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Xerox Corp.: Leadership Through Quality (B) (Spanish version)
Jick, Todd D.Case HBS-419S19Leadership and People ManagementProvides an evaluation of the "Leadership Through Quality" effort at Xerox. The assessment includes both negative and positive factors based on extensive interviews and surveys. Based on this assessment, a plan of action is determined and presented which was endorsed by senior management. Students will be asked to consider whether these mid-course corrections are appropriate. Allows students to see how long major changes take to occur and how muc...Starting at €5.74
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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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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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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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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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Empowerment Effort That Came Undone (HBR Case and Commentary)
Rothstein, Lawrence R.; Hackman, J. Richard; Pascual, Elios; Gelinas, Mary V.; James, Roger G.; Randolph, W. AlanArticle HBS-95111-ELeadership and People ManagementGeorge Marlow, a manufacturing vice president at SportsGear, had been looking forward to this month's companywide meeting. Martin Griffin, SportsGear's CEO, was going to announce a new era of empowerment at the company. And as Martin gave his speech, he seemed to fill the entire auditorium with his enthusiasm. But Harry Lewis, a SportsGear veteran of more than 20 years, was not so sure. "What in the world does empowerment mean?" he asked. And ind...Starting at €8.20
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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
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Charlotte Beers at Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide (A) (Spanish version)
Ibarra, Herminia; Sackley, NicoleCase HBS-402S06Leadership and People ManagementExamines Beer's actions on assuming leadership of Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide, the world's sixth largest advertising agency, during a period of rapid industry change and organizational crisis. Focuses on how Beers, the first outsider CEO, engages and leads a senior team through a vision formulation process. Chronicles closely the debates among senior executives struggling to reconcile creative, strategic, and global vs. local priorities. Sixteen mo...Starting at €8.20
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Human Resources at Hewlett-Packard (A) (Spanish version)
Beer, Michael; Rogers, Gregory C.Case HBS-403S13Leadership and People Managementstakeholder influence, flows, rewards, and work systems.Starting at €8.20