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Jeffrey Dunn and Sesame Workshop: Bringing Big Bird Back to Health, Teaching Note
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss; Raffaelli, Ryan L.; Malone, Ai-Ling Jamila; Cohen, JonathanTeaching Note HBS-ALI017-ETeaching note for cases 317086 and 317094.Starting at €0.00
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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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Ron Johnson: A Career in Retail, Teaching Note
Raffaelli, Ryan L.Teaching Note HBS-419010-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching note for case 516016.Starting at €0.00
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Moleskine (A) and (B), Teaching Note
Raffaelli, Ryan L.Teaching Note HBS-419061-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching note for cases 716407 and 716464.Starting at €0.00
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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
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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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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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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