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Merck & Company: Product KL-798
Frey, Sherwood C. Jr.; Bodily, Samuel E.Case DARDEN-QA-0582-EDecision AnalysisMerck has been approached by a small biotech research firm with the proposal that Merck buy the rights to a new drug that promises to treat obesity and lower cholesterol. The drug is in the middle of phase I of the FDA approval process. Pat Harlow, the chief licensing officer, has been leading Merck's investigation team. A meeting is scheduled for tomorrow at which Merck's response to the offer will be drafted.Starting at €8.20
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George's T-Shirts
Frey, Sherwood C. Jr.; Pfeifer, Phillip E.Case DARDEN-QA-0346-EDecision AnalysisGeorge Lasiter sells special-events T-shirts and must decide how many to order for an upcoming concert. He has high, medium, and low estimates of both concert attendance and the percentage of attendees who will want a shirt. In addition, he has assessed the relative likelihoods of each estimate. The case can be used to introduce or reinforce the fundamental issues surrounding decision making under uncertainty.Starting at €8.20
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Merck & Company: Product KL-798 (Spanish version)
Frey, Sherwood C. Jr.; Bodily, Samuel E.Case DARDEN-QA-0910Decision AnalysisEsta es una traducción al español de la versión del 14 de junio de 2016 del caso UVA-QA-0582. Merck ha sido contactado por una pequeña empresa de investigación en biotecnología con una propuesta para que Merck compre los derechos de un nuevo medicamento que promete tratar la obesidad y reducir el colesterol. El medicamento se encuentra en la mitad de la fase I del proceso de aprobación de la FDA. Pat Harlow, el director de licencias, ha estado al...Starting at €8.20
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Madison House: Riley Carter
Frey, Sherwood C. Jr.; Bass, Lucien; Grant, MaxCase DARDEN-QA-0803-EDecision AnalysisThis two-part negotiation exercise is used in Negotiations electives at both the Darden School of Business and the McIntire School of Commerce. Together the cases provide the background for a scorable, bilateral, multi-issue negotiation in which there are congruent, distributive, and integrative issues. People and Congregations Engaged in Ministry (PACEM) was a nonprofit organization committed to helping homeless adults in the Charlottesville, Vi...Starting at €8.20
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PACEM: Kennedy Brooks
Frey, Sherwood C. Jr.; Bass, Lucien; Grant, MaxCase DARDEN-QA-0802-EDecision AnalysisThis two-part negotiation exercise is used in Negotiations electives at both the Darden School of Business and the McIntire School of Commerce. Together, the cases provide the background for a scorable, bilateral, multi-issue negotiation in which there are congruent, distributive, and integrative issues. People and Congregations Engaged in Ministry (PACEM) was a nonprofit organization committed to helping homeless adults in the Charlottesville, V...Starting at €8.20
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The Responsible Manager (Spanish version)
Prahalad, C.K.Article HBS-F1001GLeadership and People ManagementManagers must remember that they are the custodians of society's most powerful institutions, and as such they must hold themselves to a higher standard. They must strive to achieve success with responsibility. He offers 11 specific pieces of advice intended to spur his listeners to reexamine their values before plunging into everyday routines. Among them are 1) Display a commitment to learning and developing yourself. 2) Put personal performance...Starting at €8.20
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Serving the World's Poor, Profitably (Spanish version)
Prahalad, C.K.; Hammond, AllenArticle HBS-R0209CEconomicsBy stimulating commerce and development at the bottom of the economic pyramid, multinationals could radically improve the lives of billions of people and help create a more stable, less dangerous world. Achieving this goal does not require MNCs to spearhead global social-development initiatives for charitable purposes. They need only act in their own self-interest. How? The authors lay out the business case for entering the world's poorest market...Starting at €8.20
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Innovation's Holy Grail
Prahalad, C.K.; Mashelkar, R.A.Article HBS-R1007N-EStrategyAffordability and sustainability, not premium pricing and abundance, are the new tenets of effective innovation. Westerners are struggling with the shift in mind-set, but a few emerging-market pioneers are showing the way: They're designing inexpensive products and manufacturing them with so little capital and on a scale so vast that their prices-1 cent for a one-minute telephone call, $2,000 for a car-are the lowest in the world. Nowhere is this...Starting at €8.20
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Best Practices Get You Only So Far
Prahalad, C.K.Article HBS-F1004H-EBenchmarking best practices allows enterprises to catch up with the competition, but it won't turn them into market leaders. Organizations become winners by spotting big opportunities and inventing next practices. Executives can unearth opportunities by identifying big problems that their companies will benefit by tackling. They must ask six questions: (1) Is the problem widely recognized? (2) Does it affect other industries? (3) Are radical inno...Starting at €8.20
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Cocreating Business's New Social Compact
Brugmann, Jeb; Prahalad, C.K.Article HBS-R0702D-EEconomicsThis article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. Moving beyond decades of mutual distrust and animosity, corporations and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are learning to cooperate with each other. Realizing that their interests are converging, the two sides are working together to create innovative business ...Starting at €8.20