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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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Luis Canto
Rajaraman, Aarthi; Martín Cabiedes, Luis; Prats, Mª JuliaCase E-131EntrepreneurshipHasta el accidente (un coche le había arrollado cuando iba en bicicleta) había sido durante seis años un exitoso consultor en Benson & Company. No obstante, después del accidente, y tras ser operado en dos ocasiones, Luis Canto dispuso de un montón de tiempo libre. El accidente le había obligado a revaluar lo que estaba haciendo con su vida y, casi inmediatamente, supo que no se reintegraría a su trabajo en Benson.Starting at €8.20
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Intrapreneurship en Telefónica: Wayra, una compañía más rápida que el viento
de Ros, María del Mar; Prats, Mª JuliaCase E-162Entrepreneurship, Information Technologies, Innovation and ChangeWayra nació como una empresa independiente (100% capital de Telefónica) cuya misión era detectar el talento de los jóvenes emprendedores, desarrollar el ecosistema de emprendimiento local y, a la vez, intentar transformar la cultura corporativa. Si hasta ahora el equipo de Wayra había intentado ser impecable en su modo de actuar y no ser la excepción, ahora que dependían directamente del CEO y la organización tenía los ojos puestos en ellos, esa ...Starting at €8.20
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Pentagram: el oficio del diseño
Mitchell, Jordan; Prats, Mª JuliaCase E-88Corporate Governance, Entrepreneurship, Leadership and People ManagementA finales de 2004, John McConnell, líder no oficial de Pentagram, preparaba ya su jubilación que tendría lugar en la primavera de 2005. Pentagram es una empresa de diseño multidisciplinar formada por 19 socios repartidos en cinco oficinas (Londres, Berlín, Nueva York, San Francisco y Austin), y es considerada como la "Rolls Royce del diseño" por el resto de las empresas del sector. El crecimiento de la compañía se basa en la incorporación de dise...Starting at €8.20
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Atam: Innovating in the Social Sector (A)
Elvira, Marta; Prats, Mª Julia; Plaza López, LuisCase DPO-244-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Entrepreneurship, Innovation and ChangeAtam is an association of Grupo Telefónica, which was founded in 1973 with the aim of providing assistance for the disabled and elderly dependents. It was the result of an agreement between the company and its labor unions. It is a nonprofit, national organization, declared to be serving the public interest, and has 60,000 members belonging to 28 companies of the group. Atam has three major areas of action: individual financial support, direct-ca...Starting at €8.20