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Hiring at Huckle Buckle Beanstalk: Not All Fun and Games
Fairchild, Gregory B.; Johnson, MarcCase DARDEN-ENT-0192-EEntrepreneurshipDavid Brown sat at his desk in the stock room of his toy store, Huckle Buckle Beanstalk, looking at the three résumés in front of him. He needed a new store manager, and these three résumés were his top choices. Each offered a different mix of skills and experience, and he hoped he would have the unusual luxury of having one rise to the top in the afternoon interviews. He had fired his previous store manager just over a month earlier for theft, a...Starting at €8.20
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Selling a New Old Idea: Virginia Business Ventures
Fairchild, Gregory B.; Johnson, MarcCase DARDEN-ENT-0193-EEntrepreneurshipElizabeth Franks, CEO of Virginia Business Ventures Inc. (VBV), has a week until her July 2010 board meeting. VBV just completed a six-month marketing and advertising campaign for a new product line and strategic rebranding, and early responses from the board indicated mixed feelings. Franks knows that the board is looking to her for keen analysis and a way forward. What should she recommend?Starting at €8.20
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New River Apparel: Trot or Gallop?
Fairchild, Gregory B.; Tucker, CharlesCase DARDEN-ENT-0194-EEntrepreneurshipMarjorie Burnett, who runs a clothing outlet with lagging revenues in Tennessee, is considering taking a gamble on starting a new business. She has to decide whether expansion—offering even more products—is the answer to increasing her revenue, and whether would that decision be more profitable than her present business, given that the storefront she's considering is in a relatively unpopulated rural area. Would a new business be worth the invest...Starting at €8.20
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Jeffrey Offutt and Jita Printing: Getting to Yes
Fairchild, Gregory B.; Joyce, MalloryCase DARDEN-ENT-0195-EEntrepreneurshipJeffrey Offutt had overcome many hardships and personal difficulties to better himself and build his own graphic-design and corporate-printing business: Jita Printing. Just as it seemed his efforts had begun to pay off in the form of steady work and a loyal clientele, Offutt was hit with two problems. First, designing and printing marketing materials for a small local theater had started as a quick, small undertaking for deeply discounted price...Starting at €8.20
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Southern Bancorp, Inc.: Reviving the Rural Economy through Financial Products and Community Involvement
Fairchild, Gregory B.; Glinska, GosiaCase DARDEN-ENT-0203-EEntrepreneurshipThe case features Southern Bancorp, Inc. ("Southern"), a family of community development financial institutions (CDFIs) consisting of Southern Bancorp Bank, one of the largest and most profitable community development banks in the United States, and Southern Bancorp Community Partners, a nonprofit affiliate. Although the bank was expected to be profitable, the entire organization put community, not the financial interests of its shareholders, fir...Starting at €8.20
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GreenThumb’s Lawn and Design (B)
Fairchild, Gregory B.; Goldberg, RebeccaCase DARDEN-ENT-0211-EEntrepreneurshipBusiness partners Parker and Miles have just launched their local landscaping company, GreenThumb Lawn and Design (GreenThumb). Their meetings with potential customers have resulted in multiple job offers varying by geographic location, services required, pricing, and the potential for follow-on business. The partners must now decide whether to accept all the work offered given their business strategy, estimated operating expenses, workload, and ...Starting at €5.74
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Dollar Tree and Saunders Karp Negotiation Exercise - Teaching Note
Fairchild, Gregory B.Teaching Note DARDEN-ENT-0035TN-EEntrepreneurshipTeaching note for product ENT-0035Starting at €0.00
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John "Rooster" Clagett: Visual Training Solutions Group, Inc. (A) and (B) - Teaching Note
Fairchild, Gregory B.Teaching Note DARDEN-ENT-0059TN-EEntrepreneurshipTeaching note for product ENT-0059Starting at €0.00
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Crystal Catering - Teaching Note
Fairchild, Gregory B.; Goldberg, Rebecca; Jones, Liz IvaniwTeaching Note DARDEN-ENT-0209TN-EEntrepreneurshipTeaching note for product ENT-0209Starting at €0.00
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BandyWorks (B): Tom Bandy – Growing, Letting Go
Fairchild, Gregory B.; Rourke, BradCase DARDEN-ENT-0182-EEntrepreneurshipTom Bandy was no stranger to entrepreneurship and the problems brought about by success. Having honed his programming skills in the 1980s, he had already founded a database company that had seen great success—and then had been squeezed out by investors. In 2005, he founded BandyWorks, a computing services consulting firm, self-funding and achieving great success only four years later. In 2011, however, a development crisis popped up within BandyW...Starting at €5.74