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An Overview of Patent Quality: Assessment Valuation and Financial Reporting Implications
Bruner, Robert F.; Frank, Mary Margaret; Simko, Paul J.; Martin, DavidTechnical Note DARDEN-F-1539-EFinanceA significant fraction of corporate market values derive from intellectual property. It is vital for the practicing manager to appreciate the risks and uncertainties surrounding intellectual property. This note focuses specifically on patent positions, arguing that these deserve special scrutiny because of an emerging crisis within and among governments, corporations, and inventors. The objective of this note is to introduce the reader to patent ...Starting at €8.20
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Hamilton’s Electronics Services, Inc.: The Second Year - Teaching Note
Lynch, Luann J.; Frank, Mary MargaretTeaching Note DARDEN-C-2396TN-EAccounting and ControlTeaching note for product C-2396Starting at €0.00
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The Treatment of Goodwill and Other Purchased Intangibles for Tax Purposes
Frank, Mary MargaretTechnical Note DARDEN-C-2258-EAccounting and ControlThis note outlines the effect of Section 197 of the IRS Code on goodwill and other intangibles purchased in an acquisition by comparing the treatment of goodwill and other purchased intangibles for tax and financial accounting purposes. The allocation of the purchase price in different taxable asset deal structures, the residual method, contingent payments and recapture taxes are also briefly discussed. These tax laws affect current and future ca...Starting at €8.20
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How to Put More Strategy in Your "Taxes and Business Strategy" Course: A Case-Method Approach
Frank, Mary MargaretTechnical Note DARDEN-C-2265-EAccounting and ControlThis technical note provides the design for a case-method course called "Taxation and Management Decisions" taught in Darden's MBA program. The course is a general management course, and is designed specifically to exclude mergers and acquisitions, which are taught in another elective. While the entire course is taught through the case method, students discuss and analyze a mixture of cases and press articles and exercises. The case method is an ...Starting at €8.20
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H&S Company
Frank, Mary Margaret; Habenicht, Paul; Garza, MelissaCase DARDEN-C-2310-EAccounting and ControlA important decision in starting a business is the choice of legal entity. This case provides a realistic, yet stylized, setting to facilitate a discussion of factors to consider in the entity choice decision, emphasizing legal and tax issues. Two MBA graduates have raised $5.2 million in equity from a small group of investors to buy a company. Upon determining to buy assets from another company to start their business venture, they must determin...Starting at €8.20
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Hamilton’s Electronics Services, Inc.: The Second Year
Lynch, Luann J.; Frank, Mary MargaretCase DARDEN-C-2396-EAccounting and ControlThe owner of Hamilton´s has provided his CPA with all the company’s invoices, bank statements, and a lot of other miscellaneous business-related information for the company´s second year. He has asked the CPA to reconstruct, in summary form, all the company’s second-year transactions and to create an income statement for its second year of operations and a balance sheet at the end of that year.Starting at €8.20
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Sammy Snacks (C)
Hess, Edward D.Case DARDEN-OM-1398-EService and Operations ManagementAppropriate for use in courses on entrepreneurship, operations management, and managing a small business. Due to the cost, the CEO of Sammy Snacks is not happy with the board’s proposal that a sales manager be hired to focus full-time on wholesale sales to individual retail stores. But the board wants tells him if he does not want to hire a full-time salesperson, then he should come back with a strategic plan on how to grow the business quickly. ...Starting at €5.74
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Sammy Snacks (A)-(D) - Teaching Note
Hess, Edward D.Teaching Note DARDEN-OM-1177TN-EService and Operations ManagementTeaching note for product OM-1177Starting at €0.00
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Sysco Corporation
Hess, Edward D.Case DARDEN-S-0140-EStrategyAs a major player in a $200-billion market with only a 15% market share, SYSCO outperforms its industry competition. This execution champion and organic growth winner has figured out how to balance and manage tensions between decentralized entrepreneurial autonomy and centralized controls. But what makes SYSCO different is that its leaders have figured out, on a daily basis, how to keep everyone, from the CEO to the truck driver, focused on the d...Starting at €8.20
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McDonald's Corporation
Hess, Edward D.; Modica, ShizukaCase DARDEN-S-0147-EStrategyIn December 2007, McDonald’s had a market capitalization of $69.5 billion, and its stock price was hovering around its all-time high of $58-$60 since the last split, in February 1999. While McDonald’s was enjoying its five-year consecutive sales increases and high stock price, the management team was determined to improve customer experience, foster customer loyalty, and pave an enduring growth path into the future. Its big challenge remained how...Starting at €8.20