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S&P Indices and the Indexing Business in 2012
Viceira, Luis M.; Wagonfeld, Alison BerkleyCase HBS-213049-EFinanceIn June 2012, Standard & Poor's Indices is finalizing a deal with the CME Group, the largest global exchange for futures and options and majority owner of Dow Jones Indexes, to combine their respective indices business into a new joint venture called S&P Dow Jones Indices. This case discusses the index provider business model through the lenses of this transaction: sources of revenue and profitability, business valuation, uses of indexes in the m...Starting at €8.20
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Michael Harris: Crafting an MBA Faculty Values Statement - Teaching Note
Haskins, Mark E.Teaching Note DARDEN-E-0388TN-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityTeaching note for product E-0388Starting at €0.00
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Jack Drake's Question: What Makes a Great Executive Education Instructor?
Haskins, Mark E.Case DARDEN-PHA-0071-ELeadership and People ManagementThe faculty leader for the custom executive education (EE) program at a business school has received an e-mail from a program client asking him to remove a member of the program’s teaching team. It causes him to reflect on the distinctive differences between EE teaching and MBA teaching and the need to codify those differences in developing highly effective and successful EE instructors.Starting at €8.20
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Maumee Commercial Dining Products, Inc. (Spanish version)
Haskins, Mark E.Case DARDEN-C-2377Accounting and ControlTraducción al español de UVA-C-2247. En este caso, los estudiantes deben determinar en qué índices financieros recomiendan que la compañía se centre y también deben decidir la mejor manera de comunicar, explicar y dar vida a esas métricas para que los gerentes intermedios no financieros de la compañía puedan comprender más fácilmente su importancia de e internalizar las ideas de dichas ratios. Los estudiantes deben: (1) comprender la naturaleza d...Starting at €8.20
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Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pisano, Gary P.; Wagonfeld, Alison BerkleyCase HBS-610036-EService and Operations ManagementExamines the process used by a major motion picture studio to develop and select movie projects. Warner Bros.' strategy is to focus its efforts on a small number of major "event" films (i.e., films with the potential to generate gross box-office receipts of $300 million or more). This strategy--which has worked for the past two years--entails risks. The studio is now asking how it can better manage these risks and, specifically, how it can improv...Starting at €8.20
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Amyris Biotechnologies: Commercializing Biofuel
Pisano, Gary P.; Wagonfeld, Alison BerkleyCase HBS-610031-EService and Operations ManagementIn 2009, Amyris Biotechnologies was building a plant in Brazil that used synthetic biology to convert sugarcane into both renewable fuels and renewable chemicals. The Amyris' marketing team was investigating the commercial interest for both types of products, while the research and development team and the operations group were building processes that could accommodate both as well. CEO John Melo hoped to have commercial product available in 2011...Starting at €8.20
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Dividend Policy at Linear Technology (Spanish version)
Baker, Malcolm P.; Wagonfeld, Alison BerkleyCase HBS-209S19FinanceIn 1992, Linear Technology, a designer and manufacturer of analog semiconductors, initiated a dividend. The firm increased its dividend by approximately $0.01 per share each year thereafter. In fiscal year 2002, Linear experienced its first significant drop in sales since its 1986 initial public offering. Sales dropped by 47%, and profits fell by 54%. In the spring of 2003, CFO Paul Coghlan is deciding whether to recommend yet another increase in...Starting at €8.20
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Classroom Covenant: Yes? No?
Haskins, Mark E.Case DARDEN-PHA-0073-ELeadership and People ManagementJunior and senior faculty members collaborate on crafting a classroom covenant.Starting at €8.20
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Judy Gent-Inventory
Haskins, Mark E.Case DARDEN-C-2352-EAccounting and ControlThis case is used at the Darden School of Business in the inventory module of the "Financial Reporting" course elective, but it would also work well at the advanced undergraduate level. Through five phases, students first become familiar with core terminology and concepts before examining various situations-from what to make of an annual report footnote disclosure and balancing the pros and cons of using LIFO versus FIFO cost flow assumption to e...Starting at €8.20
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Judy Gent-Inventory - Teaching Note
Haskins, Mark E.Teaching Note DARDEN-C-2352TN-EAccounting and ControlTeaching note for product C-2352Starting at €0.00