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Giving and Receiving Feedback Evaluation
James, Erika Hayes; Clawson, James G.Technical Note DARDEN-OB-0916-ELeadership and People ManagementThis chart can be used to help students reflect on and document their feedback conversations. In the course of giving or receiving feedback, we often become so embroiled in what we are saying or in what is being said to us that we fail to reflect on the quality and impact of the communication. Though intended to accompany the technical note “Feedback” (UVA-OB-0746), the chart is useful with many other materials on assessing performance.Starting at €8.20
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Charles Schwab Corp. in 2017 - Teaching note
Siegel, R; Makinen, JTeaching Note SGSB-SM282TN-EStrategyBy almost any measure, Charles Schwab Corp. appeared to be killing it in 2017. The wealth management, banking, custody and brokerage firm’s stock was trading near its all-time high. It was posting unprecedented levels of new client accounts, net new client assets, revenues and profits and had a record $3.12 trillion in client assets under management. Schwab was taking customers and assets from old-line wire houses like Morgan Stanley, while fendi...Starting at €0.00
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Charles Schwab Corp. in 2017
Siegel, R; Makinen, JCase SGSB-SM282-EStrategyBy almost any measure, Charles Schwab Corp. appeared to be killing it in 2017. The wealth management, banking, custody and brokerage firm’s stock was trading near its all-time high. It was posting unprecedented levels of new client accounts, net new client assets, revenues and profits and had a record $3.12 trillion in client assets under management. Schwab was taking customers and assets from old-line wire houses like Morgan Stanley, while fendi...Starting at €8.20
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Interview with a Horse Whisperer
Clawson, James G.; Ryan, KathrynTechnical Note DARDEN-OB-1018-ELeadership and People ManagementThis note contains a verbatim transcript between an MBA student and a practicing manager and can be used to identify the speaker’s values, attitude, beliefs, and expectations (VABEs). Seeing, examining, understanding, and evaluating one’s own VABEs is a precursor to becoming an effective leader of others.Starting at €8.20
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Zenith Bank: The Marketing of an Initial Public Offering
Clawson, James G.; Amangbo, ChinyeluCase DARDEN-M-0751-EMarketingThis case is useful in teaching marketing strategy as part of a marketing course. It can also be used to teach promotional strategy. Only one week into Zenith Bank of Nigeria’s initial public offering (IPO), Jim Ovia and his management team faced a new regulation that required that the capital base of banks be raised from (Nigerian naira) NGN2 billion to NGN25 billion. They needed to review their approach to marketing the IPO and try something ou...Starting at €8.20
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Invitrogen/Life Technologies (B)
Burgelman, R; Siegel, R; Lee, RCase SGSB-SM209B-EStrategyOn June 12, 2008, Invitrogen and Applied Biosystems announced plans to merge. The combined company was to be renamed Life Technologies (NASDAQ: LIFE). Invitrogen offered to acquire Applied Biosystems for $6.7 billion in cash and stock. AB shareholders would receive $38 per share in cash and stock, representing a 17 percent premium over the share’s closing price on Wednesday, June 11, 2008.Starting at €5.74
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Buy-In
Clawson, James G.Technical Note DARDEN-OB-0924-ELeadership and People ManagementThis note can be used to establish a baseline of common understanding about why people behave the way they do and the nature of Level One, Two, and Three Leadership Techniques. A discussion of degrees of "buy-in" includes an innovative seven-point scale that goes beyond "yes, no, or maybe" and "positive, negative, and casual" to characterize people's alignment with a new degree of accuracy.Starting at €8.20
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Erika James: The Life and Career of an Associate Professor
Clawson, James G.; Yemen, GerryCase DARDEN-OB-0957-ELeadership and People ManagementErika James had been in academe for nine years and was a tenured associate professor at the Darden School when she was asked to be the Associate Dean for Diversity, a new position at the school. She discussed the offer with her colleagues and contemplated the matter thoroughly. The position would bring with it a sizeable increase in pay, much more responsibility, and many more administrative meetings, with a continued requirement to meet her teac...Starting at €8.20
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Flibe Energy: Pursuing a Safe, Affordable, and Sustainable Energy Future
Burgelman, R; Siegel, R; Nolan, SCase SGSB-SM208-EStrategyFlibe Energy is a startup in the nuclear power space seeking to find a safe way to enable nuclear energy using a technology previously dismissed by the US government since it could not be used for making material for nuclear weapons. The founders believe they have found a way to create safe, clean energy using a proven but forgotten technology. The challenges are steep, however, as proof of the technology will require hundreds of millions of doll...Starting at €8.20
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Waste Management's Organic Growth Group
Burgelman, R; Siegel, R; Uribe, TCase SGSB-SM210-EStrategyIt was 2005 and David Steiner, CEO of Waste Management (WM), had just received a report from an internal advisory panel created some months before to assess the future of the waste management industry and propose how the company’s strategy should be adapted. The core of this report was the recommendation to create a special unit within the company, chartered with the central purpose of identifying ways to extract value from waste through new and ...Starting at €8.20