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Robert E. Rubin (A)
Kaplan, Robert Steven; Nohria, Nitin; Davison, NicoleCase HBS-407064-ELeadership and People ManagementBob Rubin was a businessman given the task of setting up and running the National Economic Council for the Clinton Administration. Unfamiliar with management in a political climate, Rubin worked hard to design, staff, and position the Council to make better economic and policy decisions. Traces the career of Robert E. Rubin from his practice in law to his work at Goldman Sachs and studies how his work experiences prepared him to establish the Nat...Starting at €8.20
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Robert E. Rubin (B)
Kaplan, Robert Steven; Nohria, Nitin; Davison, NicoleCase HBS-407068-ELeadership and People ManagementSupplements the (A) case. An abstract is not available for this product.Starting at €5.74
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Robert E. Rubin (A) and (B), Teaching Note
Kaplan, Robert Steven; Nohria, NitinTeaching Note HBS-407107-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching note to (407-064) and (407-068). An abstract is not available for this product.Starting at €0.00
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What Is Leadership: The CEO's Role in Large, Complex Organizations
Porter, Michael E.; Nohria, NitinBook Chapter HBS-6151BC-ELeadership and People ManagementThe job of CEO is one of the most important leadership positions in society, and a better understanding of the job is vital to a better functioning economy. In this chapter, Michael E. Porter and Nitin Nohria present the results of their in-depth study of the CEO's role in the most challenging setting: the large, complex organization. They identify several core functions that the CEO must fulfill in any enterprise: direction, organization, select...Starting at €8.20
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The IQ Experiment
Pfeifer, Phillip E.; Ovchinnikov, Anton S.Case DARDEN-QA-0770-EDecision AnalysisThis case describes an IQ experiment in which 66 students, under the direction of their professor, used Excel to generate simulated IQs. The instructions were such that the generated IQs should have come from a normal distribution with a mean of 100 and standard deviation of 15. The sample average IQ, however, was 104.3. Students are asked to use their data-analysis skills to make sense of the results. The data set also contains gender (male or f...Starting at €8.20
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FLORA (B): National
Bodily, Samuel E.; Ovchinnikov, Anton S.Case DARDEN-QA-0755-EDecision AnalysisIn this, the second of a two-case decision analysis series, an entrepreneur must decide whether there are additional benefits from operating in more than one U.S. city. He explores the business model of operating local production facilities in major cities, metro areas with a population of over one million. Going national in year three would allow for a year four launch. Again, the entrepreneur must choose between a discounted and a premium strat...Starting at €5.74
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Bloomex.ca Logistics Optimization
Bodily, Samuel E.; Ovchinnikov, Anton S.Case DARDEN-QA-0760-EDecision AnalysisA Canadian online floral delivery company considers whether to source more flowers from its existing growing locations and which of those would be optimal given its current market. What would be the advantages of opening a logistics facility in Miami? Students must consider the transportation costs per standard box from each origin or transshipment center to each production facility as well as data about the available supply at each origin and pr...Starting at €8.20
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FLORA (A)
Bodily, Samuel E.; Ovchinnikov, Anton S.Case DARDEN-QA-0754-EDecision AnalysisThis case was awarded first place in the INFORMS 2011 case competition. A seasoned Internet retailing entrepreneur considers starting a national floral delivery service to compete with the major U.S. players. Decisions include whether to open a production facility in a single city and begin to deliver there? Which strategy should he use to decide-a premium or a discounted strategy? Ideal for MBA and undergraduate students in decision analysis mod...Starting at €8.20
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Chrysler: El legado de Iacocca
Nohria, Nitin; Green, Sandy E.Case HBS-403S20Leadership and People ManagementDescribe los cambios de moda por Iacocca durante su cargo como CEO de la Chrysler Corp. presta especial atención a la retórica que empleó en la movilización de cambio y las acciones que tomó para implementar el cambio.Starting at €8.20
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Timeshare Exchange Fair (A)
Ovchinnikov, Anton S.; Sampson, Scott E.; Krass, DmitryCase DARDEN-QA-0709-EDecision AnalysisThis award-winning case series examines how optimization-based decision-making leads to a new business design for a timeshare exchange: an exchange fair. Students model a complex managerial problem as a linear program, identify the types of data needed, and use models to provide decision support. The series covers linear and integer programming, multiple-criteria decision-making, network flow problems, local search heuristics, and Pareto-optimali...Starting at €8.20