Darden University of Virginia (USA)
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The Apple iPhone - Teaching Note
Farris, Paul W.; Spekman, Robert E.; Mitchell, JamesTeaching Note DARDEN-M-0765TN-EMarketingTeaching note for product M-0765Starting at €0.00
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Investure, LLC, and Smith College
Chaplinsky, Susan; Harris, Robert S.; Kelly, Dorothy C.Case DARDEN-F-1537-EFinanceAlice Handy, an investment professional with 30 years' experience as head of the University of Virginia Investment Management Company, has opened a new asset management firm targeted at midsize endowments and nonprofit institutions in January 2004. Her business, Investure, LLC, offered outsourced investment services to institutions with $150 million to $1 billion in assets and access to top-performing managers at lower cost than a fund of funds (...Starting at €8.20
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Mega Oil Corporation
Laseter, Timothy M.; Kelly, Dorothy C.Case DARDEN-OM-1169-EService and Operations ManagementScoping the situation at the Mega Oil Corporation, a major management-consulting firm, had been the easy part. The firm is seriously behind its best competitors and risks falling further behind unless changes are made to reorganize its worldwide staff functions. Now the more difficult task is identifying and prioritizing the actions to take.Starting at €8.20
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Próspera: Partnering for Economic Development in Honduras
Frank, Mary Margaret; Holtz, Paul; Kelly, Dorothy C.Case DARDEN-F-1980-EFinanceErick A. Brimen’s vision was on the verge of reality. As CEO of Próspera LLC, an economic development platform based in Washington, DC, he had devoted years to fostering efforts to bring economic development and stability to a small region in Honduras. He had worked with government officials, scholars of economics and law, and local residents to develop a zone for employment and economic development (in Spanish, zona de empleo y desarrollo económ...Starting at €8.20
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Larry Puglia and the T. Rowe Price Blue Chip Growth Fund
Eades, Kenneth M.; Kelly, Dorothy C.Case DARDEN-F-1772-EFinanceSet in late 2016, this case recounts the remarkable performance record of Blue Chip Growth Fund (BCGF), a mutual fund managed by Larry Puglia at T. Rowe Price, Inc. The case describes the investment style of Puglia, whose record with BCGF had on average outperformed the S&P 500 since the inception of the fund in 1993. The tasks for the student are to assess the performance of the fund, consider the sources of its success, and decide on the sustai...Starting at €8.20
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The Apple iPhone (Abridged)
Farris, Paul W.; Spekman, Robert E.; Mitchell, JamesCase DARDEN-M-0851-EMarketingThis case describes the introduction of the Apple iPhone, including subsequent price reductions and market share goals. The case includes publicly available data on iPhone production costs, channel margins, and marketing costs. It concludes with the July 2008 introduction of the second-generation 3G iPhone.Starting at €8.20
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The Apple iPhone
Farris, Paul W.; Spekman, Robert E.; Mitchell, JamesCase DARDEN-M-0765-EMarketingThis case describes the introduction of the Apple iPhone, including subsequent price reductions and market share goals. The case includes publicly available data on iPhone production costs, channel margins, and marketing costs. It concludes with the July 2008 introduction of the second generation 3G iPhone.Starting at €8.20
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Selling Facebook
Conroy, Robert M.; Freeman, R. Edward; Kelly, Dorothy C.Case DARDEN-F-1737-EFinanceThis public-sourced case was co-developed with CFA Institute for its university partners, candidates, and members as an exercise in ethical decision making. The case works well for CFA partner universities and others seeking an ethics case set in the financial-services industry. The case is set in May 2012 as investment bankers and Facebook executives prepare for FB’s highly anticipated IPO. After meeting with more than 500 prospective investors ...Starting at €8.20
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WNG Capital LLC
Eades, Kenneth M.; Kelly, Dorothy C.; Gangemi, MichaelCase DARDEN-F-1777-EFinanceIn late 2013, an analyst at WNG Capital LLC, Wenbo Su, must recommend whether the terms of a sale-and-leaseback deal are value adding for WNG. WNG was an operating lessor of used commercial aircraft manufactured by Airbus Group and Boeing Corporation. The lessee in the deal was a small private airline based in the United Kingdom. The essence of the transaction was to transform the airline from being the owner of certain aircraft in its fleet to b...Starting at €8.20