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RBC: Transforming Transformation (B)
Bernstein, Ethan S.; Gino, Francesca; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-920045-ELeadership and People ManagementIn 2017, the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), a Canadian financial icon, mandated a swat team of "enablers of collaboration" (their job description) to support the personal and commercial bank in the enterprise-wide RBC Cultural Transformation initiative. HisStarting at €5.74
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Wendell Weeks at Corning Inc. (B): Valor Glass and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Raffaelli, Ryan L.; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-421078-ELeadership and People ManagementThe (B) case offers a detailed account of Wendell Weeks's innovation strategy at Corning, and how his approach played a critical role in the COVID-19 pandemic. It illustrates the company's philosophy of making long-term investments in promising new technologies and products well before others believed their time was ripe.Starting at €5.74
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Ribbon Home: iBacking for Real Estate, Teaching Note
Di Maggio, Marco; Sesia, AldoTeaching Note HBS-221049-EFinanceTeaching note for case 219059.Starting at €0.00
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Wendell Weeks at Corning Inc.: Extending a History of Life-Changing Innovations
Raffaelli, Ryan L.; Fubini, David G.; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-419003-ELeadership and People ManagementThis case examines the leadership challenges associated with maintaining a culture of innovation in established organizations. It asks students to step into the shoes of a leader faced with making several tough decisions about when to invest (or to stop investing) in radical innovation projects. Corning CEO Wendell Weeks, who nearly bankrupted the company in the early 2000s when he overinvested in fiber optics, must initially decide if the compan...Starting at €8.20
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Irene Charnley at Johnnic Group (A)(Abridged) and (B), Teaching Note
Hill, Linda A.; Paine, Lynn Sharp; Sesia, AldoTeaching Note HBS-407059-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching note to (405-060) and (403-171). An abstract is not available for this product.Starting at €0.00
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AMC Entertainment: Creating a Spectacular Moviegoing Experience (A), Teaching Plan
McGee, Henry W.; Sesia, AldoTeaching Note HBS-320031-EStrategyTeaching plan for case 319024.Starting at €0.00
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SmileDirectClub: Better is Better
Schlesinger, Leonard A.; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-320016-EStrategyStarting at €8.20
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Summit Public Schools (A)
Kim, John Jong-Hyun; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-318067-EStrategySummit Public Schools was a very successful charter management organization with schools in California and Washington State. The students came from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds, many from economically-disadvantaged households. While nearly all of its students were accepted to a four-year college, Summit's leadership discovered that nearly half of graduates had failed at college. This was unacceptable to Summit's leadership and they set ...Starting at €8.20
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Environmental Technology Fund Partners and E-Leather
Gandhi, Vikram; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-318001-EFinanceIt is 2014 and Environmental Technologies Fund (ETF) Partners, a U.K.-based venture capital firm, has an opportunity to invest in a privately-held U.K. company that manufactured engineered composition leather extracted from waste leather using an environmentally-friendly process. The end product looked, smelled and felt like natural leather. Scalable marketplace adoption of E-Leather's products looked promising, but was just that-promising. And t...Starting at €8.20
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Transatlantic Holdings, Inc. - The Belle of the Ball
Rose, Clayton; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-313017-EIn November of 2011 Transatlantic Holdings, Inc., a global property and casualty reinsurance company, announced it had agreed to sell itself to Alleghany Corporation, ending "the most frenzied takeover battle" of 2011, which involved competitors, Warren Buffett's National Indemnity, and private equity investors. The agreement with Alleghany came after Transatlantic's failed effort at a merger of equals, and a several other unsuccessful bids for t...Starting at €8.20