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Why Did We Ever Go Into HR
Breitfelder, Matthew D.; Dowling, Daisy WademanArticle HBS-R0807B-ELeadership and People ManagementBreitfelder and Dowling are two recent Harvard MBAs who have worked in fields typically chosen by alumni of esteemed business schools: strategy consulting, investment banking, you know the score. Ultimately, however, these promising young professionals decided to do the unexpected and enter human resources. They switched gears not to achieve work/life balance or avoid tough challenges but to get in early on a good thing, as any smart value invest...Starting at €8.20
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David Neeleman: Flight Path of a Servant Leader (A)
George, William W.; Breitfelder, Matthew D.Case HBS-409024-ELeadership and People ManagementDavid Neeleman, founder of JetBlue, is forced to confront a crisis in customer confidence following operational difficulties on February 14, 2007. This becomes a vital test of his leadership.Starting at €8.20
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David Neeleman: Flight Path of a Servant Leader (B)
George, William W.; Breitfelder, Matthew D.Case HBS-409038-ELeadership and People ManagementDavid Neeleman (B) traces the events subsequent to the (A) case.Starting at €5.74
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Life Stories of Recent MBAs: Motivations
Nohria, Nitin; Breitfelder, Matthew D.; Dowling, Daisy WademanCase HBS-410031-ELeadership and People ManagementStarting at €8.20
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Pete Carroll: Building A Winning Organization through Purpose, Caring, and Inclusion
Gulati, Ranjay; Breitfelder, Matthew D.; Burke, MonteCase HBS-421020-ELeadership and People ManagementCompeting at the highest levels of the National Football League (NFL) requires tremendous skill, dedication and persistence. The most successful coaches in the NFL know how to draw out a higher level of performance and consistency from their players. ThisStarting at €8.20
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Street Child Europe: Growing a Charity
Joerg Dietz; Anna ZampaCase IVEY-9B19C029-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyAt the end of March 2018, the director of the Barcelona office of Street Child, a charity organization with headquarters in the United Kingdom, was looking back at the changes he had introduced in 2017. The Barcelona office was responsible for growing StrStarting at €8.20
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Why Did We Ever Go Into HR? (Spanish version)
Breitfelder, Matthew D.; Dowling, Daisy WademanArticle HBS-R0807BLeadership and People ManagementIt, like a business school, promotes active learning; it serves as an engine for both savings and revenue; it hatches and harvests ideas across organizational boundaries; it makes big places smaller by connecting people intimately and often; and it focuses on the positive, moving beyond fixing problems and enforcing rules to enhancing employee engagement and capitalizing on people's strengths. If that's what HR is becoming, why wouldn't you go i...Starting at €8.20
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Kenexa
Joerg Dietz; Chetan JoshiCase IVEY-9B07C004-ELeadership and People ManagementThis case describes the measurement and evaluation of high performance principles of people management in a retail bank by a consulting company. This case serves as a platform for students to deliberate on what is involved in an organization's quest to achieve competitive success through its workforce. A unique strength of the case is that students are asked to quantitatively test their arguments with data provided in an Excel spreadsheet that ac...Starting at €8.20
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Medical Equipment Inc. in Saudi Arabia
Joerg Dietz; Ankur Grover; Laura GuerreroCase IVEY-9B07C042-ELeadership and People Management, Marketing, StrategyA recently hired U.S.-trained sales account manager at Medical Equipment Inc. (Medical Equipment) returned to his office after meeting with the head of the cardiology department at a specialist hospital and research center in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He had worked very hard to secure his first sale of US$725,000 for healthcare equipment, but was disheartened when the head of cardiology told him that the hospital's purchasing director intended to giv...Starting at €8.20
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Life Stories of Recent MBAs
Nohria, Nitin; Breitfelder, Matthew D.; Dowling, Daisy WademanCase HBS-410026-ELeadership and People ManagementStarting at €8.20