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Students Helping Honduras
Hess, Edward D.; Modica, ShizukaCase DARDEN-ENT-0105-EEntrepreneurshipA student-founded, student-led nonprofit organization dedicated to helping Hondurans escape from the cycle of poverty accomplished this by engaging college students in its projects from beginning to end. It operated with a yearly budget, augmented by student fundraisers and a grant from a private foundation. By the summer of 2008, it had three full-time employees living in Honduras and an ambitious business plan to expand its college chapters, in...Starting at €8.20
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C.R. Barger & Sons, Inc. (B)
Hess, Edward D.; Modica, Shizuka; Barger, EdCase DARDEN-ENT-0107-EEntrepreneurshipThe president of the PCO division at C.R. Barger & Sons has grown the division, so he now must consider whether to build a new PCO plant to accommodate future growth. The new plant would increase Barger’s production capacity allowing it to expand its concrete-production capacity from 40 to 200 cubic yards per day. The case examines the multifaceted strategy the president used to revitalize the division, and students can decide whether this large ...Starting at €5.74
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Defender Direct, Inc.: A Business of Growing Leaders
Hess, Edward D.; Glinska, GosiaCase DARDEN-ENT-0115-EEntrepreneurshipDefender Direct, Inc., was a privately held company that sold and installed ADT security systems and Dish Network Satellite TV to homeowners in the United States. The president and CEO started the business out of his home in 1998. Under his leadership, Defender experienced an average annual growth rate of 60%, and in 2008 it became one of the largest security and satellite dealers in the Midwest, generating $150 million in revenues. The founder, ...Starting at €8.20
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James Abrams @ Clockwork Home Services, Inc.: Lessons from a Serial Entrepreneur
Hess, Edward D.; Glinska, GosiaCase DARDEN-ENT-0117-EEntrepreneurshipAppropriate case for students interested in entrepreneurship, growing a business, or developing a business model. The case presents the challenges that come with growth and examines the iterative entrepreneurial process across time and activities by following a serial entrepreneur as he builds three successful businesses within the same industry. It also reveals how he developed his business model.Starting at €8.20
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Trilogy Health Services, LLC: Building a Great Service Company
Hess, Edward D.; Glinska, GosiaCase DARDEN-ENT-0122-EEntrepreneurshipThis case is appropriate for teaching in the areas of entrepreneurship and managing the growth of smaller enterprises. It illustrates how an entrepreneur builds a premier service company by aligning culture, hiring practices, training, rewards, leadership, and business model.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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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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Eyebobs Eyewear, Inc.
Hess, Edward D.; Glinska, GosiaCase DARDEN-ENT-0139-EEntrepreneurshipThis case could be used in entrepreneurship and managing a small business courses. It describes how an entrepreneur grows her innovative idea into a successful business while managing the associated risks, pace, financing, channels of distribution, quality of manufacturing, and customer concentration. The case shows how a business grown at a slower-than-usual pace was able to survive the risks.Starting at €8.20
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Hass Shoes
Hess, Edward D.Case DARDEN-ENT-0142-EEntrepreneurshipSuitable for courses on entrepreneurship, managing small businesses, marketing, and strategy. The case raises classic issues about how a stabilized business can reignite its growth. It poses the questions: How does a business increase customers, increase spend per customer, create more reasons to buy, bundle complementary products or services, and expand selling locations with little capital outlays?Starting at €8.20
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Valley-Wide Health Systems, Inc.
Hess, Edward D.Case DARDEN-ENT-0145-EEntrepreneurshipCould be used in entrepreneurship business strategy courses. This is a social entrepreneurship case that demonstrates the application of business best practices to a large rural community health organization. The case raises issues regarding growth/expansion and examines the conflict between the mission and strategic focus, asking the question: What are business model limits to "doing good?"Starting at €8.20