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Genzyme Center (C)
Toffel, Michael W.; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-610010-EService and Operations ManagementGenzyme Corporation is in the midst of planning its new corporate headquarters, which incorporates many innovative green building features. After learning that the building as planned would likely earn a LEED Silver rating, an intermediate score in the LEED green building rating scheme, the CEO charged the building team with exploring opportunities that would enable the building to earn the highest rating, LEED Platinum. Five additional green bui...Starting at €5.74
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BlackRock (C): Integrating BGI
Gulati, Ranjay; Rivkin, Jan W.; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-717406-EStrategyThis (C) case is a supplement to HBS case no. 717-404 "BlackRock (A): Selling the Systems?"Starting at €5.74
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BlackRock (B): Acquire MLIM - Teaching Note
Gulati, Ranjay; Gilson, Stuart C.; Sesia, AldoTeaching Note HBS-719431-EStrategyTeaching note to case 717405 and 717485Starting at €0.00
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Chances Are Course Selection at HBS and at Kellogg
Halaburda, Hanna; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-711417-EStrategyThe case describes two alternative elective course assignment procedures: Harvard Business School's lottery-based system and Kellogg Graduate School of Management's bidding-based system. The case has been designed to discuss the benefits and drawbacks of each system and their desirability (or lack thereof) depending on the context (the broader business system) within which they are implemented. The case also describes the draft used by the NBA to...Starting at €8.20
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The Container Store
Sandino, Tatiana; Ton, Zeynep; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-116020-EService and Operations ManagementThe Container Store (TCS) is a Texas-based retailer of organization and storage solutions. The company prides itself in taking care of its employees first and its co-founder and CEO Kip Tindell practices Conscious Capitalism. Since it beginnings in 1978, TCS grew to a chain of around 70 stores located in over 20 states by 2013. Tindell believed TCS's employee-first culture and the seven Foundation Principles, which guided the company, were what d...Starting at €8.20
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Gene Lee Navigates the Darden Takeover
Margolis, Joshua D.; Culp, H. Lawrence; Barnett, James; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-418015-EStrategyFollowing a full takeover of Darden Restaurant's Board of Directors, Darden COO Gene Lee is weighing an offer to become interim CEO.Starting at €8.20
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BlackRock (B): Acquire MLIM (with video links)
Gulati, Ranjay; Rivkin, Jan W.; Gilson, Stuart C.; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-717485-EStrategyIn early 2006, BlackRock, Inc. is considering acquiring Merrill Lynch's asset management business. The asset management industry was in a state of transition. In the prior year, more than 130 mergers and acquisitions had taken place. The proposed deal between BlackRock and Merrill Lynch would change BlackRock from a chiefly U.S.-based fixed income asset manager for institutional clients, to a firm with a global footprint and a strong equities and...Starting at €5.74
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BlackRock (D): Organizing for the Future (with video links)
Gulati, Ranjay; Rivkin, Jan W.; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-717487-EStrategyBy the end of 2015, BlackRock had succeeded beyond any of the early dreams of its founders. The firm remained the world's largest asset manager, with more than $4.6 trillion under management, and other financial services companies used BlackRock's Aladdin platform to monitor an additional $12.9 trillion of assets. With its success, the firm had become far more complex. The scale and scope of BlackRock were helpful to clients when the parts of the...Starting at €5.74
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Henry Schein: Doing Well by Doing Good
Henderson, Rebecca M.; Sesia, Aldo; Eisenstat, Russell A.; Sadun, RaffaellaCase HBS-714450-EStrategyHenry Schein Inc., a distributor of supplies to dentist, physician, and veterinary practices, had sales approaching $9 billion and employed nearly 16,000 people. The company had experienced impressive growth under the leadership of Stanley Bergman and his executive team, many of whom had been with Schein for decades. Besides organic growth, the company relied heavily on acquiring small family-owned businesses to grow, both inside the U.S., and ab...Starting at €8.20
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Friend Bank: The Time for Hope (Abridged)
Rose, Clayton; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-313010-EStrategyIn 2010, Friend Bank was entering the fifth year of Hope Harris Johnson's ambitious 20-year growth plan to transform her family's one-branch community bank into an institution with a substantial presence in southeastern Alabama. Harris Johnson was pleased, so far, with the results. Strategically they had exceeded expectations in opening a second office and execution of the plan was going well. And while the financial and economic crisis that bega...Starting at €8.20