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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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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
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Defining Moments: Is It Worth It?
Detert, James R.; Black, ChristinaCase DARDEN-OB-1276-ELeadership and People ManagementAfter finishing a PhD in immunology and working for a few years for a large pharmaceutical company, Eric Lafferty entered an executive MBA program intending to reorient his career toward more meaningful work. Thus he leapt at the chance to work in a significant leadership position at a government agency where he would be in charge of a group that vetted academic proposals to work toward experimental vaccines and drugs. However, he begins to recon...Starting at €8.20
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El liderazgo de los millennials en Microsoft (A): Una generación entre otras generaciones
Stein, Guido; Martín, MiguelCase DPO-417Information Technologies, Innovation and Change, Leadership and People ManagementEste caso comienza con la marcha de Rocío, una de las personas por las que Microsoft estaba apostando para desarrollar el futuro inmediato de la compañía. Ana, directora de la Unidad de Grandes Cuentas y Partners de Microsoft Ibérica y Luisa, directora de Recursos Humanos no dan crédito de lo que estaba sucediendo. Rocío tenía 26 años, era ingeniera de Telecomunicaciones e integrante del programa de jóvenes altos potenciales MACH, del que formaba...Starting at €8.20
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El liderazgo de los millennials: Rasgos de una generación
Stein, Guido; Mesa, Rafael; Martín, MiguelTechnical Note DPON-130Leadership and People Management, MarketingEsta nota tiene como objetivo explicar quiénes son los millennials, cuál es su origen y cómo es su forma de ser. Se trata de una generación especial -aunque todas lo sean a su modo- porque, sin llegar a ser revolucionaria, sí ha sido original al manifestar que no le acaba de gustar el mundo que le estamos legando. En los testimonios que aportamos más adelante, se lee que a menudo los millennials ceden a los hábitos sociales imperantes, como los q...Starting at €8.20
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Negociar en una entrevista de trabajo
Stein, Guido; Mehta, Kandarp; Martín, MiguelTechnical Note NEGN-1Innovation and Change, Leadership and People ManagementLa experiencia y la investigación nos enseñan que suele haber un gran margen de mejora a la hora de afrontar las negociaciones que tienen lugar durante un proceso de contratación. Múltiples estudios han demostrado que acertar en la negociación del primer puesto de trabajo tiene consecuencias muy relevantes al cabo del tiempo en la carrera profesional del candidato, por ejemplo, en términos económicos o de ritmo de promoción. Asimismo, las empresa...Starting at €8.20
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Los millennials, el trabajo y la empresa: políticas de gestión y estilos de liderazgo
Stein, Guido; Mesa, Rafael; Martín, MiguelTechnical Note DPON-131Innovation and Change, Leadership and People Management, StrategyEn esta nota técnica, se describe la actitud de la generación incorporada, recientemente, al mercado de trabajo; se aborda, sintéticamente, cuáles son las claves para la adaptación de las políticas de gestión clásicas a esta nueva realidad, y se indica cuáles son los estilos de dirección demandados por los empleados más jóvenes. Cuando los millennials comenzaron a incorporarse al mercado laboral, los miembros de la generación X (nacidos entre lo...Starting at €8.20