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Eastern Michigan University Darrell H. Cooper Presidential Chair in Leadership
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What is Lead Time Cases?
In a nutshell, this site has short cases created from recent events, including topic tags, suggested assignments and discussions for class, and a list of sources. Many of the cases are about leadership, but also other management topics. It's free to use for academics (see link to request access below).
Why did we create Lead Time Cases?
Our experience as faculty is that students can search on most published cases and find other student responses, slides presentations, or discussions. This undermines the purpose of case analyses, to promote individual thought and application of theories to business situations. In our opinions, the ability of students to read other analyses before writing theirs renders case analyses much less useful if not useless. We don't think that most students are trying to find solutions unethically. However, the internet 'pushes' information. If you search on your course textbook, the company named in the business case, or even the topic, you may encounter already-completed work by other students.
We start with recent news events related to management and leadership, find reputable sources, and write a short case. These are 'real time' and therefore are not meant to be scholarly or eloquent. The cases have facts from sources like Bureau of Labor Statistics (for example) or combine news articles that are related but are not simply reprints of other articles. Each case has example assignment questions and topic labels that are searchable on the home page. The recent nature makes them not only more interesting and relatable to students, but not discussed specifically on the internet as they relate to your Leadership/Management topics. Although we are from the Management discipline, we find that faculty outside of our discipline like to use them as well.
FAQ
FAQ
Why are there so many references for each short case?
We not only love using short cases in our courses, but recent articles on their own. We use several references per article, not only for a more complete case, but so that you can use access them for class readings on their own.
Why can't I register with my private email address?
In order to fulfill our mission to have a site that is not accessible by students, we verify that by use your *.edu address and verify you are faculty by emailing you one time when you register.
Cases by Topic
Cases by Topic
All Cases (in no particular order)
All Cases (in no particular order)
The Covid-19 epidemic spawned the largest job losses since the Great Depression, culminating in an April 2020 unemployment rate of 14.7% (1). May 2020 job additions surprised analysts, at 2.5 million, and were mainly in the hospitality and retail sectors that were hurt most by the virus quarantines across the U.S...
Companies are increasingly offering different ways to design a career path that best fits the employee. Many times, it’s a way to allow employees to move up in the organization without taking on management responsibilities...
California took a large leap forward in its plans to diversify boards of directors, further than any bill in the country has gone before...
Working from home. It sounds amazing. But is it? CNBC/Change Research reports that 42% of their survey respondents are working from home, versus 9% who said they solely worked from home prior to the Covid-19 pandemic...
In 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared burnout to be an occupational health issue (4). This includes mental and physical health effects.The issue has been put center stage after the COVID pandemic and the 18 months of Zoom meetings, work has invaded our home space more than ever...
Tim Cook, Apple CEO, declared to MIT graduates at their 2017 commencement, "People will try to convince you that you should keep empathy out of your career..."
Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook, which is now encompassed under the Meta conglomerate of all the company's apps and technology) has 2.91 billion 'active' users as of and approximately 68,000 employees across the globe as of September 2021 (1). Andrew Bosworth has been named the next CTO of the company and will assume the position fully in 2022 (2)...
Statista reported that only 3.8% of those who worked from home in the U.S. as of September 2020 were ages 16-24 (7). The whopping 96.2% were 25 and older. With all the discussion of work-at-home during COVID and its effects on performance, satisfaction and office culture, we sometimes forget that students often worked in face-to-face jobs during the pandemic...
Jamie Dimon became CEO of JP Morgan in 2004 after orchestrating the sale of Bank One as its CEO. Similar to his turnaround of Bank One, Dimon is well-known for building JP Morgan into a powerhouse that weathered the storm of the Wall Street Crisis of 2008...
Blind (www.teamblind.com) is an anonymous community where employees discuss issues either within their company forums or in topic groups open to employees in different companies. The original purpose was anonymous posting of company issues...
Gen Z born after 1995. Largest generation in the workforce is Millennials (1). 22 to 38-year-olds. Oxford Economics calls this "The Leadership Cliff" in their report focused on preparing the workforce for 2020 (2)...
The CEO of Better.com, Vishal Garg, said he cried the last time he fired people over Zoom. This time, he said, "I hope to be stronger" (1). He seemed to accomplish his goal as he laid off 900 employees in December 2021, approximately 9% of the company workforce, because he appeared cold and emotionless (2)...
Remote work has increased dramatically, especially for employees with college degrees and who consider themselves individual contributors, or who tend to work alone on projects and tasks. Even when these employees already spend a great deal of time working alone, their connection to coworkers and company culture diminishes even more when remote...
Facebook is accused of inciting divisiveness in the 2016 election. Why is this still relevant in 2022? They are accused of still doing it...
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