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Berclays Capital: Corn and Ethanol Prices
Pfeifer, Phillip E.; Dreyer, ToddCase DARDEN-QA-0716-EDecision AnalysisA summer intern must explain to his boss the negative correlation between the prices of corn and ethanol for 2006 and the first half of 2007. The negative correlation called into question the use of traditional hedges against corn prices to directly hedge against the volatility in ethanol prices. This case comes with a spreadsheet: UVA-QA-0716X, "Berclays Capital: Corn and Ethanol Prices."Starting at €8.20
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The Sequel to Chance Encounters
Pfeifer, Phillip E.Case DARDEN-QA-0831-EDecision AnalysisMovie-industry analyst David Fitzhugh must estimate the value of the sequel rights associated with Chance Encounters, a soon-to-be-produced movie. The producers intend to use the cash from the sale of the sequel rights to help fund production of the original movie. With the purchase of the sequel rights, the client fully intends to produce a sequel--should the original movie prove successful.Starting at €8.20
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Chance Encounters II
Pfeifer, Phillip E.Case DARDEN-QA-0783-EDecision AnalysisMovie-industry analyst David Fitzhugh must estimate the value of the sequel rights associated with Chance Encounters (CE), a soon-to-be-produced movie. The producers of CE intend to use the cash from the sale of the sequel rights to help fund production of the original movie. With the purchase of the sequel rights to CE, the client intends to produce a sequel to CE--should the original movie prove successful.Starting at €8.20
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Wunderdog Sports Picks
Pfeifer, Phillip E.Case DARDEN-QA-0719-EDecision AnalysisThis case is little more than an e-mail that a college statistics professor received from the owner of a sports-picking service. The e-mail reports that the owner's picking system correctly picked 87 out of 149 2005 NFL games against the point spread. Students must decide what to make of this information. The case is used in an introductory course in data analysis and statistics.Starting at €8.20
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The IQ Experiment
Pfeifer, Phillip E.; Ovchinnikov, Anton S.Case DARDEN-QA-0770-EDecision AnalysisThis case describes an IQ experiment in which 66 students, under the direction of their professor, used Excel to generate simulated IQs. The instructions were such that the generated IQs should have come from a normal distribution with a mean of 100 and standard deviation of 15. The sample average IQ, however, was 104.3. Students are asked to use their data-analysis skills to make sense of the results. The data set also contains gender (male or f...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
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The Judgment of Princeton
Pfeifer, Phillip E.Case DARDEN-QA-0813-EDecision AnalysisThe case descirbes a wine-tasting competition held in Princeton, New Jersey, in 2012. The competition pitted the best wines from New Jersey (NJ) against the best wines from France in blind taste tests. The case stops after the scores of nine judges tasting 20 wines have been recorded. Students are asked to take these 180 scores and determine the best red and best white and to also compare the performance of the 12 NJ wines to the 8 French wines.Starting at €8.20
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List Testing Exercise: Economic Selection - Teaching Note
Pfeifer, Phillip E.Teaching Note DARDEN-M-0870TN-EMarketingTeaching note for product M-0870Starting at €0.00
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The Pelayo Family Plays Roulette - Teaching note
Bodily, Samuel E.; Pfeifer, Phillip E.; Baucells, ManelTeaching Note DARDEN-QA-0850TN-EDecision AnalysisTeaching note for product QA-0850Starting at €0.00
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Saving Customers at Vigil Home Security
Pfeifer, Phillip E.Case DARDEN-QA-0804-EDecision AnalysisMike Thomas, director of customer relationships at the second-leading provider of residential security systems in the United States, set out to examine data from 61,235 customer "saves" in order to determine if the offer used to persuade a customer not to discontinue service affected the subsequent longevity of the saved relationship. If some offers led to longer subsequent relationships, Thomas's next step would be to reward customer service rep...Starting at €8.20