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Work Pants Finance: The Miners Go to B-School - Teaching note
Dikolli, ShaneTeaching Note DARDEN-C-2453TNAccounting and ControlTeaching note for product C-2453Starting at €0.00
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Come As You Are: The Role of Internal Financial Reporting after a Change of Leadership - Teaching Note
Dikolli, Shane; Ingram-Johnson, JailaTeaching Note DARDEN-C-2447TN-EAccounting and ControlTeaching Note for product C-2447Starting at €0.00
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Work Pants Finance: The Miners Go to B-School
Dikolli, Shane; Miner, MattCase DARDEN-C-2453-EAccounting and ControlThis case is based on the real-life experiences of Matt Miner, who completed his MBA at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business in 2009. After completing his degree, Miner realized that he and his growing family needed to prepare better financially for life post-MBA. This realization prompted him to pursue a program of household savings that would allow his family to be debt-free within five years. The case provides a short narrative along wit...Starting at €8.20
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Can Zwift Disrupt Peloton's Ascent?
Dikolli, Shane; Wright-Pruski, Colin; Yemen, GerryCase DARDEN-C-2454-EAccounting and ControlThis public-sourced case uses the fitness company Zwift and one of its competitors, Peloton, to explore cost allocation and bundling services. The material includes a task to provide a back-of-the-envelope pitch about Zwift's potential to disrupt Peloton's growth. Although Zwift's foundation was on the software side, would an entry into the hardware side of the fitness space present a viable opportunity? As part of the analysis, students prepare ...Starting at €8.20
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Airinit: Clearing the Accounting Air
Dikolli, Shane; Yemen, GerryCase DARDEN-C-2442-EAccounting and ControlThe fictional company Airinit, now a division of the conglomerate ArgentAxis Holdings (AAH) after a recent merger, manufactures air fresheners, and at the start of the year it planned to generate a healthy profit. However, during the year, several events occur that cause the company’s financial outcomes to deviate significantly, in an adverse way, from the original plans. To diagnose why the deviations occurred and more importantly whether any ac...Starting at €8.20
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Come As You Are: The Role of Internal Financial Reporting after a Change of Leadership
Dikolli, Shane; Ingram-Johnson, JailaCase DARDEN-C-2447-EAccounting and ControlAs You Are Seventh-Day Adventist Church (AYA) is located in Williamsburg, Virginia, in a low-income community, where it offers a wide range of primarily religious services. AYA is part of the River Seventh-Day Adventist Conference—East (RCE), which finds and pays for the pastors at each of its churches. In return, the RCE receives the weekly tithes as conference dues, and AYA keeps the offerings given by its members. This partnership has allowed ...Starting at €8.20
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Mega Oil Corporation
Laseter, Timothy M.; Kelly, Dorothy C.Case DARDEN-OM-1169-EService and Operations ManagementScoping the situation at the Mega Oil Corporation, a major management-consulting firm, had been the easy part. The firm is seriously behind its best competitors and risks falling further behind unless changes are made to reorganize its worldwide staff functions. Now the more difficult task is identifying and prioritizing the actions to take.Starting at €8.20
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Larry Puglia and the T. Rowe Price Blue Chip Growth Fund
Eades, Kenneth M.; Kelly, Dorothy C.Case DARDEN-F-1772-EFinanceSet in late 2016, this case recounts the remarkable performance record of Blue Chip Growth Fund (BCGF), a mutual fund managed by Larry Puglia at T. Rowe Price, Inc. The case describes the investment style of Puglia, whose record with BCGF had on average outperformed the S&P 500 since the inception of the fund in 1993. The tasks for the student are to assess the performance of the fund, consider the sources of its success, and decide on the sustai...Starting at €8.20
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Investure, LLC, and Smith College
Chaplinsky, Susan; Harris, Robert S.; Kelly, Dorothy C.Case DARDEN-F-1537-EFinanceAlice Handy, an investment professional with 30 years' experience as head of the University of Virginia Investment Management Company, has opened a new asset management firm targeted at midsize endowments and nonprofit institutions in January 2004. Her business, Investure, LLC, offered outsourced investment services to institutions with $150 million to $1 billion in assets and access to top-performing managers at lower cost than a fund of funds (...Starting at €8.20
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Próspera: Partnering for Economic Development in Honduras
Frank, Mary Margaret; Holtz, Paul; Kelly, Dorothy C.Case DARDEN-F-1980-EFinanceErick A. Brimen’s vision was on the verge of reality. As CEO of Próspera LLC, an economic development platform based in Washington, DC, he had devoted years to fostering efforts to bring economic development and stability to a small region in Honduras. He had worked with government officials, scholars of economics and law, and local residents to develop a zone for employment and economic development (in Spanish, zona de empleo y desarrollo económ...Starting at €8.20