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Transforming Conflict: UCLA’s Chancellor Gene Block and the ...
Transforming Conflict: UCLA’s Chancellor Gene Block and the Palestine Solidarity Encampment
Collection: Darden School of BusinessOn April 30, 2024, Gene D. Block, chancellor of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), posted a message to the UCLA Bruin community. It began: “This past Thursday, a group of demonstrators—both members of the UCLA community and others unaffiliated with our campus—established an unauthorized physical encampment on part of Royce Quad…” Several days before, the Palestine Solidarity Encampm
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Woolworths: Australia Day Blues
Woolworths: Australia Day Blues
Collection: Darden School of BusinessIn January 2024, the Australian retailer Woolworths Group (Woolworths) announced it would no longer stock Australia Day merchandise across its stores for the national summer holiday, following years of declining customer demand. The news unleashed a storm: While some customers and Indigenous activist groups welcomed the move, reflecting the long-running controversy over a holiday they regarded as
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Moral Disengagement in Decision-Making
Moral Disengagement in Decision-Making
Collection: Darden School of BusinessThis technical note describes an important rationalization process called moral disengagement that helps explain why and how people make decisions that stray away from the values they claim to hold. This reading explains what moral disengagement is, how to identify it in the words and rationales people provide to explain their choices, and why it is such a pernicious problem facing leaders. At the
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Matteo Hill at Drawn, Inc. (C)
Matteo Hill at Drawn, Inc. (C)
Collection: Darden School of BusinessThis case, which concludes the scenario set up in "Matteo Hill at Drawn, Inc. (A)" (UVA-OB-1293) and "Matteo Hill at Drawn, Inc. (B)" (UVA-OB-1459), reveals the outcome of the heated discussion about recently acquired start-up Drawn, Inc., sharing the raw data from internal pulse surveys.
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Madam Director: Fern Investment Solutions Pursues Board Gend...
Madam Director: Fern Investment Solutions Pursues Board Gender Diversity
Collection: Darden School of BusinessOn November 19, 2021, Beatrice O'Sullivan, co-head of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and equities analyst at Fern Investment Solutions (Fern) in Canberra, Australia, dialed into the Hancock Research Group Ltd. (Hancock Research) annual general meeting. In 2019, Fern began investing in Hancock Research—a small-cap, Melbourne-based molecular diagnostics company that created kits for det
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"A Wise Latina": Sonia Sotomayor’s Journey to the Supreme Co...
"A Wise Latina": Sonia Sotomayor’s Journey to the Supreme Court (C)
Collection: Darden School of BusinessThis case set uses the example of Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) Justice Sonia Sotomayor to discuss issues of communicating identity at work and to explore possible options for impression management over the course of one’s career. As a law student, attorney, and lower court judge, Sotomayor leaned into her Latina identity, often referencing it as an important part of who she was. Whe
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"A Wise Latina": Sonia Sotomayor’s Journey to the Supreme Co...
"A Wise Latina": Sonia Sotomayor’s Journey to the Supreme Court (A)
Collection: Darden School of BusinessThis case set uses the example of Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) Justice Sonia Sotomayor to discuss issues of communicating identity at work and to explore possible options for impression management over the course of one’s career. As a law student, attorney, and lower court judge, Sotomayor leaned into her Latina identity, often referencing it as an important part of who she was. Whe
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"A Wise Latina": Sonia Sotomayor’s Journey to the Supreme Co...
"A Wise Latina": Sonia Sotomayor’s Journey to the Supreme Court (B)
Collection: Darden School of BusinessThis case set uses the example of Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) Justice Sonia Sotomayor to discuss issues of communicating identity at work and to explore possible options for impression management over the course of one’s career. As a law student, attorney, and lower court judge, Sotomayor leaned into her Latina identity, often referencing it as an important part of who she was. Whe
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Matteo Hill at Drawn, Inc. (B)
Matteo Hill at Drawn, Inc. (B)
Collection: Darden School of BusinessThis case, a follow-up to "Matteo Hill at Drawn, Inc. (A)" (UVA-OB-1293), continues the debate about sharing the raw responses from employee pulse surveys. The decision becomes more complicated after the company releases a new round of raw survey results that contain three wildly different opinions about Drawn, Inc.'s, DEI efforts. The new results highlight the challenge of summarizing or editing
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Managing for Stakeholders and the Purpose of Business (PORTU...
Managing for Stakeholders and the Purpose of Business (PORTUGUESE)
Collection: Darden School of BusinessThis is a Portuguese translation of the November 13, 2020 version of UVA-E-0415. The benefits or harms achieved by a business is determined in part by the choices that business leaders make. One important driver of these choices is a leader’s view of the purpose of business. This note: (1) outlines the history of debates about corporate purpose, (2) calls out some myths that persist in the way tha
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Transgender Athletes: What Are the Rules of the Road? (A)
Transgender Athletes: What Are the Rules of the Road? (A)
Collection: Darden School of BusinessIn the summer of 2023, Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), cycling's international governing body, and USA Cycling (USAC), cycling's US governing body, faced a dilemma. Austin Killips, the first openly transgender woman to win an official UCI women’s stage race, had just won several high-level cycling competitions. Although Killips had participated in accordance with UCI guidelines, there was imm
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Transgender Athletes: What Are the Rules of the Road? (B)
Transgender Athletes: What Are the Rules of the Road? (B)
Collection: Darden School of BusinessThis case is a follow-up to "Transgender Athletes: What Are the Rules of the Road? (A)" (UVA-E-0503). In the summer of 2023, Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), cycling's international governing body, and USA Cycling (USAC), cycling's US governing body, faced a dilemma. Austin Killips, the first openly transgender woman to win an official UCI women’s stage race, had just won several high-level cy
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