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Old Hand or New Blood? (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Cespedes, Frank V.; Gardner, Alston; Kerr, Steven; Kelley, Randall D.; Dixon, Andrea L.Article HBS-R0607A-ELeadership and People ManagementFusilier Technology is in disarray. Its vice-president of sales is leaving, the company's new growth strategy to sell customized business solutions has stalled, and sales have been flat for five years. Bill MacLeod, Fusilier's CEO, has to choose between two very different candidates for the top sales job: a veteran sales director who has excelled under the old order and a brash outsider who has experience selling solutions but doesn't know the in...Starting at €8.20
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Ron Ventura at Mitchell Memorial Hospital, Teaching Note
Cespedes, Frank V.; Abelli, HeideTeaching Note HBS-913573-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching Note for Product #913572.Starting at €0.00
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Andrew Ryan at VC Brakes (Spanish version)
Cespedes, Frank V.; Yong, SunruCase HBS-915S01Leadership and People ManagementAn aftermarket brake component manufacturer, VC Brakes, is bought out by a global automotive parts corporation after the 2008 financial crisis. Unlike its previous parent company, the new owner attempts to change VC Brakes' autocratic management style and finger-pointing culture with a Total Quality Management (TQM) program. Andrew Ryan is a senior manager at VC Brakes. With the guidance of a strong mentor and a reputation as a successful change ...Starting at €8.20
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Robin Ash and Printzhof Press
Cespedes, Frank V.; St. Clair, LyndaCase HBS-913554-ELeadership and People ManagementRobin Ash has just been promoted to Chief Operating Officer of Printzhof Press and Vice President of its parent company, Education and Entertainment Holdings, Inc. Her first objective is to create an action plan that will achieve two seemingly contradictory corporate objectives: transform Printzhof into an aggressively competitive 21st century educational publisher while maintaining its close-knit and collaborative culture. Because of new technol...Starting at €8.20
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Andrew Ryan at VC Brakes
Cespedes, Frank V.; Yong, SunruCase HBS-913552-ELeadership and People ManagementAn aftermarket brake component manufacturer, VC Brakes, is bought out by a global automotive parts corporation after the 2008 financial crisis. Unlike its previous parent company, the new owner attempts to change VC Brakes' autocratic management style and finger-pointing culture with a Total Quality Management (TQM) program. Andrew Ryan is a senior manager at VC Brakes. With the guidance of a strong mentor and a reputation as a successful change ...Starting at €8.20
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Andrew Ryan at VC Brakes, Teaching Note
Cespedes, Frank V.; Yong, SunruTeaching Note HBS-913553-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching Note for Product #913552Starting at €0.00
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Robin Ash and Printzhof Press (Spanish version)
Cespedes, Frank V.; St. Clair, LyndaCase HBS-917S06Leadership and People Managementtransform Printzhof into an aggressively competitive 21st century educational publisher while maintaining its close-knit and collaborative culture. Because of new technologies changing how information is delivered and used in higher education, the need for the company to evolve along with the publishing industry is obvious to Ash and other company leaders. However, Printzhof's history of success has resulted in resistance to organizational chang...Starting at €8.20
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Succession and Failure (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Cespedes, Frank V.; Galford, Robert; Bonsignore, Francis N.; Buck, Michelle L.; Younger, Jon; Leppert, ThomasArticle HBS-R0406A-ELeadership and People ManagementNorman Windom, the chairman of Tiverton Media, may not know much about the world of popular music, but he does fancy himself a careful planner and a superb judge of managerial talent. That's why he's been grooming COO Sean Kinnane, a Wharton-minted numbers man, to take over an important division, Aleph Records, and one day Tiverton itself. But Derek Solomon, Aleph's 68-year-old CEO and founder, remains a creative force and a father figure to the ...Starting at €8.20
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Ron Ventura at Mitchell Memorial Hospital
Cespedes, Frank V.; Abelli, HeideCase HBS-913572-ELeadership and People ManagementMitchell Memorial Hospital is a 750-bed regional academic medical center in Ohio. Andy Prescott, Chief of the Cardiovascular Center, is reviewing the performance evaluations of his star vascular surgeon Ron Ventura. The evaluations, the result of a 360-degree performance review cycle the hospital had recently put in place, were much more critical than he had anticipated. Ventura, with a national reputation as an accomplished vascular surgeon, had...Starting at €8.20
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Robin Ash and Printzhof Press, Teaching Note
Cespedes, Frank V.; St. Clair, LyndaTeaching Note HBS-913555-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching Note for Product #913554.Starting at €0.00