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Wyeth Pharmaceuticals in 2009: Operational Transformation
Landel, Robert D.; Goldberg, RebeccaCase DARDEN-OM-1400-EService and Operations ManagementAppropriate for general management courses emphasizing operations strategy and senior leadership. Senior leadership in a global manufacturing company must respond to the critical directive to achieve a 25% cost reduction. Under the direction of an advisory firm, an operational transformation strategy is developed and implementation proceeds in the company's 28 sites. Elements of the transformational program, including leadership challenges and pr...Starting at €8.20
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Conflict Management in Teams
Behfar, Kristin J.; Goldberg, RebeccaTechnical Note DARDEN-OB-1072-ELeadership and People ManagementSuccessful teams have three things in common: (1) they meet their performance goals, (2) their members feel satisfied that they are learning/benefiting from being a part of the team, and (3) the process the team uses to collaborate sets it up for future success. Recent research, however, suggests that only about 25% of teams meet these criteria. The rest of the teams typically experience less-than-ideal processes and a decline in performance and/...Starting at €8.20
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The Perfect Storm: A Low-Performing Biotech Plant
Landel, Robert D.; Goldberg, RebeccaCase DARDEN-OM-1463-EService and Operations ManagementFor the past 12 months, a major pharmaceutical company had rolled out a comprehensive set of cultural changes and breakthrough lean-process activities that were instigated by the need to cut nearly 25% of costs across its key global production facilities. The cultural changes and breakthrough lean-process activities called for aggressive action, and company leadership thought that the company’s cost reduction goal could only be achieved through o...Starting at €8.20
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Wyeth Pharmaceuticals in 2009: Transformation at the Site Level
Landel, Robert D.; Goldberg, RebeccaCase DARDEN-OM-1402-EService and Operations ManagementAppropriate for general management courses emphasizing lean operations strategy implementation and large-scale change management across a network of global manufacturing facilities. In this case, site-level leadership, including senior, midlevel, and supervisory positions, must respond to a critical corporate directive to achieve a 25% cost reduction. Under the direction of an advisory firm, the development and implementation of an operational Tr...Starting at €8.20
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Conflict Management in Teams: For Military and Government
Behfar, Kristin J.; Gerras, Steve; Goldberg, RebeccaTechnical Note DARDEN-OB-1208-ELeadership and People ManagementDespite the hierarchical power structures in the military and government, as they reach more senior levels, leaders routinely operate in peer-to-peer teams. These environments require the ability to negotiate complex group dynamics—a skill which often goes undeveloped in typical hierarchies. Groups that succeed over time have three things in common: (1) they meet their performance goals, (2) their members feel satisfied that they are learning/ben...Starting at €8.20
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Philly Cleans (A)
Thomas-Hunt, Melissa C.; Goldberg, RebeccaCase DARDEN-F-1939-EFinanceThis case provides a minimum threshold and a range of value for a contract for janitorial services in an office building. A variety of facts are presented that negotiators can choose to pay more or less attention to when planning and conducting their negotiation. Mitchell, a shift supervisor, has been temporarily empowered to conduct the negotiation on behalf of his supervisor, Robert Eckhart, who is out sick. Jim Evans, the sales representative ...Starting at €8.20
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Philly Cleans (B)
Thomas-Hunt, Melissa C.; Goldberg, RebeccaCase DARDEN-F-1940-EFinanceThis case provides a minimum threshold and a range of value for a contract for janitorial services in an office building. A variety of facts are presented that negotiators can choose to pay more or less attention to when planning and conducting their negotiation. Mitchell, a shift supervisor, has been temporarily empowered to conduct the negotiation on behalf of his supervisor, Robert Eckhart, who is out sick. Jim Evans, the sales representative ...Starting at €5.74
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Southeastern Mills: The Improvement Journey (A)
Landel, Robert D.; Goldberg, RebeccaCase DARDEN-OM-1419-EService and Operations ManagementAppropriate for courses in operations design and performance management. Owners and employees of this company spent considerable effort developing a unique, extremely successful high-performance work place culture based on trust and a decentralized structure and little direct supervision from middle and upper management. Now management wants to consider blending a Lean or Six Sigma program into their work-place culture. A Business Process Improve...Starting at €8.20
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Schindler Elevator Corporation - Teaching Note
Weiss, Elliott N.; Goldberg, RebeccaTeaching Note DARDEN-OM-1593TN-EService and Operations ManagementTeaching note for product OM-1593Starting at €0.00
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Learning Team Muda Audit
Weiss, Elliott N.; Goldberg, RebeccaCase DARDEN-OM-1688-EService and Operations ManagementThis case describes the meetings and development of a fictitious learning team at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. The purpose is to give students the opportunity to perform a waste audit on the learning processes of this team. The case gives students the opportunity to identify muda, non-value added activities, in a non-manufacturing environment. The case can be used in an operations course with the focus on process i...Starting at €8.20