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SSS software in-basket exercise - Self-evaluation
Schor S.; Seltzer, J.; Smither J.; Miller, PaddyExercise FHE-13-ELeadership and People ManagementThe self evaluation document analyses the 17 documents of the in-basket exercise and allows students to evaluate their own performance. The self evaluation process also classifies their decisions in terms of various categories such as Motivation of others, Information Analysis, Cross-cultural awareness, Empowerment.Starting at €8.20
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Recruit Holdings and the Ribbon Model
Miller, Paddy; Inami, HiromiCase DPO-388-EInformation Technologies, Knowledge and Communication, Leadership and People ManagementListed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange since October 2014 with $13 billion in sales, Recruit Holdings had created and managed as many as 200 businesses and brands through separate operating divisions across Japan, the rest of Asia, Europe and the United States. The key business of Recruit was that it operated a number of platforms and services that provided client data and could be accessed by many users. But what made it work? What made it sustainab...Starting at €8.20
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EMI Group PLC (Spanish version)
Schill, Michael J.; Shumadine, ElizabethCase DARDEN-F-1818FinanceTraducción al español de la versión del 13 de marzo de 2009 de UVA-F-1552. Este caso examina la decisión de abril de 2007 de la compañía británica de música EMI de suspender su dividendo anual mientras la compañía luchaba por responder al efecto de la distribución de audio digital en su negocio principal. El caso de EMI está pensado para servir como una introducción a la política financiera corporativa y los temas de gestión del lado derecho del ...Starting at €8.20
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Rosetta Stone: Pricing the 2009 IPO - Teaching Note
Schill, Michael J.Teaching Note DARDEN-F-1613TN-EFinanceTeaching note for product F-1613Starting at €0.00
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Hewlett Packard: The Journey from BCD to ICD
Ford S.; Miller, PaddyCase FH-724-ELeadership and People ManagementSet at the time of the Hewlett-Packard and Compaq merger, the case describes the transformation of HP's Barcelona Division from a major individual player in the large-format printer market to a "product-generating" unit within a newly restructured Hewlett-Packard. The history and implementation of the changes are presented, and reactions within the organization are discussed.Starting at €8.20
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Jordan Cohen at PfizerWorks: Building the Office of the Future
Wedell-Wedellsborg, Thomas; Miller, PaddyCase DPO-187-EService and Operations ManagementJordan Cohen is the Manager of organisational effectiveness within Pfizer, the large pharmaceutical company. He sets up a system called pfizerWorks that outsources tasks such as preparation of Excel, PowerPoint and research. This case follows his progress over a five year period as he sets it up from scratch to embedding pfizerWorks throughout the corporation.Starting at €8.20
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Whole Foods Market: The Deutsche Bank Report
Schill, Michael J.; Blankenship, ChrisCase DARDEN-F-1776-EFinanceThis case follows the financial-statement forecasting decisions of a Deutsche Bank research analyst for the natural and organic retailer Whole Foods Market in May 2014. Students evaluate the associated financial ratios with the forecast to ascertain whether the industry dynamics and company strategy are consistent with the forecast. The case expressly focuses on the asset side of the balance sheet as a preview for other cases using free cash flow...Starting at €8.20
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The Hollinger Media Group. Lord Black: Fall of a Media Tycoon
Daniels A.; Miller, PaddyCase DPO-60-ELeadership and People ManagementThe story of how Conrad Black, son of a Canadian businessman, built a media empire starting at the age of 22 when he bought his first newspaper in rural Quebec is the stuff of legends. By 1996, Hollinger Black company owned more than 400 titles around the globe, representing the third largest publisher of newspapers in circulation in the world. In 1999, the Times paper of London ranked Black as the 55th most powerful man in Britain, ahead of cabi...Starting at €8.20
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Chestnut Foods (B)
Schill, Michael J.; Briceno, Frank; Stevenson, DonaldCase DARDEN-F-1974-EFinanceAfter a period of poor stock-market performance, conglomerate Chestnut Foods (Chestnut) faces the acquisition of its stock by an activist investor. The new investor demands the sale of Chestnut’s high-growth division, which contrasts with the CFO’s turnaround plan to expand this same division. To disentangle the way forward for Chestnut, students are invited to grapple with the risk-adjusted performance of each division and the estimation of divi...Starting at €5.74
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Jordan Cohen at PfizerWorks: Building the Office of the Future - Teaching Note
Miller, Paddy; Wedell-Wedellsborg, ThomasTeaching Note DPOT-40-EService and Operations ManagementThe case follows Jordan Cohen, a 40 year old manager in Pfizer¿s New York Headquarters, over a period of four years (2005-2009) as he conceived and built an innovative task outsourcing solution called pfizerWorks. pfizerWorks is a web-based service that allows individual employees in Pfizer to directly outsource ¿grunt work¿ of various kinds to teams working overseas, interacting directly with the suppliers and negotiating prices on a per-project...Starting at €0.00