Rick Drumm at DAddario Video Supplement Case Solution And Analysis, HBR Case Study Solution & Analysis of Harvard Case Studies

Rick Drumm again in adolescence drums winner, faced with the most promising, but also the most difficult career transition into a career as a manager and leader. While a second-year MBA students in the accelerated program, and has served as president of Vic Firth Inc, $ 20 million in sales drumstick manufacturer, it is recruited to become president of J. D'Addario & Co, the largest producer of music accessories in the U.S.. Having gone through a series of interviews, he said that he should be interviewed Jack Welch, the legendary CEO of General Electric, as the last step in its selection process. Rick must decide how to prepare for an interview, how to approach this final test their skills to take charge of a much larger, more complex organizations. The three parts of a video is to be used in conjunction with a series of cases, starting with a short segment of a person for the cause, duration 4:39 minutes. Consists of a Q & A session in the MBA class (where it was taught), as well as some one-on-one interview footage with Rick and the author, it is designed for "real person" impact of the protagonist, one that would enrich the discussion case. Interview with Jack Welch, the second segment of the video, the duration of 6:03 minutes, gives a first hand experience of what it was for Rick to go through that initially scared the interview, and as a number of issues fell into place during the process. The third segment, to take responsibility for the D'Addario, 11:15 minutes duration, provides a more detailed description of the problem faced by Rick in understanding the business and get a good understanding of the issues he had to resolve. It also provides specific steps it took to start the conversion of the company. "Hide
by J. BM Kassarjian Source: Supplement 22 minutes of video. Publication Date: September 17, 2008. Prod. #: BAB162-VID-ENG