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Rock Star or Shooting Star? (A) and (B) - Teaching Note
Isabella, Lynn A.; Gibson, MadelineTeaching Note DARDEN-OB-1198TN-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching note for product OB-1198Starting at €0.00
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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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Food Marketing
Cian, Luca; Gibson, Madeline; Boichuk, JeffTechnical Note DARDEN-M-0966-EMarketingLiterature in food marketing provides many examples of implicit associations and tensions of which marketers should be aware. For example, a brand that positions its product as healthy and tasty may struggle to gain traction in the market because consumers tend to associate good-tasting food with low health value, and therefore assume healthy food tastes bad. Often, consumers make purchases based on heuristics and perceptions. This note provides ...Starting at €8.20
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Just: Positioned to Target Mainstream Tastes? (A) and (B) - Teaching Note
Cian, Luca; Boichuk, Jeff; Gibson, MadelineTeaching Note DARDEN-M-0956TN-EMarketingTeaching note for product M-0956Starting at €0.00
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Note on Warfare in Eastern Philosophy
Bourgeois, L. J. III; Eygenson, Serge; Namasondhi, KanokratTechnical Note DARDEN-S-0304-EStrategyThis note on warfare summarizes treatises by Chinese (e.g., Sun Tzu, The Art of War, ca. 500 BC) and Japanese (e.g., Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings, 1643 AD) warriors, reviews their philosophies and leadership lessons, and offers modern applications.Starting at €8.20
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Zen for Strategy
Bourgeois, L. J. III; Eygenson, Serge; Namasondhi, KanokratTechnical Note DARDEN-S-0318-EStrategyIconoclasts with strongly held beliefs and a willingness to buck orthodoxy, Apple's Steve Jobs and the Chicago Bulls' Phil Jackson shared similarities in character, leadership style, and life experience that extended beyond the extraordinary successes they achieved in their chosen fields. Both came of age in the United States of the mid-20th century, a time and place characterized by Americans’ growing interest in philosophical traditions outside...Starting at €8.20
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Nok Anulomsombut and the Thai Online Gaming Challenge (A)
Bourgeois, L. J. III; Namasondhi, Kanokrat; Yoon, BryanCase DARDEN-S-0326-EStrategyManeerut "Nok" Anulomsombut has just been appointed COO of Garena Thailand (Garena), a fast-growing online gaming company. When damaging rumors about one of the company's applications begin spreading among Garena's Thai customer base, Nok is solely responsible for resolving the ensuing crisis. Though the rumors are unfounded, they threaten to undermine Garena's relationship with its critical partners, permanently damage its reputation...Starting at €8.20
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Nok Anulomsombut and the Thai Online Gaming Challenge (B)
Bourgeois, L. J. III; Namasondhi, Kanokrat; Yoon, BryanCase DARDEN-S-0327-EStrategyThis case, a follow-up to "Nok Anulomsombut and the Thai Online Gaming Challenge (A)" (UVA-S-0326), revisits Maneerut "Nok" Anulomsombut, an accomplished and admired business leader in Thailand. Nok reflects on how she handled the urgent crisis at her youStarting at €5.74
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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