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Intrinergy: Carbon Offsets (B)
Bodily, Samuel E.; Ogilvie, BrandonCase DARDEN-QA-0738-EDecision AnalysisThe B case brings Intrinergy’s point of view into play. Intrinergy has two options for obtaining the biomass to produce steam for the industrial plant. They can use wood chips or sawdust. The wood chips are available at woodlands, essentially for free, although a capital investment in trucks is needed to bring the chips to the plant, and there is variable cost to chip the waste wood and transporting it to the steam plant. Sawdust is delivered to ...Starting at €5.74
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Ponca City Cogeneration Plant: Model Improvement and Final Decision
Bodily, Samuel E.Case DARDEN-QA-0747-EDecision AnalysisThis case follows up on the previous Ponca City case, addressing two classic flaws in spreadsheets of pro forma cash flows: (1) the treatment of the terminal value of the plant, and (2) the consistency of the assumptions about inflation.Starting at €8.20
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FLORA (A)
Bodily, Samuel E.; Ovchinnikov, Anton S.Case DARDEN-QA-0754-EDecision AnalysisThis case was awarded first place in the INFORMS 2011 case competition. A seasoned Internet retailing entrepreneur considers starting a national floral delivery service to compete with the major U.S. players. Decisions include whether to open a production facility in a single city and begin to deliver there? Which strategy should he use to decide-a premium or a discounted strategy? Ideal for MBA and undergraduate students in decision analysis mod...Starting at €8.20
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ChinaCarb
Bodily, Samuel E.; Gong, Yandong; Yemen, GerryCase DARDEN-QA-0759-EDecision AnalysisSuitable for MBA, EMBA, GEMBA, and executive education programs, this field-based case offers an opportunity to use simulation modeling to evaluate an investment affected by prices, technical success, and yields from raw materials that are all uncertain in a global context. The company produces pitch-based carbon fiber in China. ChinaCarb’s supplier in Europe has discontinued its production, leaving ChinaCarb with only enough raw materials for on...Starting at €8.20
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Salmones Puyuhuapi Part III
Bodily, Samuel E.Case DARDEN-QA-0778-EDecision AnalysisThis case series is appropriate for undergraduate, MBA, executive education, and MBA Exec audiences but is specifically designed for decision analysis, a first-year MBA core course. The Part III case considers the strategic competitive interactions between the farming company and the harvesting company. A payoff matrix provides insight into choices the two parties will make in negotiating the terms of the option, in particular the price bid by th...Starting at €8.20
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Real Options (Abridged)
Bodily, Samuel E.Technical Note DARDEN-QA-0799-EDecision AnalysisThis note is an abridged version of QA-0639, "Real Options."Starting at €8.20
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Merck & Company: Product KL-798 (Spanish version)
Frey, Sherwood C. Jr.; Bodily, Samuel E.Case DARDEN-QA-0910Decision AnalysisEsta es una traducción al español de la versión del 14 de junio de 2016 del caso UVA-QA-0582. Merck ha sido contactado por una pequeña empresa de investigación en biotecnología con una propuesta para que Merck compre los derechos de un nuevo medicamento que promete tratar la obesidad y reducir el colesterol. El medicamento se encuentra en la mitad de la fase I del proceso de aprobación de la FDA. Pat Harlow, el director de licencias, ha estado al...Starting at €8.20
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Grappling with Uncertainty: Fintop Technology Advisors
Andrasko, Joe; Zorc, Sasa; Bodily, Samuel E.Case DARDEN-QA-0948-EDecision AnalysisAdewale Ogunleye is the founder and CEO of Fintop Technology Advisors, a technology development firm that specializes in providing outsourced software development services to financial technology (fintech) start-ups. Ogunleye has recently met with Leya Ahmed, the founder of Periscope Labs, a new fintech whose promising digital payment technology seeks to revolutionize the e-commerce checkout experience. Ogunleye proposed to Ahmed that Fintop woul...Starting at €8.20
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Genzyme/Geltex Pharmaceuticals Joint Venture
Bruner, Robert F.; Bodily, Samuel E.; Jacquet, PierreCase DARDEN-F-1254-EFinanceIn March 1997, an executive vice president of Genzyme Corporation must develop the terms by which the $518 billion (revenue) firm will form a joint venture with a small biotechnology firm to make and market a new drug. The tasks for the decision maker are to estimate the enterprise value of the new joint venture, recommend how large an interest to acquire in the venture, and determine what price to pay for that interest and when. The case may be ...Starting at €8.20
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The Value of Information and Control
Bodily, Samuel E.Technical Note DARDEN-QA-0468-EDecision AnalysisUsing a simple example, this short note demonstrates how to place a monetary value on information and control. The monetary value is the change in expected monetary value due to the change in some action taken by the decision maker.Starting at €8.20