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LEGO Bricks: Fit for the Big Screen
Chen, Ming-Jer; Craddock, JennyCase DARDEN-S-0296-EStrategyFor years Danish toymaker LEGO had turned down multiple attempts from directors and producers to make a LEGO movie. Now the CEO of the Danish toymaker has gotten a movie pitch from Warner Brothers. The entire LEGO brand is at risk if the movie is poorly eStarting at €8.20
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Becoming Ambicultural: A Guide for Managers and Organizations
Chen, Ming-Jer; Tucker, CharlesTechnical Note DARDEN-S-0253-EStrategyAmbicultural organizations and executives go a step beyond simply embracing different thoughts and behaviors-they transcend divisions to integrate such “opposites” as competition and cooperation, East and West or Chinese and American business approaches and strategies. They combine the best of two or more entities-cultures, ideas, practices-while avoiding the shortcomings of each.Starting at €8.20
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Williams Controls (A)
Chen, Ming-Jer; Rettig, TonyCase DARDEN-S-0190-EStrategyWilliams Controls CEO, John Easton, has outlined the new strategic plan he wants to put in place to improve the company’s market opportunities and accelerate its growth. The plan involves embarking on an expansive acquisition spree designed to vertically integrate the company’s supply chain and simultaneously expand its product offering beyond the core electronic throttle control (ETC) business. Easton’s plan sounded compelling but complicated an...Starting at €8.20
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"Why Should I Care?"
Chen, Ming-Jer; Tucker, CharlesCase DARDEN-S-0301-EStrategyA scholar in the area of organizational behavior has just learned that her paper on gender diversity has been accepted by a top management journal. She is looking forward to today’s class because her new paper, which she had assigned as reading for class, could serve as a test run to discovering what kind of response her research would elicit from practical-minded business students. But instead she must make a case for the relevance of research i...Starting at €8.20
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Competitive Dynamics: An Introduction
Chen, Ming-Jer; Whittle, Mary Summers; Baum, DavidTechnical Note DARDEN-S-0306-EStrategyThis technical note discusses competitive dynamics: the various and evolving actions and reactions of two firms engaged in a rivalrous relationship. By allowing us to analyze interactions at this dyadic level, the competitive dynamics perspective provides valuable insights into a firm’s behavior in a variety of competitive situations and contexts.Starting at €8.20
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Smithfield Foods: Activists and Acquisitions - Teaching Note
Chen, Ming-Jer; Jia, RuoTeaching Note DARDEN-S-0308TN-EStrategyTeaching note for product S-0308Starting at €0.00
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Strictly Business: Janice Greer’s Leadership Challenge in Japan
Chen, Ming-Jer; Dalmia, PranavCase DARDEN-S-0385-EStrategyJanice Greer works for NVX Pharmaceuticals, a US firm with increasing global operations. Not long after Greer’s promotion to country head for Japan, their boss suggests that widespread layoffs will be needed to help bring performance of the international units in line with domestic operations. Cultural differences between US and Japanese work practices and traditions complicate the decisions Greer faces in dealing with members of their team. How ...Starting at €8.20
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Smithfield Foods: Activists and Acquisitions
Chen, Ming-Jer; Jia, Ruo; Yemen, GerryCase DARDEN-S-0308-EStrategyThis research-based case uses the circumstances surrounding Virginia-based Smithfield Foods’ (Smithfield’s) buyout offers from multiple foreign firms to examine the political and cultural constraints of a regionally rooted global firm in pursuing its strategic objectives. Smithfield’s senior leadership receives offers from three firms, ShuangHui International (ShuangHui), JBS S.A. (JBS), and Charoen Pokphand Foods (CPF), based in China, Brazil, a...Starting at €8.20
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Paul Waddle's Crash Course in Nigerian Business - Teaching note
Chen, Ming-Jer; Dalmia, PranavTeaching Note DARDEN-S-0387TN-EStrategyTeaching note for product S-0387Starting at €0.00
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Different Strokes: New York City’s Not-So-Warm Welcome
Chen, Ming-Jer; Dalmia, PranavCase DARDEN-S-0386-EStrategyMei-Ling Liu has come a long way from her humble beginnings in a small town on the coast of Taiwan. She is in New York City to interview for an assistant professor position at Columbia University’s business school. After completing undergraduate studies in Taipei—and following much soul-searching—she had departed for the United States to earn her PhD. Now, six years later and against long odds, she is a step away from a faculty position at the pr...Starting at €8.20