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Global Fabricators, Inc.
Allen, Brandt R.; Brownlee, E. Richard IICase DARDEN-C-2296-EAccounting and ControlIdeal for MBA students, this case presents an exercise that tests students' knowledge of financial accounting and reporting and how the tax system affects financial reporting. Students are asked to complete an exercise that focuses on the income tax footnote. This footnote provides information that can be used to assess a seller’s tax liability or an acquirer’s tax costs associated with an M&A transaction. As part of the exercise, students are as...Starting at €8.20
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Better Buy, Inc. - Teaching Note
Allen, Brandt R.; Brownlee, E. Richard IITeaching Note DARDEN-C-2330TN-EAccounting and ControlTeaching note for product C-2330Starting at €0.00
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Pensions and Financial Reporting
Allen, Brandt R.; Brownlee, E. Richard IITechnical Note DARDEN-C-2340-EAccounting and ControlThis note serves a wide audience. At Darden, it is used in two elective courses: Financial Reporting and Analysis and Financial Statement Analysis and Corporate Valuation, as well as in the open executive education program, Financial Management for Non-Financial Managers. It will also be used in the EMBA and Global EMBA programs. Depending on the type of pension plan offered, accounting for pensions can present one of the more difficult and chal...Starting at €8.20
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Better Buy, Inc.
Allen, Brandt R.; Brownlee, E. Richard IICase DARDEN-C-2330-EAccounting and ControlThis case pertains to one of the most important topics in financial accounting and reporting: revenue recognition. It is intended for use in a required MBA financial accounting course or in an MBA elective course in Financial Reporting and Analysis. The company, Better Buy, Inc., is an electronics retailer selling TVs and other electronic products. The company is a bit unique, however, in that it not only sells major brand TVs, but it also sells ...Starting at €8.20
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What Is Disruptive Innovation
Christensen, Clayton M.; Raynor, Michael E.; McDonald, RoryArticle HBS-R1512B-EStrategyFor the past 20 years, the theory of disruptive innovation has been enormously influential in business circles and a powerful tool for predicting which industry entrants will succeed. Unfortunately, the theory has also been widely misunderstood, and the "disruptive" label has been applied too carelessly anytime a market newcomer shakes up well-established incumbents. In this article, the architect of disruption theory, Clayton M. Christensen, and...Starting at €8.20
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Why Hard-Nosed Executives Should Care About Management Theory (Spanish version)
Christensen, Clayton M.; Raynor, Michael E.Article HBS-R0309DStrategygathering data, organizing it into categories, highlighting significant differences, then making generalizations explaining what causes what, under which circumstances. For instance, professor Ananth Raman and his colleagues collected data showing that bar code-scanning systems generated notoriously inaccurate inventory records. These observations led them to classify the types of errors the scanning systems produced and the types of shops in wh...Starting at €8.20
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Under Armour
McDonald, Rory; Christensen, Clayton M.; West, Daniel; Palmer, Jonathan E.Case HBS-618020-EStrategyAfter twenty years of growth unprecedented in the sports apparel industry, Under Armour finds itself with a new record to beat: making the leap from $5 to $10 billion in sales - a feat only accomplished to date by competitors Nike and Adidas. At the heart of this challenge is how Under Armour can maintain its brand's authenticity while adding new products that fuel future growth. The case traces the evolution of Under Armour's brand and describes...Starting at €8.20
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What Is Disruptive Innovation? (Spanish version)
Christensen, Clayton M.; Raynor, Michael E.; McDonald, RoryArticle HBS-R1512BStrategyFor the past 20 years, the theory of disruptive innovation has been enormously influential in business circles and a powerful tool for predicting which industry entrants will succeed. Unfortunately, the theory has also been widely misunderstood, and the "disruptive" label has been applied too carelessly anytime a market newcomer shakes up well-established incumbents. In this article, the architect of disruption theory, Clayton M. Christensen, and...Starting at €8.20
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Surviving Disruption
Wessel, Max; Christensen, Clayton M.Article HBS-R1212C-EStrategyIn this article Wessel and Christensen, both of Harvard Business School, introduce a way to work out how dangerous a disruption may be to your business. With a deep understanding of the jobs your company really does for customers and a clear take on both the advantages the disrupters have and the barriers they face, you can predict whether, to what extent, and how quickly an approaching disruption might displace your business model. Then you can ...Starting at €8.20
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AmazonFresh: Rekindling the Online Grocery Market
McDonald, Rory; Christensen, Clayton M.; Yang, Robin; Hollingsworth, TyCase HBS-615013-EStrategyMore than a decade after the high-profile failures of several early online grocers, grocery remains the largest single U.S. retail category and one of the few that has not yet migrated online. Amazon began testing its grocery-delivery service, AmazonFresh, in Seattle, in 2007; five years later, the company has made significant progress. The case traces the evolution of AmazonFresh's business model and describes the operating capabilities necessar...Starting at €8.20