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Darden University of Virginia (USA)
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Netflix and Dave Chappelle (A) and (B) - Teaching note
Kaufmann, Lauren; Palomba, Anthony; Botha, Helet; Mead, JennyTeaching Note DARDEN-E-0499TN-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityTeaching note for product E-0499Starting at €0.00
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Boris's Brexit Dilemma (C)
Zorc, Sasa; Gregorio, Alexander;Case DARDEN-QA-0958-EDecision AnalysisIn 2019, several years after a referendum in which British voters chose “Brexit,” meaning the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union (EU), the transitional agreement between the United Kingdom and the EU is due to expire. Prime Minister Boris Johnson must prepare for two facets of Brexit, each of which involves a decision: (1) whether to invest in mitigation funding in case of a hard Brexit (meaning one without a trade deal in place); and ...Starting at €5.74
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Pitcher Perfect: Visualizing Interactive Beer Profiles
Palomba, AnthonyCase DARDEN-BC-0293This fictional case introduces students to interactive presentations through the situation of a US craft beer company that is developing a new beer product. The case discusses an organizational push to incorporate technology to help drive decision-makingStarting at €8.20
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DeSouza Family Holdings
Andrasko, Joe; Zorc, SasaCase DARDEN-QA-0949-EDecision AnalysisAs CIO of DeSouza Family Holdings, Caroline Erickson managed the family’s investment portfolio—a collection of real estate properties, hotels, several small grocery stores, stocks/bonds, and alternative assets. Erickson facilitated quarterly meetings to brief family members on the portfolio. She also reserved time during these meetings for family members to present new investment opportunities. During the July 2020 family meeting, two siblings sh...Starting at €8.20
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Introduction to Dynamic Programming
Baucells, Manel; Zorc, SasaTechnical Note DARDEN-QA-0955Decision AnalysisThis technical note introduces dynamic programming (DP), a powerful tool for finding optimal solutions to complex problems that involve a concatenation of multiple decisions. This note assumes some familiarity with decision trees. Compared to decision trees, DP simplifies the problem representation by pooling together similar decision situations, allowing us to apply backward induction in batches by means of the Bellman equation. The note stresse...Starting at €8.20
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Boris's Brexit Dilemma (B)
Zorc, Sasa; Gregorio, Alexander;Case DARDEN-QA-0957-EDecision AnalysisIn 2019, several years after a referendum in which British voters chose “Brexit,” meaning the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union (EU), the transitional agreement between the United Kingdom and the EU is due to expire. Prime Minister Boris Johnson must prepare for two facets of Brexit, each of which involves a decision: (1) whether to invest in mitigation funding in case of a hard Brexit (meaning one without a trade deal in place); and ...Starting at €5.74
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The Solution Shop and Storytelling Process
Palomba, AnthonyTechnical Note DARDEN-BC-0294Who doesn’t feel some anxiety when faced with making a presentation to an audience of practitioners and executives? Presentations are often the most stressful part of a job in business or consulting. Yet anyone can learn to write and present better than tStarting at €8.20
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Boris's Brexit Dilemma (A)
Zorc, Sasa; Gregorio, Alexander;Case DARDEN-QA-0956-EDecision AnalysisIn 2019, several years after a referendum in which British voters chose “Brexit,” meaning the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union (EU), the transitional agreement between the United Kingdom and the EU is due to expire. Prime Minister Boris Johnson must prepare for two facets of Brexit, each of which involves a decision: (1) whether to invest in mitigation funding in case of a hard Brexit (meaning one without a trade deal in place); and ...Starting at €8.20
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A Darden Perspective: Teaching Cases—Plan, Listen, Dance
Palomba, AnthonyTechnical Note DARDEN-PHA-0083-EKnowledge and CommunicationAnthony Palomba arrived in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2020 as a visiting scholar at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business (Darden). As a media-management and audience-analysis scholar, Palomba had previously assigned media- and entertainment-business-based cases to students to read. However, he had no idea how to exercise the case method in the classroom. In order to understand the case method, Palomba interviewed current...Starting at €8.20
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Grappling with Uncertainty: Fintop Technology Advisors
Andrasko, Joe; Zorc, Sasa; Bodily, Samuel E.Case DARDEN-QA-0948-EDecision AnalysisAdewale Ogunleye is the founder and CEO of Fintop Technology Advisors, a technology development firm that specializes in providing outsourced software development services to financial technology (fintech) start-ups. Ogunleye has recently met with Leya Ahmed, the founder of Periscope Labs, a new fintech whose promising digital payment technology seeks to revolutionize the e-commerce checkout experience. Ogunleye proposed to Ahmed that Fintop woul...Starting at €8.20