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Smithfield Foods: Activists and Acquisitions
Chen, Ming-Jer; Jia, Ruo; Yemen, GerryCase DARDEN-S-0308-EStrategyThis research-based case uses the circumstances surrounding Virginia-based Smithfield Foods’ (Smithfield’s) buyout offers from multiple foreign firms to examine the political and cultural constraints of a regionally rooted global firm in pursuing its strategic objectives. Smithfield’s senior leadership receives offers from three firms, ShuangHui International (ShuangHui), JBS S.A. (JBS), and Charoen Pokphand Foods (CPF), based in China, Brazil, a...Starting at €8.20
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Streaming the Future: Netflix's Global Expansion - Teaching note
Harris, Jared D.; Yemen, GerryTeaching Note DARDEN-S-0345TN-EStrategyStarting at €0.00
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Ambiculture: Seeking the Multicultural Middle -Teaching Note
Chen, Ming-Jer; Rochanakit, Chawit; Jia, Ruo; Yemen, GerryTeaching Note DARDEN-S-0266TN-EStrategyTeaching note for product S-0266Starting at €0.00
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Ambiculture: Seeking the Multicultural Middle
Chen, Ming-Jer; Yemen, GerryCase DARDEN-S-0266-EStrategySeries of scenarios each presenting a situation that asks the student to decide how to proceed.Starting at €8.20
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Hilton China
Chen, Ming-Jer; Yemen, GerryCase DARDEN-S-0324-EStrategyHow do brands travel? As firms expand globally, they must manage how their products and services are perceived across borders, peoples, and cultures. This can be thorny when what a firm offers has no immediate interpretation by an international audience, like selling ice cream to a nation that consumes little dairy. It can be even worse when a company’s key products are likely to elicit negative reactions in their new market, like McDonald’s hamb...Starting at €8.20
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Lay's Potato Chips: The Crunch Is On (B)
Harris, Jared D.; Yemen, GerryCase DARDEN-S-0201-EStrategySnack-food customers claim they want to eat healthier snacks and lose weight, but snacks marketed as nutrition-wise don't sell as well as traditional salty snacks, such as the iconic Lay's brand of potato chips. Al Carey, CEO of Frito-Lay North America, needs to come up with a strategy to connect with the health-minded customer in a shifting market without compromising the products that built the company. In part B, Carey prepares to present his ...Starting at €5.74
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Hillenbrand: Thinking Beyond the Certain
Fairchild, Gregory B.; Yemen, GerryCase DARDEN-S-0243-EStrategyFor years, the death care business looked good on paper for Hillenbrand, Inc.: the company had EBITDA margins of more than 26% in an industry that historically presented itself as stable, profitable, and highly predictable. With strong financial performance and a solid position as market leader, how does one know when being better isn’t enough? Although Hillenbrand remained highly profitable, a decline in the annual burial rate and increased dema...Starting at €8.20
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The World is Flat...The World is Lumpy?
Yemen, Gerry; Venkataraman, S.Technical Note DARDEN-S-0191-EStrategySuitable for MBA, EMBA, GEMBA, and executive education programs, this note sets the stage to unfold an analysis of popular notions about how the world works. On one hand, some believe that global competition has created a flattened world and that globalization has leveled the playing field. Yet a zest to view the world as flat, others have said, results in an underestimation of the differences between countries-standardization, exact replication,...Starting at €8.20
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Lay's Potato Chips: The Crunch Is On (A)
Harris, Jared D.; Yemen, Gerry; Lozano, AmandaCase DARDEN-S-0200-EStrategySnack-food customers claim they want to eat healthier snacks and lose weight, but snacks marketed as nutrition-wise don't sell as well as traditional salty snacks, such as the iconic Lay's brand of potato chips. Al Carey, CEO of Frito-Lay North America, needs to come up with a strategy to connect with the health-minded customer in a shifting market without compromising the products that built the company. Part A of this two-part case maps out an ...Starting at €8.20
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Tata Motors Limited: Ratan's Next Step
Biladeau, Andrew; Yemen, Gerry; Lenox, Michael; Harris, Jared D.Case DARDEN-S-0184-EStrategySuitable for MBA, EMBA, and executive education programs, this case uses Tata Motors' move to acquire Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) from Ford to analyze a growth-through-acquisition strategy. It offers a discussion about the firm’s overall strategy to acquire instead of growing organically. The case begins when Ratan Tata, chairman of Tata Motors, unveils the world’s cheapest car—the Nano. He had challenged the people around him to design and produce...Starting at €8.20