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Triumph
Stewart Thornhill; Cooper LangfordCase IVEY-9B11M052-EStrategyThe case is set immediately following a catastrophic fire that destroyed the Triumph Motorcycle Company’s manufacturing facility in England. After having gone out of business in the 1980s, the company was resurrected by British entrepreneur John Bloor and, at the time of the fire, was in its tenth year of renewed operations. The decision facing Bloor and his team after the fire was to either rebuild and resume their strategy as before or consider...Starting at €8.20
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British Petroleum (PLC) and John Browne: A Culture of Risk Beyond Petroleum (A)
Murray J. Bryant; Trevor HunterCase IVEY-9B08M002-EStrategyThe year 2007 had to have been one of the worst in the history of British Petroleum plc (BP). In the span of four months, two separate independent reports (the first one commissioned by BP itself) had identified a deeply rooted "culture of risk" within BP where money and profits were valued above worker and environmental safety. These reports were in response to an explosion in 2005 at an oil refinery in Texas City, in the United States, which ki...Starting at €8.20
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Cracking Oyster: Shashi Verma & Transport for London Confront a Tough Contract (A)
Garcia-Rios, Patricia; Varley, Pamela; Zeckhauser, Richard; Donahue, John D.Case HBS-HKS743-EEconomicsThis case is accompanied by a Video Short that can be shown in class or included in a digital coursepack. Instructors should consider the timing of making the video available to students, as it may reveal key case details. ""Cracking Oyster (A)" is the first part of a two part case set, "Cracking Oyster (A) and (B)," intended for a two-class sequence, but the (A) case may also be taught on its own. It is accompanied by a brief, two-part video com...Starting at €8.20