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Executive Shirt Co., Inc. (Spanish version)
Hammond, Janice H.; Ryckebusch, SylvieCase HBS-606S06Service and Operations ManagementThe Executive Shirt Co. is contemplating a move into custom-made shirts. The company's general manager has charged two of his managers to come up with plans for incorporating production of custom shirts into the existing manufacturing process.Starting at €8.20
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Activity-Based Management at Stream International
Kaplan, Robert S.; Klein, NormanCase HBS-196134-EAccounting and ControlStream International's Crawfordsville, Indiana facilities undertake the design and implementation of an activity-based costing project. After analyzing the costs assigned to 161 work activities, Crawfordsville managers present five proposals for change based on ABM results, then meet to decide which to implement.Starting at €8.20
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Pathfinder Capital
Sahlman, William A.; Janower, AndrewCase HBS-396067-EEntrepreneurshipTwo former consultants have raised a search fund and are looking for a company to buy and run. After eight months of looking at deals, they have just signed a letter of intent to buy the second largest book retail chain in Canada in a turnaround situation. They must now decide whether to go through with the deal and, if so, how to raise the necessary financing.Starting at €8.20
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Case Study: The Strategy That Wouldn't Travel (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Beers, Michael C.; Venkatesan, Ravi; Baird, Lloyd; Maznevski, Martha; Banks, GaryArticle HBS-96602-ELeadership and People ManagementIn early 1995, Karen Jimenez began implementing a project to boost morale and productivity at Acme Minerals Extraction Co.'s plant in Wichita, Kansas. The team-based productivity project, as it is known, was designed to induce similar results at all of Acme's plants. But now, in the fall of 1996, Jimenez seems to have run into a brick wall at the second site targeted for improvement--the plant in Lubbock, Texas. The tactics that worked so well in...Starting at €8.20
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Improving the Product Development Process at Kirkham Instruments Corp.
Christensen, Clayton M.Case HBS-697058-EService and Operations ManagementDescribes the efforts of a manufacturer of scientific instruments to implement new methods of managing new product development, which its executives had learned in a Harvard Business School seminar. The executives left the seminar excited to implement a new way of working, but, through a series of seemingly logical steps, got little accomplished.Starting at €8.20
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We've Got Rhythm! Medtronic Corp.'s Cardiac Pacemaker Business (Spanish version)
Christensen, Clayton M.Case HBS-605S03Service and Operations Managementclarifying strategy, aggregating project planning, accommodating the number of projects to match development capacity, and establishing a platform/derivative product architecture, and others. This case is useful in both MBA courses and executive programs.Starting at €8.20
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What's Stifling the Creativity at CoolBurst? (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Wetlaufer, Suzy; Barker, Paul; Kets de Vries, Manfred F.R.; Jones, Gareth; McFadzean, Elspeth; Amabile, Teresa M.Article HBS-97511-ELeadership and People ManagementThis fictitious case study explores the challenges facing CoolBurst, a Miami-based fruit-juice company. For over a decade, CoolBurst had ruled the market in the Southeast. Why, then, are its annual revenues stuck at $30 million, and why have profits been stagnant for four years straight? CoolBurst's new CEO, Luisa Reboredo, knows that the company's survival--and her own--depend on the answers. Reboredo has succeeded former utilitarian CEO Garth L...Starting at €8.20
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Jack Welch's Leadership (Spanish version)
Bartlett, Christopher A.Case HBS-303S12StrategyThe "Software" Initiatives, Globalization, Redefining Leadership, Stretch Objectives, Service Business Development, and Six Sigma Quality.Starting at €8.20
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A Hole in the Pipeline (Spanish version)
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss; Roessner, JaneCase HBS-306S18StrategyDeloitte & Touche was losing talented women, and CEO Mike Cook wanted to stop the loss, especially as the accounting and consulting fields became more competitive. The firm commissioned an analysis of the situation; now it had to consider the results and develop a plan change.Starting at €8.20
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Professional Development Program (Spanish version)
Aguilar, Francis J.Case HBS-914S05Leadership and People Management1) program design and 2) the management of the design effort and program implementation. The case is appropriate for courses in organizational behavior, human resources management, and general management.Starting at €8.20