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Managing Energy: A Team in Crisis
Goldberg, Rebecca; James, Erika HayesCase DARDEN-OB-1023-ELeadership and People ManagementVolatility can emerge in any working group, particularly in a flat hierarchy with no established leader; add diversity and exhaustion to the mix, and a group is vulnerable to buckling under the pressure of its own goals. This fictional account of a contentious learning team at a business school dramatizes both the words and thoughts of the participants as frictions lead them to consider disbanding. It provides a means of discussing the nature of ...Starting at €8.20
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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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Deutsche Allgemeinversicherung (Spanish version)
Upton, David M.Case HBS-603S09Service and Operations ManagementDescribes the application of statistical process control in a service industry. In this case, Annette Kluck must decide how to adopt manufacturing-based principles to a service process ranging from customer account setup to legal services.Starting at €8.20
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Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering
Upton, David M.; Kim, BowonCase HBS-609018-EService and Operations ManagementExplores the journey of aggressive learning and capability building in the operations of a major Korean Shipbuilder. While DSHM had once used its superior learning capability to topple its Japanese competition, it now faced the potential for a similar attack from new Chinese competitors. Without outsourcing some of its work to China, DSHM would become uncompetitive. However, in outsourcing the work, some skills would necessarily have to be transf...Starting at €8.20
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Elektrikraft: Global Sourcing Initiative (B)
Laseter, Timothy M.; Goldberg, RebeccaCase DARDEN-OM-1485-EService and Operations ManagementThe meeting of the electricity meters commodity strategy task force lasted all day, and the team made significant progress. After hours of deliberation, the task force decided that it would employ the consulting firm’s services and hold a reverse auction; however, the variety of meters required by the different sites and the varying prices according to delivery site forced the team to conclude that a single, common auction for all the meters and ...Starting at €5.74