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The Customer-Focused Growth Project
Moore, Marian Chapman; Urbany, Joel E.Technical Note DARDEN-M-0798-EMarketingThis note guides students or Executive Education participants through an exercise to help identify growth opportunities for their business units. The Customer-Focused Growth Project consists of 10 steps that lead to a vetted growth strategy based on an analysis of the company, a customer (or customer segment), and competitors. Readers work through the first five steps to identify three potential growth ideas. They then follow the remaining five s...Starting at €8.20
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The Maple Lane Driveway Paving Project
Scott, EstherCase HBS-HKS449-EThis brief case narrative tells the story of how a few people managed to wring consensus from over 40 of their neighbors on repaving a shared driveway. While there was general agreement that the driveway, which ran behind their buildings, was in poor shape, there was little impetus to do something about it, in large part because of the daunting task of organizing a large and disparate group of residents, who had hitherto shown little interest in...Starting at €8.20
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Jailing Kids for Cash in Pennsylvania (Supplement)
Donahue, John D.; Scott, EstherCase HBS-HKS114-EStrategyThis supplement is the third part of a three part case. The main case (case 1908.0) provides background on the California three strikes law, and then briefly describes the proponents and opponents of the ballot measure, and the arguments each side put forward. The sequel and supplement can be read sequentially in class. The brief sequel summarizes the impact of the ballot initiative-which was overwhelmingly approved by voters-on both the state...Starting at €8.20
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Revisiting Gang Violence in Boston
Scott, Esther; Zimmerman, PeterCase HBS-HKS329-EStrategyOn the night of November 28, 2006, Reverend Jeffrey Brown, a Baptist minister and co-founder of the Ten Point Coalition in Boston, Massachusetts, received bad news: 20-year-old Jahmol Norfleet, a leader in one of Boston's warring gangs, had been shot and killed near his home. Norfleet's death did not simply represent one more grim statistic in a year marred by gang violence in Boston: it threatened to undo a fragile truce between two gangs that h...Starting at €8.20
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Green Ox - Teaching Note
Moore, Marian Chapman; Wilcox, Ronald T.; Henderson, GeraldineTeaching Note DARDEN-M-0722TN-EMarketingTeaching note for product M-0722Starting at €0.00
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The "Three Strikes" Law in California (Sequel): The Impact
Donahue, John D.; Scott, EstherCase HBS-HKS113-EStrategyThis sequel is the second part of this three part case. The main case (case 1908.0) provides background on the California three strikes law, and then briefly describes the proponents and opponents of the ballot measure, and the arguments each side put forward. The next two parts can be read sequentially in class. This brief sequel summarizes the impact of the ballot initiative-which was overwhelmingly approved by voters-on both the state priso...Starting at €8.20
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Green Ox
Moore, Marian Chapman; Wilcox, Ronald T.; Henderson, GeraldineCase DARDEN-M-0722-EMarketing”Green Ox” was written specifically for a midterm exam in an MBA marketing management class. Rather than focus on one particular concept or issue (e.g., segmentation, product line depth), the case challenges students to develop a marketing strategy for a food and beverage manufacturer’s new line of sports beverages, which contain beneficial antioxidants. Focal decisions include choosing a segmentation scheme(s) and a specific target segment(s) an...Starting at €8.20
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"Broadmoor Lives": A New Orleans Neighborhood's Battle To Recover from Hurricane Katrina (B)
Leonard, Herman; Lee, Henry; Fung, Archon; Scott, EstherCase HBS-KS1049-ESupplement case for KS1016.Starting at €5.74
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The "Three Strikes" Law in California: The Ballot Initiative
Scott, Esther; Donahue, John D.Case HBS-HKS112-EStrategyIn November 1994, California voters were presented with a ballot initiative on a proposed "three strikes" measure, which would impose stiff penalties on repeat offenders. Under the terms of Proposition 184, offenders with one or two violent or serious felonies on their records would get much longer sentences for second or third felony crimes-in the case of a third "strike," a term of 25 years to life; moreover, these repeat crimes did not have t...Starting at €8.20
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Taking a Therapeutic Approach to Juvenile Offenders: The "Missouri Model"
Garcia-Rios, Patricia; Scott, Esther; Boatright Wilson, JulieCase HBS-HKS104-ELeadership and People ManagementThis case is accompanied by a Video Short that can be shown in class or included in a digital coursepack. Instructors should consider the timing of making the video available to students, as it may reveal key case details. In the early 1970s, the Missouri Division of Youth Services (DYS) took its first steps toward radically changing the way it dealt with youthful offenders remanded to its custody. For years, like most states, it had incarcerate...Starting at €8.20