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Accounting Exam Irregularities in an MBA Program
David Hannah; Sarah Lord Ferguson; Michael ParentCase IVEY-9B19C005-ELeadership and People ManagementIn late September 2014, students in the Arnold School of Business (Arnold) full-time MBA program wrote an open-book managerial accounting exam. Immediately after the exam, one of the students, who was also vice-president academic of the Graduate Business Students Association (GBSA), was informed by a classmate that some students accessed the Internet for solutions during the exam. The GBSA representative knew she had to do something but was unsur...Starting at €8.20
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Goats: The Green Alternative (C)
David M. Currie; Kyle S. MeyerCase IVEY-9B15D001-EEntrepreneurship, Service and Operations ManagementThe operator of a dairy farm in Tennessee has begun renting goats for landscaping (see Goats: The Green Alternative (A) 9B11B018). The business proved successful so he considered expanding the operation (see Goats: The Green Alternative (B) 9B11B025). Now, he consults with a statistician to learn how to incorporate uncertainty into the decision about expanding. The case incorporates three types of uncertainty into a spreadsheet analysis of the ex...Starting at €5.74
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Ministry of Finance, Japan
David M. Currie; Laurel AdamsCase IVEY-9B08M013-EStrategyIn June 1997, the Bank of Thailand must decide whether to continue or to abandon the peg of the baht to the U.S dollar. Recent economic performance in Thailand has caused speculation that the central bank will abandon the currency peg, but the bank's stated policy for many years has been that it will maintain the peg. Background about the Thai economy is presented in the core case, product 9B01M025. Other cases enable students to play roles of im...Starting at €8.20
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Accounting Exam Irregularities in an MBA Program - Teaching Note
David Hannah; Sarah Lord Ferguson; Michael ParentTeaching Note IVEY-8B19C005-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching note for products 9B19C005 and 9B19C006.Starting at €0.00
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Rio Tinto and Ömnogovi: A Community Cooperation Agreement
Byambajav Dalaibuyan; Sarah Lord Ferguson; Eric WerkerCase IVEY-9B20M005-EStrategyThis case examines the business decisions around managing the community impact of a mining development in the Gobi Desert region of Mongolia at Oyu Tolgoi—one of the larger copper and gold deposits in the world, and a flagship project of Rio Tinto. In 2009, a mining development agreement was reached with the Government of Mongolia on the national level, but negotiations were just ramping up at the local level. New legislation mandated the creatio...Starting at €8.20
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Goats: The Green Alternative (A) - Teaching Note
David M. Currie; Kyle S. MeyerTeaching Note IVEY-8B11B018-EEntrepreneurship, Service and Operations ManagementTeaching note for product 9B11B018.Starting at €0.00
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Black River Farms - Teaching Note
David M. Currie; Kyle S. MeyerTeaching Note IVEY-8B17B021-EAccounting and ControlTeaching note for product 9B17B021.Starting at €0.00
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Goats: The Green Alternative (B)
Kyle S. Meyer; David M. CurrieCase IVEY-9B11B025-EAccounting and Control, Entrepreneurship, FinanceThis case is a supplement to Goats: The Green Alternative (A). The (B) case can be used independently of the (A) case if the professor wishes to focus exclusively on capital budgeting. See also Goats: The Green Alternative (C) 9B15D001.Starting at €5.74
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Black River Farms
David M. Currie; Kyle S. MeyerCase IVEY-9B17B021-EAccounting and Control, EntrepreneurshipIn 2016, the owner of a cow-calf operation must decide what the appropriate weight for cows in their herd is. For decades, the national trend has been for cow weights to increase because they produce larger calves, but evidence indicates that cow weights may have reached the point where the cost of maintaining a larger cow has become greater than the return from producing a larger calf. Analyzing this issue introduces marginal principles from eco...Starting at €8.20
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Estimating Demand in Emerging Markets for Kodak Express
Ilan Alon; David M. CurrieCase IVEY-9B11A026-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyAn executive must estimate the demand for Kodak Express outlets in various developing countries based on socioeconomic and demographic data about the countries. The case requires students to think about how to transform data on a national scale (GDP per capita, population, income distribution) into a form that is meaningful for a managerial decision — here, the number of outlets that could be supported by a country’s market demographics. In this ...Starting at €8.20