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Integrative Analysis of Competitive Dynamics and Multipoint Competition: The Case of "Cat Fight in the Pet Food Industry"
Chen, Ming-Jer; Hovick, MichaelTechnical Note DARDEN-S-0337-EStrategyThis technical note aims to guide discussion on three strategic moves that are designed for multipoint competition: thrust, feint, and gambit. It will examine how these moves might be applied for multipoint competition within the pet food industry. In the 1980s, pet food companies competed across many different subsegments of cat and dog food, requiring complex and creative multipoint competition strategies to win market shares.Starting at €8.20
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Smithfield Foods: Activists and Acquisitions - Teaching Note
Chen, Ming-Jer; Jia, RuoTeaching Note DARDEN-S-0308TN-EStrategyTeaching note for product S-0308Starting at €0.00
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Assessing Private Equity Performance
Chaplinsky, SusanTechnical Note DARDEN-F-1895-EFinanceAssessing the performance of private equity (PE) investments is a challenging task. It starts with the fact that the assets are privately held and illiquid. By contrast, public equity valuations are determined in a vast open market populated largely by disinterested investors acting on publicly available information. Therefore, to make an informed assessment about PE performance, investors should be aware of the areas where general partners’ disc...Starting at €8.20
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Convertible Notes: A Form of Early-Stage Financing
Chaplinsky, Susan; Becker, Joseph M.Technical Note DARDEN-F-1925-EFinanceConvertible notes are often used to raise early-stage financing for start-up companies, frequently due to their advantages related to delayed valuation, greater speed, and lower cost of completion compared to venture capital financing. As a result, there has been a large increase in the number of early-stage companies raising capital through convertible notes over the past decade. Investors have made this form of financing more available, believi...Starting at €8.20
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Wingtech Acquires Nexperia: Will the New Company Fly?
Chen, Ming-Jer; Chan, Yi Ping; Whittle, Mary SummersCase DARDEN-S-0329-EStrategyEarly in 2019, Wingtech CEO Xuezheng Zhang faced one of the biggest challenges of his career. China-based Wingtech, which Zhang had founded 13 years earlier, had rapidly grown into one of the world’s top manufacturers of mobile phones and intelligent devices. But Wingtech didn’t manufacture its products’ key component: microchips. Most of the chips it used were purchased from American and European manufacturers. Faced with growing anti-China sent...Starting at €8.20
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Hilton China
Chen, Ming-Jer; Yemen, GerryCase DARDEN-S-0324-EStrategyHow do brands travel? As firms expand globally, they must manage how their products and services are perceived across borders, peoples, and cultures. This can be thorny when what a firm offers has no immediate interpretation by an international audience, like selling ice cream to a nation that consumes little dairy. It can be even worse when a company’s key products are likely to elicit negative reactions in their new market, like McDonald’s hamb...Starting at €8.20
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A Pig in a Poke? Shuanghui’s Acquisition of Smithfield
Chen, Ming-Jer; Chan, Yi Ping; Craddock, JennyCase DARDEN-S-0330-EStrategyThis case stars Long Wan, chairman and CEO of Shuanghui International (Shuanghui), as he works through the postmerger integration of the newly acquired US-based Smithfield Foods (Smithfield). Wan must address many potential hurdles as he sought to integrate two very different companies, on two different continents, separated by a world of cultural and political differences. With its headquarters in rural Virginia and its folksy southern American ...Starting at €8.20
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Ambiculture: Seeking the Multicultural Middle -Teaching Note
Chen, Ming-Jer; Rochanakit, Chawit; Jia, Ruo; Yemen, GerryTeaching Note DARDEN-S-0266TN-EStrategyTeaching note for product S-0266Starting at €0.00
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Investure, LLC, and Smith College
Chaplinsky, Susan; Harris, Robert S.; Kelly, Dorothy C.Case DARDEN-F-1537-EFinanceAlice Handy, an investment professional with 30 years' experience as head of the University of Virginia Investment Management Company, has opened a new asset management firm targeted at midsize endowments and nonprofit institutions in January 2004. Her business, Investure, LLC, offered outsourced investment services to institutions with $150 million to $1 billion in assets and access to top-performing managers at lower cost than a fund of funds (...Starting at €8.20
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TRX, Inc.: Initial Public Offering
Chaplinsky, Susan; Morita, Kensei; Zeng, XingCase DARDEN-F-1568-EFinanceThis case provides comprehensive coverage of a firm’s decision to undertake an IPO and the process of going public. The case follows the sequence of events from the company’s incorporation in 1999 through the completion of an IPO in September 2005. In addition to raising capital, the TRX IPO case also includes consideration of another motivation for going public. At the time of its incorporation in November 1999, TRX attempted to go public but in...Starting at €8.20