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Boots Unlimited: Getting a Foot in the Door (A), (B), and (C) - Teaching Note
Farris, Paul W.; Goldberg, RebeccaTeaching Note DARDEN-M-0970TN-EMarketingTeaching note for product M-0970Starting at €0.00
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Heinz Ketchup: Pricing the Product Line (Spanish version)
Wilcox, Ronald T.; Goldberg, RebeccaCase DARDEN-M-0954MarketingTraducción al español de la versión del 27 de junio de 2011 del caso UVA-M-0777. Una marca estadounidense icónica debe determinar cómo maximizar las ganancias netas aumentando las ventas de sus artículos con el margen más alto frente al retroceso constante de los minoristas, incluido el espacio reducido en los estantes y el apoyo promocional de esos mismos productos. Este caso es adecuado para los cursos obligatorios de marketing de MBA, así como...Starting at €8.20
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Boots Unlimited: Getting a Foot in the Door (C)
Farris, Paul W.; Goldberg, RebeccaCase DARDEN-M-0972-EMarketingRyan and Robert Rosen, brothers and co-owners of BootsUnlimited.com (BU) are approaching the end of their three-week experiment in testing keywords for their Google AdWords campaign, eliminating poor-performing keywords and occasionally adding new ones. Will their campaign be a success, or will they have to find some other way to market BU's boots?Starting at €5.74
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Boots Unlimited: Getting a Foot in the Door (B)
Farris, Paul W.; Goldberg, RebeccaCase DARDEN-M-0971-EMarketingRobert Rosen and his brother, Ryan, took a look at the slow pace at which the budget for their family-owned company, BootsUnlimited.com (BU), was being spent. Many of the keywords they had chosen for their Google AdWords campaign in the hopes of boosting online sales at BU, were not being clicked on. What changes did they need to make?Starting at €5.74
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Boots Unlimited: Getting a Foot in the Door (A)
Farris, Paul W.; Goldberg, RebeccaCase DARDEN-M-0970-EMarketingBootsUnlimited.com (BU) is a website offering custom-made footwear. Customers can choose from a wide variety of styles and can also create new styles based on their exact specifications. The company instructs customers on how to provide 20 different foot and calf measurements, and from those measurements, the footwear is made in a Thai production facility. BU products cater to the custom boot market and to very different segments, and the brother...Starting at €8.20
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Patagonia, Inc.
Wilcox, Ronald T.; Goldberg, RebeccaCase DARDEN-M-0857-EMarketingThe marketing director of Patagonia, Inc. (Patagonia), had been tasked with considering the financial implications of a new initiative that Patagonia planned to launch within six months: Common Threads. It was envisioned as a used-clothing joint venture in which owners of Patagonia clothing could list garments for sale via an eBay-style platform. Patagonia's leadership was convinced that offering this service to its community of existing clothing...Starting at €8.20
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Gemstar-TV Guide International
McNichols, M; Blair, NCase SGSB-A208-EAccounting and ControlNormally, serving on a company's board of directors is not a full-time job, but in the summer of 2002, Nick Donatiello (GSB 1986) found himself in exactly that position. As a member of Gemstar-TV Guide International's (Gemstar's or the Company's) board of directors and its Audit Committee, Donatiello was caught up in a storm of accounting issues, shareholder lawsuits and a power struggle between the Company's largest shareholders. Donatiello, one...Starting at €8.20
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Sunbeam Corporation: Board Member Assessing Earnings Quality (B)
McNichols, M; Callan, CCase SGSB-A189B-EAccounting and ControlIt was June 9, 1998, and Charles Elson, a law professor and Director on Sunbeam’s Board, had just left a distressing Elson and the other outside directors met with outside legal and public relations advisors on June 13, 1998. After discussion of the events, the outside directors voiced that they had lost faith in Dunlap. They contacted the other directors and then called Dunlap to tell him he was terminated. Because of his apparent failure in ...Starting at €5.74
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miraclefeet.org: Fundraising and Financial Sustainability - Teaching note
McNichols, M; Foroughi, JTeaching Note SGSB-SI135TN-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and ChangeIn the summer of 2015, after reporting another year of strong growth in programming and fundraising at miraclefeet.org, a nonprofit dedicated to providing treatment to children born with clubfoot in developing countries, co-founder and executive director Chesca Colloredo-Mansfeld (MBA ’92) found herself wanting to do more. While miraclefeet had reported record numbers in each year since its 2010 founding, she knew that she had the capacity to no...Starting at €0.00
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Reach Capital: Porformance in Education Technology
McNichols, M; Foroughi, JCase SGSB-SI136-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and ChangeIn January 2015, Jennifer Carolan, who had served as the managing director of the NewSchools Venture Fund Seed Fund (“Seed Fund”), spun off from the nonprofit venture philanthropy firm to create a for-profit social impact fund focused on education technology (edtech). Through a unique joint venture with NewSchools Venture Fund (“NewSchools”) called NewSchools Capital, the new venture fund, Reach Capital, would allow Carolan to not only raise mor...Starting at €8.20