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Coppersea: Emergence of the Microdistillery Movement - Teaching Note
Glenn Carroll, Davina DrabkinTeaching Note SGSB-SM233TN-EStrategyBy the spring of 2013, Michael Kinstlick and Angus MacDonald had been running a microdistillery for less than a year. Coppersea, located in New York’s Hudson Valley, produced handcrafted spirits using a unique process based on techniques little-used over the past 300 years. The founders had coined the term Heritage-Methods distilling to describe their process. Although Coppersea was still working to develop a stable and consistent production p...Starting at €0.00
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Could Storage and Document Management: How a New Generation of Companies is Shaping the Enterprise Content Management Industry
Robert Burgelman, Robert Siegel, Cybil LabidiCase SGSB-SM235-EStrategyThis industry note covers how new players in cloud file sharing and storage (such as Dropbox and Box) are reshaping the overall enterprise content management (ECM) software industry in 2014. The note presents the major incumbent firms in the ECM industry in 2014, and then describes in depth 1) the latest technology, market and business model changes that potentially enable a disruption of that industry, and 2) the key new industry players. It als...Starting at €8.20
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Depreciation at Deutsche Lufthansa AG
Anne Beyer, Jaclyn ForoughiCase SGSB-A224-EAccounting and ControlAs one of the most highly capital-intensive industries, airlines require a substantial investment in physical assets to fund operations. These assets, characterized by property, plant, and equipment (PP&E) on the balance sheet, typically comprise more than half of the total assets of an airline. As a result, depreciation of these assets constitutes a major operating expense. Although methods and estimates used for determining depreciation expe...Starting at €8.20
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Ditto - Teaching Note
Fern Mandelbaum, Julieta DuekTeaching Note SGSB-E508TN-EEntrepreneurshipThe case tells the story of Kate Doerksen in her journey as founder and CEO of Ditto, an eyewear e-commerce company that introduced virtual fitting technology. The case covers the period from the founding of the company in 2010 to its situation in December 2012, when the company faced a number of decisions including facing lawsuits from a competitor and a patent troll. This case focuses on the following elements of Doerksen’s story: • How Doer...Starting at €0.00
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Equal Opportunity Schools: Findind the Missing Students
William F. Meehan, Davina DrabkinCase SGSB-SM240-EStrategyDuring his second year as a high school teacher in South Carolina, Reid Saaris noticed that a highly academically capable student was not registered for advanced classes. The student was African American and Saaris observed that most African-American students at the school were enrolled in lower-level courses. As Saaris walked down the hallway, he could see “on one side a 12th grade English class playing an all-class game of hangman and half of...Starting at €8.20
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Equal Opportunity Schools: Findind the Missing Students - Teaching Note
William F. Meehan, Davina DrabkinTeaching Note SGSB-SM240TN-EStrategyDuring his second year as a high school teacher in South Carolina, Reid Saaris noticed that a highly academically capable student was not registered for advanced classes. The student was African American and Saaris observed that most African-American students at the school were enrolled in lower-level courses. As Saaris walked down the hallway, he could see “on one side a 12th grade English class playing an all-class game of hangman and half of...Starting at €0.00
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Exercise 1: Business Characteristics and Financial Statement Relationships
Maureen McNichols, Jaclyn ForoughiCase SGSB-A211-EAccounting and ControlEffective financial statement analysis requires an understanding of a firm’s economic characteristics. The relations between various financial statement items provide evidence of many of these economic characteristics. This case presents the “common-size” condensed annual (2012) balance sheet and income statements for five firms in the Software and Services industry, a subset of the Information Technology sector, and four firms in the Retailing...Starting at €8.20
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Exercise 1: Business Characteristics and Financial Statement Relationships - Teaching Note
Maureen McNichols, Jaclyn ForoughiTeaching Note SGSB-A211TN-EAccounting and ControlEffective financial statement analysis requires an understanding of a firm’s economic characteristics. The relations between various financial statement items provide evidence of many of these economic characteristics. This case presents the “common-size” condensed annual (2012) balance sheet and income statements for five firms in the Software and Services industry, a subset of the Information Technology sector, and four firms in the Retailing...Starting at €0.00
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Exercise 2: Industry Characteristics and the Statement of Cash Flows
Maureen McNichols, Jaclyn ForoughiCase SGSB-A212-EAccounting and ControlDifferent industries present different trends in cash flows. At the same time, firms within the same industry but at different stages of the firm or product life cycle will have significantly different breakdowns for each section of the cash flow statement. This case presents common-size statements of cash flows for 10 firms in various industries. All amounts in the common-size statements of cash flows are expressed as a percentage of cash ...Starting at €8.20
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Exercise 2: Industry Characteristics and the Statement of Cash Flows - Teaching Note
Maureen McNichols, Jaclyn ForoughiTeaching Note SGSB-A212TN-EAccounting and ControlDifferent industries present different trends in cash flows. At the same time, firms within the same industry but at different stages of the firm or product life cycle will have significantly different breakdowns for each section of the cash flow statement. This case presents common-size statements of cash flows for 10 firms in various industries. All amounts in the common-size statements of cash flows are expressed as a percentage of cash ...Starting at €0.00