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Cuidado con las trampas de su mente
Baucells Alibés, Manel; Weber, MartinArticle ART-1447Decision AnalysisEn los negocios, como en el resto de las facetas de la vida, la incertidumbre acecha detrás de cada esquina. ¿Qué pasará en el futuro? ¿Podemos estar preparados para lo imprevisto? ¿Cuál es la decisión correcta en momentos así? Los seres humanos hemos desarrollado una serie de mecansimos inconscientes que ayudan a sobrellevar esa inseguridad. Son útiles para no sentirnos abrumados e impiden que nos paralicemos, pero también pueden inhibir nuestra...Starting at €8.20
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Mind Your Mind Traps
Baucells Alibés, Manel; Weber, MartinArticle ART-1447-EDecision AnalysisIn business, as in other areas of life, uncertainty lurks around every corner. What does the future hold? How can we prepare for the unexpected? What is the right decision at times like this? We humans have developed a repertoire of unconscious mechanisms to help us cope with insecurity. While these mechanisms may assuage feelings of helplessness and paralysis, they can also cloud our judgment. The authors explain how three such mind traps work: ...Starting at €8.20
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Defining Moments: Managing Your Mentor
Detert, James R.; Black, ChristinaCase DARDEN-OB-1278-ELeadership and People ManagementA young, female investment banker has just been unexpectedly promoted to managing director of her group - but she’ll be taking her mentor’s job while he is pushed out over a 10-month stint as a “senior adviser” in their group. This case offers students two decision points and opportunities to practice difficult conversations: first, what should she do, and how, when she first learns of her promotion? Second, what should she do, and how, six month...Starting at €8.20
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Understanding FICO Scores - Teaching Note
Fairchild, Gregory B.; Black, Christina; Jones, Liz Ivaniw; Fairchild, TierneyTeaching Note DARDEN-F-1866TN-EFinanceTeaching note for product F-1866TNStarting at €0.00
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Planning for the Future: Savings and Retirement - Teaching Note
Fairchild, Gregory B.; Fairchild, Tierney; Black, Christina; Jones, Liz IvaniwTeaching Note DARDEN-F-1869TN-EFinanceTeaching note for product F-1869TNStarting at €0.00
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Spreadsheets or Michelangelo: Going Back to School - Teaching Note
Fairchild, Gregory B.; Fairchild, Tierney; Black, Christina; Jones, Liz IvaniwTeaching Note DARDEN-F-1874TN-EFinanceTeaching note for product F-1874Starting at €0.00
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Defining Moments: Pay Scales
Detert, James R.; Black, ChristinaCase DARDEN-OB-1215-ELeadership and People ManagementThe only female senior partner at a boutique management consulting firm has found out that she is paid less than half of what male partners were making who were younger, less experienced, and contributing less overall to the business. When she presented her case to the senior partners and explicitly asked if the pay discrepancy is become she was a woman, they would only respond to her through lawyers. The case is designed to bring students’ inst...Starting at €8.20
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Defining Moments: Fair to Whom?
Detert, James R.; Black, Christina; Taubenfeld, BrittonCase DARDEN-OB-1261-ELeadership and People ManagementThe head of an R&D unit in a high-tech firm in India faces a tough decision about whether to recommend firing and replacing or investing even larger amounts of time and resources into training employees who have come up through India’s “reservation system.” Similar to “affirmative action” policies in the United States and Brazil (where the focus is on race), the reservation system in India is meant to counteract inequalities resulting from the hi...Starting at €8.20
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Defining Moments: Personnel Problems - Teaching Note
Detert, James R.; Black, ChristinaTeaching Note DARDEN-OB-1209TN-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching Note for product OB-1209Starting at €0.00
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Defining Moments: Fair to Whom? - Teaching Note
Detert, James R.; Black, ChristinaTeaching Note DARDEN-OB-1261TN-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching Note for product OB-1261Starting at €0.00