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Trilogy Health Services, LLC: Building a Great Service Company
Hess, Edward D.; Glinska, GosiaCase DARDEN-ENT-0122-EEntrepreneurshipThis case is appropriate for teaching in the areas of entrepreneurship and managing the growth of smaller enterprises. It illustrates how an entrepreneur builds a premier service company by aligning culture, hiring practices, training, rewards, leadership, and business model.Starting at €8.20
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WestJet: Building a High-Engagement Culture
Gerard Seijts; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B09C012-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyWestJet Airlines had achieved a lot. The airline had taken to the skies only 13 years earlier, with three airplanes flying to five destinations. Now, with a market value at more than $2 billion, the carrier had more than 70 Boeing Next Generation 737s, employed 7,000 people and had played host to more than 12 million guests. WestJet's ambition was to become the dominant airline in Canada by 2013 and one of the five most successful international a...Starting at €8.20
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Freedom Technology Services
Hess, Edward D.Case DARDEN-ENT-0127-EEntrepreneurshipThis case is suitable for classes in business ethics, leadership and organizational behavior, entrepreneurship, and managing small enterprises. It focuses on the conflict between the personal values of the entrepreneur and the risk of losing a major customer. It deals with the issue of whether the entrepreneur should prosecute a CFO for stealing corporate money. And the decision is complicated because the CFO's husband is, in effect, the company'...Starting at €8.20
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Cisco Switches in China: The Year of the Manager
Isabella, Lynn A.; Yemen, GerryCase DARDEN-OB-0978-EJan Gronski, managing director of the Cisco China Research and Development Center (CRDC), and Ivo Raznjevic, engineering director, set out to establish a new R&D facility in Shanghai, China. This case focuses on the building of a culture through human-resource practices while describing such steps as securing an appropriate building, assembling a work force, seeking appropriate projects, developing managers, building teams, evaluating performance...Starting at €8.20
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The Aberdeen Experiment
Clawson, James G.Case DARDEN-OB-0998-ELeadership and People ManagementThis updated version of the popular FMC Aberdeen case (UVA-OB-0385) describes the unique history and management of a startup plant, now owned by BAE Systems, that manufactures guided-missile canisters for the U.S. Navy. Management is minimized; most of the work is done by self-directed work teams. Suitable for courses or modules on organizational behavior, self-directed work-teams, manufacturing, organization design, high-performance workplaces, ...Starting at €8.20
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Learning to Navigate the Rough Seas of Ethics
Kusyk, SophiaArticle ART-1788-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityIs our reasoning sound when we justify using sweatshops in Asian countries, paying bribes to secure contracts, and tolerating social and environmental degradation based on the argument that everyone else is doing it, and if we dont, a competitor will? Doing business across borders presents a minefield of ethical dilemmas that many managers are ill-equipped to deal with. This article tackles three main myths surrounding cross-cultural management:...Starting at €8.20
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Tailoring Your Strategy to Fit the Culture
de Mooij, MariekeArticle ART-1787-EMarketingMany widely accepted management theories related to mission statements, branding and advertising are Western inventions that do not translate when companies go global. What plays well at home may not go down so well in foreign environments. The author recommends that a company conduct a full review of its entire global marketing strategy from its mission and vision, to its portfolio, positioning and product usage, to its communications and adve...Starting at €8.20
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The Power of Global Thinking
Kusyk, Sophia; Mooij, Marieke de; Reiche, B. Sebastian; Sánchez-Runde Sánchez, Carlos; Steers, Richard M.Dossier DOS-5-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Leadership and People Management, MarketingThe world may be smaller, but the challenges are bigger. Managers need a new mindset that knows no bounds.Starting at €15.00
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Welcoming the Value That Inpatriates Bring
Reiche, B. SebastianArticle ART-1789-EKnowledge and Communication, Leadership and People ManagementThe temporary inpatriation of foreign subsidiary managers to HQ is on the rise: it´s cheaper than expatriating staff, it´s often the best way to gain local knowledge fast, it wins over local workforces and it expands the prospects for staff development and promotion. However, the author´s various studies of subsidiary staff relocated to the headquarters of multinationals reveal that for inpatriation to work, both the individual inpatriate and the...Starting at €8.20
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mcgarrybowen
Snell, Scott A.; Yemen, Gerry; Keevil, AdrianCase DARDEN-S-0187-EStrategySuitable for MBA, EMBA, GEMBA, and executive education courses, this field based case offers an opportunity to examine the scalability of a successful American advertising agency globally. In eight years, mcgarrybowen had become the lead agency for several big advertisers. The agency’s calling card was its reputation for being collaborative, reflected in the way the agency’s name was written-no spaces between the names. As part of a global expans...Starting at €8.20