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Eye Care (C): Alejandro Lanzagora's Performance Assessment
Cebrecos, Enrique; Stein, GuidoCase DPO-166-ELeadership and People Management, MarketingIn February 2009 Alejandro Lanzagorta, a Business Manager at Eye Care, meets with the director of his business unit, Tiago de Vasconcelos, to discuss his annual performance assessment. In quantitative terms, Alejandro's sales results are better than expected, in fact, the best in the company. Opinions differ, however, over cost management, where Alejandro believes he has also exceeded expectations. The disagreement intensifies when the discussion...Starting at €5.74
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Eye Care (E): A Second Assesment
Cebrecos, Enrique; Stein, GuidoCase DPO-205-ELeadership and People ManagementIn February, as usual, Alejandro had his 2009 Global Perfomance and Development meeting with his superior, Tiago de Vasconcelos. His results had been very good: sales growth was 12.5%, reaching 100.3% of budgeted sales, above 98.1% of the business unit. In the new refractive line he had achieved 98%, compared to the average of 87%. Alejandro declared that communication had improved significantly, but even so he was nervous about his meetings with...Starting at €5.74
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Yolanda Cruz in Health and Beauty (B)
Stein, Guido; Cebrecos, EnriqueCase DPO-300-ELeadership and People ManagementIn early 2012, Yolanda was appointed head of sales for the area of Catalonia, the second in size. It was a year marked by widespread fall in consumption; however, she exceeded the budget of 6,487,000 euros by 2%. She was also able to unite a team with three newcomers, whose hiring she had not had a say in, and about whom she had expressed personal reticence to her superior, Mónica Roig - she complained her preferences had not been taken into acc...Starting at €5.74
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The Promotion Process at Chung and Dasgupta, LLP (Spanish version)
Larkin, Ian I.; Huang, KarenCase HBS-917S29Leadership and People ManagementSupplemental Information on Jordan Ramirez and Casey Clark" (914-045). The cases provide a rich backdrop to explore issues around firm-specific human capital, and can also be used to discuss subjective performance evaluation, best practices when giving employee feedback, and careers at professional service firms.Starting at €8.20
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General Instructions (Spanish version)
Larkin, Ian I.; Movius, HallamCase HBS-918S24StrategyV-Cola is a six-party exercise that simulates a negotiation between a boutique advertising agency and a beverage company that is launching a new product. Each of the six parties has different incentives and information, which leads to a complex, realistic simulation about agency issues, misaligned incentives, and the (mis)use of contingent contracts.Starting at €8.20
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Confidential Instructions for Mark Ketting Chief Marketing Officer, Trek Beverages (Spanish version)
Larkin, Ian I.; Movius, HallamCase HBS-918S28StrategyThis is information for one of the six roles to be used in the V-Cola negotiation exercise. Please see V-Cola General Instructions (912043) and Teaching note (912042) for full information.Starting at €8.20
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Arck Systems
Larkin, Ian I.Case HBS-911056-ELeadership and People ManagementThe Arck Systems series of cases describes the dilemmas faced by a senior sales manager in determining a sales compensation plan at an enterprise software company. The existing compensation plan is aggressive and highly rewards "star" performers. The cases track a series of changes the manager makes to the sales compensation plan in response to negative and unintended consequences of the existing system. The cases illustrate the trade-offs inhere...Starting at €8.20
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Arck Systems (B)
Larkin, Ian I.Case HBS-911057-ELeadership and People ManagementThe Arck Systems series of cases describes the dilemmas faced by a senior sales manager in determining a sales compensation plan at an enterprise software company. The existing compensation plan is aggressive and highly rewards "star" performers. The cases track a series of changes the manager makes to the sales compensation plan in response to negative and unintended consequences of the existing system. The cases illustrate the tradeoffs inheren...Starting at €5.74
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Arck Systems (C)
Larkin, Ian I.Case HBS-911058-ELeadership and People ManagementThe Arck Systems series of cases describes the dilemmas faced by a senior sales manager in determining a sales compensation plan at an enterprise software company. The existing compensation plan is aggressive and highly rewards "star" performers. The cases track a series of changes the manager makes to the sales compensation plan in response to negative and unintended consequences of the existing system. The cases illustrate the tradeoffs inheren...Starting at €5.74
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Arck Systems (A), (B), (C), (D), (E) and (F), Teaching Note
Larkin, Ian I.Teaching Note HBS-911074-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching Note for 911056, 911057, 911058, 911059, 911060 and 911073.Starting at €0.00