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John Huston's film based on Rudyard Kipling's famous story explores the dynamics of power and charismatic leadership against the exotic backdrop of India and Kafiristan in the late nineteenth century. This Hartwick Classic Film Leadership Case® examines the challenges facing two swashbuckling entrepreneurs as they attempt to scheme their way into positions of power. What results is an investigatio ...More |
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This Hartwick Classic Film Leadership Case® explores leadership issues in the award-winning film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, which is based on the great seafaring novels by author Patrick O’Brian. In this film, “Lucky Jack” Aubrey is Captain of the HMS Surprise, a frigate of the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. His orders are to destroy or capture the French man’o war A ...More |
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This Hartwick Classic Film Leadership Case® is based on the 1999 hit science fiction film The Matrix. In the film, Thomas Anderson (a.k.a Neo) is a computer programmer who believes that he is living a normal life in the year 1999. It isn’t until Neo meets a group of fellow computer hackers, lead by a mysterious figure named Morpheus, that he learns the truth: the world is run by a complex compute ...More |
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When an ambitious young composer accepts a job teaching high school music, he is unaware that his own neglected leadership abilities will be awakened and his sense of life-purpose transformed. This Hartwick Classic Film Leadership Case explores the gradual success of a reluctant leader who must first overcome his presumptions about leading to discover his own values as a compass for others, and w ...More |
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This Hartwick Classic Film Leadership Case® characterizes the leadership skills of a New York male labor organizer and a southern female textile factory worker. Both characters exhibit leadership qualities, one in particular the ability to empower others to accomplish the overall goal of organizing a group of powerless textile factory workers. Students observe as each empowers the other, and focus ...More |
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In this Hartwick Classic Film Leadership Case®, the classic anti-war film Paths of Glory, directed by Stanley Kubrick, highlights dark, and all too real failures of leadership within a hierarchical system; in this case, the 1916 French military during WWI. Based on the tragic realities of trench warfare in a war where "offense at all costs" was one leadership creed, Paths of Glory tells the story ...More |
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This Hartwick Classic Film Leadership Case® is based on the film about the true story of a high school football team, the T.C. Williams Titans. Under the leadership of two powerful, caring coaches - one white, the other African American - the team overcame deep racial prejudice to become true champions and to set an example for the racially divided town of Alexandria, Virginia. The film is set in ...More |
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This Hartwick Classic Film Leadership Case® focuses on the crisis that can result when an organization demands "maximum effort" from its members. Based on the story of a stubborn general's mission to rebuild a bomber group whose shattered morale under heavy losses threatens to undermine the aerial offensive against German-held Europe in World War II. The case study dramatically contrasts the leade ...More |
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In this Hartwick Classic Film Leadership Case®, double-dealing in the stock market provides the backdrop for a profound inquiry into the ethics and behavior of individuals and organizations in a capitalistic society. Students observe the film's leading characters as they try to make as much money as they can, breaking the law regularly as they persue their financial goals. In the process, they squ ...More |
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