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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: MBA Hackers
Detert, James R.Case DARDEN-OB-1275-ELeadership and People ManagementThe dean of a prominent business school has learned that the system that his—and many other—business schools use to help select and notify MBA students has been hacked. The hacker posted instructions for applicants to gain access to schools’ decisions ahead of time. During the 10 hours MyMBA’s system was compromised, several hundred applicants viewed their admission status at multiple top-tier schools. MyMBA now has offered the names of the appli...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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Toops Wholesale
Weiss, Elliott N.; McGettigan, Bill; Murphy, MichaelCase DARDEN-OM-1356-EService and Operations ManagementThe general manager of a grocery distributor in New Zealand must decide whether to consolidate its regional warehouses into one central location. The decision has been made more urgent by the recent loss of a distribution channel to a competitor. The company must weigh the cost benefits against any potential impact on the customer service for which it is known.Starting at €8.20
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Managing Inventories: Determining Order Quantity
Freeland, James R.; Landel, Robert D.; Weiss, Elliott N.Technical Note DARDEN-OM-1395-EService and Operations ManagementCycle-stock ordering decisions, including cost-element considerations, are examined. Students will see that as materials flow from suppliers through a firm's operations to customers, the cost-effectiveness of inventory investment is improved by the development and implementation of an inventory management system.Starting at €8.20
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Living Lean: Zeke's Tree
Weiss, Elliott N.; Goldberg, RebeccaCase DARDEN-OM-1433-EService and Operations ManagementThis case is part of the "Living Lean" series, which presents accessible, everyday scenarios for a Lean process-improvement journey. In this episode on decision analysis, a father helps his son weigh possible responses to a forgotten vocabulary list.Starting at €8.20
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A Brief Note on Process Capability
Weiss, Elliott N.Technical Note DARDEN-OM-1439-EService and Operations ManagementProcess capability, as revolutionized by Motorola, can be defined as the extent to which a process's natural variation falls within specifications. This note is a succinct introduction to the process capability ratio, which compares set specifications against the three standard deviations on either side of the process mean--six in total, referred to as Six Sigma. This introduction assumes a normal distribution of observations and a process that i...Starting at €8.20
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Living Lean: Jackson and Wyatt Learn to Share
Goldberg, Rebecca; Weiss, Elliott N.Case DARDEN-OM-1464-EService and Operations ManagementThis case is part of the "Living Lean" series, which presents accessible, everyday scenarios for a Lean process-improvement journey. In this episode on process analysis, a working mom helps her two boys devise a process for resolving disputes.Starting at €8.20
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Living Lean: Belinda, Bags, and Batches
Weiss, Elliott N.; Goldberg, RebeccaCase DARDEN-OM-1466-EService and Operations ManagementThis case is part of the "Living Lean" series, which presents accessible, everyday scenarios for a Lean process improvement journey. In this episode on batching, a woman rushing to the grocery store on Thanksgiving is sensitive to the relative merits and waste of two types of checkout aisle.Starting at €8.20