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WeWork: But Does the Corporate Governance Work
Cheng, Yo-Jud; Maiden, Stephen E.Case DARDEN-S-0350-EStrategyThis public-sourced case describes the lapses in board oversight that led to the dramatic rise and fall of collaborative office space company WeWork and its charismatic leader, Adam Neumann. The case is set in September 2019 and follows board member MarkStarting at €8.20
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USA Track & Field: Getting Its Governance on Track - Teaching note
Cheng, Yo-Jud; Maiden, Stephen E.Teaching Note DARDEN-S-0352TN-EStrategyTeaching note for product S-0352Starting at €0.00
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USA Track & Field: Getting Its Governance on Track
Cheng, Yo-Jud; Maiden, Stephen E.Case DARDEN-S-0352-EStrategyThis public-sourced case set in May 2020 examines various corporate governance issues that have arisen for the nonprofit USA Track & Field (USATF). The case’s protagonist is board member Tricia Myers who considers how the board can better serve its constituents as they are inundated with a torrent of issues around CEO compensation, fundraising, and governance regulations. The board faces a fire drill as CEO Max Siegel’s high compensation has just...Starting at €8.20
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WeWork: But Does the Corporate Governance Work? - Teaching note
Cheng, Yo-Jud; Maiden, Stephen E.Teaching Note DARDEN-S-0350TNStrategyTeaching note for product S-0350TStarting at €0.00
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Yearbook Inc. (C): The Growth of Canva
Venkataraman, S.; Maiden, Stephen E.Case DARDEN-S-0371-EStrategyThis case, which builds on “Yearbook Inc. (A): The Start-up Years” (UVA-OM-0369) and “Yearbook Inc. (B): The Emergence of Canva” (UVA-OM-S-0370), finds Melanie Perkins having grown from a dreamer putting yearbooks together in her mother’s living room to CEO of her own design company, Canva, which was also growing. The company had always been a big vision, but with more investor money, more employees, and more competitors, the stakes were bigger t...Starting at €5.74
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Vignettes: Board Dynamics and Culture (B)
Cheng, Yo-Jud; Maiden, Stephen E.Case DARDEN-S-0380-EStrategyThe realities of boardroom dynamics can often reveal a different story than how things appear on paper. Boards need the right dynamics and culture to effectively carry out their responsibilities. At their best, boards can catch budding issues before they negatively impact the firm and can partner with management to lead through change, like they did with Indra Nooyi’s transformation of PepsiCo. Given the dual mandate of boards to both monitor and...Starting at €5.74
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Devils Backbone Brewing, LLC: An Idea Brews - Teaching Note
Fairchild, Gregory B.; Maiden, Stephen E.Teaching Note DARDEN-S-0300TNStrategyTeaching Note of Product S-0300Starting at €0.00
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ConocoPhillips Confronts a Crisis: What's the Message? (B)
West, June A.; Maiden, Stephen E.; Connery, Bruce; Soltis, SteveCase DARDEN-S-0348-EStrategyThis case, a follow-up to "ConocoPhillips Confronts a Crisis: What's the Message? (A)" (UVA-S-0347), explores ConocoPhillips' ongoing struggle with the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. The company decided to act and talk to the market via a call where the executives would speak to the company's position, but as the situation continues to worsen and COVID-19 shows no signs of going away, ConocoPhillips and its senior vice president of corporate...Starting at €5.74
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Vignettes: Board Dynamics and Culture (A) and (B) - Teaching note
Cheng, Yo-Jud; Maiden, Stephen E.Teaching Note DARDEN-S-0349TN-EStrategyTeaching note for product S-0349Starting at €0.00
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Vignettes: Board Dynamics and Culture (A)
Cheng, Yo-Jud; Maiden, Stephen E.Case DARDEN-S-0349-EStrategyThe realities of boardroom dynamics can often reveal a different story than how things appear on paper. Boards need the right dynamics and culture to effectively carry out their responsibilities. At their best, boards can catch budding issues before they negatively impact the firm and can partner with management to lead through change, like they did with Indra Nooyi’s transformation of PepsiCo. Given the dual mandate of boards to both monitor and...Starting at €8.20