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Wausau Equipment Company: A Lean Journey (C)
Landel, Robert D.; Gruia, SorinCase DARDEN-OM-1383-EService and Operations ManagementThis file contains slides that show the elements chosen by the senior management and consultants to reengage and relaunch the lean journey at Wausau Equipment Company, following its original failed implementation and necessitated by implementation and acceptance problems at the management level. A teaching note (OM-1354TN) is available.Starting at €5.74
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Stress in the Workplace: Mental Health Conversations - Teaching note
Adams, Gabrielle; Brown-Iannuzzi, Jazmin; Lisnek, Jaclyn; Prengler, Melanie; Yemen, GerryTeaching Note DARDEN-OB-1440TN-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching note for product OB-1440Starting at €0.00
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Wausau Equipment Company: A Lean Journey (A)
Landel, Robert D.; Gruia, SorinCase DARDEN-OM-1354-EService and Operations ManagementA manufacturing company with a reputation for excellent service and quality and a command-and-control style of management with little communication across the organization decides to undertake a lean transformation, working closely with Lean Dynamics, a management consulting group with extensive lean-implementation experience. The challenges the company faces are examined in detail as are the lean implementation process, tools, and practices. But...Starting at €8.20
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Wausau Equipment Company: A Lean Journey (B)
Landel, Robert D.; Gruia, SorinCase DARDEN-OM-1382-EService and Operations ManagementThe lean initiative detailed in the (A) case, OM-1354, had reached a precarious stage. The machine and systems division of Wausau Equipment Company (WECO) had failed to sell several harvesting systems to customers to usually reliable buyers, and the competition was making important inroads in what was traditionally WECO country. The first wave of improvements made by the teams had not yet had any impact in the field. Enthusiasm to re-engage in th...Starting at €5.74
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Transformational Gaming: Zynga's Social Strategy (B)
Werhane, Patricia H.; Mead, Jenny; Hartman, Laura P.; Christmas, DanielleCase DARDEN-E-0361-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityThe B case of this three-case series outlines how Mark Pincus, with help from his sister Laura Hartman, began to implement his new brand of social strategy. Initial steps included two partnerships: (1) Zynga’s YoVille and the San Francisco SPCA; and (2) Mafia Wars and the Huntington’s Disease Society of America. A new program within Zynga was created: Zynga.org, which would focus on global problems and ways to address them. Its first project, in ...Starting at €5.74
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Stress in the Workplace: Mental Health Conversations—The Boss
Adams, Gabrielle; Brown-Iannuzzi, Jazmin; Lisnek, Jaclyn; Prengler, Melanie; Yemen, GerryCase DARDEN-OB-1440-ELeadership and People ManagementMost managers will one day be in a situation where they must help another employee with a mental health issue. How should they prepare for these conversations? What resources are available? This role-play case duo sets up a discussion on mental health—specifically, depression and anxiety—between an employee and their manager in a US context. Students will be assigned either the role of the boss or the direct report, and will be asked to navigate...Starting at €8.20
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Transformational Gaming: Zynga's Social Strategy (A)
Werhane, Patricia H.; Mead, Jenny; Hartman, Laura P.; Christmas, DanielleCase DARDEN-E-0360-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityIn January 2009, Mark Pincus, founder and CEO of the immensely popular and successful Zynga Game Network met with his sister Laura Hartman, DePaul University business ethics professor, to discuss building a new brand of corporate social strategy. Pincus wanted to find a way that Zynga could have a greater social impact on the world. He and Hartman talked about creating a new social strategy that would naturally flow out of Zynga’s success in deve...Starting at €8.20
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Transformational Gaming: Zynga's Social Strategy (C)
Werhane, Patricia H.; Mead, Jenny; Hartman, Laura P.; Christmas, DanielleCase DARDEN-E-0362-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityFollowing the May 2010 Sweet Seeds campaign, Zynga announced that it would expand its FATEM partnership to build a school for children in Haiti who had been affected by the devastating earthquake in January of that year. In one week, more than 45,000 FarmVille users raised $110,000 through the purchase of virtual social goods. Sweet Seeds would be the first of several campaigns Zynga launched to raise funds for the school. In the meantime, Zynga....Starting at €5.74
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Stress in the Workplace: Mental Health Conversations—The Employee
Adams, Gabrielle; Brown-Iannuzzi, Jazmin; Lisnek, Jaclyn; Prengler, Melanie; Yemen, GerryCase DARDEN-OB-1441-ELeadership and People ManagementMost managers will one day be in a situation where they must help another employee with a mental health issue. How should they prepare for these conversations? What resources are available? This role-play case duo sets up a discussion on mental health—specifically, depression and anxiety—between an employee and their manager in a US context. Students will be assigned either the role of the boss or the direct report, and will be asked to navigate...Starting at €8.20