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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
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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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Los conflictos del Buen Sr. Pérez (D)
Parra, Juan ManuelCase INALDE-FH-I-148Víctor Pérez necesita presentar en la junta de resultados datos acerca de un nuevo proyecto que tiene la compañía. Sin embargo, Diego Medina, líder de implementación del proyecto, no ha cumplido con las expectativas del Sr. Pérez por lo que no tiene mucha información que presentar además de que ha presentado su carta de renuncia. El Sr. Pérez debe motivarlo a retirarla aunque no está satisfecho con los resultados y parece ser una persona conflict...Starting at €5.74
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Palmeras de la Costa S.A.: Como el agua y el aceite (A)
Parra, Juan ManuelCase INALDE-FH-I-162¿Es posible sentar en la junta directiva de una empresa a los líderes del agresivo sindicato que la ha arruinado y que ahora busca obtener parte de las acciones? ¿Cómo confiar en quienes han saboteado a la empresa y a sus directivos por más de una década? El sindicato tenía afiliados al 100% de los trabajadores y puso a esta empresa productora de palma de aceite al borde de la quiebra, amenazando con arrastrar con ella a toda una región. El geren...Starting at €8.20
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Palmeras de la Costa S.A.: Como el agua y el aceite (B)
Parra, Juan ManuelCase INALDE-FH-I-163La parte B cuenta sintéticamente la forma como los empresarios y los sindicalistas llegaron a un acuerdo para salvar la empresa, el plan de acción que siguieron y los resultados obtenidos.Starting at €5.74
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Anita Norris Model Management
John S. Haywood-Farmer; Prashob Menon; Paul LeeCase IVEY-9B10D013-EService and Operations Management, StrategyIn March 2010, the owner of Anita Norris Model Management (ANMM) was trying to discern a strategic direction to best serve the growth of her company. Its quick growth in the past two years was due to the owners' efforts to pursue any revenue stream opportunity that presented itself. The owner was concerned that this pace was unsustainable in the long run and would in fact stretch the business too thinly. Currently, the business's revenue stemmed ...Starting at €8.20
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Lauren McDonald at Ernst & Young
John S. Haywood-Farmer; Jenna Weaver; Anne CybulskiCase IVEY-9B07D020-EService and Operations ManagementLauren McDonald, a recently promoted manager at the public accounting firm Ernst & Young in London, Ontario, has an appointment with one of her senior staff accountants. McDonald had met with the staff accountant two months earlier as part of the staff accountant's mid-year performance review. The meeting had also included an informal discussion as to whether the staff accountant was on track for a promotion to manager, which would be decided lat...Starting at €8.20