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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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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
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Elektrikraft: Global Sourcing Initiative (A)
Laseter, Timothy M.; Goldberg, RebeccaCase DARDEN-OM-1484-EService and Operations ManagementThis case pairing is used in multiple Executive Education courses to define Strategic Sourcing, as well as in Darden's Operations Strategy course elective. The chief procurement officer had finished her presentation on the progress of the global sourcing initiative at Elektrikraft Corporation. It had gone well; the other senior executives had liked hearing about the progress her team had made during its first year. Although she was happy with thi...Starting at €8.20
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Zappos Customer Loyalty Team
Laseter, Timothy M.; Carter, Scott; Goldberg, RebeccaCase DARDEN-OM-1452-EService and Operations ManagementZappos' senior leadership must decide whether to continue to schedule the call center shifts based on seniority or to consider a new plan that makes use of Uber-style surge pricing to pay workers higher hourly rates for the more demanding shifts. These shifts also happen to occur when the bulk of the East Coast buyers call in--early in the morning in the Arizona-based call center. Tony Hsieh, Zappos' renowned CEO, sits in on a meeting with the tw...Starting at €8.20
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Evaluating Financial and Operational Performance in the Retail Apparel Industry, 2016
Weiss, Elliott N.; Goldberg, RebeccaCase DARDEN-OM-1557-EService and Operations ManagementThis case is suitable for management students who have already been exposed to the basics of accounting and operations-management decision making. It builds business intuition that integrates concepts from the courses of operations, accounting, and finance. As such, it is appropriate in an operations course, or in an introductory finance/accounting course. Students examine the financial statements of four competitors in the global retail apparel ...Starting at €8.20