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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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BioTD: Biotechnology Developers
Sanz, Luis J.; Carrion Saavedra, Jorge Luis; Centro de InvestigacionesCase INCAE-12405-EFinanceWith an important proposal that will multiply its sales more than 20 times, bioTD is exploring the main outside financing options available. This company located in Costa Rica manufactures biotechnology products and medical devices and is analysing several options to finance a proposal that will multiply its sales more card financing. This has forced Dr. Wiscovitch and his partners to look for outside financing. They are considering several optio...Starting at €8.20
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Hypothesis-Driven Entrepreneurship: The Lean Startup
Eisenmann, Thomas R.; Ries, Eric; Dillard, SarahCase HBS-812095-EEntrepreneurshipFirms that follow a hypothesis-driven approach to evaluating entrepreneurial opportunity are called "lean startups." Entrepreneurs in these startups translate their vision into falsifiable business model hypotheses, then test the hypotheses using a series of "minimum viable products," each of which represents the smallest set of features/activities needed to rigorously validate a concept. Based on test feedback, entrepreneurs must then decide whe...Starting at €8.20
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Strategies for Two-Sided Markets
Eisenmann, Thomas R.; Parker, Geoffrey; Van Alstyne, Marshall W.Article HBS-R0610F-EStrategyIf you listed the blockbuster products and services that have redefined the global business landscape, you'd find that many of them tie together two distinct groups of users in a network. Case in point: The most important innovation in financial services since World War II is almost certainly the credit card, which links consumers and merchants. The list would also include newspapers, HMOs, and computer operating systems--all of which serve what ...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