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Office Depot E-Business (Abridged)
Venkataraman, S.; Bodily, Samuel E.; Cross, Tom; Chatterjee, SayanCase DARDEN-BP-0524-ECorporate GovernanceThis case is an excellent illustration of offline/online integration. Office Depot used its supply chain, systems integration, and existing offline channel strengths to overcome competitive online threats from pure Internet players and other office-products-category players. Students get to consider the critical strategic options for overall strategy, pricing, product line, promotion, and business integration.Starting at €8.20
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The Pelayo Family Plays Roulette: The Prequel
Pfeifer, Phillip E.; Bodily, Samuel E.; Baucells, ManelCase DARDEN-QA-0847-EDecision AnalysisThe case presents data from 70,340 spins of four roulette wheels: three of which are real ("imperfect") and one of which is simulated ("perfect"). The challenge posed is to identify which of the four is the simulated wheel. After weeks spent recording spin results at their local casino, the members of the Pelayo family think they have identified three imperfect wheels. Before they start betting, they want to be certain that the three wheels they ...Starting at €8.20
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Salmones Puyuhuapi Part II
Bodily, Samuel E.Case DARDEN-QA-0777-EDecision AnalysisThis case series is appropriate for undergraduate, MBA, executive education, and MBA Exec audiences but is specifically designed for decision analysis, a first-year MBA core course. The Part II case affords the opportunity to examine downstream decisions and a real option regarding how fast to harvest the fish when the virus hits. Monte Carlo simulation would be used to incorporate uncertainties about when the virus hits, if it hits, and mortalit...Starting at €8.20
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Petrosupra Exploration
Bodily, Samuel E.Case DARDEN-QA-0839-EDecision AnalysisWilford Marshall is preparing recommendations to Petrosupra Exploration (Petrosupra), an independent oil and gas company, regarding a drilling project in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, on the Gulf Coast. This was an opportunity to take over Coyote Oil's drilling rights and drill within a year. If oil was found, two years following that, Petrosupra would have the additional opportunity to initiate enhanced recovery, which could provide an additional...Starting at €8.20
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Grappling with Uncertainty: Fintop Technology Advisors
Andrasko, Joe; Zorc, Sasa; Bodily, Samuel E.Case DARDEN-QA-0948-EDecision AnalysisAdewale Ogunleye is the founder and CEO of Fintop Technology Advisors, a technology development firm that specializes in providing outsourced software development services to financial technology (fintech) start-ups. Ogunleye has recently met with Leya Ahmed, the founder of Periscope Labs, a new fintech whose promising digital payment technology seeks to revolutionize the e-commerce checkout experience. Ogunleye proposed to Ahmed that Fintop woul...Starting at €8.20
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Salmones Puyuhuapi Part I
Bodily, Samuel E.; Echeverria, Rafael; Pfeifer, Phillip E.Case DARDEN-QA-0776-EDecision AnalysisThis case series is appropriate for undergraduate, MBA, executive education, and MBA Exec audiences but is specifically designed for decision analysis, a first-year MBA core course. In the Part I case, Osvaldo Correa, CEO of Salmones Puyuhuapi (SP), must decide how to respond to news that the ISA virus has infected a competitor’s salmon farming site. The alternatives include harvesting SP’s 900,000 salmon two months early, waiting for the fish to...Starting at €8.20
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Nephila Builds a Portfolio of Weather Risk Transfer Contracts
Bodily, Samuel E.; Coleman, D. MatthewCase DARDEN-QA-0844-EDecision AnalysisThe weather team at Nephila Capital Ltd. (Nephila) was in the midst of the weather market’s busy winter renewal period. The list of weather risk transfer contracts that needed to be analyzed and priced seemed to be growing by the minute, and one team member is devising a plan to price each deal on its own merits of risk/reward. The counterparty’s bid would reflect the willingness of the contracting party to pay for a weather hedge, and none would...Starting at €8.20
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Chandpur Enterprises Limited, Steel Division
Bodily, Samuel E.; Mittal, AkshayCase DARDEN-QA-0761-EDecision AnalysisThe managing director of a steel plant faces the decision of how much of each raw material to order for the plant for the following month. Due to lower and upper bounds on the amounts of each raw material in a batch and varying amounts of electricity and time consumed for different raw materials, one can’t simply use the cheapest raw material. A linear program and the solver optimization function of Excel will provide the optimal amounts that mee...Starting at €8.20
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Bloomex.ca Logistics Optimization
Bodily, Samuel E.; Ovchinnikov, Anton S.Case DARDEN-QA-0760-EDecision AnalysisA Canadian online floral delivery company considers whether to source more flowers from its existing growing locations and which of those would be optimal given its current market. What would be the advantages of opening a logistics facility in Miami? Students must consider the transportation costs per standard box from each origin or transshipment center to each production facility as well as data about the available supply at each origin and pr...Starting at €8.20
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Darden's Luckiest Student 2008
Pfeifer, Phillip E.; Bodily, Samuel E.Case DARDEN-QA-0717-EDecision AnalysisThe case describes a three-factor, full-factorial experiment run in conjunction with the Darden's Luckiest Student event of 2008. Prior to identifying Darden's Luckiest, all 300 first-year students made binding decisions between varying amounts of cash and the opportunity to select one of two identical briefcases. One briefcase contained $18,750; the other contained $0. Students are asked to analyze the results of the experiment and draw conclusi...Starting at €8.20