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Stress in the Workplace: Mental Health Conversations—The Boss
Adams, Gabrielle; Brown-Iannuzzi, Jazmin; Lisnek, Jaclyn; Prengler, Melanie; Yemen, GerryCase DARDEN-OB-1440-ELeadership and People ManagementMost managers will one day be in a situation where they must help another employee with a mental health issue. How should they prepare for these conversations? What resources are available? This role-play case duo sets up a discussion on mental health—specifically, depression and anxiety—between an employee and their manager in a US context. Students will be assigned either the role of the boss or the direct report, and will be asked to navigate...Starting at €8.20
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Stress in the Workplace: Mental Health Conversations—The Employee
Adams, Gabrielle; Brown-Iannuzzi, Jazmin; Lisnek, Jaclyn; Prengler, Melanie; Yemen, GerryCase DARDEN-OB-1441-ELeadership and People ManagementMost managers will one day be in a situation where they must help another employee with a mental health issue. How should they prepare for these conversations? What resources are available? This role-play case duo sets up a discussion on mental health—specifically, depression and anxiety—between an employee and their manager in a US context. Students will be assigned either the role of the boss or the direct report, and will be asked to navigate...Starting at €8.20
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Taking a Mexican Company Global-The CEMEX Way
Venkataraman, S.; Allayannis, George (Yiorgos); Yemen, GerryCase DARDEN-S-0194-EStrategySuitable for MBA, Executive MBA, GEMBA, and executive education programs, this case uses CEMEX, a global cement producer based in Mexico, to set the stage for unfolding an analysis of a growth through acquisition strategy. It offers a discussion about the firm’s overall strategy to acquire on a global scale instead of growing organically and provides an opportunity to introduce basic financial, marketing, and operational terms that can be explore...Starting at €8.20
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Digital Twin: Representing the Real
Laseter, Timothy M.; Frazer, Anne; Boatright, BenjaminTechnical Note DARDEN-OM-1785-EService and Operations ManagementA digital twin can be described as a digital model of a real object. But what makes it different from a prototype? How are digital twins being used in business settings outside manufacturing? How do they relate to machine learning and augmented reality? When digital twins meet their fullest potential, they enable businesses to optimize operations by managing their assets more efficiently, generating higher productivity, and reducing costs. This t...Starting at €8.20
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Bonnie Strong at Inditex
Weiss, Elliott N.; Yemen, Gerry; Maiden, Stephen E.Case DARDEN-OM-1558-EService and Operations ManagementInditex, Zara's parent company, is known for its success in “fast fashion,” the ability to respond quickly to changes in the retail apparel industry. This case examines the reasons for its success by tying its strategy to its design, production, distribution, and retailing practices from both a process and people perspective. The links between this strategy and performance measures such as ROE and ROA can be discussed. Inditex’s strategy can be d...Starting at €8.20
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Opening Section Critique
Yemen, GerryTechnical Note DARDEN-PHA-0067-ELeadership and People ManagementThis note was written to evaluate an opening section of a business case study. It was developed for case writing workshops and may be useful for new case writers seeking to appraise their own material. How searchable would your case be in a database? Is there at least one sentence in the opening paragraph(s) that acts as a guide for case analysis?Starting at €8.20
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Storm Gudrun: Managing a Crisis
Helgesson, Karin Svedberg; Nyberg, Anna; Yemen, GerryCase DARDEN-OB-0991-ELeadership and People ManagementA brutal winter storm hits the Baltic Sea region, felling 200 million trees and leaving forest owners and lumber industry competitors devastated. The chairman and majority owner of a large private timber mill in Sweden needs an action plan to pull through the disaster quickly—before the felled timber rots. Will they be able to rescue the timber? How shall his business react to the sudden oversupply? How will the exponentially increased supply be ...Starting at €8.20
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Business Case Critique
Yemen, GerryTechnical Note DARDEN-PHA-0068-ELeadership and People ManagementCase writing is extremely strategic, and each case should be developed with the target audience level—graduate, undergraduate, executive education—and learning objectives in mind. This note was written to evaluate a business case study. It was developed for case writing workshops and may be useful for new case writers seeking to appraise their own material. Is the case structured and methodological or less focused and rich on implementation issue...Starting at €8.20
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The World is Flat...The World is Lumpy?
Yemen, Gerry; Venkataraman, S.Technical Note DARDEN-S-0191-EStrategySuitable for MBA, EMBA, GEMBA, and executive education programs, this note sets the stage to unfold an analysis of popular notions about how the world works. On one hand, some believe that global competition has created a flattened world and that globalization has leveled the playing field. Yet a zest to view the world as flat, others have said, results in an underestimation of the differences between countries-standardization, exact replication,...Starting at €8.20
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Positioning Carly Fiorina in 2016: The Citizen Leader
Whitler, Kimberly A.; Yemen, GerryCase DARDEN-M-0896-EMarketingThe material in this case can be used to determine brand positioning and brand essence statements in the context of presidential campaigns. The case presents the 2016 nominating process where 18 major contenders were vying to be the Republican Party’s presidential candidate. The challenge is focused on Carly Fiorina who was largely unknown and faced obstacles that more familiar candidates did not. To make it to the finish line, she would need to ...Starting at €8.20