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Lincoln Financial Group (C)
Godes, David B.; Lane, DavidCase HBS-508030-EMarketingLFG reorganizes its business in order to improve customer intimacy. However, to implement the strategy, they need to effect significant changes in the skills of their salespeople. This case series straddles human resource management, corporate strategy, and sales management by exploring the link between a shift in the firm's overall strategy (customer intimacy), the structural implementation of this strategy in the form of the creation of a new d...Starting at €5.74
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Sonoco Products Co. (C)
Groysberg, Boris; Thomas, David A.; Lane, DavidCase HBS-407063-ELeadership and People ManagementSupplements the (A) case. An abstract is not available for this product.Starting at €5.74
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Guidant Corporation (A, B and C) - Teaching Note: Don't Get a Heart Attack! Dificult Decisions in a Pacemaker Firm
Vaccaro, AntoninoTeaching Note BET-2-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and ChangeTeaching Note for Guidant Corporatiion (A), (B), (C): Don't Get a Heart Attack! Difficult Decisions in a Pacemaker Firm.Starting at €0.00
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Matrix Capital Management (C)
Baker, Malcolm P.; Lane, DavidCase HBS-211060-EFinanceBen Balbale, a partner at hedge fund Matrix Capital, must decide whether to exit their investment in Rovi Corporation, a company with a diverse portfolio of patents used primarily for digital interactive guides. Rovi's shares are up over 50% from the time Balbale initiated a position in the middle of 2009.Starting at €5.74
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Guidant Corporation (C): Don't Get a Heart Attack! Difficult Decisions in a Pacemaker Firm
Vaccaro, AntoninoCase BE-171-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and ChangeGuidant Corporation is an high tech star up. After a couple of years of activities, it launches new high tech products such as pacemakers, implantable defibrillators, etc. After some time Guidant's top management discovers that one of its products, implanted in 24.000 patients, has a serious defect. After the death of a patient due to the fault of a Guidant's product, the firm enter into fire. Case C provides the epilogue of the long crisis.Starting at €5.74
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Kiva (A, B and C) - Teaching Note
Vaccaro, AntoninoTeaching Note BET-11-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityKiva is a 501(3) nonprofit organization founded in the late 2004 by two Stanford graduate, Matt Flannery and his wife Jessica Jackley. Inspired by a lecture of the Nobel prize Muhammad Yunus, Matt and Jessica decided to use their spare time to create a micro-lending organization capable to leverage the potential of internet-based technologies. The original idea associated with KIVA business model is pretty simple: small entrepreneurs located in ...Starting at €0.00
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Guidant Corporation (C): "¡No sufras un ataque al corazón!": decisiones difíciles en una empresa líder en la fabricación de marcapasos
Vaccaro, AntoninoCase BE-171Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and ChangeGuidant Corporation es una startup de alta tecnología que, tras un par de años de actividad, lanza productos nuevos, como marcapasos, desfibriladores implantables, etc. Después de un tiempo, la dirección de Guidant descubre que uno de sus productos, implantado en 24.000 pacientes, presenta graves defectos. Tras la muerte de un paciente por el fallo de un producto Guidant, la empresa se encuentra en una situación peligrosa, por lo que el caso C of...Starting at €5.74
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Kiva (C): Responses to a legitimacy threat
Vaccaro, AntoninoCase BE-185-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityKiva is a nonprofit organization founded in late 2004 by two Stanford graduates, Matt Flannery and his wife Jessica Jackley. Inspired by a lecture given by the Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, Matt and Jessica decided to use their spare time to create a micro-lending organization capable of leveraging the potential of Internet-based technologies. The original idea associated with KIVA's business model is pretty simple: small entrepreneurs in emergi...Starting at €5.74
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MELF and Business Culture in the Twin Cities (C)
Rose, Clayton; Lane, DavidCase HBS-315080-ELeaders of the many Fortune 500 firms headquartered in Minneapolis-St. Paul have a long history of engaging collectively, and with educational, political and social leaders, to deal with important community issues. Focusing on the participation of leading CEOs in the 2008-2011 Minnesota Education and Learning Foundation's efforts to promote early childhood education for low-income children, this case series explores the nature of their engagement...Starting at €5.74
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Kiva (C): Respuestas a las críticas sobre su legitimidad
Vaccaro, AntoninoCase BE-185Business Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityKiva es una organización sin ánimo de lucro regulada por el artículo 501(3) del Código Tributario Interno (Internal Revenue Code, IRC) y fundada en 2004 por Matt Flannery y su esposa, Jessica Jackley, dos graduados de Stanford. Matt y Jessica, inspirados por una charla del premio nobel de la paz Muhammad Yunus, decidieron usar su tiempo libre para crear una organización dedicada a los microcréditos capaz de aprovechar el potencial de las tecnolog...Starting at €5.74