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Tales of Life-changing Innovations: Too Simple to be Safe? ' Note on the Development of Fecal Transplants
Bhide, Amar V.; Datar, Srikant M.Case HBS-321065-EEntrepreneurshipStarting at €8.20
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Data Science at Target
Datar, Srikant M.; Bowler, Caitlin N.Case HBS-118016-EAccounting and ControlParitosh Desai joined Target.com in 2013 as VP of Business Intelligence, Analytics & Testing to explore how the retailer could use its relatively small but thriving e-commerce arm to drive sales and win customers. The case explores the technological and oStarting at €8.20
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Discovering Your Authentic Leadership
George, William W.; Sims, Peter; McLean, Andrew N.; Mayer, David; Mayer, DianaArticle HBS-R0702H-ELeadership and People ManagementThe ongoing problems in business leadership over the past five years have underscored the need for a new kind of leader in the 21st century: the authentic leader. Author Bill George, a Harvard Business School professor and the former chairman and CEO of Medtronic, and his colleagues, conducted the largest leadership development study ever undertaken. They interviewed 125 business leaders from different racial, religious, national, and socioeconom...Starting at €8.20
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Innovation at Insigne Health
Datar, Srikant M.; Cyr, Linda A.; Bowler, Caitlin N.Case HBS-118042-EAccounting and ControlInsigne Health is a fictional for-profit, integrated health insurer/health care provider whose leadership believes that by shifting members' focus from "sickness" to "well-being" it could increase the overall health of its insured population and decrease the resources it spent each year on delivering care. The case puts students in the role of design researcher charged with understanding the member segment about which Insigne Health leadership i...Starting at €8.20
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The Center for Creative Leadership
Garvin, David A.; Datar, Srikant M.; Knoop, Carin-IsabelCase HBS-308013-EThe Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) was founded in 1970 on the notion that leadership was not innate but could be learned. CCL evolved into one of the world's top leadership development organizations, involved in both research and program design and delivery. This case explores CCL's approach to leadership and management education for executives and presents some of the challenges the CCL faces as many different types of leadership developme...Starting at €8.20
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Data Science at Target (Spanish version)
Datar, Srikant M.; Bowler, Caitlin N.Case HBS-120S21Accounting and ControlParitosh Desai joined Target.com in 2013 as VP of Business Intelligence, Analytics & Testing to explore how the retailer could use its relatively small but thriving e-commerce arm to drive sales and win customers. The case explores the technological and organizational challenges Desai faced and the trade offs he considered in his four-year journey to develop the larger retail business into a data science organization.Starting at €8.20
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Medtronic: Making the Big Leap Forward (A)
George, William W.; Baraldi, MonicaCase HBS-317031-EStrategyIn 2014, Medtronic was about to execute a $50 billion acquisition of Ireland-based Covidien. Medtronic CEO Omar Ishrak was committed to building the largest medical technology company in the world while broadening its ability to fulfill its mission of "alleviating pain, restoring health, and extending life" for millions more patients every year. The acquisition plan might change when, in September 2014, U.S. Secretary Jacob Lew issued new rules f...Starting at €8.20
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Royal DSM: From Continuous Transformation to Organic Growth
George, William W.; Knoop, Carin-Isabel; Migdal, AmramCase HBS-317063-EStrategyRoyal DSM CEO Feike Sijbesma was pondering the challenges of shifting DSM's global organization from the constant transformations of the past 100 years to creating organic growth. When Sijbesma took the helm as CEO in 2007, he further pushed and completed the company's final moves away from commodity chemicals and toward more sustainable businesses whereby DSM could create value with differentiated offerings. Sijbesma emphasized innovation and mo...Starting at €8.20
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Envision Charlotte: Building an Energy Cluster
George, William W.Case HBS-412073-EStrategyTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. On October 28, 2011, 1,500 people, including many civic and business leaders, gathered outdoors in a Charlotte, North Carolina city square to celebrate the launch of Envision: Charlotte, a first-in-the-nation smart grid plan aimed at reducing energy use in the central business district. The initiative called for a 20% reduction in energy consumption in the city while promoti...Starting at €8.20
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Discovering Your Authentic Leadership (Spanish version)
George, William W.; Sims, Peter; McLean, Andrew N.; Mayer, David; Mayer, DianaArticle HBS-R0702HLeadership and People Managementthe authentic leader. Author Bill George, a Harvard Business School professor and the former chairman and CEO of Medtronic, and his colleagues, conducted the largest leadership development study ever undertaken. They interviewed 125 business leaders from different racial, religious, national, and socioeconomic backgrounds to understand how leaders become, and remain, authentic. Their interviews showed that you do not have to be born with any par...Starting at €8.20