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Analyzing Uncertainty: Probability Distributions and Simulation
Carraway, Robert L.Technical Note DARDEN-QA-0660-EDecision AnalysisThis note introduces simulation as a tool to analyze uncertainty in business decisions. It first observes the limitations of single point or simple range estimates of key uncertainties, thereby motivating the need to create a risk profile for any alternative that characterizes the full range of possible outcomes and their relative likelihoods. A simple example involving both a discrete and a continuous (triangle) distribution is used. The note is...Starting at €8.20
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Pulling the Goalie in Hockey
Gregory S. Zaric; Michael LeffCase IVEY-9B08E001-ECorporate GovernanceThe assistant coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs, had just seen the team lose. In order to increase their chance of scoring, they had added a sixth offensive skater to the ice by sending their goaltender to the bench (known as pulling the goalie) in the last 60 seconds of the game. Doing this did not give the team an advantage, in fact, a member of the opposite team was able to shoot the puck into the unguarded net, which cost the Leafs the game. T...Starting at €8.20
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Airbus and Boeing: Superjumbo Decisions
Bodily, Samuel E.; Lichtendahl, Kenneth C. Jr.Case DARDEN-QA-0720-EDecision AnalysisSet in 1999, this case allows students to put themselves in the positions of both Airbus and Boeing as Boeing considered how to respond to Airbus's decision to announce its plans to proceed or not with the $10 billion development of the world's first commercial superjumbo jet, the Airbus A3XX. Boeing was considering a development effort to "stretch" its 747 jumbo jet into a larger superjumbo version, the 747-X. At the time, the two companies' wid...Starting at €8.20
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SnackChips in China
Bodily, Samuel E.; Lichtendahl, Kenneth C. Jr.; Clemen, RobertCase DARDEN-QA-0698-EDecision AnalysisThis case is intended to work well as an exam or a capstone for a course on decision analysis, simulation, real options, and game theory. It explores a conventional snack-chip marketer's strategy in China for promoting and advertising a recently acquired healthy snack-chip brand in mid-2002. The marketer has some key decisions to make, now and in the future, about a range of marketing expenditures in the context of an exciting emerging market and...Starting at €8.20
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Competing for Development (B2): The Berkeley Lab
Oana Branzei; Samer AbdelnourCase IVEY-9B08M062B-EStrategyThis a role play supplement to Competing for Development (A): Fuel Efficient Stoves for Darfur, product # 9B08M061. The role plays feature additional background, motivations and decision priorities from the key local and international players in Darfur's fuel efficient stove interventions, including the Intermediate Technology Group , renamed to Practical Action in 2005 (ITDG/PA), the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Aprovecho, the International L...Starting at €8.20
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Competing for Development (B1): The Intermediate Technology Development Group/Practical Action
Oana Branzei; Samer AbdelnourCase IVEY-9B08M062A-EStrategyThis a role play supplement to Competing for Development (A): Fuel Efficient Stoves for Darfur, product # 9B08M061. The role plays feature additional background, motivations and decision priorities from the key local and international players in Darfur's fuel efficient stove interventions, including the Intermediate Technology Group , renamed to Practical Action in 2005 (ITDG/PA), the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Aprovecho, the International L...Starting at €8.20
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Competing for Development (A): Fuel Efficient Stoves for Darfur
Oana Branzei; Samer AbdelnourCase IVEY-9B08M061-EStrategyThe new country director of CHF International (CHF), a U.S.-based organization that initiated operations in Sudan with USAID funding, must review the successes of CHF's early interventions, and its strategic interest in the fuel efficient stoves project. The practical decision concerns a US$65,000 investment in a local manufacturing facility that would allow CHF to scale up the production of a stove design endorsed by the Lawrence Berkeley Nation...Starting at €8.20
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Competing for Development (B6): IDP Women Organizations
Oana Branzei; Samer AbdelnourCase IVEY-9B08M062F-EStrategyThis a role play supplement to Competing for Development (A): Fuel Efficient Stoves for Darfur, product # 9B08M061. The role plays feature additional background, motivations and decision priorities from the key local and international players in Darfur's fuel efficient stove interventions, including the Intermediate Technology Group , renamed to Practical Action in 2005 (ITDG/PA), the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Aprovecho, the International L...Starting at €8.20
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Competing for Development (B3): Aprovecho
Oana Branzei; Samer AbdelnourCase IVEY-9B08M062C-EStrategyThis a role play supplement to Competing for Development (A): Fuel Efficient Stoves for Darfur, product # 9B08M061. The role plays feature additional background, motivations and decision priorities from the key local and international players in Darfur's fuel efficient stove interventions, including the Intermediate Technology Group , renamed to Practical Action in 2005 (ITDG/PA), the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Aprovecho, the International L...Starting at €8.20
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Competing for Development (B5): USAID
Oana Branzei; Samer AbdelnourCase IVEY-9B08M062E-EStrategyThis a role play supplement to Competing for Development (A): Fuel Efficient Stoves for Darfur, product # 9B08M061. The role plays feature additional background, motivations and decision priorities from the key local and international players in Darfur's fuel efficient stove interventions, including the Intermediate Technology Group , renamed to Practical Action in 2005 (ITDG/PA), the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Aprovecho, the International L...Starting at €8.20