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B/E Aerospace, Inc.
Wesley MarpleCase IVEY-9B09N010-EFinanceB/E Aerospace, Inc., (BEAV) the market leader for cabin interior products for commercial aircraft and business jets, and a leading aftermath distributor of aerospace fasteners, was reviewing its financial strategy. BEAV was a heavily leveraged company in the cyclical aircraft products industry. Its business had been threatened by the terrorist act of September 11, 2001, the epidemic of SARS in 2003 and the war in Iraq in 2004. These events discou...Starting at €8.20
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Audio Advice: From Retail to E-Tail
Michael A. StankoCase IVEY-9B17A036-EEntrepreneurship, MarketingAudio Advice was a brick-and-mortar audio specialty retailer with two stores in North Carolina. Traditionally, audiophile components were only sold through specialty stores. However, this practice was shifting, with a growing portion of sales occurring online. Audio Advice wanted to capture a portion of this growing channel, so started online as an Amazon Marketplace seller. Though this channel resulted in quick revenue growth without a great dea...Starting at €8.20
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New York Bakery (E)
David Loree; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B10C023E-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyA technical consultant is travelling to New York Bakery, and eastern U.S. confectionery company that is under bankruptcy protection. The consultant's task is to assess New York Bakery's readiness for the installation of a new payroll system, which will help it move through the bankruptcy process. By his first week on the job, the consultant realizes that his task is greater than he imagined. In trying to help the organization prepare for the chan...Starting at €5.74
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The Pebble Mine (E): Rio Tinto
Alan Krause; Lisa JohnsonCase IVEY-9B16M049E-EStrategyThis is a supplement to The Pebble Mine (A) 9B16M049A. It takes the perspective of Rio Tinto.Starting at €5.74
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Dental Associates of Northern Virginia (B)
Marie E. MattaCase IVEY-9B10D018-EService and Operations ManagementThis case is a supplement to Dental Associates of Northern Virginia (A).Starting at €5.74
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Dental Associates of Northern Virginia (A)
Marie E. MattaCase IVEY-9B10D017-EService and Operations ManagementDental Associates of Northern Virginia is one of the largest dental networks in northern Virginia. In this series of two cases, the head administrator must choose between keeping up with new technology by investing in innovative all-porcelain crown-making machines or holding onto a strategy of waiting and seeing. This choice also aligns with the head administrator making a larger decision of whether to enhance the core competency of his network b...Starting at €8.20
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Valuing Wal-Mart 2010
Stephen R. Foerster; James E. Hatch; Cyrus ZahediCase IVEY-9B11N004-EFinanceAn equity analyst uses a variety of methods to value Wal-Mart shares with a view to making a buy/sell or hold recommendation for the stock. Her key task is to use an intrinsic value approach to price the shares and to then compare the resulting price with the price at which the stock is traded in the market.Starting at €8.20
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Emdeon Inc.
James E. Hatch; Rishi Jain; Rajnee SinghCase IVEY-9B10N012-EFinanceAn analyst at a New York based investment bank has been given the task of suggesting the offering price for a forthcoming initial public offering. The analyst must also summarize the risks and opportunities associated with an investment in the stock for use by the investment bank's sales force. The case is heavily focused on the comparable method of valuing a stock.Starting at €8.20
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Intel Corp. - Bring Your Own Device
V. Joseph Compeau; Nicole R.D. Haggerty; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B13E002-EInformation Technologies, StrategySince early 2009, the information technology (IT) division of a leading manufacturer of semiconductor chips had noticed a growing trend among the company’s 80,000 employees worldwide to bring their own smartphones and storage devices to their individual workstations. Recognizing that Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) was not a passing fad but a growing phenomenon, the company decided in January 2010 to formally implement this initiative. As the compan...Starting at €8.20
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Vanderbilt University Medical Center: Elective Surgery Schedule
Lauren E. Cipriano; Vikram Tiwari; Warren S. Sandberg; Gregory S. ZaricCase IVEY-9B15E011-ECorporate GovernanceIn 2012, the newly appointed director of Surgical Business Analytics has been charged with the task of improving predictions of surgical case volume at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. He is provided with 48 weeks of elective surgery schedule data that give the number of surgeries booked on specific dates prior to the surgery day and the actual number performed. Variation in daily operating room volumes is a major pro...Starting at €8.20