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LG Investments, LLC: A Family Business in Generational Transition (D)
Hess, Edward D.Case DARDEN-ENT-0134-EEntrepreneurshipThe D case in this series is appropriate for entrepreneurship and small-business management courses. At issue is how to balance personal financial needs of stockholders in a family business with the business's need for capital. The problems of how to include family shareholders who do not work in the business in financial distributions and whether families should create different classes of stock to pay different dividends to different classes of...Starting at €5.74
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LG Investments, LLC: A Family Business in Generational Transition (C)
Hess, Edward D.Case DARDEN-ENT-0133-EEntrepreneurshipThis is the third case in a series that is appropriate for courses in entrepreneurship and small-business management. It presents common issues that often arise in situations such as the choice of a successor to run the family business, the founder's reluctance to "let go," sibling rivalry, gender discrimination, and the eldest son's feeling of entitlement. In this case, the particular issue is whether the family should take care in picking the C...Starting at €5.74
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Kim Brown Morrish and Ground Control (B)
Fairchild, Gregory B.; Dagg, AmandaCase DARDEN-ENT-0207-EEntrepreneurshipThis case is a follow-up to UVA-ENT-0206. After meeting with the Ground Control management team in the winter of 2003, Kim Brown Morrish and Simon Morrish decided to move forward and purchase the company. They spent the spring of 2004 engaged in the due diligence process, learning as much as they could about the business and the industry. When they purchased the business, Kim and Simon intended to sell it within five years. By 2008, however, seve...Starting at €5.74
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Medtronic, Inc. (A): The Garage Era
Glinska, GosiaCase DARDEN-ENT-0101-EEntrepreneurshipUseful in courses on entrepreneurship, this case describes the founding and start-up years (1949–62) of Medtronic, Inc., one of the world’s leading medical-technology companies, specializing in implantable and interventional therapies. Focusing on one of the company’s cofounders, Earl Bakken, the case examines entrepreneurial thinking and principles - “effectual reasoning.” See also "What Makes Entrepreneurs Entrepreneurial?" (UVA-ENT-0065). ...Starting at €8.20
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LG Investments, LLC: A Family Business in Generational Transition (B)
Hess, Edward D.Case DARDEN-ENT-0124-EEntrepreneurshipThis case is suitable for courses in entrepreneurship and managing small or family businesses. It follows ENT-0123, the (A) case, and raises further issues about family demands for larger dividends, family members investing in family businesses, whether family members should have a way to liquefy their family business stock, and whether in-laws should attend family business meetings.Starting at €5.74
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Motor City: A Disruptive Business Model (A)
Hess, Edward D.Case DARDEN-ENT-0130-EEntrepreneurshipThis case is appropriate for teaching in entrepreneurship, strategy, marketing, and finance courses. Motor City, the business brainchild of an absentee owner, is a new business model for selling used cars requiring a senior management familiar with the car industry. Some issues are: How should the management be compensated to align interests with the owner? Stock ownership, phantom stock ownership, profit sharing? The B case (ENT-0131) that follo...Starting at €8.20
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LG Investments, LLC: A Family Business in Generational Transition (A)
Hess, Edward D.Case DARDEN-ENT-0123-EEntrepreneurshipThis case could be used in courses about entrepreneurship and managing small businesses. The founder and patriarch of a family business is confronted by his children regarding succession, equitable distribution of money from the business to nonworking family members, and nepotism. The transition from first- to second- and third-generation involvement creates major challenges to family harmony and the business beyond the life of the founding gener...Starting at €8.20
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Frito-Lay North America: The Making of a Net Zero Snack Chip
Larson, Andrea; Teichman, WilliamCase DARDEN-ENT-0112-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityImplementing a sustainability strategy requires firms to consider economic, strategic, environmental, and community perspectives. Suitable for MBA, undergraduate, and executive learners, this sustainability case covers innovation, intrapreneurship, and strategy. A technical note entitled, “Corporate Greenhouse Accounting: Carbon Footprint Analysis” (UVA-ENT-0113) is an effective complement. Frito-Lay’s Arizona facility pilots a program to take it...Starting at €8.20
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Cold Opportunity (C): The Absolut ICEBARS Story
Sarasvathy, Saras D.; Read, Stuart; Aronsson, MagnusCase DARDEN-ENT-0121-EEntrepreneurshipSuitable for MBA and executive learners, this case series presents an engaging narrative that prompts students to discuss entrepreneurial thinking. An entrepreneur who loves his native Swedish Lapland uses his natural gift for effectuation to ask What? What next? And What now? As his ventures evolve, students begin to ask themselves how they would master similar challenges to their own entrepreneurial plans and expectations. The case can be taugh...Starting at €5.74
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Le Frigorifique: Charles Tellier and the Creation of the Cold Chain (B)
Bruner, Robert F.; Costa, Sarah; Carr, SeanCase DARDEN-ENT-0233EntrepreneurshipThis case set describes the gale of creative destruction that came with the rise of refrigeration and the creation of a globalized food supply chain, examined through the life of Charles Tellier, a French entrepreneur and inventor of the refrigerated shipStarting at €5.74