Darden University of Virginia (USA)
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Parsons Brinckerhoff: The Second Avenue Subway (B)
Wilcox, Ronald T.; Santos, Carlos MichaelCase DARDEN-M-0794-EMarketingCan a company base a major proposal on its good reputation, history with the client, and a perspective that differs from that client’s own? Emphasizing both its engineering capability and 80 years’ experience, Parsons Brinckerhoff spends one year and $1 million preparing a proposal to build a $17 billion subway line. Competition from four equally qualified firms is stiff, but PB is sure its history and top-level Metropolitan Transit Authority con...Starting at €5.74
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Parsons Brinckerhoff: The Second Avenue Subway (C)
Wilcox, Ronald T.; Santos, Carlos MichaelCase DARDEN-M-0795-EMarketingCan a company base a major proposal on its good reputation, history with the client, and a perspective that differs from that client’s own? Emphasizing both its engineering capability and 80 years’ experience, Parsons Brinckerhoff spends one year and $1 million preparing a proposal to build a $17 billion subway line. Competition from four equally qualified firms is stiff, but PB is sure its history and top-level Metropolitan Transit Authority con...Starting at €5.74
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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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Mega Oil Corporation
Laseter, Timothy M.; Kelly, Dorothy C.Case DARDEN-OM-1169-EService and Operations ManagementScoping the situation at the Mega Oil Corporation, a major management-consulting firm, had been the easy part. The firm is seriously behind its best competitors and risks falling further behind unless changes are made to reorganize its worldwide staff functions. Now the more difficult task is identifying and prioritizing the actions to take.Starting at €8.20
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Próspera: Partnering for Economic Development in Honduras
Frank, Mary Margaret; Holtz, Paul; Kelly, Dorothy C.Case DARDEN-F-1980-EFinanceErick A. Brimen’s vision was on the verge of reality. As CEO of Próspera LLC, an economic development platform based in Washington, DC, he had devoted years to fostering efforts to bring economic development and stability to a small region in Honduras. He had worked with government officials, scholars of economics and law, and local residents to develop a zone for employment and economic development (in Spanish, zona de empleo y desarrollo económ...Starting at €8.20
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From Feast to Famine: Stemming Health System Financial Losses in the COVID-19 Era
Feist, J. CoreyCase DARDEN-E-0458-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityUniversity of Virginia (UVA) Health has seen strong financial health and sustained growth in recent years, and has just hired promising new leadership. But in early 2020, the COVID-19 crisis hit with little time to prepare and resulted in immediate and significant financial losses across the organization. Now, with looming losses, J. Corey Feist, CEO of the University Physicians Group (UPG) at the UVA Health System, must help develop a financial ...Starting at €8.20
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The Impact of COVID-19 on the Mental Health of Health Care Providers
Feist, J. CoreyCase DARDEN-E-0457-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityIsabelle Davis, dean of the School of Nursing at Mountain View University, must develop a plan to support the mental health and well-being of the clinical workforce. She has spent the last three years working with the National Academy of Medicine on clinician well-being and burnout, and now the COVID-19 pandemic is adding a new stressor to the lives of clinicians, including doctors and nurses. Ensuring that clinicians would seek the support and c...Starting at €8.20
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Larry Puglia and the T. Rowe Price Blue Chip Growth Fund
Eades, Kenneth M.; Kelly, Dorothy C.Case DARDEN-F-1772-EFinanceSet in late 2016, this case recounts the remarkable performance record of Blue Chip Growth Fund (BCGF), a mutual fund managed by Larry Puglia at T. Rowe Price, Inc. The case describes the investment style of Puglia, whose record with BCGF had on average outperformed the S&P 500 since the inception of the fund in 1993. The tasks for the student are to assess the performance of the fund, consider the sources of its success, and decide on the sustai...Starting at €8.20
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Parsons Brinckerhoff: The Second Avenue Subway (A)
Wilcox, Ronald T.; Santos, Carlos MichaelCase DARDEN-M-0793-EMarketingCan a company base a major proposal on its good reputation, history with the client, and a perspective that differs from the client’s own? Emphasizing both its engineering capability and 80 years’ experience, Parsons Brinckerhoff spends one year and $1 million preparing a proposal to build a $17 billion subway line. Competition from four equally qualified firms is stiff, but PB is sure its history and top-level MTA connections make it a shoe-in. ...Starting at €8.20
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Route 11 Potato Chips
Wilcox, Ronald T.; Santos, Carlos MichaelCase DARDEN-M-0810-EMarketingRoute 11 Chips, a regional potato chip company, is struggling with whether to reduce the number of flavors it markets. Additional flavors add operational cost, but management believes that some of the flavors are important to Route 11's brand image and that trimming the line might damage the brand. Route 11 has also taken a price increase recently and management is interested in finding out if there is additional room to raise prices. To analyze ...Starting at €8.20