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Pied Piper and Autonomous Vehicles
Freeman, R. Edward; Parmar, Bidhan L.; Mead, Jenny; Puhl, Nicole; Mahajan, Bhaskar; Boes, SeanCase DARDEN-E-0413-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityPied Piper’s first driverless car had been in an accident and had killed a 26-year-old jogger. Pied Piper felt a deep sadness for the victim’s family, and was disappointed and alarmed because the company had optimistically thought driverless cars would eventually lead to total elimination of driving fatalities. The company needed to decide if the car’s algorithm was responsible for this death and, if so, what the plan of action should be.Starting at €8.20
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Pitcher Perfect: Visualizing Interactive Beer Profiles
Palomba, AnthonyCase DARDEN-BC-0293This fictional case introduces students to interactive presentations through the situation of a US craft beer company that is developing a new beer product. The case discusses an organizational push to incorporate technology to help drive decision-makingStarting at €8.20
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A Late Night at The Virginian Restaurant
Landel, Robert D.; Boes, SeanExercise DARDEN-OM-1551-EService and Operations ManagementIn this exercise, the manager of The Virginian, a small restaurant and bar in Charlottesville, has asked for help in reducing the average queue size at its bar. The Virginian prides itself on its fast and consistent service. (View the video at http://thevirginiancville.com/.) Students are offered four scenarios to guide their analyses. Students conduct analyses by preparing a simulated model on their own or using a simulation created with AnyLogi...Starting at €8.20
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Congestion in Café 67: Model Documentation and Guide
Landel, Robert D.; Boes, SeanTechnical Note DARDEN-OM-1552-EService and Operations ManagementThe purpose of this document is to describe each step in the development of a model for the exercise “Congestion in Café 67.” The system itself is described in Appendix 1. A short and simple description of the model’s objects is included in Appendix 2.Starting at €8.20
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The Solution Shop and Storytelling Process
Palomba, AnthonyTechnical Note DARDEN-BC-0294Who doesn’t feel some anxiety when faced with making a presentation to an audience of practitioners and executives? Presentations are often the most stressful part of a job in business or consulting. Yet anyone can learn to write and present better than tStarting at €8.20
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A Darden Perspective: Teaching Cases—Plan, Listen, Dance
Palomba, AnthonyTechnical Note DARDEN-PHA-0083-EKnowledge and CommunicationAnthony Palomba arrived in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2020 as a visiting scholar at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business (Darden). As a media-management and audience-analysis scholar, Palomba had previously assigned media- and entertainment-business-based cases to students to read. However, he had no idea how to exercise the case method in the classroom. In order to understand the case method, Palomba interviewed current...Starting at €8.20
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Congestion in Café 67
Landel, Robert D.; Boes, SeanCase DARDEN-OM-1550-EService and Operations ManagementIn this exercise the manager of Café 67 asks for help dealing with the large queues of students during the Darden school's second coffee (approximately 20 minutes) who all want lunch at the same time.Starting at €8.20
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A Late Night at The Virginian Restaurant: Model Documentation and Guide
Landel, Robert D.; Boes, SeanTechnical Note DARDEN-OM-1553-EService and Operations ManagementThe purpose of this document is to describe each step in the development of a model for the case “A Late Night at The Virginian Restaurant” (UVA-OM-1551).Starting at €8.20