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Financial Theory Foundations
Schill, Michael J.Technical Note DARDEN-F-1548-EFinanceFinancial theory seeks to explain how buyers and sellers in financial markets price contracts to exchange money across time and across risk profiles. Using rules of agent behavior, theory generates financial models that attempt to predict the fair prices of the securities in financial markets. To make the models simple enough to be used in practice, theorists make simplifying assumptions about the characteristics of markets and market participant...Starting at €8.20
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Claves para coordinar alianzas de valor
Ariño, Africa; Andreu i Civit, RafaelArticle ART-3133Information Technologies, Innovation and Change, Knowledge and Communication, StrategyUna alianza en el sector de la salud ilustra cómo las partes pueden coordinar sus actividades de forma eficiente para mejorar el rendimiento conjunto. A partir de una visión de la empresa basada en el conocimiento, los autores identifican los componentes "micro" en los que se basa la coordinación en la empresa y extrapolan este modelo a las alianzas. Centrándose en cómo las capacidades individuales, el conocimiento, las rutinas y los esquemas de ...Starting at €8.20
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The Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development: Tackling HIV/AIDS and Poverty in South Africa (A)
Werhane, Patricia H.; Mead, JennyCase DARDEN-E-0303-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityIn 1998, Klaus Leisinger and Karin Schmitt of the Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development in Basel, Switzerland, were approached by a sociologist who wanted help in launching a pilot program in Tanzania to deal with the crisis of the more than 8 million HIV/AIDS-orphaned children in sub-Saharan Africa. The proposed program was unusual in that it addressed the psychological and social traumas these children experienced. The other unusual a...Starting at €8.20
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Started as Crew (B): Darlene Calhoun and McDonald's
Werhane, Patricia H.; Hartman, Laura P.; Sheehan, Justin; Mead, JennyCase DARDEN-E-0309-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityMcDonald’s Corporation, the behemoth of the fast food industry, has taken its share of criticism - even ridicule - over the years. The image of the company suffered as the public began to perceive its jobs as dead-end, unskilled, and unstimulating. The term “McJob,” coined by an author in 1991, was slang for a low-paying job that required little skill and provided little opportunity for advancement. But in many ways, McDonald’s Corporation defied...Starting at €5.74
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BHP Billiton and Mozal (B)
Werhane, Patricia H.; Hartman, Laura P.; Mead, JennyCase DARDEN-E-0317-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityBHP Billiton began construction of Phase 1 of the Mozal aluminum smelter in 1998. Because of the challenges that the community presented, BHP Billiton and its partners created the Mozal Community Development Trust (MCDT), which worked to improve the infrastructure, social services, and health care of the community. During the two construction phases, the project contributed more than USD160 million to the local economy, principally through the em...Starting at €5.74
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Great Lakes: Great Decisions (A)
Freeland, James R.; Werhane, Patricia H.; Wicks, Andrew C.; Mead, JennyCase DARDEN-E-0325-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityOne of the few remaining producers of lead additives must decide whether to continue producing them for use abroad. Banned in the United States, lead additives were still legal in developing nations. Ellie Shannon, the division manager overseeing bromine production for the Indiana-based Great Lakes Chemical Corporation (Great Lakes), must advise Great Lakes' directors on whether the company should 1) continue production for the foreseeable future...Starting at €8.20
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WorldCom: Keeping Planes in the Air (A)
Werhane, Patricia H.; Wicks, Andrew C.; Sack, Robert J.; Mead, JennyCase DARDEN-E-0335-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityThis case focuses on the dilemma faced by Betty Vinson, a senior manager in the corporate accounting division of telecommunications giant WorldCom, when asked repeatedly to falsify financial information. The telecommunications industry was in a severe slump after the booming 1990s, and WorldCom’s stock price was suffering. WorldCom’s senior management was eager to continue the company’s string of ever-increasing operating results in hopes that th...Starting at €8.20
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Snow Brand Milk Products (C): 2009 - Remaining Challenges
Werhane, Patricia H.; Mead, Jenny; Koehn, Daryl; Saito, Akira; Wolfe, ReginaCase DARDEN-E-0349-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityThe turnaround at Snow Brand Milk Products was a real learning experience for all involved. The lessons were many, and while prioritizing them was difficult, it seemed clear that the most significant was the realization that the company existed to serve the consumer and, through that service, the broader society. This brief case outlines the successes that Nobuko Hiwasa pushed Snow Brand management to accomplish, and introduces the challenges tha...Starting at €5.74
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Rio Tinto and the Resolution Copper Mining Joint Venture (C): Planning in the Global Financial Crisis
Werhane, Patricia H.; Gorman, Michael E.; Mead, Jenny; Starr, JustinCase DARDEN-E-0375-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityWhen the global recession of 2008–09 hit, Rio Tinto was forced to reexamine its spending priorities. Knowing that the availability of investment capital along with commodity prices would eventually rebound and that project delays could have a negative impact on net present value, David Salisbury and his team were faced with the additional challenge of prioritizing the various aspects of the RCM project. These fell into several categories: (1) rec...Starting at €5.74
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Transforming Education in Rural Haiti: Intel and L'Ecole de Choix
Werhane, Patricia H.; Albert, Pauline J.; Archer, Crina; Hartman, Laura P.; Mead, JennyCase DARDEN-E-0385-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityThis case tells the story of the Intel Corporation's collaboration with a nonprofit school in rural Haiti, l'Ecole de Choix (the School of Choice). Choix was already facing daunting educational challenges merely by virtue of being in Haiti, but the January 2010 earthquake had utterly devastated the already-fragile Haitian education system. Intel had sent volunteers to set up hardware and install educational software at Choix as a part of Intel's ...Starting at €8.20