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In this Hartwick Classic Film Leadership Case®, a newly-appointed teacher inspires a love of poetry and intellectual freedom among his young students at a strict New England prep school. In the process, however, he encounters the profound resistance of his teaching colleagues and administrators. Students have the opportunity to grasp how difficult it is to bring change about in entrenched organiza ...More |
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In this Hartwick Classic Film Leadership Case®, the mythical leader of Camelot is presented in the film, which is based on T.H. White's bestselling novel, The Once and Future King. Arthur is challenged by his magician/tutor, Merlyn, to create a kingdom in which power is exercised, not for his own gain, nor to sustain the vanity of his nobles, but for the benefit of the common good. The betrayal of ...More |
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This Hartwick Classic Film Leadership Case® is based on the gripping adventure about the crash of a small plane and the arduous efforts of the survivors to reconstruct the wreckage and then fly it. Observing this group as it faces what are clearly near-impossible odds as well as starvation and dehydration, students witness the struggle for leadership and the basis on which the characters vie for a ...More |
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This Hartwick Classic Film Leadership Case® is based on one of the best screen biographies in the history of motion pictures. It describes the life of the former Indian leader so intimately that students feel they have actually known and been deeply affected by this great leader; one reviewer of the film wrote that "There is a genuine feeling that the spirit of Gandhi is on the screen." Students l ...More |
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Oriented around the film Gettysburg, which is based on the historically accurate novel The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara, this case study deals with the largest and most deadly battle ever fought onAmerican soil. It reveals much about leadership - successful and unsuccessful. It is during the Civil War that the small town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania became the site of what is seen by many to be ...More |
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In this Hartwick Classic Film Leadership Case®, students learn what few know: that not only was the Civil War the war to free the slaves, many people of color themselves fought in the war. They watch as members of the 54th Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry made up of entirely African Americans fight an uphill battle across impossible terrain against the Confederate army. They were d ...More |
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This Hartwick Classic Film Leadership Case® is based on Shakespeare's great exploration of leadership as portrayed in the award-winning Kenneth Branagh film Henry V. Students witness what is perhaps history's finest call to arms as they see and hear the young king deliver his St. Crispian's Day speech, ending with the unforgettable words: "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers." This is a fund ...More |
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Everyone has heard a story about a losing high school sports team that with the help of new blood and rigorous training goes on to "win the big one." But this Hartwick Classic Film Leadership Case® is based on a true story, one that describes the rebirth of a down-and-out Indiana high school basketball team at the hands of a new coach. As students witness this comeback, they are struck by how apt ...More |
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In this Hartwick Classic Film Leadership Case® based on Tom Clancy's best-selling novel, a Russian naval commander (the most respected man in the Soviet submarineservice) defects to the West with his crew, nuclear weapons, and state-of-the-art submarine. His leadership skills are undeniable and surface clearly as he enlists others to his cause. Yet two other leaders also emerge in the film: an ...More |
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William Golding's compeling story of a group of British schoolboys stranded on a remote island provides the core of this Hartwick Classic Film Leadership Case®. Their gradual degeneration into a savage horde leaves an unforgettable imprint on anyone interested in leadership failure. Students focus first on what went wrong. They contemplate the damage that can be done by organizational power strugg ...More |
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