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      • July 2011
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      Teach Plus: Mobilizing a New Generation of Teacher Leaders

      By: David A. Thomas and Stephanie J. Creary
      This case profiles the evolution of Teach Plus, a non-profit organization founded on the premise that in order for public schools to continuously improve urban student achievement, teaching must become a career that motivates and retains effective early career... View Details
      Keywords: Leadership; Decision Making; Strategy; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Entrepreneurship; Teaching; Cambridge; Boston
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      Thomas, David A., and Stephanie J. Creary. "Teach Plus: Mobilizing a New Generation of Teacher Leaders." Harvard Business School Case 412-027, July 2011.
      • April 2011 (Revised May 2012)
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      City Year: The Journey

      By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and James Weber
      Throughout its first two decades, City Year, a non-profit organization, was dedicated to recruiting young adults to give a year of public service. It had passed through several growth phases but by 2010 a new challenge, and opportunity, had arisen when City Year and... View Details
      Keywords: Education; Service Operations; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth and Development Strategy; Performance Efficiency; Resource Allocation
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      Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and James Weber. "City Year: The Journey." Harvard Business School Case 311-080, April 2011. (Revised May 2012.)
      • October 2010 (Revised June 2014)
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      Volkswagen do Brasil: Driving Strategy with the Balanced Scorecard

      By: Robert S. Kaplan and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho
      A new management team at VW do Brazil develops and deploys a strategy map and Balanced Scorecard to accomplish a turnaround and cultural change after eight consecutive years of financial losses and market share declines. The team uses the strategy map to align... View Details
      Keywords: Business Cycles; Developing Countries and Economies; Management Teams; Leadership; Balanced Scorecard; Strategic Planning; Balance and Stability; Motivation and Incentives; Communication Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Auto Industry; Brazil; Germany
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      Kaplan, Robert S., and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho. "Volkswagen do Brasil: Driving Strategy with the Balanced Scorecard." Harvard Business School Case 111-049, October 2010. (Revised June 2014.)
      • February 2010 (Revised March 2010)
      • Supplement

      Leading Change at Simmons (E)

      By: Amy C. Edmondson and Susan Thyne
      This case updates the “Leading Change at Simmons” series by examining Simmons' increasing debt under the ownership of Thomas H. Lee, a private equity firm. Charlie Eitel, the former CEO, wonders what the company's, and his, legacy will be after declaring bankruptcy... View Details
      Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Private Equity; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Leading Change; Operations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Ownership; Performance Improvement; Consumer Products Industry
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      Edmondson, Amy C., and Susan Thyne. "Leading Change at Simmons (E)." Harvard Business School Supplement 610-061, February 2010. (Revised March 2010.)
      • December 2009 (Revised July 2013)
      • Case

      Iris Running Crane: December 2009

      By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
      Iris Running Crane, an MBA candidate, must choose among three different job offers in private equity. One is with a top-tier megafund buyout operation; the second with a geographically focused mid-market fund; and the third with a one-time top-tier fund that is trying... View Details
      Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Private Equity; Compensation and Benefits; Job Offer; Personal Development and Career; Financial Services Industry
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      Rhodes-Kropf, Matthew, Josh Lerner, and Ann Leamon. "Iris Running Crane: December 2009." Harvard Business School Case 810-073, December 2009. (Revised July 2013.)
      • November 2009
      • Case

      The HLB Turnaround

      By: Lynda M. Applegate, Bhaskar Chakravorti and Laura Winig
      Ford Pearson has recently taken over as CEO of HLB, a Chicago-based product design and development firm (and once one of the largest in the business), to help turn it around after a series of crises that had seriously threatened its survival. Pearson has personally... View Details
      Keywords: Business Organization; Business or Company Management; Private Equity; Restructuring; Product Design; Corporate Finance
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      Applegate, Lynda M., Bhaskar Chakravorti, and Laura Winig. "The HLB Turnaround." Harvard Business School Case 810-023, November 2009.
      • September 2008
      • Case

