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Darden University of Virginia (USA)
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Morgan Wallen: Tough Decisions at the William Morris Endeavor Agency (A)
Parmar, Bidhan L.; Clark-Hamel, Skyler; Mead, JennyCase DARDEN-E-0494-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityJay Williams, cohead of the Nashville office of the William Morris Endeavor (WME), must decide how to respond to an incident involving Morgan Wallen, one of the talent agency’s fastest-rising country music stars. Wallen, a white singer, was caught on home security footage using an ethnic slur with a group of white friends after a night of drinking. The following day, the footage was released to the public, and Wallen was swiftly disavowed by his ...Starting at €8.20
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Workaround: Which Integration Ideas to Explore?
Parmar, Bidhan L.; Mead, Jenny; Leiner, Benjamin; Vambre, DavidCase DARDEN-E-0476-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityAnna Bender, VP of product at Workaround, a large human resources (HR) software firm, had just been presented with a number of different recommendations from her employees on how to integrate the functionality and data from a recently acquired software company that had a leading chat app into Workaround’s offerings. Although she was impressed by many of the suggestions, Bender was also ethically conflicted about some of them. The business opportu...Starting at €8.20
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Recruiting: Additional Vignettes - Teaching note
Parmar, Bidhan L.; Mead, JennyTeaching Note DARDEN-E-0417TN-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityStarting at €0.00
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The Ethics of Consulting - Teaching note
Parmar, Bidhan L.; Mead, JennyTeaching Note DARDEN-E-0431TN-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityStarting at €0.00
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Suez and Veolia in Hot Water
Debaere, Peter; Agrawal, MinalCase DARDEN-GEM-0221-EEconomicsThe case, “Suez and Veolia in Hot Water,” takes the merger between Suez and Veolia, the two largest global water and waste multinationals, as a starting point and puts it in the context of the ongoing discussion in France (and elsewhere) about remunicipalizing utilities, especially water and wastewater. The broader background of the case narrative constitutes, on the one hand, the water infrastructure crisis in many advanced countries, and, on t...Starting at €8.20
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Venture Capital in Biotechnology
Matherne, G. (Paul); Herpfer, Christoph; Dow, EthanTechnical Note DARDEN-OM-1796-EService and Operations ManagementPharmaceutical companies have historically relied on their ability to research, develop, manufacture, and sell drug products. Developing a successful drug is a complex and lengthy process, with no guarantee of success, and the total cost of approving a new drug is estimated at $2.5 billion, and rising. This technical note offers an overview of changes in the biotechnology industry related to drug development, focusing on M&A, the milestone model,...Starting at €8.20
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Streaming the Future: Netflix's Global Expansion
Harris, Jared D.; Kim, K. Dennie; Vasquez, RenzoCase DARDEN-S-0345StrategyThis case is set in the rapidly changing and technologically emerging industry of on-demand streaming video, which offers Netflix a number of strategic choices. For instance, strategies can involve choices about hosting infrastructure, consumer pricing, and other issues related to a streaming service’s business model. In order to achieve global competitiveness, however, some of these choices also involve internationalization. In which foreign mar...Starting at €8.20
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Nintendo and the Future of Video Gaming
Harris, Jared D.; Lenox, Michael; Harrison, Katharine; Reiss, Mathew; Goldberg, RebeccaCase DARDEN-S-0341StrategyThis case presents the evolution of Nintendo’s gaming technology and discusses the history of the video gaming sector over eight generations of releases. It illustrates how industry dynamics shift over time and how different phases of the competitive life cycle place different demands upon those firms that are all vying for the top position. The case provides history and context for students to discuss an age-old question: How do firms sustain a ...Starting at €8.20
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Deadly Wells in Bangladesh
Debaere, PeterCase DARDEN-GEM-0158EconomicsThis case allows instructors to lay out the challenges of providing universal access to safe drinking water in developing and emerging countries—one of the current UN development goals. This is not to say that all developing countries find themselves in a comparable predicament of widespread exposure to arsenic contamination—although the exposure is on a much larger scale than is often assumed. The implication is also not that there are no water ...Starting at €8.20
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Governments and Markets in the 21st Century
Murphy, DanielCase DARDEN-GEM-0187EconomicsAs Joseph Biden began his presidency in early 2021, he was faced with the enormous task of balancing his more centrist tendencies with the increasingly activist part of his coalition. More generally, he would need to understand the forces that contributed to subpar economic performance and to redirect government efforts to supporting a market economy that benefitted all Americans. To do so, he would need to understand the arguments for and agains...Starting at €8.20