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  MC Tool

  Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff

  Two partners acquired MC Tool in October 2007 for $5 million. The company was a machine shop that manufactured parts for a wide variety of applications in the energy, automotive and industrial equipment industries. In their first year of ownership, the partners focused on improving operations and enhancing sales with impressive results: sales doubled and EBTIDA increased by over 40%. But the "Great Recession" had an immediate impact in the fall of 2008 as customers cancelled orders and new sales became scarce. MC Tool's core business was cyclical and risky. The partners were considering transforming the business towards manufacturing more precise parts that would be less cyclical and less risky.

  Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Risk Management; Risk and Uncertainty; Problems and Challenges; Business Strategy; Production; Manufacturing Industry; United States;

  Citation:

  Ruback, Richard S., and Royce Yudkoff. "MC Tool." Harvard Business School Case 213-013, June 2013. (Revised from original July 2012 version.)

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  Roxbury Technology Corporation

  Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff

  Roxbury Technology is a Boston-based re-manufacturer of ink and toner cartridges. In early 2012 RTC was re-evaluating its approach to the company's two most important goals: reducing customer concentration and increasing profitability. RTC's largest customer accounted for about 98% of sales and the company had roughly broken even over the last two years. The two goals were intertwined because RTC's sales growth strategy had to be designed so it didn't bring the company into conflict with its largest customer. That raised its marketing costs and reduced profitability.

  Keywords: social enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Financial Management; Green Technology Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Boston;

  Citation:

  Ruback, Richard S., and Royce Yudkoff. "Roxbury Technology Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 213-029, May 2013. (Revised from original September 2012 version.)

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  Coach Hurley at St. Anthony High School

  Scott A. Snook and Bradley Lawrence

  Coach Bob Hurley of St. Anthony High School is one of the winningest coaches in the history of high school basketball. At age 65, he has won more than 1,000 games and 25 New Jersey State Championships. His players come from the toughest streets in the country and yet all but 3 have gone on to college. As head coach, he earns less than $10,000 a year; his circa 1917 school building doesn't even have a gym. And yet, for almost 40 years he has turned down all offers to leave a small, aging, Catholic school in Jersey City, NJ. This is a biographical case about a tough-love leader who epitomizes what it means to be authentic. It was written for a course on authentic leadership development to highlight the origins and potential of deep self-knowledge and passion. Class discussion focuses on the tensions between extrinsic and intrinsic motivations and the role that this plays in our lives.

  Keywords: leadership; leadership development; Authentic Leadership Development; Authenticity; Sports; coaching; Leadership; Leadership Style; Leadership Development; Groups and Teams; Sports Industry; Education Industry; New Jersey;

  Citation:

  Snook, Scott A., and Bradley Lawrence. "Coach Hurley at St. Anthony High School." Harvard Business School Case 413-091, March 2013.

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