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Connor Formed Metal Products (Spanish version)
Applegate, Lynda M.; Stoddard, Donna B.; Conrad, Melinda B.Case HBS-115S09Information TechnologiesConnor Formed Metal Products was a small, privately owned manufacturer of custom metal springs and stampings. Since becoming president in 1984, Bob Sloss had implemented many changes to the company's organizational structure, management control systems, and information systems. In particular, he introduced a computer system in one plant to track product jobs through the manufacturing process. Employees at every function and level of the company c...Starting at €8.20
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Six Principles of Successful Persuasion (Spanish version)
Nohria, Nitin; Harrington, BrookeCase HBS-419S21Leadership and People ManagementDescribes some of the key principles that managers must follow in order to successfully persuade their organization of their vision for change.Starting at €8.20
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Rhetoric of Change (Spanish version)
Nohria, Nitin; Harrington, BrookeCase HBS-419S20Leadership and People ManagementDescribes the ways in which managers communicate the need to change, specifically the way in which they use vision, crisis, and transition as rhetorical strategies to mobilize change. Also discusses strategies used by those trying to resist change, setting up what may be considered a rhetorical contest that determines whether change is embraced or not.Starting at €8.20
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Change-Dazed Manager
Havens, TimArticle HBS-93504-ELeadership and People ManagementGeorge Stanton helped build Sannas Pharmaceuticals in his six years there, and when he is promoted to vice president and director of risk management, he thinks he is set for life. But then a new president is appointed, and George can't tolerate his shady practices. Atwater-Jordan looks like a better company, and George is impressed with Joan, his potential new boss. So he takes the job, even though it means moving his family and asking his wife t...Starting at €8.20
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General Electric's Revolutionary (Spanish version)
Bower, Joseph L.; Dial, JayCase HBS-308S36StrategyDescribes the work of Jack Welch as CEO of General Electric from 1981 to 1992, focusing particularly on his transformation of the company's portfolio through extensive dispositions and acquisitions and the company's culture through a mandated process called "work out." To a considerable extent, the case tells the story in Welch's own words drawing on earlier cases on Welch prepared by Richard Hammermesh and Frank Aguilar, as well as a 1991 interv...Starting at €8.20
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Rudi Gassner and the Executive Committee of BMG International (A) (Spanish version)
Hill, Linda A.; Weber, Katherine S.Case HBS-406S16Leadership and People Management1) the complexities of managing and growing a large global business; 2) the tensions between centralized corporate control and decentralized local management in a global organization; 3) the impact of leadership style on corporate culture and performance; 4) the challenges of leading a senior mangement team; and 5) the final decision by CEO Rudi Gassner and the subsequent actions taken by the members of the executive committee.Starting at €8.20
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Taco Bell--1994 (Spanish version)
Schlesinger, Leonard A.; Votroubek, DenaCase HBS-616S03Service and Operations ManagementTaco Bell CEO, John Martin, boldly proclaims a growth goal of 200,000 points of access by the year 2000 (the company had approximately 3,600 in 1991). To realize such growth, Martin embraces a philosophy of continual change. The implications for Taco Bell are dramatic changes in organizational structure, culture, human resources, technology, and communications. In redefining its market and "thinking outside the box" in all aspects of its business...Starting at €8.20
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Sealed Air Corps Leveraged Recapitalization (A) (Spanish version)
Wruck, Karen H.; Barry, BrianCase HBS-204S10FinanceLess than a year after Sealed Air embarked on a program to improve manufacturing efficiency and product quality, the company borrowed almost 90% of the market value of its common stock and paid it out as a special dividend to shareholders. Management purposefully and successfully used the leveraged recapitalization as a watershed event, creating a crisis that disrupted the status quo and promoted internal change, which included establishing a new...Starting at €8.20
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Time Life, Inc. (B) (Spanish version)
Garvin, David A.; West, JonathanCase HBS-314S01StrategyProvides a brief update to the (A) case.Starting at €5.74
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Profile of an Innovating Company (Spanish version)
Bartlett, Christopher A.; Mohammed, AfrozeCase HBS-310S20StrategyTraces the birth and development of 3M Corp., focusing in particular on the origins of its entrepreneurially-based ability to innovate. In particular, it highlights the role of CEO William L. McKnight in creating a unique set of values, policies, and structures to nurture and develop continuous renewal. With the changing environment of the 1980s, however, a new generation of CEOs begin to adopt new policies and change the cultural norms that help...Starting at €8.20