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Nelson Nurseries
Schill, Michael J.Case DARDEN-F-1944-EFinanceThis case captures the problems concerning cash flow and working-capital management typical of small, growing businesses. At the end of 2020, Roger and Christine Barton have completed their third year of operating Nelson Nurseries, a $1-million-revenue woody-shrub nursery in central Virginia. While experiencing booming demand and improving margins, the Bartons are puzzled by their plummeting cash balance. The case highlights the difference betwee...Starting at €8.20
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Understanding Risk: Systemic versus Idiosyncratic
Schill, Michael J.Technical Note DARDEN-F-1973-EFinanceUsing the fictional situation of two brothers facing the challenge of managing a commodity business in central Africa, this note explores different metrics for risk and related considerations for investors. The note considers measures of volatility, including the difference between systematic risk and idiosyncratic risk, and how diversification reduces idiosyncratic risk. The note uses these concepts to motivate the foundations of portfolio risk ...Starting at €8.20
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The Profitability Index
Schill, Michael J.Technical Note DARDEN-F-1945-EFinanceThe well-known net present value (NPV) rule advocates accepting all investment projects that have a positive NPV. The NPV rule makes economic sense since positive-NPV projects are expected to create economic value. But what should a manager do if the totaStarting at €8.20
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Chestnut Foods (B)
Schill, Michael J.; Briceno, Frank; Stevenson, DonaldCase DARDEN-F-1974-EFinanceAfter a period of poor stock-market performance, conglomerate Chestnut Foods (Chestnut) faces the acquisition of its stock by an activist investor. The new investor demands the sale of Chestnut’s high-growth division, which contrasts with the CFO’s turnaround plan to expand this same division. To disentangle the way forward for Chestnut, students are invited to grapple with the risk-adjusted performance of each division and the estimation of divi...Starting at €5.74
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Chestnut Foods (B) - Teaching Note
Schill, Michael J.Teaching Note DARDEN-F-1974TN-EFinanceTeaching note of product F-1974Starting at €0.00
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Britannia Chemicals PLC (B): The Merseyside and Antwerp Projects
Schill, Michael J.; Bruner, Robert F.; McTigue, Frank H.Case DARDEN-F-1976FinanceBritannia Chemicals was under pressure from investors to improve its financial performance because of the accumulation of the firm’s common shares by a well-known corporate raider. Earnings had fallen to 180 pence per share at the end of 2017 from around 250 pence per share at the end of 2016. This B case reviews the same project as the A case (F-1906) but from one level higher: the executive vice president faces an either/or investment decisio...Starting at €5.74
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Belton Semiconductors (B)
Laseter, Timothy M.; Murphy, Michael; Pederson, MattCase DARDEN-BP-0557Corporate GovernanceAfter more intense debate, Belton’s COO has acquiesced and agreed with the manager of a large management consulting firm on every major point. But a senior partner on the assessment, as well as the consultant’s mentor, thinks the results are disastrous.Starting at €5.74
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Britannia Chemicals PLC (A): The Merseyside Project
Bruner, Robert F.; Schill, Michael J.Case DARDEN-F-1906FinanceBritannia Chemicals was under pressure from investors to improve its financial performance because of the accumulation of the firm’s common shares by a well-known corporate raider. Earnings had fallen to 180 pence per share at the end of 2017 from around 250 pence per share at the end of 2016. The manager of Merseyside Works, a production plant owned by Britannia Chemicals, thus believed the time was ripe to obtain funding from corporate headquar...Starting at €8.20
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Canyon Mining Corporation: Heavy Mobile Equipment Procurement
Laseter, Timothy M.; Katz, Arnon; Choi, SihyunCase DARDEN-OM-1392-EService and Operations ManagementCanyon Mining intends to negotiate a long-term contract for haul trucks to use for surface mining, and a team from Censeo Consulting Group is tasked with developing a methodology to track cost changes over the past contract as input into the negotiation. The current project’s primary objective is to estimate the year-over-year trend in factory manufacturing margins for two different capacity trucks from two different equipment suppliers. These es...Starting at €8.20
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RelayFoods.com
Laseter, Timothy M.Case DARDEN-OM-1431-EService and Operations ManagementIn less than two years, the founders’ innovative model for addressing last-mile challenges in an online grocery retailing operation was working. Although still consuming cash, the three-month-old pilot expansion to another city was experiencing three-digit monthly sales growth. To date, the company had followed a philosophy of low-cost experimentation, as it explored terrain that had been inhospitable to its predecessors. But now Relay needed to ...Starting at €8.20