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J. C. Penney Company
Eades, Kenneth M.; Glazer, David; Eyal, ShacharCase DARDEN-F-1720-EFinanceThe case examines the liquidity issues that J. C. Penney (JCP) experienced in 2012 and 2013 following a decline in sales and profits over several years. Although JCP had been a highly profitable and growing company, the increasing pressures of competition led to changes in strategy and in management that were insufficient to recapture the consistent financial results it had previously enjoyed. While sales and profits waned, the cash balance also ...Starting at €8.20
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Ignacio Valente (C)
Ruizalba, José Luis; Las Heras, Mireia; Chinchilla, NuriaCase DPO-183-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Leadership and People ManagementGrupo Valente is a family-owned business that owns car dealerships of various brands. A middle manager showed up at work one day with a new car recently purchased from the competitor, showing it off to his buddies. The reason he bought it there is that the other company gave him a better trade-in price for his old car. Although his company had offered him a good deal, he decided to buy from the competition. Ignacio Valente, a partner and sales de...Starting at €5.74
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Ignacio Valente (C)
Ruizalba, José Luis; Las Heras, Mireia; Chinchilla, NuriaCase DPO-183Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Leadership and People ManagementEl Grupo Valente es una empresa familiar propietaria de concesionarios de automóviles de varias marcas. Un mando intermedio se presenta un día en el trabajo con un vehículo recién comprado a la competencia haciendo ostentación de este hecho ante sus compañeros. El motivo de la compra es que en otra empresa le han valorado algo mejor el vehículo a entregar como parte del precio de compra. A pesar de que en su empresa le habían dado facilidades, de...Starting at €5.74
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Tamara's New House (C)
Eades, Kenneth M.; Fairchild, Gregory B.; Sinclair, SafiyaCase DARDEN-F-1888-EFinanceThis case series simulates the quintessential “American dream:” buying and financing your first house. For most people, buying a house is the largest purchase they will experience in their lifetime. The process has both legal and economic components, and often requires that the buyer rely heavily upon a realtor to navigate all the technicalities. Along the way, the buyer may experience an emotional roller coaster with both the excitement of becom...Starting at €5.74
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J. C. Penney Company - Teaching Note
Eades, Kenneth M.Teaching Note DARDEN-F-1720TN-EFinanceTeaching note for product F-1720Starting at €0.00
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Lídia Izquierdo (C): Sentencia de despido nulo
Quintanilla, Javier; Las Heras, MireiaCase DPO-759Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Leadership and People ManagementLa sentencia del juicio de Lídia Izquierdo reconoce que su despido es nulo por acoso laboral. Este es un fallo no esperado por la empresa que, sin embargo, adopta una estrategia para minimizar las repercusiones y negocia con Lídia las condiciones de su readmisión. Este caso está basado en el caso "Carmen García" de Juan López-Cotarelo y Javier Quintanilla, DPO-129.Starting at €5.74
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Ignacio Valente (A, B y C) - Nota del intructor
Ruizalba, José Luis; Las Heras, Mireia; Chinchilla, NuriaTeaching Note DPOT-36Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Leadership and People ManagementEl Grupo Valente es una empresa familiar propietaria de concesionarios de automóviles de varias marcas. Un mando intermedio se presenta un día en el trabajo con un vehículo recién comprado a la competencia haciendo ostentación de este hecho ante sus compañeros. El motivo de la compra es que en otra empresa le han valorado algo mejor el vehículo a entregar como parte del precio de compra. A pesar de que en su empresa le habían dado facilidades, de...Starting at €0.00
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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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WNG Capital LLC
Eades, Kenneth M.; Kelly, Dorothy C.; Gangemi, MichaelCase DARDEN-F-1777-EFinanceIn late 2013, an analyst at WNG Capital LLC, Wenbo Su, must recommend whether the terms of a sale-and-leaseback deal are value adding for WNG. WNG was an operating lessor of used commercial aircraft manufactured by Airbus Group and Boeing Corporation. The lessee in the deal was a small private airline based in the United Kingdom. The essence of the transaction was to transform the airline from being the owner of certain aircraft in its fleet to b...Starting at €8.20
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Laia Bertran (D): New Hurdles, New Challenges
Bertran, Laia; Las Heras, Mireia; Chinchilla, NuriaCase DPO-401-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Leadership and People ManagementCase D describes the events that occur in the lives of Jordi and Laia from 2008, the year in which case C ends, to 2015, when Jordi is offered a transfer to the United States as general manager of a subsidiary of the company he works for. During this time, Laia and Jordi have their second daughter; Jordi overcomes two cancers and graduates from the IESE's Executive MBA program; and Laia makes a good recovery from her illness, works very hard (and...Starting at €5.74