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Xanadu Farms: Weathering the Uncertainty
Tiffany BayleyExercise IVEY-W33716-EDecision Analysis, Service and Operations ManagementIn March 2023, two strawberry producers in Ontario, Canada had to decide how many acres to plant with each of four strawberry varieties at Xanadu Farms. They had committed to providing 275,000 pounds of berries to a local independent grocery chain and also required some of their berry crop to make strawberry preserves. Complicating this decision was the impact that weather had on the yield of each type of berry. If the weather reduced the yield, ...Starting at €8.20
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O Noso Lar - Ejercicio
Ribera, JaumeExercise PE-19Service and Operations ManagementAl restaurante O Noso Lar le preocupa la política de inventario y suministro de vino de Ribeiro, uno de los más solicitados. Este ejercicio pide al alumno que defina esta política. Permite la simulación en clase.Starting at €8.20
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BikeCo and EngInc: Endless Possibilities (Handout A)
Vanessa C. Hasse; Maclaren ForrestExercise IVEY-W36163-EStrategyThis experiential exercise is designed to teach students how joint ventures can entail inherent tensions that resemble a real-world prisoner’s dilemma. In the context of a (hypothetical) international collaboration in the global bicycle industry, students are put in the position of the parent firms’ decision-makers and must decide between accessing the other’s knowledge versus wanting to acquire (i.e., own) it. Students are thereby incentivized t...Starting at €8.20
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Accounting for Defined Benefit Pension Plans at Caperton Corporation
Brownlee, E. Richard II; Hopkins, Justin J.Exercise DARDEN-C-2375-EAccounting and ControlThis exercise teaches students to account for defined benefit pension plans using a simplified example of Caperton Corporation's defined benefit plan. The simplification treats all employees as one homogeneous group (same age, retirement date, and terminal date), which allows students to calculate present values and focus on the accounting for the future cash flows. Included is a concise spreadsheet answer guide, which illustrates the present-val...Starting at €8.20
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Recruiting: Additional Vignettes
Freeman, R. Edward; Werhane, Patricia H.; Parmar, Bidhan L.; Mead, JennyExercise DARDEN-E-0417-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityThese vignettes highlight several ethical issues for MBA students as they begin to look for a job. They serve as a practical springboard for a discussion of topics, including one's obligation to classmates, the recruiting firm, and the school itself.Starting at €8.20
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Selection Sunday
Detert, James (Jim); Cullen, KevinExercise DARDEN-OB-1434-ELeadership and People ManagementThis exercise stages a data-analysis task within the world of US men's college basketball. The National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) Division 1 Men's Basketball Championship Tournament, known as "March Madness," begins every March with 68 college teams and concludes in April with 1 champion. It is one of the biggest sporting events of the year in the United States—a multi-billion-dollar endeavor that is wildly popular with fans and tha...Starting at €8.20
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Empathy & Collaborative Creativity in Verbideas
Fite, Rosa; Mehta, KandarpExercise EE-11-EThis exercise aims to activate empathy and foster collaborative creativity in the participants with respect to themselves and their environment in Verbideas. It is part of the Verbideas infrastructure. Verbideas is a model of active training in collaborative creativity to help companies turn creativity into value. Its principles are seeking truth (understanding reality), finding goodness (adding value) and making beauty (operations). It consists...Starting at €8.20
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Evaluation of finding goodness, adding value. Verbideas: Final value proposals
Fite, Rosa; Mehta, KandarpExercise EE-18-EEvaluation of the resulting value propositions following the operations of the Verbideas principle of find goodness, add value, carried out by the participants. Verbideas is a model of active training in collaborative creativity to help companies turn creativity into value. Its principles are seeking truth (understanding reality), finding goodness (adding value) and making beauty (operations). It consists of three movements: energising, integrat...Starting at €8.20
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Evaluation of looking for truth, understanding reality. Verbideas
Fite, Rosa; Mehta, KandarpExercise EE-14-EThis exercise aims to evaluate the results obtained with the operations of the Verbideas principle of seeking truth, understanding reality: the evidence. Verbideas is a model of active training in collaborative creativity to help companies turn creativity into value. Its principles are seeking truth (understanding reality), finding goodness (adding value) and making beauty (operations). It consists of three movements: energising, integrating and ...Starting at €8.20
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ODYSSEY Exercise.Verbideas
Fite, Rosa; Mehta, KandarpExercise EE-10-EIndications and elements to present; it is part of the Verbideas infrastructure and opens its implementation. Verbideas is a model of active training in collaborative creativity to help companies turn creativity into value. Its principles are seeking truth (understanding reality), finding goodness (adding value) and making beauty (operations). It consists of three movements: energising, integrating and collaborating and focuses on the person who...Starting at €8.20