      Steven Scheyer: Renegotiating the Newell Rubbermaid Relationship with Wal-Mart

      By: James K. Sebenius and Ellen Knebel
      In April 2001, Newell Rubbermaid's incoming CEO Joe Galli tapped Steve Scheyer to become President of Newell Rubbermaid's soon-to-be-created Wal-Mart Division. Scheyer had to renegotiate a partnership with Wal-Mart--Rubbermaid's largest customer--that had grown... View Details
      Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Distribution Channels; Partners and Partnerships; Negotiation Process
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      Sebenius, James K., and Ellen Knebel. "Steven Scheyer: Renegotiating the Newell Rubbermaid Relationship with Wal-Mart." Harvard Business School Case 909-013, September 2008.
      • July 2008 (Revised July 2019)
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      Amazon: The Brink of Bankruptcy

      By: Lynda M. Applegate
      Enables a thorough analysis of the Amazon.com business model and its evolution from 1994 to 2001. The case ends with the company poised on the brink of bankruptcy and enables discussion of how to turnaround the company and leverage proprietary assets. View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Restructuring; Entrepreneurship; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Business History; Leading Change; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategy
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      Applegate, Lynda M. "Amazon: The Brink of Bankruptcy." Harvard Business School Case 809-014, July 2008. (Revised July 2019.)
      • June 2008 (Revised December 2010)
      • Teaching Note

      Turnaround at the VHA (TN) (A) & (B)

      By: Amy C. Edmondson
      Teaching Note for [608061] and [608062]. View Details
      Keywords: Business Strategy
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      Edmondson, Amy C. "Turnaround at the VHA (TN) (A) & (B)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 608-176, June 2008. (Revised December 2010.)
      • June 2008 (Revised October 2008)
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      AREVA T&D

      By: Ananth Raman, Vincent Marie Dessain, Ane Damgaard Jensen and Gudrun Urfalino Kristinsdottir
      The case explores the rapid and highly effective turnaround at AREVA's transmission and distribution (T and D) business by focusing on the division's operations. The division was struggling in 2004 when newly-appointed CEO Philippe Guillemot and his team improved... View Details
      Keywords: Business Divisions; Customer Focus and Relationships; Product Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Improvement; Environmental Sustainability
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      Raman, Ananth, Vincent Marie Dessain, Ane Damgaard Jensen, and Gudrun Urfalino Kristinsdottir. "AREVA T&D." Harvard Business School Case 608-174, June 2008. (Revised October 2008.)
      • January 2008
      • Case

      Procter & Gamble Brazil (A): 2 1/2 Turnarounds

      By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Matthew Bird
      Juliana Azevedo Schahin, a local marketing director for Procter & Gamble in Sao Paulo, had worked closely with Tarek Fahahat, a regional executive based in Caracas, to solve the growth and profitability problems of P&G Brazil. They did so through the creation of... View Details
      Keywords: Innovation and Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Demand and Consumers; Product Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Expansion; Consumer Products Industry; Caracas
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      Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Matthew Bird. "Procter & Gamble Brazil (A): 2 1/2 Turnarounds." Harvard Business School Case 308-081, January 2008.
      • November 2007 (Revised March 2009)
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      OppenheimerFunds and Take-Two Interactive (A)

      By: Jay W. Lorsch, Andrew Hill and Kaitlyn Simpson
      Describes the dilemma faced by Emmanuel Ferreira, a fund manager at OppenheimerFunds. As the largest shareholder and a long-time investor in software publisher Take-Two Interactive, Ferreira contemplates whether or not to get involved with other investors in trying to... View Details
      Keywords: Restructuring; Decision Choices and Conditions; Investment; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Business and Shareholder Relations
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      Lorsch, Jay W., Andrew Hill, and Kaitlyn Simpson. "OppenheimerFunds and Take-Two Interactive (A)." Harvard Business School Case 408-074, November 2007. (Revised March 2009.)
      • August 2007 (Revised January 2008)
      • Supplement

      Turnaround at the Veterans Health Administration (B)

      By: Amy C. Edmondson and Brian R. Golden
      Keywords: Health; Government and Politics; Health Industry
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      Edmondson, Amy C., and Brian R. Golden. "Turnaround at the Veterans Health Administration (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 608-062, August 2007. (Revised January 2008.)
      • July 2007 (Revised January 2008)
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      Turnaround at the Veterans Health Administration (A)

