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Allentown Materials Corporation: División de productos electrónicos (A)
Beer, MichaelCase HBS-403S14Leadership and People ManagementUna división de Allentown Materials Corp. tiene problemas financieros y de organización. Conflicto y falta de coordinación existen entre los grupos funcionales. Los empleados no tienen un sentido de dirección, y la moral es baja. La causa de estos problemas se encuentra en un cambio en el entorno empresarial, seguido de cambios en la organización y gestión. Un reescrito versión de un caso anterior.Starting at €8.20
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Cross-Functional Challenges in the Mobile Division (Spanish version)
Beer, Michael; Shelton, RachelCase HBS-415S03Leadership and People ManagementRoger Cahill has spent less than a year as head of the Mobile Division of BoldFlash, a flash memory component maker. On the corporate level, BoldFlash has adapted to an evolving and difficult marketplace, but the Mobile Division is struggling. The four groups within the unit refuse to work together, and the unit recently failed to capitalize on an important new product opportunity. To address the problems, Cahill has made a number of organization...Starting at €8.20
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Colonial Food Services Co. (Spanish Version)
Beer, Michael; Clawson, James G.Case HBS-402S07Leadership and People ManagementEl primer caso en una serie de casos de cuatro partes que describe los acontecimientos que condujeron a una entrevista de evaluación del desempeño. Describe los antecedentes de la empresa.Starting at €8.20
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James Cranston (Spanish version)
Beer, Michael; Clawson, James G.Case HBS-402S08Leadership and People ManagementDescribes the attitudes, feelings, and perceptions of the manager who will conduct the performance appraisal interview.Starting at €8.20
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How Stories Drive Growth: HSN
Aaker, J; Schifrin, DCase SGSB-M348B-EMarketingStories play an important role in business. They are a powerful tool for persuasion and useful in the context of understanding customers, building brands and leading teams. Set in 2014, the case explores how stories can drive the growth of a company, focusing on HSN Inc., the $3 billion interactive, multi-channel retailer. When Mindy Grossman became CEO of HSN in 2006, she had three major challenges: create a new story for a 30-year old company t...Starting at €8.20
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Harrah's Entertainment
Gompers, Paul A.; Mugford, Kristin; Kim, J. DanielCase HBS-213054-EFinanceThis case examines the issues of establishing a capital structure for the leveraged buyout of Harrah's Casino.Starting at €8.20
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School Specialty, Inc.
Gilson, Stuart C.; Mugford, KristinCase HBS-214084-EFinanceSet in 2013, School Specialty was a financially troubled supplier of educational products to primary and secondary schools in the United States. The company planned to file Chapter 11 in order to address its excessive debt load, but needed to arrange debtor-in-possession financing to provide liquidity while in bankruptcy. The company has received a financing proposal from its existing term loan lender that includes some aggressive and unusual fea...Starting at €8.20
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Becton Dickinson: Innovation and Growth (A)
Sadun, Raffaella; Beer, Michael; Weber, JamesCase HBS-717419-EStrategyIn late 2015, CEO Vince Forlenza was reviewing Becton Dickinson's transformation efforts designed to enable the company to innovate and grow in a changing environment. Becton Dickinson had been a successful medical device company for over 100 years. In recent years, cost pressures were causing its major customers to consolidate, and also to rethink their purchasing practices-moving from looking for products to looking for cost-effective solutions...Starting at €8.20
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United Stationers: Enabling our Partners to Succeed
Beer, Michael; Eisenstat, Russell A.Case HBS-912407-EThe case depicts a mission- and values-driven company. It describes the development of the firm over time, its leadership and challenges it faces to sustain its culture.Starting at €8.20
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How Stories Drive Growth: Skype
Aaker, J; Schifrin, DCase SGSB-M348A-EMarketingStories play an important role in business. They are a powerful tool for persuasion and useful in the context of understanding customers, building brands, and leading teams. This case explores how stories can drive the growth of a company, focusing on Skype, the voice-over-Internet-protocol (VoIP) service used by 300 million people around the world to make free or cheap video and voice calls. In 2012, Skype needed its customers to transition fro...Starting at €8.20