall of Fame football player, when Marc suffered a spinal cord injury. In 2007, Marc was still confined to a wheelchair, but the Miami project had developed into the world's largest spinal cord injury research and treatment center. It had 250 employees, operated ...Starting at €8.20
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Reaching Your Potential
Kaplan, Robert StevenArticle HBS-R0807C-ELeadership and People ManagementThis article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. Despite their lofty job titles and impressive pay, many high-achieving executives feel professionally dissatisfied and unfulfilled. Looking back, they wish they'd accomplished more or even chosen a different career altogether. Often they feel trapped in their job...Starting at €8.20
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Hubway (A): Bike Sharing in Boston
Gomez-Ibanez, Jose; Johnston, TrevorCase HBS-KS1180-EIn the summer of 2014, Alta Bicycle Share, Inc had just won its second contract to operate the Hubway bike sharing system in the cities of Boston, Brookline, Cambridge and Somerville in Eastern Massachusetts. Emily Stapleton, Hubway's General Manager, was engaged in conversations with project managers from each of the four client municipalities about when and where to expand the system. Expansion was on the agenda because Hubway was widely percei...Starting at €8.20
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Uber Comes to Boston
Gomez-Ibanez, Jose; Hogge, PaulCase HBS-KS1240-EOn August 5, 2016, Governor Charlie Baker signed into law Massachusetts' first statewide regulations on ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft. The law was a monumental victory for the ride-sharing companies given that a few years earlier state officials tried to ban the startups from doing business in Massachusetts. The outcome was a major defeat for the taxi industry, whose drivers and license holders argued that their livelihoods were severe...Starting at €8.20