      By: Amy C. Edmondson, Brian R. Golden and Gary J. Young
      Investigates the challenges that Dr. Kenneth W. Kizer confronted in seeking to create organizational change at the largest integrated health care system in North America, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). Kizer was appointed as the Under Secretary of Health, to... View Details
      Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Transformation; Leadership; Consolidation; Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Health Industry; Public Administration Industry; North and Central America
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      Edmondson, Amy C., Brian R. Golden, and Gary J. Young. "Turnaround at the Veterans Health Administration (A)." Harvard Business School Case 608-061, July 2007. (Revised January 2008.)
      • June 2007 (Revised August 2007)
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      Dressen (Abridged) (A)

      By: Thomas R. Piper
      John Lynch, CEO of the Dressen Division of Westinghouse, was elated by the proposed leveraged buyout by the private equity firm, Warburg Pincus Ventures. The buyout would rid the division of a 'bad' parent and place the division's destiny in its own hands. A recently... View Details
      Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Restructuring; Forecasting and Prediction; Private Equity; Bids and Bidding; Valuation
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      Piper, Thomas R. "Dressen (Abridged) (A)." Harvard Business School Case 207-125, June 2007. (Revised August 2007.)
      • February 2007
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      South African Airways (A)

      By: Joshua D. Margolis, Laura Morgan Roberts and Laura Winig
      Amid efforts to engineer a turnaround at South African Airways (SAA), the CEO confronts an impending strike at the struggling company. How should the company address questions of distributive and procedural justice in post-Apartheid South Africa, and how should the CEO... View Details
      Keywords: Fairness; Crisis Management; Employees; Employment; Growth and Development; Developing Countries and Economies; Air Transportation Industry; South Africa
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      Margolis, Joshua D., Laura Morgan Roberts, and Laura Winig. "South African Airways (A)." Harvard Business School Case 407-014, February 2007.
      • December 2006 (Revised August 2013)
      • Teaching Note

      Hexcel Turnaround -- 2001 (A), (B) and (C)

      By: Paul W. Marshall
      This is the teaching note that is supplemental to the Hexcel Cases A, B & C. View Details
      Keywords: Private Equity; Negotiation; Management Teams; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategy; Change Management; Crisis Management; Borrowing and Debt; Aerospace Industry; Electronics Industry; United States
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      Marshall, Paul W. "Hexcel Turnaround -- 2001 (A), (B) and (C)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 807-115, December 2006. (Revised August 2013.)
      • November 2006 (Revised May 2007)
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      Hewlett-Packard Company: The War Within

      By: Krishna G. Palepu, Jay W. Lorsch, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Eliot Sherman
      In September 2006 it was revealed that the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) had been carrying out an extended investigation of its own employees, board members, and journalists outside the company. The investigation was launched in response to a series of leaks to the... View Details
      Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Employee Relationship Management; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Communication Technology; Conflict and Resolution; Newspapers; Computer Industry; Information Technology Industry
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      Palepu, Krishna G., Jay W. Lorsch, Carin-Isabel Knoop, and Eliot Sherman. "Hewlett-Packard Company: The War Within." Harvard Business School Case 107-030, November 2006. (Revised May 2007.)
      • March 2006 (Revised December 2013)
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      Hexcel Turnaround — 2001 (A)

      By: Paul W. Marshall, James Quinn and Reed Martin
      Hexcel's new CEO is faced with deciding how to "take out" $60 million in cash costs in fiscal 2002, as two of the company's end markets—electronics and commercial aerospace—are expected to decline precipitously. Options include closing plants, exiting a business, or... View Details
      Keywords: Private Equity; Negotiation; Management Teams; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategy; Change Management; Crisis Management; Borrowing and Debt; Aerospace Industry; Electronics Industry; United States
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      Marshall, Paul W., James Quinn, and Reed Martin. "Hexcel Turnaround — 2001 (A)." Harvard Business School Case 806-099, March 2006. (Revised December 2013.)
      • March 2006 (Revised December 2013)
      • Supplement

      Hexcel Turnaround — 2001 (B)

      By: Paul W. Marshall, James Quinn and Reed Martin
      Supplements the (A) case. View Details
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      Marshall, Paul W., James Quinn, and Reed Martin. "Hexcel Turnaround — 2001 (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 806-100, March 2006. (Revised December 2013.)
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