"Dr. Benjamin Hooks and Health Forum" diagrams are many different career paths hooks, civil rights activist and pioneer. Hooks positions ranged from a lawyer, a judge, a preacher, an entrepreneur first African American commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in the co-founder of the nonprofit Children's Health Forum (CHF). CHF mission was to eliminate lead poisoning in children in the United States. The case provides an overview of lead poisoning in the U.S., including how it is measured, its causes and the laws passed to prevent it. The case asks students to think about the choice of leadership Kryuchkov and his decision to go to CHF. How would they rate the hooks as a leader? What made him a strong leader? Given the past experience of the hooks, they think that the hooks had made the right decision to focus on lead poisoning after leaving the NAACP? This is an area where he could have the greatest impact? "Hide
by Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Abbye Atkinson, Carmel Sali, Aldo Sesia Source: Harvard Business School 28 pages. Publication Date: April 9, 2009. Prod. #: 309111-PDF-ENG
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