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Trouble at Tessei, Teaching Note
Bernstein, Ethan S.; Buell, Ryan W.Teaching Note HBS-616031-EService and Operations ManagementIn 2005, Teruo Yabe is asked to revive Tessei, the 669-person JR-East subsidiary responsible for cleaning its Shinkansen (""bullet"") trains. Operational mistakes, customer complaints, safety issues, and employee turnover are at or near all-time highs, even as the demands on Tessei continued to grow. Given previous leaders' failed attempts to fix Tessei's problems with increased managerial monitoring and controls, Yabe seeks a creative approach...Starting at €0.00
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Olympus (A), Teaching Note
Lorsch, Jay W.; Srinivasan, SurajTeaching Note HBS-114072-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching Note for 413040. As 2012 approached the woes of the financial crisis seemed to be fading, companies were resuming business as usual and some of the scrutiny on corporate governance practices began to recede as well. That is until another major financial scandal emerged in Japan in the fall of 2011. It was slowly revealed that the 92-year-old camera and medical photo-imaging company, Olympus, had been hiding its losses for more than a dec...Starting at €0.00
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Social Salary Setting at Spiber, Teaching Note
Whillans, Ashley V.; Beshears, JohnTeaching Note HBS-921014-ELeadership and People ManagementThis case tells the story of Spiber, a Japanese technology start-up company. To reflect the company's values, the leadership team implemented a new and unique salary-setting process: each employee had the authority to choose their own salary. In the couStarting at €0.00
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Financial Leadership in Novartis Consumer Health Businesses, Teaching Note
Groysberg, Boris; Marietta, GeoffTeaching Note HBS-409005-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching Note for [406102].Starting at €0.00
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Womenomics in Japan, Teaching Note
Groysberg, Boris; Lane, DavidTeaching Note HBS-418051-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching note for case 417002.Starting at €0.00
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Vodafone Japan (A), (B) and (C) , Teaching Note
Alcacer, JuanTeaching Note HBS-713444-EService and Operations ManagementThe series of three cases is used in Harvard Business School's (HBS) elective course "Competing Globally" as the second case in the first module (Why?: Strategies to create value globally) (See "Competing Globally: Course Note for Instructors", HBS 713-422). The module identifies three general strategies that create value through global operations: deploying, developing, and deepening. The Vodafone Japan cases illustrate the second strategy type:...Starting at €0.00
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Carolina for Kibera, Teaching Note
McGinn, Kathleen L.Teaching Note HBS-913001-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching Note for 910017 and 913701Starting at €0.00
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DJ World Conference - Teaching Note
de Santiago, RafaelTeaching Note ADT-40-EDecision Analysis, Information Technologies, Service and Operations ManagementTokyo Music School (TOMS) has prepared some of the best DJs in the world for almost two decades. At the beginning of 2019, the school decided to organize an event that would bring together recent alumni with some of the best DJs in the world. The long-term vision was to make this event grow into a global convention for DJs. A number of world-renown disc jockeys have been invited to discuss and share their personal experiences regarding what it ta...Starting at €0.00