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Grappling with Uncertainty: Fintop Technology Advisors
Andrasko, Joe; Zorc, Sasa; Bodily, Samuel E.Case DARDEN-QA-0948-EDecision AnalysisAdewale Ogunleye is the founder and CEO of Fintop Technology Advisors, a technology development firm that specializes in providing outsourced software development services to financial technology (fintech) start-ups. Ogunleye has recently met with Leya Ahmed, the founder of Periscope Labs, a new fintech whose promising digital payment technology seeks to revolutionize the e-commerce checkout experience. Ogunleye proposed to Ahmed that Fintop woul...Starting at €8.20
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Pastelería Casadevall - Teaching note
Agell, Pere; Bastons, M.Teaching Note ADT-4-EDecision Analysis, EconomicsStarting at €0.00
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Pastelería Casadevall
Agell, Pere; Bastons, M.Case AD-222-EDecision Analysis, EconomicsStarting at €8.20
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City Salary Freeze
Pfeifer, Phillip E.Case DARDEN-QA-0794-EDecision AnalysisMayor Anthony Lee has asked his assistant to begin the analysis of a recent survey of city residents to help him decide between freezing the salaries of city employees and cutting back on city services. There is a supplemental spreadsheet available for students (UVA-QA-0794X).Starting at €8.20
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A GLUM Primer: The Risk-Adjusted Expected Value
Pfeifer, Phillip E.; Bodily, Samuel E.; Baucells, ManelTechnical Note DARDEN-QA-0849-EDecision AnalysisThe purpose of this note is to improve on the expected value criterion by incorporating the willingness and capability to take risk of a rational decision maker. First, this note will review the concept of expected net present value (ENPV) and demonstrate its limitations. Next, we introduce the notion of play capital, or the most one is willing to put at risk in view of one’s life circumstances, goals, and resources. Then, we introduce the genera...Starting at €8.20
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Salmones Puyuhuapi Part I
Bodily, Samuel E.; Echeverria, Rafael; Pfeifer, Phillip E.Case DARDEN-QA-0776-EDecision AnalysisThis case series is appropriate for undergraduate, MBA, executive education, and MBA Exec audiences but is specifically designed for decision analysis, a first-year MBA core course. In the Part I case, Osvaldo Correa, CEO of Salmones Puyuhuapi (SP), must decide how to respond to news that the ISA virus has infected a competitor’s salmon farming site. The alternatives include harvesting SP’s 900,000 salmon two months early, waiting for the fish to...Starting at €8.20
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Saving Troubled Stutts Corporation: Information Known Only to Evenson
Bodily, Samuel E.Case DARDEN-QA-0714-EDecision AnalysisThis case, part of a series (see also UVA-QA-0712, UVA-QA-0713, and UVA-QA-0715), contains information known only to Evenson. Two individuals own all the capital in Stutts Corporation. Decker owns all the debt and Evenson owns all the equity. Unless Decker and Evenson supply workout loans, Stutts will become bankrupt immediately. If they do provide the loans, Stutts will go into three possible states: recover, restructure, liquidate. The payouts ...Starting at €8.20
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Thomas Jefferson Had Girls (B)
Pfeifer, Phillip E.Case DARDEN-QA-0797-EDecision AnalysisThe A and B cases are intended for undergraduate, MBA, executive education, and MBAExec audiences. They were used as an exam case for “Data Analysis and Optimization,” which is both a first- and second-year MBA elective. They were also used as the first class of an undergraduate business statistics class. The A case begins by explaining that Thomas Jefferson fathered five girls (and one stillborn son) and Randolph Jefferson (Thomas’s brother) fat...Starting at €5.74
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Real Options (Abridged)
Bodily, Samuel E.Technical Note DARDEN-QA-0799-EDecision AnalysisThis note is an abridged version of QA-0639, "Real Options."Starting at €8.20
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The Value of Information and Control
Bodily, Samuel E.Technical Note DARDEN-QA-0468-EDecision AnalysisUsing a simple example, this short note demonstrates how to place a monetary value on information and control. The monetary value is the change in expected monetary value due to the change in some action taken by the decision maker.Starting at €8.20