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In this brilliant Hartwick Classic Film Leadership Case®, Henry Fonda plays a juror who seeks to convince his eleven peers to reconsider their hasty decision to convict a young boy who has been charged with murdering his father. The struggle to change his colleagues' minds is highly charged and fascinating, and gives students the opportunity to consider how important it is for an effective leader ...More |
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This Hartwick Classic Film Leadership Case® uses the highly acclaimed film Apollo 13, which is based on the real-life crisis on board an Apollo spacecraft that occurred on April 13, 1970. The Apollo missions had become so routine and perfect that the Apollo 13 mission generated little interest from the press - until a routine maintenance procedure caused an oxygen tank to explode, leaving the thre ...More |
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This Hartwick Classic Film Leadership Case Study® depicts the mutiny against Captain William Bligh during a worldwide British naval expedition in 1789. The film, which is based on Richard Hough's book Captain Bligh and Mr. Christian, stars Mel Gibson as Fletcher Christian, the leader of the mutiny, and Anthony Hopkins as Bligh. Captain Bligh is given the mission of bringing breadfruit plants from ...More |
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This Hartwick Classic Film Leadership Case® is based on the film, which is based on Pierre Boulle's novel, of the indomitable Colonel Nicholson, a British army officer captured by the Japanese during World War II. The railway bridge, which Nicholson and his men are forced to build across the River Kwai, becomes Colonel Nicholson's means of preserving his organization and inspiring his men with the ...More |
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The story of the fatal charge of the English cavalry at the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War is presented in this Hartwick Classic Film Leadership Case®. Ordered to advance against well-defended Russian artillery, the Light Brigade is destroyed by the jealousy and incompetence of its commanding officers. The Earls of Cardigan and Lucan, brothers-in-law and sworn enemies, fight over matte ...More |
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This Hartwick Classic Film Leadership Case® is based on the innovative film that combined a powerful script with equally powerful directing, acting, and cinematography to create what many consider to be the best American film ever made. It is the story of a reporter's attempt to find the truth about a dead newspaper tycoon - the greatest American of them all - by interviewing individuals who knew ...More |
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This Hartwick Classic Film Leadership Case® is based on the film The Contender, which follows in the tradition of many great political films, highlighting issues of morality and ethics and public versus private life. However, it is unique in its focus on a female vice presidential candidate and fierce in its exposure of gender biases, sexual stereotypes and discriminations that confront female lea ...More |
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This Hartwick Classic Film Leadership Case® uses the highly acclaimed film Courage Under Fire. The backdrop of the movie is the Gulf War in which the heterogeniety between the Iraquis and the Gulf Confederation was so great that it could only be overcome through war. Lieutenant Colonel Nat Serling has been assigned to determine wheter Captain Karen Emma Walden, who died in the Gulf War, deserves t ...More |
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This Hartwick Classic Film Leadership Case® is based upon the critically acclaimed film Crash, which explores the volatile, racially charged environment of Los Angeles, though the racial tensions depicted are applicable to many locales. The film’s multiple stories expose the ways in which racial fears, stereotypes, presumptions and histories shape moral decision making in everyone’s life, no matt ...More |
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This Hartwick Classic Film Leadership Case® is based on the fast-moving, provocative film about a nuclear ballistic submarine which has received orders to do the unthinkable - launch a nuclear first strike against Russia. The strike is ordered to prevent a threatened launch of nuclear missiles which have come into the possession of a rebellious Russian ultra-nationalist - a frighteningly plausible ...More |
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