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Darden University of Virginia (USA)
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CarMax: Driving What's Possible
Nelson, Ryan; Wright, RyanCase DARDEN-S-0317-EStrategyCarMax, based in Richmond, Virginia, is the largest retailer of used cars in the United States. Over the past several years leading up to 2019, CarMax has undergone a major digital transformation, integrating agile, lean, and user experience (UX) design best practices to become a customer-centric, product-driven organization. In this case, CarMax is facing new competitors (e.g., digital native players Carvana and CarsDirect), changing consumer s...Starting at €8.20
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(Water) Public–Private Partnerships: The Economics
Debaere, Peter; Kapral, AndrewTechnical Note DARDEN-GEM-0183-EEconomicsWith frequent water main breaks, leaking pipes, and lead contamination, the water infrastructure of many countries is in bad shape, and improvements are urgent in light of climate change and increasing water stress. Discussion in recent years has focused on the role of private companies in a sector that has traditionally been in public hands. Since the privatization of the United Kingdom’s water infrastructure in the late 1980s, a whole range of ...Starting at €8.20
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WillowTree: Project Driven with a Product Mindset (A)
Nelson, Ryan; Wright, RyanCase DARDEN-S-0338-EStrategyWillowTree began as a small digital products company in 2007. By 2020, it had more than 500 full-time team members operating out of offices in four locations, and it had launched hundreds of digital products, including mobile apps, websites, voice assistants, and TV experiences. But also in 2020, WillowTree was facing the most significant challenge in its 12 years of corporate existence-a global pandemic. By analyzing how WillowTree blends proje...Starting at €8.20
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The Profit-Maximizing Firm as Exporter
Debaere, PeterTechnical Note DARDEN-G-0622-EKnowledge and CommunicationThis technical note provides a microeconomic framework of monopolistic competition to think about firms, and in particular, exporting firms. At the same time, the note discusses some of the stylized facts from the recent empirical literature that uses firm-level data.Starting at €8.20
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The Profit-Maximizing Firm as Multinational Corporation
Debaere, PeterTechnical Note DARDEN-G-0623-EKnowledge and CommunicationThis note lays out a microeconomic framework of monopolistic competition to think about profit-maximizing firms that are vertical or horizontal multinationals.Starting at €8.20
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Customs Unions and Free Trade Areas
Debaere, PeterTechnical Note DARDEN-G-0624-EKnowledge and CommunicationThis technical note lays out the welfare analysis of free trade areas and customs unions with trade creation and trade diversion. It also discusses some of their advantages and disadvantages.Starting at €8.20
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Is the Diamond Capital of the World Losing its Sparkle? Diamond Trading and Cutting in a Changing Global Economy - Teaching Note
Debaere, PeterTeaching Note DARDEN-G-0612TN-EKnowledge and CommunicationTeaching note for product G-0612Starting at €0.00
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The Panic of 1907 - Teaching Note
Debaere, PeterTeaching Note DARDEN-G-0619TN-EKnowledge and CommunicationTeaching note for product G-0619Starting at €0.00
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A Framework to Think About Pollution: Externalities, Pollution Taxes, and Cap and Trade
Debaere, PeterTechnical Note DARDEN-GEM-0104-EEconomicsIt is an understatement to say that environmental challenges are attracting attention. Sustainability tops the list of challenges for the 21st century. There is no consensus about how to address these challenges in a politically feasible way. This note offers a conceptual framework that firms and consumers can use to start thinking about the economic challenges ahead and how economic policies are likely to affect the environment within which they...Starting at €8.20
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Euro Zone Convergence, Divergence...and Then What?
Warnock, Francis E.; Debaere, PeterCase DARDEN-GEM-0107-EEconomicsA hedge-fund strategist had two decisions to make. First, what was the path of core euro zone long-term interest rates likely to be over the next year? Was the dramatic decline in German long rates over the past few years an aberration that would soon be reversed, or was it part of the “new normal” that would persist for some time? Second, how would periphery long rates evolve relative to core rates? That is-the spread between long rates in the l...Starting at €8.20