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Usability Testing for Data Visualizations
Batova, TatianaTechnical Note DARDEN-BC-0301-EKnowledge and CommunicationThis technical note explores the applications of usability testing to enhance the effectiveness of data visualizations in persuasive communication. It argues that beyond following best practices for visual design, usability testing—a common user research approach in website, app, and software development—can significantly improve how well data visualizations meet audience needs and accomplish persuasive goals. The note details various aspects of ...Starting at €8.20
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A Framework for Improving Organizational Interventions
Parmar, Bidhan L.Technical Note DARDEN-G-0631-EKnowledge and CommunicationThis technical note analyzes and explores frameworks for improving interventions in organizations. Organizations are complex ecosystems of assumptions, artifacts, and interactions. By understanding how the current system is arranged and recognizing the broader impacts of any intervention, leaders can make more impactful and lasting changes to their organizations. Any framework is only as good as the assumptions that are baked into it. Often the d...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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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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A Note on Long-Run Models of Economic Growth
Rodriguez, Peter L.Technical Note DARDEN-G-0614-EKnowledge and CommunicationThis technical note prepares students to use and analyze economic models of long-run growth. The technical note is particularly useful in introduction the Solow Neoclassical growth model for discussing growth in emerging markets and developed economies.Starting at €8.20
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The Effects of Tariffs and Quotas
Debaere, PeterTechnical Note DARDEN-G-0595-EKnowledge and CommunicationThis note discusses the welfare implications of tariffs for consumers, producers, and the government. A brief survey of the state of protectionism in recent years is included.Starting at €8.20
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Supply, Demand, and Equilibrium: The Algebra
Debaere, PeterTechnical Note DARDEN-G-0592-EKnowledge and CommunicationThis technical note refreshes the algebraic representation of linear demand and supply, how to account for shifting curves, and how to include taxes. This is part of the refresher course in Economics at Darden.Starting at €8.20
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Supply, Demand, and Equilibrium: A Class Experiment
Debaere, PeterTechnical Note DARDEN-G-0593-EKnowledge and CommunicationThis note explains the intuition and analytics behind the class experiment that is commonly called "Trading in a Pit." Following the experiment, we derive supply and demand and discuss market efficiency. This note is part of the refresher course in economics at Darden.Starting at €8.20
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Legal Considerations When Writing Case Studies
Yemen, Gerry; Fletcher, EricTechnical Note DARDEN-PHA-0072-EKnowledge and Communication"If the company refuses to sign the case release, can I disguise material and use it in my business case?" "Is it okay to use part of this quote in my case under the 10% rule?" Without attention to questions like these from the start of the case-writing process, the brilliance of having written a good business case study may well be rewarded by the embarrassment—or worse, humiliation—of a publisher pointing out copyright infringement or accusing ...Starting at €8.20